What are your wildest dreams and haunting nightmares? What's your relationship to sleep and rest, and how do they inform the futures we want to build collectively? Join Laura and huiyin for a collective journaling workshop that hopes to reground visions of solidarity and healing in the everyday practice of dreaming.
Another chance for a tactile engineering experience, exploring the soundscape of Benin City using Arduinos, microphones, speakers, and other sensors to create a reimagined auditory world.
Time Flies for Us is a community event to share, brainstorm and imagine remedies for overwork, overwhelm, and lack of rest, especially for female and nonbinary artists.
Katherine Toukhy catalyzes a process of somatic movement, drawing, and writing refined over the past year working with Obadah Aljefri and Nadia Khayrallah. Through the collective exploration of grief, rage, and reinvention Toukhy discovered her guiding question. Join her at the Symposium to experience this embodied collective process and a minimalist installation.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL LATER IN THE YEAR
If you’re interested in participating, send us an email at cp@culturepush.org and we’ll keep you up to date on the new day and time.
This hands-on, workshop welcomes curious learners, crafty gardeners, chefs, and plant lovers. to come explore DIY hydroponic systems made from recycled materials with teaching artist, Aiyo Cheboi. They will introduce seed starting + plant propagation and guide you through building your own small-scale hydroponic system!
In this 3-hour event, Megan will share her personal connection to protesting, healthcare justice, and art as activism. We will check out artwork, zines and photos on healthcare and disability activism. After our conversation, there will be open time to make art together.
If you’re curious about urban food justice, cooking, and finding groceries in NYC, you don’t want to miss this! Join us for an engaging workshop as we explore how we’re collectively navigating NYC’s food environment. Space is limited, RSVP today!
An interactive workshop where together, we’ll explore and create devices based Benin City using a variety of materials, including our own bodies as conductors and working on water filtration techniques
An intimate community gathering space where we move from isolation to safely process collective wounds and reclaim ancestral wisdom. These facilitator-led sessions create sanctuary for decolonizing our inner landscapes while discovering pathways to liberation within our own bodies.
Join the Nuovo Beach collective as we reflect on our beach experiences and create a collective map of our place connections. We invite you to bring objects that connect you to meaningful beach spaces.
This event is a meetup for mothers to console, share, and inspire as we continue to grow as women and mothers. A gathering of Mamas to talk about motherhood and desires for their children. By the end of the gathering Mamas will write a letter to their offspring.
An interactive sound sculpture where play doh and nature are characters. Together, we’ll explore and create the sounds of Benin City using a variety of materials, including our own bodies and trees as conductors -creating an unique ephemeral experience of sound.
Join Culture Push Fellow Ashley Dawson at the screening of their films “Peaker” and “The Price of Power”
Join us at Woodbine on Sunday, March 16, at 4:30 PM for a screening of Peaker and The Price of Power, two films by Culture Push Fellow Ashley Dawson. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with architect Andrea Johnson (designer of the Renewable Rikers project) and sociologist and public power activist Ankit Bhardwaj.
Ashley Dawson is an author, activist, and professor of English at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. Ashley works for the abolition of fossil fuels and a democratic energy transition as a member of the Public Power NY campaign and founder of the Public Power Observatory.
Healthcare in America is a system where corporations make billions while the care it is supposed to provide is largely inaccessible and overpriced. Threats to Medicaid and Medicare are proposed to create larger tax cuts for billionaires. As more and more folks are affected by this cruel system the need for community to share and process has never been more urgent.
Join us online on March 16th at 4 PM for a community conversation on healthcare justice with Dr. Donald Moore from PNHP (Physicians for National Health Plan), Jamila Headley from Be A Hero, and Marianne Pizzitolla from NYC Org of Public Service Retirees.
The conversation will be moderated by Megan Bent, 2024-2025 Culture Push Disability Arts Curatorial Fellow. They will answer questions about what is happening with healthcare and ways folks can engage in healthcare justice in their communities. In this event, there will be time for participant questions and for small group reflection. To close out the event we will have time to reflect together.
Speakers:
Megan Bent (she/her) is a lens-based artist interested in ways image-making can happen beyond "traditional" media and methods. She is drawn to processes that reflect and embrace her disabled experience; especially interdependence, impermanence, care, and slowness. Her most recent work focuses on personal experiences of healthcare denials and critiques the use of AI in healthcare. She is interested in weaving together her health justice activism and art practice. Her work has been exhibited domestically and abroad at venues including The U.N. Headquarters, NY, NY; Root Division, San Francisco, CA; form & concept, Santa Fe, NM; F1963, Busan, South Korea; and Fotonostrum, Barcelona, Spain. She was a recent recipient of the 2023 Wynn Newhouse Awards.
DR. DONALD MOORE is a Yale-trained physician and public health specialist with over 35 years of experience in primary care and hospital practice, including emergency medicine. He consults on medical practice management, healthcare delivery systems, and health information technology. He is an Adjunct Professor of Biology at Pace University and a Clinical Assistant Professor at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. With over 35 years of experience, he has served as an Attending Physician at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and maintained a primary care practice in Brooklyn. As an educator and equity advocate, Dr. Moore is recognized as a thought leader in medicine and public health.
JAMILA HEADLEY is an impact-focused leader and an accomplished advocate for healthcare, racial, and disability justice. She thrives at the intersections of strategy and implementation, building organizations and movements at the global and local levels, and caring for the individuals in them. Jamila comes to Be A Hero, having spent the past 18 years advancing racial, economic, and health justice across the United States, the Caribbean, Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and South-East Asia. She also brings to Be A Hero her significant expertise in strategic advocacy and movement building, health policy analysis and research, private philanthropy, and building progressive organizational and movement infrastructure. A Rhodes scholar, Jamila has a BA in Political Science, a Masters in Global Health, and a Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Oxford. A former academic, Jamila has published research in health policy and financing, health systems reform, and the role of social movements in policy change. Jamila is a Caribbean immigrant from Barbados, where she grew up. She is living with the neurological disorder, Transverse Myelitis.
MARIANNE PIZZITOLA is a retired member of the FDNY EMS who has dedicated her post-retirement life to advocating for EMS retirees. After the devastating events of 9/11, she founded the FDNY EMS Retirees Association, focusing on ensuring that EMS retirees received the medical care they deserved. In 2021, Marianne saw another challenge that needed addressing: the forced enrollment of NYC retirees into Medicare Advantage plans. Understanding the potential impacts on retirees' healthcare options, she established the NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees. Under her leadership, this organization has successfully mobilized thousands of retirees, culminating in several legal victories against the City of New York. Marianne's efforts have not only safeguarded retirees' healthcare choices but have also highlighted the importance of retiree advocacy.
Culture Push Fellow Katherine Toukhy is part of the show “The Spiritual is Political.”
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.
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