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December 12, 2024, 6:00 – 9:00am

Deli Radio Opening Dance Party

Deli Radio

We’re kicking off Deli Radio project with a night of dancing! Join us for music, snacks, house-infused cachaça, and a good time.

Opens December 12, 2024

Deli Radio

Deli Radio

By merging these two concepts, Deli Radio reimagines familiar, everyday interactions as catalysts for community-building and collaboration.

June 2022

Violence as Ancestral Knowledge

Ana Tuazon

written in conjunction with Caroline Garcia's Session project, I Woke Up and Chose Violence.

June 2023

Holding Space: Void Spa as a Site of Care and Resistance

S. Erin Batiste

written in conjunction with artists' S. Erin Batiste for A. Sef and Akeema-Zane's Session project, Void Spa.

August 2023

Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation’s Material Cause for the Immaterial

Ryan C. Clarke

written in conjunction with The School for Poetic Computation’s (SFPC)'s Session project, Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation (ECPC)

November 22, 2024, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Closing Reception for Meter & Light: Night

Zain Alam

Session artist Zain Alam will screen Meter & Light: Night, a work-in-progress and the second part of his installation series.

October 10, 2024, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Opening Reception with Meter & Light: Day

Zain Alam

Session artist Zain Alam will screen Meter & Light: Day, the first part of his installation series completed earlier this year.

October 5–November 23, 2024

Meter & Light: Night

Zain Alam

Enacts in miniature and in music the interlocking rhythms of time in Muslim life, specifically after sunset.

July 16–August 18, 2024

The Forever Museum Archive: Circa 2020_An Object 

Onyedika Chuke and Assembly

June 19, 2024, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Meeting #4: Juneteenth Closing Event – A Meditative Celebration of Liberation and Community Facilitated by Wildcat Ebony Brown, Nour Batyne, Adelle Lin & Manushka Magloire of the Wide Awakes

Helina Metaferia

Celebrate Juneteenth with the Wide Awakes at a closing event designed as a meditative space for grounding and celebration.

June 1, 2024 at 2:00pm

Meeting #3: Gathering Workshop — Creative Tools for Collective Movement Facilitated by Samaa Wakim and Samar Haddad King of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre

Helina Metaferia

Exploring Palestinian culture, history, and resilience through the lens of movement and contemporary performance.

May 24, 2024, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Meeting #2: The Future is Present – Building Worlds with The Free Black Women’s Library Facilitated by OlaRonke Akinmowo, founder of TFBWL

Helina Metaferia

Join OlaRonke Akinmowo of TFBWL for a writing workshop that interrogates the possibility of afro-futurism, daydreaming, and world-building.

May 11, 2024 at 2:00pm

Meeting #1: By Way of Revolution | Facilitated by Helina Metaferia

Helina Metaferia

Session artist Helina Metaferia will explore the overlapping practices of performance art and protest movements.

May 9–June 19, 2024

The Meeting Place

Helina Metaferia

A site for transformative gatherings by and for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) women (cis and transgender)

April 19, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Lavendra/Recovery Project Closing Reception & Zine Launch

E. Jane

Artist E. Jane is concluding their Session with the release of two new zines featuring research, music video stills and production notes.

April 4, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Screening & Q+A: Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7

E. Jane

Join us for a screening of Agnès Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7 (89 min, 1962, France).

March 21, 2024 at 6:00pm

93-’99 Revisited: Music Video Screening #3 with Alex G. Weheliye

E. Jane

Join us as we watch and discuss music videos made between 1993 and 1999. ASL interpretation will be provided.

March 14, 2024 at 6:00pm

93-’99 Revisited: Music Video Screening #2 with with Chakeiya Richmond aka Keiyaa

E. Jane

Join us as we watch and discuss music videos made between 1993 and 1999. ASL interpretation will be provided.

March 7, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm

93-’99 Revisited: Music Video Screening #1 with Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

E. Jane

Join us as we watch and discuss music videos made between 1993 and 1999. ASL interpretation will be provided.

March 7–April 19, 2024

Lavendra/Recovery Project

E. Jane

fueled by a reverence for the artistic legacy of Black American R&B divas

January 27, 2024, 2:00 – 3:30pm

Holding Water: Workshop 2

Marcela Torres and Assembly

January 18, 2024, 7:00 – 9:00pm

In the Barro: An Evening of Performance

Marcela Torres and Assembly

January 11, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Holding Water: Workshop 1

Marcela Torres and Assembly

January 5, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Community Potluck

Marcela Torres and Assembly

Artist Marcela Torres and Assembly will make a series of food vessels and ask Recess community members and the public who want to attend, to bring dis