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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.

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

September 14, 2023, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present Opening Reception

KING COBRA and Hue Hallums

Join the artists for introductory remarks and celebratory drinks.

September 14–November 10, 2023

Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present: Ancestral Healing Through Shamanic Reiki, Tattoo, and Sound

KING COBRA and Hue Hallums

Combining the sacred power of tattoo and shamanic reiki healing during this year's harvest and initiation season.

June 2023

Everyday Objects, Complicated Histories

Kleaver Cruz

written in conjunction with artist Francheska Alcántara's Session project, Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones.

September 15–October 29, 2022

Black Movement Pop Up Library

LaJuné McMillian and Yvonne Mpwo

May 20–June 25, 2022

Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones

Francheska Alcántara

This session is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap.

November 11–December 18, 2021

Black Tape Ebony Frame

Zachary Fabri

Black Tape Ebony Frame celebrates the living moments of Fabri’s African American family and friends by creating a reel-to-reel analog audio recording.

September 7–October 19, 2021

Dana’s Beauty Supply

Dana Davenport

Dana’s Beauty Supply constructs an experimental beauty supply store and hair gel manufacturing lab.

September 14–October 26, 2020

something else (Variations on Americana)

Kiyan Williams

The American flag, when deep-fried, forms an outer skin that appears to be cankerous, bubbling with calcified flour and charred detritus.

November 7–December 21, 2019

Duppy

Christopher Udemezue

Duppy reflects Udemezue’s complex longings and projections of nostalgia toward his and his mother’s homeland, Jamaica.

May 30–August 3, 2019

Ash Arder: Disco Gardens

Ash Arder

Ash Arder will develop Disco Gardens, a roving micro library and record shop devoted to the study of environmental concepts in Black music.

March 21–May 11, 2019

blue are the feelings that live inside me

AMERICAN ARTIST

From March 21 – May 11, 2019, American Artist will present blue are the feelings that live inside me, a series of photographs responding to a growing

June 7–August 14, 2018

Harris & Daughter Home Goods

Ilana Harris-Babou

Harris and Daughter Home Goods will transform Recess into a hardware store, cooking show set, showroom, and interrogation of the American Dream.

March 6–April 21, 2018

Shug Avery’s Kiss

Tiona Nekkia McClodden

Shug Avery’s Kiss, a project that will turn the physical space of Recess into a juke joint.

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