OVERFLOW RADIO: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation

Celebrated for her large-scale social choreographies, Emily Johnson / Catalyst’s newest project, Overflow Radio is a performance, skill-share, planting of 1000 trees, and radio transmission from across territories.

In conjunction with the world premiere of Overflow Radio in Mni Sóta Makoce (Minneapolis), DiverseWorks hosts an Overflow Radio: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation here in Houston. Over 24 non-consecutive hours, we will gather in-person to listen to twelve First Nations and Indigenous authors, poets, and scholars live-broadcasting from their home territories and First Nations. We’ll pay attention to other scales, other forms, other knowledges. We’ll traverse together, transcending colonial borders, languages and time. We’ll feast and celebrate the making of community, as we practice our shared commitment to creating our possible futures, as we gather what we need to know.

The program is developed in collaboration with Emily Johnson and local Indigenous and Native artists to include talks, skill-shares, listening gatherings, an exhibition, and performances by Aveda Adara, Chiara “Sunshine” Beaumont, Christie “Chichi” Chafoya, Karen Navarro, Aryn Ward, and Monica Villarreal, with additional participating artists and community partners to be announced.

The project is co-organized by DiverseWorks, Emily Johnson / Catalyst, and the participating artists and partners.

Programs

OVERFLOW RADIO: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation
October 3-24, 2026
DiverseWorks Gallery @ MATCH

Saturday, October 3, 5 – 9 PM
5 PM Good Medicine Indigenous Music Festival, Pay-What-You-Wish Tickets
7 PM Opening Reception

Friday, October 9 – Monday, October 12, 11:30 AM – 6 PM
(first transmissions start at 12 PM each day)
Listening Sessions, Skill Shares and Panel Discussions
RSVP

Friday, October 9, 6 PM
Performance: Maize by ACT II
Free Tickets

Saturday, October 17, 6 PM
Diverse Discourse Lecture w/Mary V. Bordeaux, Ed.D., Co-Founder & Co-Director, Racing Magpie
RSVP

Thursdays – Saturdays, 12 – 6 PM
Exhibition Hours

Press
Read Preview – Overflow Radio: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation, The Dance Dish (Sep 2026)
Read A Guide to Houston Happenings During 2026 Untitled Art Fair, Glasstire (Sep 2026)
Read 2026-27 Season Preview: 23 Shows Marked on Our Contributors’ Calendar, Dance Magazine (Sep 2026).
Read What Carries Forward: Emily Johnson’s ‘Overflow Radio’ at DiverseWorks, Arts and Culture Texas Magazine (Aug 2026).
Read Previewing Exhibitions Coming to the Greater Houston Area in Fall 2026, Glasstire (Aug 2026). 

Acknowledgements

Overflow Radio: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation at DiverseWorks is supported in part by grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation. Additional support is from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, The Brown Foundation, Inc., Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts, Houston Endowment, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Wortham Foundation, and the George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation.

Overflow Radio is a National Performance Network Creation & Development Fund Project commissioned by Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater (REDCAT) and co-commissioned DiverseWorks, MASS MoCA and University of Minnesota Department of Theatre Arts & Dance, more information at www.npnweb.org.

Overflow Radio is developed through creative residencies provided by MASS MoCA, John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater, University of Minnesota’s Imagine Fund with support from the McKnight Foundation, and Danspace Project with support from the New York State DanceForce, a partnership program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Overflow Radio is created with generous support from First Peoples Fund, Howard Gilman Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and The Mellon Foundation.

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is fiscally sponsored by Producer Hub.