mayfield brooks and Taína Asili will engage in conversation around their work as artists inspired by the power of improvisation and moved by the rhythm of resistance. They will also explore how their love of growing food and their connection to food justice movements have influenced their creative practices. About mayfield brooks mayfield brooks improvises […]

Through the power of Indigenous oral traditions, Ra Ruiz Leon uses words and movement to honor and celebrate her identity as Borikua-Taino and to envision a world that is healing/healed. ABOUT RA RUIZ LEON Ra Ruiz Leon (JibaRa Ni’Aku) is a Borikua-Taino dancer and poet from Boriken, descendant of Taino, European, and African ancestors. Her […]

This is a refusal. A refusal to allow our traumas to be extracted for capitalistic white supremacist consumption. This is a joyful, messy celebration of how we, as adrienne maree brown puts it, ‘center pleasure as a liberating tactic.’ Join us for a duet, a collaboration, a sharing of different but interwoven practices in how […]

Interdisciplinary artist and advocate David Thomson delves into questions of care, listening, change, trust and resilience. How do we value ourselves and others? How do we redefine intentional care and success? These are some questions that have emerged through his work on The Sustainability Project, which focuses on ideas of financial, artistic, and personal empowerment […]

Live from Vietnam*, día bùi's long-awaited return leads to sacred ground to manifest ritual, word, and performance in honor of día's bà ngoại (grandmother) and her bones in excavation. Bùi will weave spoken word, choreography, improvisation, and even laughter into a half-hour co-experience. Speaking of the Erotic is a día's grandest work-in-progress to date. A […]