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The Lullaby Experiment participants wake up together in a shared community after a night of lullabies sung by strangers. The overlaying text reads: DYFIT presents Living As Art. • Image by Northern Spark — The Lullaby Experiment participants wake up together in a shared community after a night of lullabies sung by strangers. The overlaying text reads: DYFIT presents Living As Art. *Image by Northern Spark*

Don’t You Feel It Too? presents: Living As Art

Help SUPPORT DYFIT in developing A new artistic practice to move through this time of heartbreak and upheaval

Something I believe, though I’m shy to say: life is art.

Something I believe, but am not afraid to say loudly: we need new artistic practices to move through this time of heartbreak and upheaval. We need practices that begin with our bodies, our breath, and our everyday behavior. That’s where behavioral art emerges. Behavioral art — or lived practice as art — teaches us we are all worldmakers to create hope, connection, and belonging within and around us.

Next year, I collaborate with Thea Lauren Pineda, Kristin Johnstad, and New Branches — home to five diverse, faith-based communities and a high school in the Nokomis neighborhood. We will develop Living As Art, a new contemplative practice that blends installation, performance, ritual, mindfulness retreat, and living and learning together.

For four days, we share this work with the public. We will sing, dance, teach, eat mindful meals, breathe, and rest together. We will explore what it means to live artfully — integrating spirit, creativity, and daily life into one continuous practice. We will remind ourselves that though suffering exists, we have what we need to face these days with grace, resilience, and spiritual defiance.

You can support this intergenerational, multiracial project to create a new artistic practice. With your help, we will invite artists and facilitators to co-create Living As Art. We will demonstrate that life itself is art — and that art has always been our pathway to healing.

With hands on heart,
thank you,

Marcus Young 楊墨

SINCE 2008, YOU’VE HELPED US BRING THE PRACTICE TO:

Plaza Centenario and Ayeeyo Childcare Center on Lake Street
the Rondo Community Library
Twin Cities Pride
Planned Parenthood
Clouds in Water Zen Center

George Floyd Square
colleges and universities across the country
our frozen lakes
to each other’s front yards
and many more!

Thank you for supporting DYFIT to be a thriving community of practice, a powerful way of learning and teaching, and a process of engagement and transformative change!

Donate to DYFIT

Checks can be made out to our fiscal sponsor, Springboard for the Arts, with “Don’t You Feel It Too?” in the memo line, and mailed to:

Don’t You Feel It Too?
℅ Marcus Young
3600 Wooddale Ave S Unit 104
Saint Louis Park, MN 55416

Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

What is Don’t You Feel it Too?

Anyone can do it. Don’t You Feel It Too? is a radical and accessible public dance practice of healing, art, and activism. Our work transforms peoples’ relationships to their bodies, the land, and our histories through whole-self, participatory art experiences. We practice embodied bravery to engage in social change.