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Karen Christopher

@karenchristopher.bsky.social
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Performance maker, organiser, teacher, mentor, audience member. Formerly of Goat Island performance group (Chicago). Now in UK organising Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects.

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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The trees were my colander. These multiple crescents filtered through the trees that were ‘blocking’ my view of the eclipse. All I had to do was turn around. (It was BEHIND me.) #eclipse
Cream-coloured exterior house wall with multiple crescent shaped reflections of the sun during the eclipse also faint shadows of bamboo. A shadow of the photographer's hand can be seen. 
Cream-coloured exterior house wall with multiple crescent shaped reflections of the sun during the eclipse also faint shadows of bamboo.
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
SKYWATER, FACEWATER, UNDERWATER WALTZ Thinking through the lens of the deep sea, we are answering who and what performance is for, how we might foster generative thought about climate adaptation and living with difference among the vital forces of this planet. We are stardust but we are also fish.
An angler fish puppet made out of thick red felt with a long illicium and a glowing esca at the end of it. The image contains only a profile of the front part of the fish puppet: the side of the mouth, one eye and the rod with a glowing bulb at the end.
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.tickettailor.com/events/soakl... Our show SKYWATER, FACEWATER, UNDERWATER WALTZ will be showing live this Friday in Plymouth (England) at The House (University of Plymouth) 17 April as part of SOAK Live Art
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Select tickets – SOAK Live Art present: an evening of deep sea performance – The House
SOAK Live Art present: an evening of deep sea performance – The House, Fri 17 Apr 2026 - Sat 18 Apr 2026 - SOAK Live Art present: An evening of Deep Sea Performance  The House, (doors 7pm) performance...
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
substack.com/@malloyrocks...
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Oliver Markus Malloy (@malloyrocks)
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
i love Chicago
a woodcut style image of a whistle gleaming with light streams and a star above it, below it the outlines of people with solidarity fists raised above their heads
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I miss Murray Mednick and now I always will. Thanks for your kind words and for being a mensch when it mattered.
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
For some reason this just makes me a little bit happy: www.facebook.com/sheldon.smit...
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9.9K views · 56 reactions | After a rambling though strangely poetic tangent about the extraordinary dance artist Simone Forti, President Donald J. Trump invited his cabinet to engage in her "Huddle" ...
After a rambling though strangely poetic tangent about the extraordinary dance artist Simone Forti, President Donald J. Trump invited his cabinet to engage in her "Huddle" score. This is the only...
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
vimeo.com/1025713180
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Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz - performance excerpts (2:39)
excerpts from Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz — a performance work by Karen Christopher, Tara Fatehi and Jemima Yong video: Dan Canham Skywater, Facewater,…
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
something other (somethingother.blog/category/cha...) contains a number of responses to the prompt "On Elasticity" including mine: Measures of responsiveness: still quite unformed somethingother.blog/2025/08/14/m...
two red star fish next to each other on the sea bed one has all of its 5 legs intact. the other has lost three legs some time in the past. There are  3 legs growing back which are much smaller than the remaining two original legs.
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Imagine this: www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city Ayun Halliday never sleeps. Reap the benefit!
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Panther City: tales of a Gen X grade 3 project run amok — Ayun Halliday
A biting elementary school comedy of manners for adults, and an unvarnished recollection of a bygone moment in the pre-Bicentennial American Midwest, as observed by Ayun Halliday, Chief Primatologist ...
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I'll be appearing here: www.thisisliveart.co.uk/events/somet... on Monday 14 July. I'll be reading something which might be called poetry. It's not very long. This event is in the east end of London, very near where I used to live. I think I'd be delighted to see you there.
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Something Other Live: On Elasticity
Join us for a curated series of performances, screenings and sound pieces to launch and celebrate Something Other’s thirteenth chapter.
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Here's the New Pledge of Allegiance I Think We All Should Take open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...
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Here's the New Pledge of Allegiance I Think We All Should Take
What if we all took a new pledge?
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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to all our heroes in green!
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Noor & Mahmoud: Young Hearts Be Free Tonight, Time is on Your Side open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...
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Noor & Mahmoud: Young Hearts Be Free Tonight, Time is on Your Side
Noor Abdalla, the Pregnant Wife of Illegally-Arrested Columbia U Protest Leader, Mahmoud Khalil, is from Flint. Naturally.
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
1 of many for those who have granted rivers legal rights to protection, including the right to flow loveourouse.org/rights-of-ri...
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Rights of Rivers – Love Our Ouse
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
1 of many for the tree outside my window making noise in the night when a mighty wind moves through its leaves and for the picture it draws in my mind
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
1 of many for the people woken in the night by police officers pounding on their doors telling them a hole had opened in the pavement outside their homes and for the way it burrows into their consciousness teaching them something about metaphor www.mylondon.news/news/local-n...
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Fears giant sinkhole could happen again due to maze of mines
A cave enthusiast has said the sinkhole may have been caused by a collapsed mine
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I hope you’ll read this piece I wrote about the insanity of Elon Musk & Utah Sen. Mike Lee attacking federal judges, yet another attack on democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/when-they-...
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Dave Awl @daveawl.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"The 21 activists who were arrested formed a circle on the marble floor and staged a sit-in to protest the Trump-Vance administration’s cuts to USAID and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and Congress’s failure to protect foreign aid programs."
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Veronica Bane @veronicabane.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This message from Eric Sevareid (from 1977) blew my socks off. youtu.be/l-1b9V1dI44?...
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Eric Sevareid Retires from CBS News after 38 Years - CBS Evening News - November 30, 1977
YouTube video by Shatner Method
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This found on X a lovely exchange by two men on opposite sides of the "aisle" posted by Hague after the recent death of Prescott twitter.com/WilliamJHagu... I think it is totally worth the watch . . . also jolly
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
excerpts from our new performance: vimeo.com/1025713180?s...
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Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz - performance excerpts (2:39)
excerpts from Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz — a performance work by Karen Christopher, Tara Fatehi and Jemima Yong video: Dan Canham
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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Another book that wrecks me on every page. It’s so brilliant.
THE SECOND BODY by Daisy Hildyard
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Karen Christopher @karenchristopher.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
open.substack.com/pub/longplay... This looks good. I love Daisy Hildyard's writing and the event looks interesting about time and duration. And who doesn't love Longplayer?
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The Longplayer Conversation 2024: Kate Briggs and Daisy Hildyard
Booking is now open for the Longplayer Conversation 2024 at Swedenborg House, 12th December, 7pm.
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