WALKING EACH OTHER HOME: Stacy Makishi

Walking Each Other Home is a year-long participatory project by Stacy Makishi exploring where and how we gather, how ritual can heal and transform, and how we might build communities of connection: connection to ourselves, to each other, and to inspiration and mystery.

Part ritual, part workshop, part story and part party, Walking Each Other Home will shapeshift as it travels throughout 2025, with Stacy doing workshops, residencies and performances in a tour which so far includes Bradford, Brighton, Brussels, Chatham, Colchester, Folkestone, Hastings, Ipswich, London and Tallinn.

With generous scoops of her characteristic aloha, Stacy will be exploring a host of questions with people from all walks of life:

​What happens when our curiosity becomes larger than our fears? What happens to our hearts when we openly share our struggles? What does playfulness have to do with ritual?  Let’s walk each other home, into the unknown together.  
Stacy Makishi    

Upcoming dates
Southbank Centre, London: 26 March 2025

Creative team
Stacy Makishi, Vick Ryder, Nikki Tomlinson, Claire Nolan, Jo Allitt, Meg Hodgson, Mary Tooley, Sue Baynton, Lois Weaver, Lisa Asagi.

Walking Each Other Home is supported using public funding by Arts Council England and with generous support from partners; Southbank Centre, Battersea Arts Centre, Arts on the Green at New Unity, Queen Mary University of London, Live Art Development Agency (all in London), The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Tallinn), Feral Festival CIFAS (Brussels), SPILL Festival (Ipswich), Colchester Arts Centre, Theatre in the Mill and Mind the Gap (Bradford), Normal? Festival of the Brain (Folkestone), Ideas Test (Chatham), Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts & Marlborough Productions (Brighton), Home Live Art (Hastings).    

Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993.
Like a bonsai plant, Stacy is small but old, and has been making art and infecting folks with curiosity and creativity for over 40 years. A cross-fertilization of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones. It is as complex as it is accessible, humorous as it is challenging, visual as it is literate. Also a teacher, director and mentor in international demand, Stacy believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with others in order to put more ‘aloha’ into the world.

Made with a strong collaborative ethos, her solos have been presented in venues across the UK including Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, In Between Time (Bristol), TATE Modern, BUZZCUT (Glasgow), Traverse (Edinburgh) and internationally at BRUT:Vienna, Estonia Academy for Theatre and Dance, Mladi Levi (Slovenia), International Festival of the Black Sea (Turkey), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis), and La Mama (New York).

She also directs socially engaged and participatory works, most recently Under the Covers, commissioned by Contact Manchester Young Company and the Wellcome Collection. Awards include ICA Attached Artist Award, a Millennium Fellowship Award, the Franklin Furnace Award, and the Live Art Development Agency Arthole Award.