Join us for the last events of this year’s Symposium, where imaginative acts of collective learning, care, and resistance become moment to gather and share. Come move with us in the East Village, dream with us online, or brainstorm and create with us in Queens!
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🕙 WHEN: TODAY, Thursday, June 26th 6-8 PM 📍 WHERE: New York Center for Creativity and Dance, 287 E 10th St, New York, NY 10009, STUDIO 3
What is the shape of this wound? Culture Push Fellow Katherine Toukhy welcomes you to engage with materials created in her participatory research of the past year. When she started her research last year, Toukhy didn’t exactly know the question she was after. She only knew that safe space was needed to express rage, grief, absurdity, reinvention, in response to the current political repression. Through intimate group explorations with her thought partners, Obadah Aljefri and Nadia Khayrallah, supported by Culture Push, she catalyzed a process of somatic movement, drawing, and writing.
“What is the shape of this wound?” has become the question that emerged from these explorations. Paradoxically, she ends the fellowship having found the question rather than any clear answers - which feels like an appropriate accomplishment for these times. Join her at the Symposium to further explore, through interactive engagement and a minimalist installation, dynamic emergent ways of sensory knowing.
WHEN: Saturday, June 28, 2025, 4:00 - 6:00 PM WHERE: Online on Zoom
In huiyin and Laura's daily check-ins, they often share their dreams and nightmares with each other. These stories in the most uncensored realm – often of ancestors, chosen family, friends and strangers at once far and close – speak to their intuition, deepest fears and desires, solidarity and complicity, and ancestral knowledges that have been denied from marginalized communities. They have guided the duo's collaborative creative practice, often serving as connective tissues in their letters for the past two years.
This online workshop invites participants to share bedtime stories, dreams, and other stories in relation to sleep and rest, weaving a collective dreamscape for resistance and healing. It curates a collective journaling experience incorporating somatic practice and prompts for reflection and conversation. The stories co-created in this workshop will contribute to their long-term social practice project, One Thousand and One Nights: A Queer Journey of Dreams & Diaspora", culminating in a collective dream archive.
WHEN: Sunday, June 29, 2025 WHERE: Topaz Arts 55-03 39th Avenue Woodside, NY, 11377
3-4 PM: Benin City 1400 Part 2
4-5 PM: Time Flies for Us
Benin City 1400 Part 2: Another chance to work with Black Utopian Fellow Cam Mbayo on tactile engineering experiences, exploring the soundscape of Benin City using Arduinos, microphones, speakers, and other sensors to create a reimagined auditory world.
Time Flies for Us, facilitated by Culture Push Fellow Suzanne Schulz, is a community event to share, brainstorm and imagine remedies for overwork, overwhelm, and lack of rest, especially for female and nonbinary artists. We will imagine how time can be stretched, manipulated, repeated, ignored, and shared. The event will also invite us to question what “us” means in the context of gendered labor, art, and care. What do we share and where do our experiences of gendered labor diverge? The workshop will culminate in creating a spoken word performance together. The event will also include a work-in-progress installation of The I Need More Time Machine, an animated collection of oral histories experienced inside a restful space.
