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This day-long celebration of the exhibition And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth: The Partnership, Art, and Activism of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore explores the sustained resonance of Cahun and Moore’s personal, creative, and activist partnership. The program’s title comes from a line in Cahun’s 1930 surrealist autobiography Aveux non Avenus (“Disavowed Confessions”): “Behind this mask is another mask. I will never be finished removing all these faces.” In this spirit, join a lineup of artists and writers in celebrating the ways Cahun and Moore used language, visual art, and personal expression to explore self-presentation.

The celebration starts in the morning with a Play Date that explores the theme “My Many Selves” with mask-making and an all-ages performance.

The afternoon continues with a poem by writer Elizabeth Hoover and live excerpts of new artistic works addressing Cahun and Moore’s lives. Next, actor and playwright John Cameron Mitchell will share his interest in Cahun and Moore and read excerpts from his forthcoming play, LSM, inspired by their lives. The day concludes with a conversation between art historian Jennifer Shaw and the co-organizers of And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth, Dean Daderko and Svetlana Kitto, along with Hoover and Mitchell.