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October 21, 2023, 1:00 – 2:00pm

Resonant Being: A journey through Ashtanga/Vinyasa style yoga, Energy and Sound Healing

KING COBRA and Hue Hallums

A blend of yoga and sound healing to offer a comprehensive approach to well-being that encompasses your physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions.

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.

November 2024

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.

December 20, 2024, 12:30 – 5:00pm

Dancing While Caged + DJ Set with Stefan Ruiz

June Canedo de Souza

a conversation around the experience of dancing inside prison while incarcerated; whether individually, socially, in a classroom, or choreographer.

March 2025

iNKED with iNTENT

Glenn Quentin

written in conjunction with artists' KING COBRA's and Hue Hallums' Session project, Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present.

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.

May 10–June 14, 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.

June 7, 2025, 2:00 – 3:30pm

How to Become an Octopus (and sometime squid): Kid Friendly Edition

Miriam Simun

Psycho-physical practice to develop cephalopod abilities - for a future that is sensorial, relational, wet, attuned, and in the body.

June 28, 2025, 2:30 – 7:00pm

Cypher for Gaza

Dancing Through Prison Walls

Join us for a powerful cypher to support youth in Gaza—breaking, art, and community care in solidarity and resistance.

July 5, 2025, 5:00 – 8:00pm

FREEDOM TIME Opening Gathering, Dance sent from inside Jenin, Palestine

Dancing Through Prison Walls

We will share the first draft of Detainee written choreography by Motasem Abu Hasan and sent to us from Jenin, West Bank, Palestine.

July 26, 2025, 3:00 – 6:00pm

FREEDOM TIME Book Launch and Performance of dances sent from inside Bayamon Correctional Institution, Puerto Rico and Central Michigan Correctional Facility, MI

Dancing Through Prison Walls

Launch FREEDOM TIME with dances from Puerto Rico & Michigan. Book release, performances & a powerful community conversation.

Opens September 14, 2025

Portals: Traversing Black Continuums

Kendra J. Ross, 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.

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