Friday, April 28th, 2023
Doors 6:30pm
Show 7:00 pm - 9:30pm

By Salty Xi Jie Ng with Shawn Creeden

Contemplate human kinship with whales through the repair of a violent past and collective prayer. What can we learn from these cosmic creatures’ serene gravity, quiet endurance, and lingering mythology?

Meditation, movement and prayer for whales, with sound by Salty and Shawn

A Whaling Descendant Performs In Four Acts
(18 mins, 2020)

By Salty Xi Jie Ng with Charlie Chace (Vice President, Descendants of Whaling Masters)

In an intergenerational, intercontinental film collaboration, a whaling descendant contemplates his lineage, anthropomorphism, and the lingering mythology of whaling. He is inside the belly of a whale. He is everyone before him who killed a whale. He is a whale. Can whaling mean ‘being a whale’?