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Saturdays, May 10, May 24, and June 14, 2-4pm

How to Become an Octopus (and sometime squid): Saturday Afternoon Options

Miriam Simun

This series is open to anyone curious about cephalopods, new ways of sensing, and expanding the definition of self.

Opens May 10, 2025

INSTITUTE FOR TRANSHUMANIST CEPHALOPOD EVOLUTION

Miriam Simun

A psycho-physical practice for human enhancement, with the octopus, squid and cuttlefish as our role model species.

Opens September 14, 2025

Portals: Traversing Black Continuums

Kendra Bostock, Ziedah Diata, and Pia Monique Murray

This work uses dance, sound, participatory art, and multi-sensory stimulation to examine everyday items in our lives that serve as portals.

Opens November 13, 2025

Sick (Music) Center

Anna RG

An experimental research, development, and community space exploring and supporting Sick Listening and Music

Opens January 14, 2026

Abolition Film Society

Kriss Li

A circle of creative exchanges between Assembly youths and 3 incarcerated participants from Parole Prep’s Archive-Based Creative Arts program

Opens March 22, 2026

sonata for cello, electronics and voice to seed whatever flourishes after the end of the american empire 

Zeelie Brown

The artist will compose and premiere a new sonata exploring the links between music, ecology, and spatial justice

Opens May 14, 2026

DAWN-DUSK-DAWN

Bel Falleiros

A project that calls us, in this moment of social and environmental collapse, to make space to be with nature.