Altar No. 3: I Choose to Remember Us Whole — Community Processional

You are invited to bring your whole fabulous self to the UW campus beginning at 11:30 a.m. on May 20 to participate in an interactive processional through five altars created by Seattle-based collaborators, in response to the core theme of Daniel Alexander Jones’s project, Altar No. 3: I Choose To Remember Us Whole:

What would it feel like to remember and to be remembered as whole beings? What would change? What would enable wholeness? And what can we do to embrace as whole what now seems irrevocably torn asunder?

The processional experience will begin and end at the Henry Art Gallery, the site of Jones’s current installation of the same name. 

Processional Timeline and Map of Processional Route and Altar Locations

This contemplative journey through space will be led by UW Department of Dance faculty Juliet McMains and Diana Garcia-Snyder, students and community activators, and will assemble at 11:30 a.m. to procede to the site of the first on-campus altar, arriving at approximately 12 p.m.

The full route is about 2.5 miles long and is expected to take approximately 2.5 hours to walk. We will conclude with a celebration in front of the Henry at approximately 2:30 p.m. You are encouraged to join the entire processional but it is also possible to join along the way. We invite you to wear shades of gold, red, orange and yellow — inspired by the sun.11:30 a.m. Welcome with Daniel Alexander Jones & Walter Kitnudu 

12:00 p.m. Valerie Curtis-Newton: The Wisdom Walk
(South Courtyard, Art Building)

12:35 p.m. Afroditi Psarra: Altar to Interdimensional Entanglements
(Meany Studio Courtyard)

12:55 p.m. Leon Finley: Altar to The Death of The Sun
(Meany Hall West Patio)

1:25 p.m. Althea Rao: Chestful of Whispers
(UW Farm at Mercer Court)

2:05 p.m. Timothy White Eagle: Sacrifier Les Vivants
(Upper Rainier Vista)

2:35 p.m. Ending celebration in the plaza in front of the Henry 

Learn more about each of the altars and artists

Please RSVP to us via this form, and include any important information we should know about your need for accommodations and accessibility as we plan the processional route.

Feel free to reach out to us directly to discuss these needs in advance: mcengage@uw.edu. 

Altar No. 3: I Choose to Remember Us Whole is an extension of Daniel Alexander Jones’s ALTAREDSTATES project, which invites participants into intentional relationship with unseen interwoven forces that shape our lived realities, including waves of history, culture, cosmology and Soul.

Co-presented by Meany Center for the Performing Arts and the Henry Art Gallery as part of Becoming: At Home in the World, a curated series of events produced in partnership with Bill T. Jones and New York Live Arts.​

This co-presentation represents a deeper engagement with Bill T. Jones as 2022–23 Meany Center guest Artistic Associate, to increase artist engagement, support new work, amplify diverse voices and further expand and diversify audiences of contemporary performance in Seattle, including increasing access to new generations of artists and audiences.

Becoming: At Home in the World is generously sponsored by the Floyd and Dolores Jones Endowed Fund for the Arts, The College Inn Pub and by John Robinson and Maya Sonenberg.

Generous support for Altar No. 3: I Choose to Remember Us Whole comes from sponsors The U District Partnership, the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and by the Neighborhood Matching Fund from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods.

Funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Mellon Foundation and support from the Doris Duke Foundation.