Circle of Chairs x On Being and CoGenerate
In 2023, CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org) and On Being—the organization behind the esteemed podcast On Being with Krista Tippett—chose For You’s audio-driven folk dance, Circle of Chairs, for their Cogenerational Social Healing digital toolkit. The collection provides openings for reflection into the ways each of us might imagine ourselves drawing on intergenerational wisdom to advance social healing within our own communities. Illustration by Kasia Kubacha. Video by Sarah Wells.
Erika Chong Shuch Receives Headlands Center for the Arts Bay Area Fellowship 2021-2023
Erika Chong Shuch was awarded a 2-year Fellowship through which For You has been working with the Headlands community to present a series of social and performative events. The Fellowship provides studio space, housing, production support and financial resources to further For You’s upcoming series, The Welcoming.
For You at Stanford University’s IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America | October 29, 2023
Erika Chong Shuch and Ryan Tacata present on For You’s contribution to exhibition East of the Pacific at Stanford’s Cantors Art Center.
For You X Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Dr. G’s Bingo Extravaganza | July 20th-24th, 2022
We invite you to Dr. G's Bingo Extravaganza! This social bingo event will immerse you in a fantastical and joyous world centered around Oregon's own Dr. Geneva Craig - a civil rights leader, frontline nurse, and action movie lover with a penchant for Vegas glitz. Come meet new friends, compete for spectacular prizes, and celebrate an icon in our community.
The Welcoming at KQED | December 12th, 2021
During the course of the pandemic, For You brought individual artists and elders together for creative exchange to ease isolation and make new friends. The Welcoming is a series of shared, public rituals that build off the relationships between For You and older adults from our Artists & Elders project. For KQED, The Welcoming includes a drag act performed by El Beh and Morningstar; a sermon delivered by Clarice, a Dominican Sister, accompanied by Crow’s woodworking; and a red carpet rollout for Harriet who stars in an animated short.
For You X Encore.org | Gen2Gen Innovation Fellowship 2020
Rowena Richie was awarded the Encore.org Gen2Gen Innovation Fellowship 2020 to expand our work on Artists & Elders.
HowlRound TV: Devised Theater Class
Playwright Lauren Gunderson presented Devised Theatre Class with Erika Chong Shuch and Ryan Tacata livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 24 April 2020.
For You Awarded NEFA NTP 2020
Erika Chong Shuch received the New England Foundation for the Arts National Theater Project Grant (2020) to create a new For You work in response to 12 people living with dementia and their care-partners. We’re currently developing a theatrical assemblage of 12 multimedia installations formed by an ensemble of objects and performers. Drawing from individual and collective memories, we’ll commemorate the intimacy forged between people living with dementia and the people that love them.
For You X Global Brain Health Institute 2019
Rowena Richie, one of For You’s core collaborators, is an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), based out of the Memory and Aging Center at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In 2019, she received the Pilot Award for Global Brain Health Leaders, funded by GBHI, Alzheimer’s Association, and Alzheimer’s Society (UK). This award presents us with a remarkable opportunity to introduce our personalized approach to experimental theater into the world of aging and dementia care. Applying the process developed in the original For You rounds, we will work with 12 dyads (dementia family care partners and their loved ones living with dementia) to develop 12 in-home performances.
Erika Chong Shuch Presents at Creative Capital Retreat 2019
Erika Chong Shuch received the Creative Capital award in 2016 for For You. During the 2019 Creative Capital Artist Retreat, Shuch presented on For You’s progress over the years and future development.
First Things First @ The Momentary 2019
In October 2019, For You heads to the Momentary (Bentonville, AR) to source ‘First Time’ stories; conduct open rehearsals for groundbreaking ceremonies with local marching bands, cheerleaders, and sports teams; and facilitate participatory, one-to-one digital duets. The second phase of First Things First uses that research to devise a new performance work, with a world premiere at the Momentary’s grand opening in February 2020.
First Things First is a project commissioned by the Momentary for their inaugural season.