Community Activations

Before our presentation of the opera The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist join us at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park for an open-air vendors market featuring Black & Brown owned businesses from Staten Island artisans and creatives.

The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout is a musical quest —powered by possibility—that will have you singing, dancing, and shouting. Please join us for a film screening of this piece!

Join Staten Island-based healing practitioners for a full weekend of art & wellness activities. Each day will feature gentle yoga classes led by BE YOGA & DANCE; African Dance classes by Miss Cheryl's Dance Company; and a Black Women's Healing Circle led by Somaliah Williams.

Following last year's heartfelt exposition of Black liveness on Staten Island's North Shore, join us as Black creatives bring their stories to the city at large. Hosted by organizers sadé powell and Shawnakay Salmon, this screening is part of their ongoing effort to uplift local artists and their evolving narratives.

Dance together in jubilation and Pride, uplifting our collective joy as a necessary act of resistance.

To the specter. The ghost. Those left out of the canon. What keeps you tethered to this realm? Join us for an evening of experimental sound and spoken word performances by exhibiting artist Asmaa Jama and guest artists Ladan Osman, Caleb Giles and others.

Join us as we kick off a summer of city-wide activations and partnerships with a gospel celebration of joy and community at the Perelman Arts Center.