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SUMMARY:Open Call! Southeast Queens Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Submit to the OPEN CALL for a juried film selection that’s part of the inaugural edition of the Southeast Queens Film Festival (April 15-17)\, an event that the York College CUNY Art History Program is running in Jamaica\, Queens as part of the Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) initiative Jamaica Forum for Public Art Otherwise! \nThe EXTENDED submission deadline for videos and films is fast approaching: March 27. \nInterested in the full three-day festival schedule? Check it out and RSVP here:\n\n\nWant to submit to the Open Call? Fill out the form here:\n\nWe’re excited to see what you submit! Remember – This juried selection is inclusive! \nThe open call for juried selection is coordinated by the community organization Southeast Queens Center for History and Culture (SQCHC) which welcomes submissions of moving image works of any length and format (note: analog formats would have to be submitted as digital files). \nSQCHC wants to see anything and everything that you can conceive\, from TikTok videos to short films\, from curated home video selections to a funny night out with your friends captured on your phone! Anything and everything! \nSQCHC just asks that all applicants and/or their films have a connection to Southeast Queens. They hope to show as many submissions as possible. Selected submissions will be shown in the main Lecture Hall at York College CUNY in Jamaica\, Queens on April 15. \nDon’t hesitate to contact ebovino@york.cuny.edu\, if you have any questions! \nACCESSIBILITY \nContact ebovino@york.cuny.edu with any accessibility needs so that the film festival can make your open call submission experience as comfortable as possible.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/open-call-southeast-queens-film-festival/
LOCATION:York College CUNY\, 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd.\, Jamaica\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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SUMMARY:ALAY: A Mourning Ritual Performance
DESCRIPTION:ALAY is a mourning ritual performance created and performed by Dorothea Gloria\, rooted in Ilocano traditions of grief\, remembrance\, and offering. Drawing from ancestral practices of lamentation\, prayer\, and embodied devotion\, the work explores how grief lives in the body and how ritual can hold what language cannot. \nPositioned at the intersection of performance\, ritual\, and social practice\, ALAY treats mourning as a living\, communal practice. Through gesture\, repetition\, sound\, and presence\, the performance creates a shared space where grief is witnessed rather than explained\, and where collective attention becomes an act of care. \nALAY reframes mourning as relational and expansive. The performance asks: What does it mean to mourn together? How might ritual be adapted and reimagined within contemporary performance practice? And how can ancestral knowledge inform present-day modes of gathering\, remembrance\, and healing? \nALAY functions both as a performance and an offering to our ancestors\, to the community\, and to those carrying unspoken or unresolved grief. Audiences are invited into an intimate ritual space that prioritizes presence over spectacle and process over product\, foregrounding mourning as a shared human experience rather than an individual burden. \nCreated and performed by Dorothea Gloria\, ALAY reflects Gloria’s ongoing artistic practice of exploring theater as ritual. The work builds a bridge between inherited ceremonial practices and contemporary performance\, offering a space to sit with loss\, tenderness\, and collective remembrance. \nALAY is a durational performance. Audience can enter and exit at any point throughout the performance time.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/alay-a-mourning-ritual-performance/
LOCATION:BAX Annex\, 80 Hanson Place\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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SUMMARY:Other Daughters presented by Dxhesva Collective
DESCRIPTION:DXHESVA Collective Presents Other Daughters: A New Wave of Balkan-Diasporic Cinema at Millennium Film Workshop\nBROOKLYN\, NY — April 19\, 2026 — The DXHESVA Collective is proud to announce Other Daughters\, a curated program of short films exploring the intersections of heritage\, gender\, and the immigrant experience. The screening will take place on April 19\, 2026\, at 7:00 PM at the historic Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn. \nOther Daughters features a cohort of Balkan-American filmmakers who utilize archival intervention\, analog experimentation\, and performance art to navigate the complexities of identity across generations. From the mountainous border towns of the former Yugoslavia to the basement corridors of New York City\, these works interrogate how memory is preserved\, how bodies rebel\, and how “home” is reconstructed in the diaspora. \n  \n\n  \nFeatured Works & Filmmakers:\n“Women in Gusinje” and “Koprive” by Anisa Hodzic: Hodzic’s work spans archival re-editing and visceral performance. Women in Gusinje deconstructs 1970s documentary footage to reclaim female narratives from the male gaze\, while Koprive uses the stinging nettle as a tactile metaphor for the painful yet nurturing nature of maternal healing. \n“Axilia” by Bimbi Mafia: A defiant act of self-adoration\, this film challenges cultural taboos surrounding the female body\, transforming “indecent” hair into a symbol of rebellion against societal expectations in Albania and beyond. \n“Gjurma” (Traces) by Dora Nano: A poetic archival short that connects Nano to the origins of the Kinostudio\, Albania’s first film studio. By weaving together documentary footage shot by their grandfather\, audio interview with their father\, and archival images\, Nano explores the fluidity of diasporic and collective memory through cinema. \n“Si Të Lashë” by Alissa Xhixhabesi: Documented on analog formats (16mm and Super 8)\, Xhixhabesi captures her grandparents’ home on the eve of demolition\, offering a haunting meditation on the loss of physical space amidst Albania’s rapid modernization. \n“Returning\, Leaving” by Mirela Musić: An observational study of Balkan immigrant superintendents in NYC. The film documents the “disordered integration” of family life\, focusing on the quiet gestures that define the space between a daughter’s arrival and a father’s departure. \n“Scattered” by Edina Hoti: An ongoing series that explores the complex intersections of identity and displacement following the 1990s Balkan conflicts. Utilizing archival recordings of a return to Montenegro for the first time since the war\, Hoti captures the reality of a “scattered family”—individuals bound by heart and ancestral stories despite being separated by borders and oceans. Her work examines the nuanced space between everyday life and past memories through a distinct feminist lens. \nSupport: This program is made possible with support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs\, the New York State Council on the Arts\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nAbout DXHESVA Collective:\nFounded by Anisa Hodzic\, DXHESVA Collective is a multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to fostering community spaces that honor resilience and voice. The collective serves as a bridge between personal experience and collective remembrance\, inviting dialogue across culture\, time\, and place. \nContact:\nDxhesvacollective@gmail.com\nIG @dxhesva
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/other-daughters-presented-by-dxhesva-collective/
LOCATION:Millenium Flim Workshop\, 167 Wilson Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11237\, United States
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SUMMARY:WEARABLE WASTE: Mask-Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION:WEARABLE WASTE\nMask-Making Workshop\n📍 Location: The City College of New York\, 160 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY 10031\nBuilding: Shepard Hall\, Room 375 (3rd Floor)\n📅 Date: Tuesday\, April 21\, 2026\n⏰ Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM \nLet’s face waste! \nJoin us for a hands-on mask-making workshop led by artist\, Abby Manwiller\, where we will transform recyclables into wearable art. Using metal\, plastic\, and paper\, participants will create expressive masks while exploring how waste connects to climate justice\, environmental justice\, and waste equity. Through creative play and conversation\, we’ll reflect on who carries the burdens of consumption and disposal—and transform everyday discards into bold statements about the systems behind what we throw away. \nNo art experience needed—materials + light refreshments provided! Plus\, we’ll have a photobooth so you can pose and show off your mask creations 📸 \n🔗 Register here\n  \n\n\n\nPresented in collaboration with Sustainable CCNY\, NYPIRG-CCNY\, and the Sustainability in the Urban Environment Graduate Programs at CCNY. This event is supported by The NYC Climate Justice Hub\, Social Practice CUNY\, and the UKAI Initiative by Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts.\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility info: Refer to CCNY COVID protocol here\, and accessibility protocol here.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/wearable-waste-mask-making-workshop/
LOCATION:The City College of New York\, 160 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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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\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?\nSaturday\, May 9\, 2026\, 4:00-7:00 PM at 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\nArtist Bios\n\nArgelia Arreola is a Bronx-based Mexican dancer\, choreographer\, and musician\, deeply passionate about rhythm and the African influences embedded in diverse artistic expressions. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Dance from Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico and has received over 23 years of formal training in traditional Guinean dance. Argelia leads her own artistic project\, AcustiKorp\, where she blends African\, Afro-Cuban\, and Mexican dance vocabularies through a contemporary lens. She is also a dancer and choreographer with Ballet Nepantla\, a soloist performer and musician with La Mezcla Ensamble and a member of the Afro-Mexican band Jarana Beat\, highlighting her versatility across dance\, music\, and percussion. Argelia has performed at prominent Venues and Festivals including Carnegie Hall\, Festival Internacional Cervantino\, Zócalo of Mexico City\, Lincoln Center\, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival\, BAM Dance Africa\, Festival Danzas Negras CDMX\, Movement Research at the Judson Church\, Lincoln Center\, Battery Dance Festival\, Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance\, Bryant Park Festival\, BAAD Bronx. She is a 2025 Bronx Dance Fund Fellow through the Bronx Council on the Arts for the creation of her new choreographic work Hope Made Bread “una historia sobre Las Patronas”\, inspired by Las Patronas\, Mexico. She is also a recipient of the 2026 Bronx Cultural Visions Grant from the same organization to support the production of this work. \nAna “Rokafella” García is a NYC native of Puerto Rican descent who has represented Women in Hip-hop dance professionally over the past three decades. She co-founded Full Circle Prod Inc- NYC’s only non profit Break Dance Theater company with her husband Bboy Kwikstep generating theater pieces\, original poetry and local dance related events. In addition to directing the documentary about Bgirls “All the Ladies Say” she coproduced a Hip hop variety TV show entitled Kwik2Rok fwith Kwiktep for BronxNet TV. She is hired internationally to judge Break dance competitions based on her knowledge of the classic Hip-hop dance style. She has hosted Breakin sessions at various locations in NYC since 1997 including The Point CDC\, The Door\, High Bridge and Alfred E Smith and had worked with female Japanese Graffiti Writer Shiro to create SHIROKA their T Shirt line4. Presently as an Adjunct Professor at The New School and Sarah Lawrence College\, she motivates aspiring dancers to understand the Afro Diasporic roots of Hip hop and Club dance in addition to learning the business side of being an independent artist. \nPaloma McGregor is an award-winning choreographer\, writer\, and arts leader\, and the co-founder and Executive Artistic Director of Angela’s Pulse. For nearly two decades\, Paloma has created performance works that center communities of color\, blending a choreographer’s craft\, a journalist’s urgency\, and a community organizer’s vision. Through Angela’s Pulse\, she has developed two signature programs: Dancing While Black\, a platform for community-building and visibility among Black dance artists\, and Building a Better Fishtrap\, an iterative performance project rooted in her family’s vanishing fishing tradition and questions of heritage\, resilience\, and belonging. Paloma’s honors include the Herb Alpert Award (2025)\, Soros Arts Fellowship (2020)\, Dance/USA Fellowship (2019) and NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award (2017). She has performed at the Venice Biennale\, the United Nations\, State Department tours to South America and Turkey\, and the World Festival of Black Arts in Senegal. \nAlethea Pace is a Bronx-based interdisciplinary performing artist committed to creating work in and with her community that is rooted in social justice. She is a 2025 EPA Harlem River Artist-in-Residence\, 2024 MAP Fund Recipient\, 2023-2025 Civic Practice Partnership Artist-in-Residence at the Met Museum\, and a 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Awardee. Her work has been presented by The Met Museum\, BAAD!\, Works and Process/Guggenheim\, Pregones Theater\, Dancing While Black\, Danspace Project\, New York Live Arts and the 92Y\, to name a few.  Alethea trained at Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in the Bronx\, and has a BA in Urban Design from NYU\, an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts from the City College of New York\, and is an adjunct professor at Lehman College.
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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