In collaboration with movement artist Coco Villa, Nifemi Ogunro will be leading a movement/building workshop at Socrates Sculpture Park.
When we think of myth, we think polytheistic gods, creation stories, punished mortals, and fantastical beasts. Much like these mythological stories, self-mythology (also referred to as personal mythology) are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, the world, and our place in it. The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Self-mythology Dream + Workshop will be where we come together to be the authors of ourselves through collective imagining and dreaming.
Join us for a participatory archival activation that is part of a research and public art project about swimming, flooding, and water relationships.
Join artist Sara Zielinski for a chat about community safety and abolition. Chats take place on the abolitionist benches at or near Recess Art.
Join us for an evening full of creativity and fun celebrating all things zines at CULTURE PUSH ZINE DAY with CP's socially engaged artists!
Join us for an evening of good company, inspiring performances by talented artists from our community, and raffle prizes to support the important work of Culture Push.
Performances by CP community members, Zain Alam, Alicia Morales, Ray Achan with special guests The Incredible Drunkertons and host, CP Fellow Sabina Sethi Unni
This kicks off 10 days of events for the Show Dont Tell Symposium featuring participatory events led by the Culture Push Fellows throughout NYC. Let's make culture together!
SICK MUSIC meet-up and workshop ! Gathering for chronically ill & disabled musicians, singers, listeners (of any level) interested in building connection, conversation, and communal explorations in NYC. First of an ongoing series.
Join us as we celebrate the launch of the Shaolin Art Party! Special guests, exciting performances, space for connection.
As Queer rights are attacked we bring the celebratory art of Drag into everyday life on a roving bicycle stage to explore the freedom of Drag!
Spring 2022 Climate Justice Fellow Alicia Raquel Morales convenes a panel on navigating urban spaces, with Alethea Pace and Kayla Hamilton.
POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN! NEW DATE: JUNE 29, 2023, 6-8 PM
Join us for the celebration of PUSH/PULL Issue 19: Heirlooms: On What We Pass Down, edited by Dena Igusti. (Fellow 2022). How do we live with what we inherit? What is considered hereditary? What defines a lineage, and is it always bound by blood? By disposition? By tragedy?
An intergenerational space for Black LBGTQ people to get to know and connect with one another in Harlem through storytelling and archive.
NEW DATE! JUNE 22ND, 6-8 PM. LOCATION TBA
In collaboration with Dayonesart we bring you al fresco art classes led by Black Utopian Fellowship Director Denae Howard, with live models. Materials provided!
The New York City premiere of the short film, "Tear Suture Scab," a comical quasi-fairytale by Ayo Janeen Jackson, which follows Suki, a Black Unicorn and her shadow, Shade, on a journey of resurrection, healing and self-liberation.
Tara Aliya Kesavan and Indranil Choudhury (Fellows 2022), with Aditi Dey, present Bengali Urban Gardening Oral Soundscape, an oral history project and installation that aims to research urban gardening practices within the Bangladeshi community in New York. In neighborhoods like Jamaica in Queens and Sunset Park in Brooklyn, residential homes are often used to grow seasonal produce, turning backyards and open spaces into lush vegetable gardens each year.
The People’s Immunology Committee convenes a post-patriarchal present where cells speak with and through the bodies that hold them. Featuring a performance, workshop and interactive exhibit workshop. Emily Bass (Associated Artist), creator of The Dendron Project, will lead this event, which invites co-creation of a new renderings of knowledge and questions about how bodies heal, recognize and respond.
The Japanese Tea and Ritual Room, presented by Associated Artist Maho Ogawa, takes the form of an interactive performance installation which connects Japanese Tea Ceremony, Zen meditation, and personal ritual and aims to help people find peace through the custom and philosophy of Tea Rituals.
NEW LOCATION DUE TO RAIN: ONLINE, REGISTRATION HERE
Join Zoe Berger (Associated Artist) to explore a new kit of educational resources to teach concepts of computer coding without any screens necessary! This event is aimed at children aged 5 - 10 years old and introduces Cartesian Coordinates and Planes, as well as Boolean Logic and Logic Loops using fun games and activities.
Join us for a Wages for Art(work) Co-Working Session, where participants are invited to make art while Associated Artist Quinlan Maggio works at their day job. During this hour-long session, participants can engage in any activity that is creatively generative for them, such as drawing, painting, collage, writing, sleeping, cooking, taking a walk, etc.
Veronica Agard (IFÁṢADÙN FÁSANMÍ) (Associated Artist) leads Writing with the Ancestors, where attendees will be guided on how to foster a relationship with their elevated ancestors and experience a healing through writing practice. Participants will also gain access to the Ancestor In Training Syllabus, and a digital journal with bonus prompts to support their journey as Ancestors in Training.
ID: A layered photo filled with warm golden brown textures. At the top and center of the photo is a gold round bowl with spiky black patterns at its edges. The bowl sits on top of the layered textures and has a faded ear in it’s center. Behind the bowl is a transparent silhouette of a person standing. They are pictured from their feet to their waist.
Join Lauren Covey (Associated Artist) as she discusses her new work “a sonic family portrait” and shares her process of working with sound as a mental health tool. She will teach participants her process of recording sound as a coping tool by recording from emotionally charged environments and remixing them into unique soundscapes.
Beyond Memorial workshop transforms public spaces marred by violence, using art to convert sites of loss into areas of healing & celebration. Join Fellow Emmanuel Oni as he introduces Beyond Memorial's origin, its past and current projects, and its cyclical framework. Participants will also create their own “sacred tool”, a kaleido-cycle, that highlights this process based on remembrance, re-imagination, and resistance.
Eco Somatic readings, conversations and movement centering disability and LGBTIQA+ ecologies of pain and joy with the environment. Featuring Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers,Christopher “Unpezverde" Núñez, and moira williams.
Where: Online Zoom Meeting / Zoom Registration link HERE
Access Menu:
Access Doula
Participation Guide
AI Captioning
Please contact moira670@gmail for more accessibility information requests and needs, thanks!
Join sound artist and oral historian, Bianca Mońa, for the premiere of 3 short films Embodied Healing. She will discuss her process for building personal narratives. This will be an experience centered in Black womanhood and healing. Photo credit is Joel Mentor"
Join our Associated Artist Ray Jordan Achan and our Climate Justice Fellows Bl3ssing Oshun Ra and Cody Herrmann as they discuss their Fellowship journeys and the changing needs and desires of artists working in climate justice, climate advocacy and environmental racism.
As part of Root Systems: The Legacy of Artist Collectives in NYC, an exhibit at Amos Eno Gallery, Culture Push and Amos Eno Gallery will be co-presenting a panel on practice by recent and current Culture Push Fellows from the Fellowship for Utopian Practice and Associated Artists. Please join Alexandra Hammond, Andrew Ingall, Ray Jordan Achan, and Zain Alam for interactive presentations and a roundtable discussion.
Boa’s Repair Shop offers workshops to repair physical objects and metaphysical states of being. Caring for objects (which are imbued with human labor, networks of supply chains and raw materials) is caring for each other, Earth and ourselves. Much is made of the brokenness of our nation and our big divides. Surely this is true. But perhaps our search for final solutions is what keeps us from practicing more beneficial ways of being. What if systems are meant to be broken because breaking is always happening? In Boa’s Repair Shop Flag Repair, we approach the construction of a flag from the inside out by tapping into our deepest individual and collective resource – imagination. We journey to an imagined home, find its shape, bring these symbols out of our imaginations, develop them, and use them to create a flag together.
Meet with the artist and talk through the themes for her exhibition It’s a Luxury to Look Back, at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.
On July 16th we will be collaborating with Dayonesart to bring you art classes.
This program will be held at Fort Greene Park and run from 11am - 1PM {priority will come to those who complete this registration and submit a $5 donation to $artschoolscammer on CASH APP with B2BxCP as the Note}.
Back2Basics is a series of Life Drawing Classes hosted by #Dayonesart. Each class is held throughout the Summer 22" in a beautified aerated private Studios and Gardena locations in Brooklyn.
This program is for All ages! Please keep in mind Artists will be drawing from an array of live nude and semi nude models - we do not body shame or discriminate in regards to ableism.
Participating will receive materials at the beginning of each class along with 1 fresh squeezed libation.
Zain Alam, Alcia Raquel Morales, and Ray Jordan Achan share their practices and process, with a roundtable discussion following the presentations.
Morales will be sharing a peek into crowning in october, or how to change shape while remembering your name, and their practice of city scape ritual dance. What does it mean to sink into a place? What does this challenge, unearth, and offer?
In his presentation, Achan guides the audience through a vivid history of Newtown Creek and discusses his work in connecting marginalized communities with the complicated history of the Creek.
Alam will share the latest reserch from his work with re-framing Muslim chant, story, and song.
