“Bloodtide” Book Discussion with the Author
Calling all nature enthusiasts, culture workers, LGBTQIA+ and allies, horseshoe crab lovers and anyone in need of a new holiday! Join other curious locals for a (1 time!) book club and discussion with Eli Nixon, author and illustrator of BLOODTIDE: A New Holiday in Homage to Horseshoe Crabs.
Join us in person at the West Tisbury Library or via Zoom on Thursday, May 16, at 6pm. All participants will receive a Zoom link sent to their registration email if they would prefer to join remotely. SIGN UP HERE.
This event is co-hosted by Mass Audubon Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, QueerHubMV and the West Tisbury Public Library.
About the Book:
Cardboard workshop how-to, karaoke songbook, nature drag theorization, 450-million-year-long love letter, field guide to a different future—Bloodtide proposes exactly what we need in a form we never imagined. Bloodtide is a new holiday to gather us around an homage dedicated to 450 million years of horseshoe crab fortitude.
About the Author:
Eli Nixon builds portals and gives guided tours to places that don’t yet exist. They are a settler-descended transqueer clown, a cardboard constructionist, and a maker of drawings, puppets, pageants, parades, suitcase theaters, and low-tech public spectaculah. Eli collaborates with activists, schools, mental health and recovery centers, libraries and the more-than-human world to expand imaginative capacity and build muscles for collective liberation. They’re a Rhode Islander living on Narragansett land.
Eli is a parent of a teen, an organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice-RI, and a member of Direct Action for Rights and Equality, The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, The New Georges Jam, and brotherdykes unlimited. Eli is the author and illustrator of BLOODTIDE- A New Holiday In Homage To Horseshoe Crabs; 2nd edition now available through The 3rd Thing Press. Eli just recently celebrated this holiday through a massive public sculpture installation at The Providence Public Library. Eli and 300 Modern Humans (ages 0.3-83) built a 450-million-year timeline of flora and fauna (mostly out of recyclables) in 9 months of asynchronous but collaborative organism building workshops. Now Eli is basking in intertidal naturedrag, flotilla scheming and amatuer flag dancing/engaging in the legislative season…