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May 8, 2026, 5:00 – 9:00pm

Closing Reception for Zeelie Brown: A sonata to seed whatever flourishes...

Zeelie Brown

Closing performance and premiere of Zeelie Brown’s new sonata, performed live with collaborators across voice, electronics, and strings.

April 23, 2026, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Simmer & Nourish: A Cook-out Conversation with Zeelie Brown

Zeelie Brown

A shared meal and conversation with Zeelie Brown exploring music, land, and lineage through storytelling and listening.

April 2, 2026, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Opening Reception for Zeelie Brown: A sonata to seed whatever flourishes...

Zeelie Brown

Opening reception and intimate solo cello concert with Zeelie Brown, celebrating a new Session installation exploring sound and ecology

June 7, 2025, 2:00 – 4:00pm

Bobma with Clara Diaz

Exploring the history of Bomba, a traditional Afro-Puerto Rican art form rooted in resistance

April 2025

Lenapehoking

Shakeem Floyd

written in conjunction with artist Marcela Torres' Session x Assembly project, The flow of mud/barro.

November 11, 2023–January 25, 2024

Session & Assembly Collaboration: BARRO

Marcela Torres and Assembly

Torres in collaboration with Assembly will explore the history of New York through its soil and natural clay deposits.

May 20–June 25, 2022

I Woke Up and Chose Violence

Caroline Garcia

I Woke Up and Chose Violence is a response to the murders and deaths of BIPOC people inflicted by the hegemonic systems.

January 3–February 9, 2019

R.I.S.E.: COLLECTIVE FURY

Demian DinéYazhi´

R.I.S.E.: COLLECTIVE FURY is a project that will explore how outrage and anger can be mobilized not as tools of division,.