STORAGE CONTAINER is a mix series utilizing sonic exploration to acknowledge bodily systems as containers storing the ability to transform/transport + absorb/release nutritive input and stimuli.
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Hosted by Callie Ryan—she/her/hers; currently living on Tongva, Hahamogna, and Kizh land—an electronic musician, resident dublab (opens in a new tab) DJ, design artist, composer, student, and disability justice advocate living with Ankylosing Spondylitis (opens in a new tab). Through her various practices, Callie aims to make works that provide safe containers for exploring our unique internal anatomical processes and their impact on our embodied experience within a surrounding ecosystem.
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Callie’s creative practice is rooted in social justice work and inspired by frameworks of mutual aid and intersectional disability. She believes that individual healing is not possible without accessible care for all—a belief that has guided her in facilitating virtual care groups for folks who identify as chronically ill and/or disabled, participating in various mutual aid based meal support systems, as well as creating STORAGE CONTAINER as a means of centering conversations that work to dismantle systems of oppression and harm. The mix series is also intended to act as a virtual vessel—providing a safe, ever-changing, sonic landscape in which listeners and guests can engage in practices of learning, unlearning, expansion, growth, grief, anger, creativity and joy alongside one another.
Callie is currently in school completing her masters degree in Chinese Medicine and Herbalism with the intention of creating accessible trauma-informed medical care for marginalized bodies. Her studies are grounded in the acknowledgment of the responsibility that comes alongside practicing a traditional medicine not of her own lineage. She acknowledges that she will always be a student and honors her teachers and the ancestry from which this ancient medicine was born.
Callie is also deeply immersed in her current learning of earth-based Ashkenazi Jewish ritual as a means of connecting with her radical Jewish ancestor rebels, activists, and loved ones who have taught her how to tenderly love without limits and how to welcome every body and heart as a guest into her home—approaching her creative practices, studies, and care work with the warmth of her Bubbie’s (של בובי) chicken noodle soup flowing over the collective joints and aching bellies, muscles, hearts, organs, fluids, vessels and minds of all sensitive bodies.
“Treat no one lightly and think nothing is useless, for everyone has a moment and everything has a place”
הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, אַל תְּהִי בָז לְכָל אָדָם, וְאַל תְּהִי מַפְלִיג לְכָל דָּבָר, שֶׁאֵין לְךָ אָדָם שֶׁאֵין לוֹ שָׁעָה וְאֵין לְךָ דָבָר שֶׁאֵין לוֹ מָקוֹם.
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Please message callie@dublab.com (opens in a new tab) with any thoughts, comments, or accessibility needs that surface during your time spent with the STORAGE CONTAINER archives or website ♥️ THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE !!
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