Cycles of Care

Cycles of Care is an covid-conscious experimental performance project by Shay Erlich with production support from Paulina Drohomyrecky exploring access intimacy and care. Taking place in an accessible sauna, disabled people and their care pods are invited to a 60 minute sweat experience, where we jointly create and reflect on care. Each sauna cycle will have a guiding question for reflection and conversation, and at the end of the cycles a poem will be created drawn from our joint reflections. The poems created will be shared with participants, and also with the broader community (at a later date). Spaces are extremely limited with four encounters total over the two days.

Cycles of Care: Covid Safety Protocols

As we are in another Covid surge and disability populations (particularly those who receive community care) are at significantly increased risk of Covid complications, Cycles of Care has developed a robust covid protocol for in person programming at this time.

Everyone participating in the Cycles of Care project must be masked (With KN95 masks or better). Anyone who is not able to mask for medical reasons will unfortunately not be able to participate at this time. Future iterations of this project may offer remote participation options for participants who cannot mask, but this is not available at this time.
Proof of vaccination (2+ doses) prior to the event will be required. The artists and support staff for this event have been fully vaccinated (4-5 doses) and are also happy to share proof of their vaccination status with participants if requested. Again, we recognize that this may present an access barrier for some potential participants, and we hope to offer remote options to serve you in the future.
Each session is designed for one participant or participant pod. We encourage sharing this experience with folks who act as caregivers or care receivers in your life, but request that everyone who accompanies you is part of the same pod.
The day has been programmed to allow 30 minutes for air exchange and cleaning between each iteration of the program.
The space will have HEPA filtration between sessions (though not during due to noise considerations) to decrease the risk of any air or viral exchange between participants.
CO2 monitoring will be available if participants would like to access it