The next in a regular series of fundraiser events responding to direct asks from impacted communities in NYC, launched by Amirtha Kidambi (SPCUNY Faculty Fellow 2025-26) & Laura Cocks in 2026. Music starts at 7pm!
Celebrate the launch of the Kensington-Windsor Terrace Mutual Aid cookbook in Bangla, English, and Spanish—with neighbors and food.
NEW DATE! How Do We Move in Public? is the second program in Social Practice CUNY's 2026 series How Do We ___________ in Public?: a cycle of four free experimental events responding to contemporary crises shaping the cultural field, including the defunding and targeting of public institutions and the erosion of shared civic space. This second program in the series is organized by SPCUNY Teaching Scholar-in-Residence Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel and partnered with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance during the Boogie Down Dance Series. RSVP requested; click through into this calendar event for the link. (If you RSVP'd for the original date in May, you do not need to RSVP again.)
Slow & Sensual is an accessible burlesque movement workshop developed by SPCUNY Fellow Alyssa Kitt that invites performers to slow down, deepen their sensual presence, and build erotic charge through gaze, breath, delay, touch, stillness, and intentional movement. Sliding scale available for access reasons, including disability, chronic illness, low income, student/unwaged status, or financial precarity. Click through into this calendar event for registration details.
**CHANGE OF LOCATION BASED ON WEATHER: This screening has been moved indoors to Brooklyn Public Library - Library for Arts & Culture @ 10 Lafayette Ave Second Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217.** An evening of music and film under the stars featuring a screening of 2025–26 SPCUNY Fellow Oluwadara Ojugbele and collaborators' The Memory: Sacred Groves, Sacred Nature (2026), followed by a screening of Zoey Martinson's The Fisherman (2024).
How Do We Keep Secret(s) in Public? is the third program in Social Practice CUNY's 2026 series How Do We ___________ in Public?: a cycle of four free experimental events responding to contemporary crises shaping the cultural field, including the defunding and targeting of public institutions and the erosion of shared civic space. Organized by SPCUNY Program Coordinator Jacquelyn Marie Shannon, this immersive event explores secrecy as a social practice.
This open to the public panel event is co-hosted by Social Practice CUNY and Korea Art Forum. The panel will explore key questions: What does art, art-making, and public art look like through the lens of social engagement?
Join us for an afternoon of Queer short films celebrating diverse LGBTQ+ voices and the power of coming out! Organized by SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Anne Davis Mulford.
Part of the Practice is back for its third and final season and we’re celebrating with a launch party! Come celebrate the new season, hear more about the book, and spend an evening with the SPCUNY community. RSVP encouraged (click through into event to RSVP).
The O Commons is a new mutual aid network for immigrant artists and cultural workers. Supported by an SPCUNY Fellowship, we are coming together to share knowledge, resources, experiences, and creative practices around the realities of making art and building a life in the United States.
Join us at Printed Matter for the New York launch of The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World (MIT Press), SPCUNY co-director Gregory Sholette’s new study of how artists are navigating the collapse of historical time in our fractured present.
