Mann and the Culver City High School Art Students from the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) developed Retirement Bash during a five-week workshop, which included learning about performance art, community outreach, and in-class experiments. At the end of the workshop, the students and Mann presented a three-hour interactive event, where each student performed an original artwork. During the Retirement Bash performance, outdated sayings, symbols, images, and mottoes were performatively “retired” by the students, while new sayings and ideas were introduced.