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SUMMARY:Fundraiser concert to support our neighbors
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URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/portfolio-item/fundraiser-concerts-to-support-our-neighbors-resource-share/
LOCATION:Mama Tried\, 787 3rd Ave.\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11232\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kensington-Windsor Terrace Mutual Aid Cookbook Launch
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate 6+ years of our bulk food project\, Kensington-Windsor Terrace Mutual Aid put together a trilingual cookbook (Bangla\, Spanish\, English)\, featuring recipes from neighbors who participate in this food project. The recipes were gathered during potluck events\, on distribution days\, and through one-on-one conversations between neighbors. The process led to many conversations about food cultures\, ingredients\, and what to make with the surprise set of vegetables we get in the box from our supplier\, the worker-coop Lancaster Farms. The process of creating the cookbook took us deep into issues of language justice\, connecting neighbors across language divides during times of attacks on immigrants and a food insecurity crisis exacerbated by cuts in federal benefits. The cookbook project culminates in a launch event in the Midwood office of DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving). No RSVP required.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/kensington-windsor-terrace-mutual-aid-cookbook-launch/
LOCATION:DRUM Midwood Office\, 818 East 16 Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11230\, United States
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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
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/how-do-we-move-in-public/
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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LOCATION:Playwrights Horizons\, 440 Lafayette Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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