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CampFire Walk With Me  
The fire walk or ‘Umu Ki’ is an ancient Polynesian ceremony which summons courage, inspires commitment and demonstrates dedication to your life’s purpose, whatever that may be.

Like a shameless shaman, or a sadomasochistic cheerleader, Stacy offers artists practical, structured tasks to write, perform, conceive, devise, collaborate and make on their hot feet. Since artists can create only by continually risking failure, their fears and anxieties have an incredible power to defer their dreams. CampFire Walk With Me is both a dead serious and camp ceremonial process that invites artists to walk steadily through the perils and anxieties of their artistic journey.

This Weekender is suitable for anyone interested in making solo performance.

About The Artist
Hawaii born Stacy Makishi frolics with many forms including live art, film, visual art and physical theatre. She has performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Albert Hall, TATE Modern and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has recently collaborated with TATE and B3 Media on Letters to Francis, a film made in response to the work of Francis Bacon. Her latest show, STAY! will be touring internationally in 2010.

Stacy Makishi has over sixteen years experience as a facilitator and has been carefully cultivating crafty ways to catch artists off-guard. CampFire Walk With Me follows on from a series of inspirational projects led by Stacy Makishi for the DIY programme run by Live Art Development Agency in partnership with New Work Network and Artsadmin.