With help of $25,000 from the California Arts Council, Queer Cat Productions will create and produce Jes “Mojo” DeVille’s Forgetting Tree, an accessible immersive theatrical ritual of remembrance and liberation ecology – including transforming Z Space Lobby into a living garden, music co-created with the biorhythms of plants, storytelling by Rawiyah Tariq, dance and aerial dance aerial performance by artists including Antoine Hunter, and a rain machine – countering a centuries-old spell of separation, and to make this our most accessible performance yet, with ASL-interpretation, made-for-virtual performances, premiering November 3-5, 2023, at Z Space with live and virtual satellite events, with the full production support of Queer Cat Productions in furtherance of our mission to pay QTBIPOC artists to create new works, and to create accessible consent forward immersive experiences that leave our audiences more connected.