Explore/Archive
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.
July 26, 2025, 3:00 – 6:00pm
Dancing Through Prison Walls
Launch FREEDOM TIME with dances from Puerto Rico & Michigan. Book release, performances & a powerful community conversation.
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.
June 28, 2025, 2:30 – 7:00pm
Dancing Through Prison Walls
Join us for a powerful cypher to support youth in Gaza—breaking, art, and community care in solidarity and resistance.
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.
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.
March 2025
Glenn Quentin
written in conjunction with artists' KING COBRA's and Hue Hallums' Session project, Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present.
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.
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.
October 5–November 23, 2024
Zain Alam
Enacts in miniature and in music the interlocking rhythms of time in Muslim life, specifically after sunset.
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.
September 23, 2023, 1:00 – 3:00pm
KING COBRA and Hue Hallums
Step into the realm of profound healing as you immerse yourself in a transformative yoga and Reiki collaboration between Yaya and Master Hue.
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 10, 2023 at 5:00pm
Void Spa Closing Performance & Reception
Akeema-Zane and A. Sef
Cafe offering by pleasure ceremony (cy x). Live sound facilitation by a²z and brandon king (subt.le fka leon grey).
May 20, 2023 at 6:00pm
A. Sef and Akeema-Zane
View the installation, hear sound by a²z, Akeema-Zane’s music/sound practice arm
May 20–June 13, 2023
Akeema-Zane and A. Sef
Void Spa aims to challenge and subvert the extractive and appropriative use of Black and Brown spirituality within the luxury wellness industry.
September 15–October 29, 2022
LaJuné McMillian and Yvonne Mpwo
using perception neuron motion-capture suits to witness signature movement vocabularies across the Black diaspora
January 13–March 4, 2022
Rowan Renee
A Common Thread will transform Recess into a collaborative weaving studio that explores craft.
July 2, 2021, 5:00 – 6:00pm
Opening the Manipura Sanctum: First Offerings, a performance by Smita Sen
Smita Sen
A performance by artist Smita Sen in which she will begin nurturing an altar space an altar space devoted to caregivers of all styles.
June 29–August 10, 2021
Smita Sen
In The Manipura Sanctum, artist Smita Sen nurtures an altar space that reaches toward contemplative, social healing.
January 5–February 16, 2021
Ogemdi Ude and Sydney King
Living Relics draws out a shared sense of loss and understanding of death that hasn’t yet been physicalized in the body or manifested in thought.
November 16–December 30, 2020
Marcela Torres
Petición; for Exorcism is an installation that uses scent as a tool for ritual practice, the space will often have smoking incense and ash.