In huiyin and Laura's daily check-ins, they often share their dreams and nightmares with each other. These stories in the most uncensored realm – often of ancestors, chosen family, friends and strangers at once far and close – speak to their intuition, deepest fears and desires, solidarity and complicity, and ancestral knowledges that have been denied from marginalized communities. They have guided the duo's collaborative creative practice, often serving as connective tissues in their letters for the past two years.

This workshop invites participants to share bedtime stories, dreams, and other stories in relation to sleep and rest, weaving a collective dreamscape for resistance and healing. It curates a collective journaling experience incorporating somatic practice and prompts for reflection and conversation.

The stories co-created in this workshop will contribute to their long-term social practice project, One Thousand and One Nights: A Queer Journey of Dreams & Diaspora"", culminating in a collective dream archive.

Please use the link below to register for this online workshop:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/S3_G8uBcTtWXWWtGt4MtXg

About Huiyin Zhou + Laura Dudu:

"hú-tu (Laura 嘟嘟 & huiyin zhou) is an artist duo with backgrounds in social practice and anthropology, working across moving image, photography, performance, and collaborative writing. Since 2020, huiyin and Laura have collaborated on over 40 performances, workshops, and exhibitions exploring diasporic queer identity, family memory, generational trauma, and collective grief through ritualistic and community-centered processes.

Dedicated to multidisciplinary art and transnational organizing, Laura and huiyin co-founded and co-direct the Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草. They also facilitate the Survivors Anchoring Art Narrative Garden (SAANG Project 春风吹), a co-creative, imaginative land for sexual and racial abuse survivors. hú-tu creates spaces of co-living and collective rest to (re)imagine and (re)learn intimacy and collective survival. Working with material, affective, residual, and conceptual presences, their works speak on/into the potential of intimate knowledge production. Responding to each others’ dream journals and familial photo/video archives, their ongoing project explores memory and home-making through a diasporic queer lens., hú-tu (Laura 嘟嘟 & huiyin zhou) is an artist duo with backgrounds in social practice and anthropology, working across moving image, photography, performance, and collaborative writing. Since 2020, huiyin and Laura have collaborated on over 40 performances, workshops, and exhibitions exploring diasporic queer identity, family memory, generational trauma, and collective grief through ritualistic and community-centered processes.
Dedicated to multidisciplinary art and transnational organizing, Laura and huiyin co-founded and co-direct the Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草. They also facilitate the Survivors Anchoring Art Narrative Garden (SAANG Project 春风吹), a co-creative, imaginative land for sexual and racial abuse survivors. hú-tu creates spaces of co-living and collective rest to (re)imagine and (re)learn intimacy and collective survival. Working with material, affective, residual, and conceptual presences, their works speak on/into the potential of intimate knowledge production. Responding to each others’ dream journals and familial photo/video archives, their ongoing project explores memory and home-making through a diasporic queer lens."

About Culture Push + Show Don’t Tell:

Culture Push is an arts organization that supports artists and creative thinkers using imaginative, participatory methods to address social and civic challenges. Operating at the intersection of art, social justice, and public engagement, Culture Push fosters collaboration, experimentation, and new ways of thinking through hands-on, community-driven projects.

The Show Don’t Tell Symposium is Culture Push’s annual gathering of artists and creative changemakers who share works-in-progress developed through Fellowship-supported civic experiments. Through interactive installations, performances, and participatory workshops, the Symposium invites the public into imaginative acts of collective learning, care, and resistance—spotlighting practices that push the boundaries of how art can move in the world.