@saratilley
Multidisciplinary artist: writing, puppetry, clown, theatre. From St. John’s NL, currently based in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. Keen about plants, cats, queers and doing better for our sweet lil planet.
A black cat with green eyes looks out from a purple cardboard doorway.
A white and grey cat in close up, staring deeply into the camera.
Yvie, a fluffy black cat, and Minnie, a fluffy white and grey cat, sit next to one another.
These cats! Yvie and Minnie make life so much better.
Hey Canadians, let’s not Americanize our immigration policy! What do you think? Sign here. migrantrights.ca/actionslist/...
You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
A textile sign with embroidery reads The Old Stump. There is a soft vine around the outside and the colour scheme is greens and browns.
A close up of the lettering on a textile sign with embroidery which reads The Old Stump. There is a soft vine around the outside and the colour scheme is greens and browns.
A full view of a textile sign with embroidery that reads The Old Stump. There is a soft vine around the outside and the colour lot scheme is greens and browns. At the bottom there is a blank burlap space where a show poster can be attached.
I’ve been working on my theatre marquee.
I’m dreaming my own specific dream and slowly crafting it into existence! It’s a great way to stay sane when things feel overwhelming.
#PuppetTheatre #Puppetry #MicroTheatre #SlowCraft #MadeByHand #SoftSculpture #Textiles #ArtsNL
Reminder: photos of protests & you want as many people as possible to see & share them?
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If you want to add context about a cool sign someone was holding in a pic?
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If you want to be part of the fight against the elimination of disabled ppl from work & public life?
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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
We need to tread eugenics with the seriousness we treat the most vile forms of bigotry because eugenics is what turns those bigotries into action items.
A small bear marionette sits beneath a tree trunk in a gentle wash of yellow and green light. The bear looks toward a monarch butterfly hovering in the air, seemingly curious.
It's World Puppetry Day! Here is my tiny Bear marionette (6 inches tall when standing upright), meeting an even tinier butterfly puppet (under an inch square). Work in progress.
Puppetry is intimate, tactile magic. An antidote to fractured, distracted, screen-heavy living. It gives me hope.
this is a very helpful framework for metabolizing the onslaught of terrible things & also taking action!
Rainbow light and umbrella plant shadows on a wall.
Light coming through patterned window film and catching the pattern in many small colourful shards.
Morning magic.
Rainbow light and umbrella plant shadows on the wall. And the window film making them.
Four oversized needlefelted redberries with green painted leaves sitting in a sunbeam.
Four oversized needlefelted redberries with green painted leaves sitting in a sunbeam.
A white hand holding a needlefelted redberry the size of an orange.
Redberries (aka partridgeberries) in the sunbeam. Slowly needlefelting my way toward a full harvest!
#Needlefelting #PuppetTheatre #Puppetry #SoftSculpture #ArtsNL #MadeByHand #NoFilter
Hi Canadians! Here’s a petition to keep Trump from entering Canada while he continues to threaten our sovereignty. It will be presented in Parliament by Charlie Angus in March.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Reconsider. We don’t want to even entertain the question. That normalizes this insanity. Why does the CBC need to partner with US radio on this? Why are we letting American voices into this conversation at all? We are not American and we don’t want to be American. Americans don’t get to weigh in.
DON’T MEMORY HOLE ELON MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE
It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology
Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi
This should be repeated in articles, regularly
Ongoing horrors.
I am actually physically ill reading this. No freedom for thee. What a fucking travesty.
I’m crying my eyes out.
Beyond the questionable reliability of AI as a source of information, it is incredibly wasteful re fresh water and electricity which really should be resources directed to human beings and not machines replacing human beings. The amount of water needed alone is exceedingly, unbelievably wasteful.
I subscribe to this newsletter about positive news around the world (often overshadowed or left out entirely from the major headlines). If you need some counterbalance this might help a little.
What flavour is it?
Two cats touching noses together.
A white and grey cat curled up for a contented cat nap.
A black cat with green eyes stretches a paw to the camera.
Throwing a few cats into the sky to see what happens. This is Minnie and Yvie (Oddly)
Hi! 😎