NO SLEEPING

Participatory Performance by Deb Todd Wheeler and Sue Murad

NO SLEEPING celebrates the photographic impulse to commemorate and preserve, while ruminating on futures lost.  The shapeshifting nature of grief guides this experiential, multi-sensory lecture and responsive performance, with an array of devices that use light in a photographic manner (historic, low tech, and the technology of now), to occupy rooms and bedrooms of historic homes where someone remembered may have dreamt and slept.

2025 Events:

Shaker Meetinghouse, Harvard, MA  (April)

Codman Estate, Lincoln, MA (May)

Loring Greenough House, Jamaica Plain, MA (June)

Forbes Estate, Milton, MA (July)

Gibson House, Boston, MA (October)

Gropius House, Lincoln, MA (November)

In 2026, we will be in residence at the Forbes House Museum to further develop the project.

Curated by Shana Dumont Garr
Conceived by Deb Todd Wheeler
Co-Created and performed by Deb Todd Wheeler and Sue Murad
Gastronomy by Maureen Coffey and Megan Cronin

Read more…. Cate McQuaid writes about NO SLEEPING in The Boston Globe, and Ocean in a Drop .

Curator Shana Dumont Garr writes about NO SLEEPING in Medium.com

2025 No Sleeping