The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour aspires to offer opportunities for healing, and dreaming, through dialogue. This introduction to the Heavy Lifting project opens with a display of the Felicia Rice's artists' book and the experimental film, On Heavy Lifting. This is followed by a conversation between poet Theresa Whitehill and the audience, in which she alternates reading her poems with an invitation for audience members to share their own work or stories in response.

The tour kicked off in February 2023 in Ukiah and has occurred monthly in communities impacted by fire throughout northern California. We have explored a range of responses to loss as we consider what might lie beyond these difficult times, from creating space to name the darkness as the first stage of recovery from grief to building strength to tackle the unending work ahead.

In Felton, we will mark the 4th anniversary of the CZU Lightning Complex Fire which devastated our Santa Cruz Mountain communities of friends, families, and neighbors, including Felicia's Bonny Doon neighborhood.

Please join us in this commemoration of loss and celebration of community and resilience.