The Imagining Together Creative Healing Collective invites you to join them for an evening of experiencing what is possible when we choose to imagine - together. Join us on July 18th at 7pm and share in the worlds they have shared and created together. Collective Members -- Donniee Barnes, Doriane Swain, Kenya Bullock, Nayette Windley and healing arts facilitator Sandrine Dupiton look forward to sharing an intimate evening of creative healing arts. More details to come ️.
4USBYUS: a benefit show series is a clothing swap, market AND live show all dedicated to creating a celebrated space for queer people, people of color and queer people of color! The clothing swap & market will take place at 2pm, and the live show kicks off at 4pm with performances by Cyan Xavier, Niche Kink, and Teddy Grump! 50% of ticket proceeds will go to the Coalition for Black Trans Economic Liberation based in Philadelphia, PA. Clothing swap sign ups are available online as well as the day of.
This event, taking place on Friday, July 24 from 4:00-5:30pm, is a Q&A about Traci Johnson's textile making process, history, and inspirations. Inspired by Afrofuturism, queer philosophy, and bodily restoration, Johnson's work explores our relationship with the past, the present, ourselves, and the world around us.
ASÉ ASÉ ASÉ - A new play by Jasmine Carmichael in partnership with Lost Souls Memorial Project: It’s Vanessa’s 18th birthday. She’s searching for purpose in loss, an outlet for joy, and the embrace of community. Along the way she discovers the power of ceremony. This new one-woman show explores the history of slavery in New Jersey and the importance of remembrance. Free, please RSVP.
coLAB Arts Summer Institute uses the arts as a lens to learn how to fully respond to and influence culture and community. Participants will learn a wide range of skills and techniques to become civic change-makers. Students will work on storytelling, design, music, and movement. Ages 8-18.
Join us for the Open Studios where we share Haemee Han’s gallery. She is a public artist, landscape architect, and educator born in South Korea, with her practice based in New Jersey. She works at the intersection of sculpture and landscape, investigating how objects can operate as landscapes and how landscapes can be distilled into discrete, human-occupiable forms.
Join us for the opening of Dennis Redmoon Darkeem’s gallery in our Open Studio event starting at 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Dennis RedMoon Darkeem is an Afro-Indigenous interdisciplinary artist born in New York City and currently living and practicing in the Bronx. He is the founder of RedMoon Arts Movement Inc., a community-centered arts initiative dedicated to environmental education, public art, and cultural healing. His work spans sculpture, installation, photography, film, collage, public murals, and socially engaged practice.
Join us for the opening of Misha Tyutyunik’s gallery in our Open Studio event from at 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. He is a Ukrainian-born painter, muralist, street artist, illustrator, and virtual reality artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Pratt Institute, he collaborates with communities around the world to create public art and is regularly commissioned by organizations, brands, publications, and collectors.
