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SUMMARY:How Do We Move in Public?
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis second program in the series is partnered with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance during the Boogie Down Dance Series.\n\n \nHow Do We Move in Public?\nat The Hub\, Bronx\, NY\n\n\n\n  \nOrganized by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel\, this event brings together dancers/ choreographers with connections to the Bronx to generate movement-based actions in public spaces in the South Bronx: Argelia Arreola (with support from Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative)\, Ana ‘Rokafella’ García\, Paloma McGregor/Angela’s Pulse\, and Alethea Pace. Responding to escalating surveillance\, policing\, and state violence\, particularly the terrorization of Black and Brown communities under ongoing ICE raids\, the program advances movement as a counter-response to neglect\, with care\, and shared imagination\, asking how bodies navigate\, reshape\, and reclaim urban space under conditions of threat.\n\n\n\nThis program will activate several points along 3rd Avenue and 149th Street\, a major cultural crossroads at the heart of the South Bronx called The Hub\, and is funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Eugene M. Lang Foundation.\n\n\nSCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES:\n \nAlethea Pace \nTime and location: 5:00PM / Just south of Roberto Clemente Plaza (149th Street and 3rd Avenue) \nAn act of love: is an improvisational movement performance that invites audiences into a practice of deep listening. It explores interconnection—between people\, land\, and history—and asks how attention\, care\, and softness might open new possibilities for belonging. \nDirected by Alethea Pace / Performed by Maria Bauman\, Alethea Pace and Katrina Reid \nCostumes by Mauricio Barrera / Masks by Katherine Miranda \nAlethea Pace is a Bronx-based interdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in social justice and community engagement. She has presented work at institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and the Guggenheim\, and is an adjunct professor at Lehman College. \n Ana “Rokafella” García \nTime and location: 5:30 & 6:30 PM / 149th Street & 3rd Avenue (The Hub) \nThis performance responds to the current hostile political climate\, including the dismantling of DEI initiatives\, ICE raids\, lack of justice around sexual assault\, anti-LGBTQ+ policies\, and racial violence. The dancers use hip-hop as a form of resistance and collective expression. \nDancers: Rokafella\, Kwikstep\, Fresh Frank\, ShamGod\, Rocka James\,\nBgirl Beasty\, Monica B White\, and Ava Flava Davis \nAna “Rokafella” García is a NYC-based hip-hop pioneer of Puerto Rican descent. She co-founded Full Circle Productions\, NYC’s only non-profit breakdance theater company. With over three decades of experience\, she has performed\, judged\, and taught internationally\, and is currently an adjunct professor at The New School\, and Sarah Lawrence College. \n   \nPaloma McGregor/Angela’s Pulse \nTime and location: 6:00 PM / The Hub: at the small triangle park between 148th & 149th on 3rd Ave \nA’we Monumental: “Monuments are what empires leave behind as evidence of their might. Culture—dances\, stories\, food\, songs—is what communities keep alive as evidence of our love.” A’we Monumental is part of Building a Better Fishtrap\, an iterative performance project rooted in the disappearing fishing tradition of McGregor’s father. The work is guided by three central questions: What do we take with us? What do we leave behind? What do we return to reclaim? Using the Fishtrap Method—a community-based collaborative practice—this iteration brings together Bronx-based dancers to transform an intergenerational duet into a collective performance that reflects on legacy\, displacement\, and possibility. \nCreative Direction and Choreography: Paloma McGregor / Performers: Arthur Avilés\, Kayla Hamilton\, Michele Lee\, Roberto Ventura \nPaloma McGregor is an award-winning choreographer\, writer\, and arts leader\, and co-founder of Angela’s Pulse. Her work centers communities of color\, merging choreography\, journalism\, and community organizing. She has received numerous awards including the Herb Alpert Award and the Bessie Award\, and has presented work internationally. \nThis performance of A’we Monumental is supported\, in part\, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Building a Better Fishtrap – A’we Monumental is supported by the Mellon Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation). Fiscally sponsored by BAAD!\, Angela’s Pulse is also a recipient of funding from Howard Gilman Foundation and The Mosaic Network & Fund (with lead funding from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)). \nArgelia Arreola \nTime and location: 7:00 PM / The piece will begin at the corner near Candy Lotto\, then gradually move along Willis Avenue \nuntil reaching the opposite side on 148th Street\, in front of the mural that says “We Are the Bronx.”  \nSembrando Flores: This dance piece draws from traditional Mexican son jarocho and the rhythmic practice of zapateado to explore how the body navigates public space in a city like New York. Blending tradition with contemporary dance\, the work reflects on migration\, identity\, and the experience of inhabiting shared urban environments. \nDancer: Argelia Arreola / Musician: Iván Contreras \nArgelia Arreola is a Bronx-based Mexican dancer\, choreographer\, and musician. Her work bridges African\, Afro-Caribbean\, and Mexican traditions through contemporary practice. She has performed at major venues including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center\, and is a recipient of the Bronx Dance Fund Fellowship. \nNicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel has curated exhibitions/programs for El Museo del Barrio; Leslie Lohman Museum of Art; Franklin Furnace; Elizabeth Foundation Project Space; Artists Alliance Inc; Korea Art Forum; Longwood Arts Project/BCA; Bronx River Art Center (BRAC); BAAD!; Art in Odd Places; The Institute for Art\, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York; as well as for Academia Desposeída in Madrid\, and for the Filmoteca de Andalucía in Córdoba\, Spain. Nicolás is the Teaching Scholar in Residence at SPCUNY. Born in the Dominican Republic\, he was baptized as a Bronxite in 2011. \nSpecial thanks to our supporting team for this event: Program assistant: Andrés Senra / Artists support on site: Ivana Larrosa\,  Kip Silva\, \nJessica Fairfax Hirst\, Kathleena Howie / Welcoming person: Elina Jiménez \nSupporting organizations: BronxNet\, and Rincón Criollo-La Casita de Chema. \nThank you as well to: Argenis Apolinario\, Geoffrey Jones\, Alex Romania\, BronxNet\, and \nThe New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Jerome Robbins Dance Division for documenting the program. \nWith deep gratitude to the beloved South Bronx and its Neighbors
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LOCATION:The Hub\, 3rd Avenue and East 149th Street\, Bronx\, NY\, 10455\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slow & Sensual: Accessible Burlesque
DESCRIPTION:Slow & Sensual is an accessible burlesque movement workshop that invites performers to slow down\, deepen their sensual presence\, and build erotic charge through gaze\, breath\, delay\, touch\, stillness\, and intentional movement. Developed by Alyssa Kitt\, the workshop brings together striptease technique\, somatic movement\, disability dance\, crip time\, and sensual pacing to explore how tease can emerge from each performer’s own bodymind rather than from able-bodied expectations of speed\, stamina\, verticality\, or virtuosity. Through guided movement\, reflection\, and practical slow-burn exercises\, Slow & Sensual treats access as a creative method and celebrates slowness\, pleasure\, fatigue\, rest\, and non-normative movement as powerful aesthetic and erotic resources. \nDate: Sunday\, August 16\, 2026\, 2-3:50 PM \nEvent link: http://schoolofburlesque.com/alyssakitt.shtml \nOPEN LEVEL WORKSHOP \nAccess note\nThis workshop welcomes Deaf\, blind\, disabled\, chronically ill\, neurodivergent\, and mobility-device-using participants. ASL interpretation available by request. Movement material will be verbally described and adaptable across standing\, seated\, reclining\, floor-based\, still\, resting\, and mobility-device-based options. Participants are welcome to bring any mobility devices\, comfort props\, or access tools they use.\nDress for movement and comfort. \nAbout Your Instructor\nAlyssa Kitt Hanley is a burlesque performer\, teacher\, researcher\, and Disa-burly-teaser whose work explores striptease\, sensuality\, disability\, and the politics of performance. Known as the “Siren with the $7 million smile\,” Alyssa began her burlesque career in Australia in 2007 and has spent nearly two decades developing work around tease\, stage presence\, slow-burn sensuality\, and embodied performance practice. Her teaching invites students into burlesque as a practice of erotic self-authorship\, confidence\, pleasure\, and embodied agency\, with a strong commitment to access and bodily difference. Alyssa is an award-winning performer\, producer of Mx Burlesque Australia\, Director of the Australian Burlesque Museum\, a Social Practice CUNY Faculty Fellow\, and a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center\, where her research focuses on erotic performance\, burlesque\, disability\, and dance. She is also a cancer survivor and beauty activist championing facial difference\, and is passionate about creating burlesque spaces where sensuality\, difference\, and self-directed movement are celebrated as sources of power. \nWorkshop fee: $40.00\nSliding scale available for access reasons\, including disability\, chronic illness\, low income\, student/unwaged status\, or financial precarity. \nLocation: Playwrights Horizons\, 440 Lafayette\, Fourth Floor\, Studio 4A. Greenwich Village 10003\nIf you have trouble with the buzzer or elevator call 212-564-1235 \nIn Person in New York City!\nClass size is strictly limited. \nTo confirm your workshop place\, please forward your payment receipt to alyssa_kitt@hotmail.com with your name and Slow and Sensual NYSB. Your place will be confirmed once your payment receipt has been received. \nASL interpretation available by request. Please request by Sunday 2nd August so we can confirm an interpreter and share preparation materials in advance. \nThis workshop has been developed with support from Social Practice CUNY.
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SUMMARY:How Do We Keep Secret(s) in Public?
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Jacquelyn Marie Shannon and inspired by anthropologist Michael Taussig’s framing of magic as “a skilled revelation of skilled concealment\,” this immersive event explores secrecy as a social practice. Drawing on research with occult communities\, the event features artist-practitioners who employ relational forms of concealment\, including magicians\, mediums\, witches\, hypnotists\, death doulas\, sex workers\, dream workers\, and more. Across two floors\, participants are invited to rehearse secrecy as a shared skill\, a means of building trust\, sustaining connection\, and preparing for moments that demand hiding\, signaling\, and collective commitment. \nTickets & Timed Entry:\nTickets are free\, but capacity is very limited. Please only reserve a ticket if you are able to commit to attending. (If your plans change\, please cancel your ticket so it can be released to someone else.) \nThere are two timed entry sessions: 6 PM and 8 PM. Each ticket grants access to one 1 hour and 45 minute experience window. During your session\, you are invited to roam freely across two floors\, discovering performances\, installations\, and intimate encounters with 15+ featured artist-practitioners. \nThere is no single path through the event\, and not every experience will be encountered by every one. Your path through secrecy will be your own. Arrive promptly for your selected entry time and trust that you’ll find what you’re meant to find. \nTo RSVP\, visit the event page on Eventbrite and select your preferred entry time. \n\nFeaturing:\nAbou Farman\nAntra Kalnis Borofsky\nDaniella Caggiano – www.daniellacaggiano.com / @dfcaggiano\nEsme Providence Brown – @esmeprovidence\nHayden Childress – www.haydenismagic.com\nKatherine Borkov – www.everythingspills.studio / @everything.spills\nKay Turner (she/her) – IG @kay__turner / FB @kay.turner.3701\nKelvin Daly\nLilith Dorsey – lilithdorsey.com / IG @lilithdorsey / FB @lilithdorseyauthor\nLiza Fenster – @crow.mother.channeling\nMadazon Can-Can – www.madazoncancan.com / @madazon_can_can\nMiss Harissa – @miss.harissa\nOrpheus (she/they)\nSeeress MuggaRose\nTara Desouza – www.taratherapeuticcoaching.com / @desouza.tara\nThe Winter’s Doe – www.thewintersdoe.com / @thewintersdoe\nThe Wizard Devin Person – www.personisawake.com / @personisawake \nContent & Age Guidance:\nThis event is intended for mature audiences. Individual works and encounters may engage with themes including sexuality and eroticism\, death and violence\, religion and spirituality\, the occult\, and other potentially sensitive subject matter. Some experiences may include suggestive content or moments of intensity.\nYoung people are welcome at the discretion of a parent or guardian; we encourage adults to consider the nature of the event when deciding whether it is appropriate for younger attendees. \nSensory & Participation Notes:\nThis is a roaming event featuring intimate\, participatory\, and installation-based works. Some experiences may invite direct interaction with performers\, and some artists may invite consensual touch or physical contact. You are always welcome to decline an interaction or leave an experience at any time. \nAccessibility:\nGreen Lung Studio is located across two levels and is not wheelchair accessible. Entry to the venue requires the use of stairs\, and an additional staircase connects the two levels of the event. Because this is a roaming event\, guests may move throughout the space and between floors during their visit. Limited seating will be available throughout the space.\nIf you have specific accessibility questions or would like more information about the physical or sensory experience of the event\, please contact Jacquelyn at jacquelyn.spcuny@gmail.com. \n  \nBios\nOrganizer bio:\nJacquelyn Marie Shannon is a ritual artist\, occult scholar-educator\, and PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center\, CUNY in New York City whose work explores dramaturgies of magic\, witchcraft\, haunting\, and the supernatural. She is especially interested in ritual and artistic processes that engage spirit(s)\, alternative temporalities\, liminal and altered states\, synesthesia\, hypnosis\, visions and dreams. \nJacquelyn has performed\, presented research\, taught\, designed and facilitated ritual experiences across the US and internationally\, heavily informed by 20+ years of training in Japanese butoh\, expressionist dance\, physical and psychodramatic theatre\, ritual practice\, and contemporary performance. Her dissertation research investigates the relationship between theatricality\, embodied technique\, and ritual efficacy towards producing experiences of magic and transformation in The Witch’s Dance. Jacquelyn holds an MA from Indiana University in Communication and Culture (2011)\, an MA from New York University in Educational Theatre (2014)\, and an MPhil from CUNY Graduate Center in Theatre and Performance (2023). Her writing appears in published articles and edited volumes\, including The Witch Studies Reader (Duke University Press\, 2025) and The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance (2020). Jacquelyn (not-so-secretly) weaves her research and practice into every event she produces\, taking exquisite care to craft collective experiences that genuinely affect those who take part and leave them a little haunted.\nhttps://jacquelynmarieshannon.com/ \n  \nIndividual Artist-Practitioner Bios: \nKay Turner (she/her)  \nIG @kay__turner /  FB @kay.turner.3701 \nKay Turner (she/her) is an artist and scholar working across disciplines including performance\, writing\, music\, and folklore. Her current performance and writing project\, ongoing since 2012\, is called What A Witch. Performing various aspects of the witch figure in folklore and history\, her practice is centered in unmaking and reversing the damages done by demonizing the witch. Recent performances include: “A Hekate Supper: Redemption through Decay\,” (Staten Island Museum of Art\, 2026); “Aphrodite’s Mirror/Hekate’s Reflection” (SVA Project Space\, 2026); “Frau Trude: The Musical” (Dyke Art House\, Philadelphia\, 2025); “Double Sun” with Elizabeth Insogna (Bill Arning Exhibitions\, Kinderhook\, NY\, 2024);“A Hekate Supper\, Parts I and II\, Abjection and Ecstasy” (Five Myles Gallery\, NYC\, 2022); “Healing Persephone’s Wounds\,” with Elizabeth Insogna (National Arts Club\, NYC\, 2021); and ”Muses of Malta: Witch\, Goddess\, Madonna” (Fragmenta Contemporary\, Valletta\, 2018); Her books include Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women’s Altars and Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms. Turner holds a PhD in folklore and anthropology from the University of Texas\, Austin. She was adjunct Visiting Professor in the Performance Studies Department at NYU from 2002-2022.   \n  \nLilith Dorsey  \nlilithdorsey.com / IG @lilithdorsey / FB @lilithdorseyauthor \nLilith Dorsey M.F.A. \, hails from many magickal traditions\, including Celtic\, Afro-Caribbean\, and Native American spirituality. Their traditional education focused on Anthropology and Film at the University of R.I\, New York University and the University of London\, and their magickal training includes numerous initiations in Santeria also known as Lucumi\, Haitian Vodoun\, and New Orleans Voodoo.  Lilith Dorsey is the filmmaker of the experimental documentary Bodies of Water :Voodoo Identity and Tranceformation\, the proud Black author of the bestselling Orishas\, Goddesses and Voodoo Queens and 5 other titles\, Voodoo PriestX of the New Orleans based House of Maman Brigitte\,  as well as choreographer for jazz legend Dr. John’s “Night Tripper” Voodoo Show.  Spirit\, soul and identity are often seen in an unusual and shocking way and this is what their work strives to artfully display.  \n  \nEsme Providence Brown  \n@esmeprovidence \nEsme Providence Brown is a multidisciplinary practitioner working across performance\, cultural criticism\, patient advocacy\, and somatic practice\, based in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA from Temple University and is completing an MA in Costume Studies at NYU. Her lecture-performance Dressing for Authority: A Cultural Hallucination was presented at FCVC in 2025. She is a Fulbright scholar (Indonesia 2022) and a correspondent for the Conspirituality podcast. Studio EPB\, the multidisciplinary practice she ran from Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn\, closed in early 2026. \n  \nAbou Farman \nAn anthropologist\, writer and artist\, Abou Farman is author of On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience\, Clerks of the Passage and No Silence in the Afterlife. He is co-founder of Art Space Sanctuary\, Casa Ojala and the Shipibo Conibo Center of NY. \n  \nLiza Fenster  \n@crow.mother.channeling \nLiza Fenster (she/her) is a professional medium and tarot reader. She also serves an Ordained minister\, Reiki Master Teacher and Community Steward. There are places in every timeline and generation that stand present to be witness to what you carry within. Within those quiet walls\, in every space and time\, sits a person present and prepared to consume this. I am here with you now\, to receive what you no longer want to bear alone.  I am here to alchemize the DNA of these  secrets into a powerful catalyst.  \n  \nMadazon Can-Can  \nwww.madazoncancan.com / @madazon_can_can \nMadazon Can-Can\, M.Ed (SLC)\, is a multi-media artist specializing in clown\, burlesque\, drag and spends their spare time as a Professional Dominatrix in Utah. They are constantly inspired by the way in which humans connect and disconnect. The influence of nature vs. nurture on an environment and its creatures is a never-ending fascination for them. As an ex-Mormon and survivor of a cult\, they do indeed walk many miles of grief\, witnessing the cruelty of mankind. Through their study of their own honeybee hives\, Madazon has created the Lulla-Beez offering to awaken the inner child\, the one who doesn’t question if connection exists\, but seeks only sweetness in an exposed and often difficult world. Danger and intimacy often walk hand in hand as yellow and black on the bee. \n  \nHayden Childress   \nwww.haydenismagic.com  \nA very honest liar. \nHayden Childress is based in New York City and is the creator and sole performer of Urban Illusions\, a 20-seat close up magic show running every weekend in the East Village of Manhattan. The show runs off of word of mouth and has garnered a cult following. Hayden sees magic as an artistic medium and not just a puzzle. His influence in magic comes from outsider perspectives on performance and a background shaped by indie music\, analog art\, and an obsession with cultural gaps between perception and reality. His work has been covered by Bloomberg and Timeout New York\, and has appeared on Penn & Teller: Fool Us on the CW network.  \n  \nOrpheus (she/they) \norpheus (aka Scout Rainer Wiley) (they/zie) is an Asheville-based poet\, writer\, and renegade alchemist whose work explores the relationship between the somatic\, the imaginal\, and the mysteries of nature. By weaving together threads of religious studies\, systems theory\, and somatics\, they seek to inspire systems change and liberation for humanity through creative ritual expression. \n  \nSeeress MuggaRose \nSince 1988\, MuggaRose has studied esoteric arts\, offering psychic and evidential services nationwide for over 20 years. She helps individuals navigate grief\, gain clarity\, and support unsolved cases. She authored the grimoire chapbook Sundries for the Soul\, with Ghost of the Unresolved Past\, a memoir and mediumship guide\, forthcoming. \nMuggaRose (Cheyanne Disé) has spent a lifetime navigating the space between the seen and unseen. From childhood\, she experienced perceptions beyond ordinary awareness\, leading her on a grounded path of spiritual exploration. Her work is rooted in the unseen through her roles as a doll artist\, ceremonialist\, apparition photographer\, ghost historian at Pike Place Market\, and active Spiritualist. She has been invited as an Artist in Residence at Lily Dale\, New York\, for the past two summers and continues to hold Practitioner Residencies across the country in apothecaries\, community centers\, and private spaces\, offering workshops\, evidential mediumship\, book talks\, and spiritual services. She has also been a featured guest on radio shows\, podcasts\, and live audience events. Her home bases span San Francisco\, Seattle\, New Orleans\, and New York’s Hudson Valley. Simply put\, she is a mother\, a Spiritualist\, a facilitator\, and a practitioner devoted to healing\, connection\, and service. \n  \nMiss Harissa   \n@miss.harissa \nMiss Harissa is an immersive experience designer\, rope artist\, and NYC dominatrix. She explores world building\, ritual\, and participatory experiences to create spaces where play\, presence\, and trust can unfold.  \n  \nThe Wizard Devin Person  \nwww.personisawake.com / @personisawake \nDevin Person lives his life as an unfolding answer to the question\, “What would a wizard do?” So far\, he’s doing his best to put the mystery back in magic and look good in a pointy hat. \n  \nKatherine Borkov  \nwww.everythingspills.studio  / @everything.spills \nKatya Borkov is a poet\, jewish mystic\, and portal maker knocking on the door and writing the way in. \n  \nTara Desouza  \nwww.taratherapeuticcoaching.com / @desouza.tara  \nTara Desouza is a trauma-informed therapeutic coach and certified hypnotherapist specializing in helping people create lasting emotional change. Her work integrates Hypnotherapy\, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)\, Time Line Therapy®\, and therapeutic coaching to help people understand how unconscious patterns influence thoughts\, emotions\, and behavior. With years of experience facilitating personal transformation\, Tara creates a safe environment to explore your issues\, identify solutions\, heal and pursue the life you want and deserve to live. \n  \nDaniella Caggiano  \nwww.daniellacaggiano.com / @dfcaggiano \nDaniella Caggiano (she/they) is a queer disabled director\, intimacy director\, and proud native New Yorker.  She is committed to radically centering queer and femme voices on stage and screen. Their directing challenges traditional power structures and explores taboo topics\, inviting audiences to sit with discomfort and welcome empathetic vulnerability. Daniella draws inspiration from a long line of gutsy theatremakers including Sarah Kane\, Caryl Churchill\, The Five Lesbian Brothers\, Brecht\, and Holly Hughes. As an Intimacy Director\, Daniella believes in healing the industry through choreography and consent education. She brings a queer\, feminist perspective to this work. She believes that a trauma-informed approach to handling onstage intimacy is essential to creating a safe working environment where performers are confident to take risks and do their most daring work.  \nDaniella holds an MFA from The New School and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and rescue dog. ​In their spare time\, Daniella can be found going to punk shows and training as a Death Doula. \n  \nKelvin Daly \nKelvin Daly is a musician\, ritualist\, and builder of musical and ritual instruments and situations. He specializes in performances in unusual or otherwise inaccessible spaces\, and often lives to work in collaboration with other performers\, dancers\, poets or theatre in creating mysterious experiential situations. \n  \nThe Winter’s Doe  \nwww.thewintersdoe.com / @thewintersdoe \nThe Winter’s Doe brings whimsy into the world beyond expected boundaries. She hails from the fae realm isle of Hy-Brasil\, though now she walks among the skyscrapers. While her heart is made of ice\, it is your heart she seeks to delight. She has been crafting one-on-one immersive experiences for three years and creating communal rituals for witches for over two decades. Learn more at Calluna\, located at callunaembassy.com \n  \nAntra Kalnis Borofsky \nAntra Borofsky is a couples therapist\, retreat leader\, Zen practitioner\, and movement artist whose work explores relational presence\, embodied memory\, grief\, tenderness\, and the mystery of being seen. Born in a displaced persons camp after World War II to a Latvian family shaped by occupation\, exile\, emigration\, and survival\, she carries an enduring interest in what the body remembers and what cannot—or need not—be fully spoken.  Her movement practice has been influenced by Butoh\, contemplative stillness\, improvisation\, and the natural world. She creates dances and video works in intimate relationship with music\, place\, and personal history\, often collaborating with her husband\, Richard Borofsky\, who films her work. She divides her time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and Great Duck Island\, Maine\, where wind\, ocean\, fog\, and changing light continually enter her creative practice.
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LOCATION:Green Lung Studio\, 22 Commerce Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
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SUMMARY:Part of the Practice Season 3 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for Part of the Practice Season 3 Launch Party on October 15 at Phebe’s in Manhattan! \nPart of the Practice\, our podcast about the intersection of art and social justice\, is returning for a third season this Fall! In this final season of the podcast\, hosted by SPCUNY Associate Director Catherine LaSota\, we will be reflecting on the lessons of our program and getting ready for the launch of Practicing in Public\, a new book of SPCUNY conversations to be published by OR Books in February 2027. More details soon!
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/podcast-season-3-launch/
LOCATION:Phebe’s Tavern\, 361 Bowery\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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