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ARTIST LAB: Rhythm, Roots, and Remembrance ⁠ 📅 Saturday, August 23⁠ | 11am-2pm⁠ 📍 Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn⁠ 💰 Admission: $20⁠ 👟 Come ready to move—90s-inspired attire encouraged!⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Register now at hi-artsnyc.org/calendar

❤️‍🔥 Phew — art is SO hot!@ ❤️‍🔥 Come thru and stay cool with us and Alle Mims this Thursday — June 26 for their WORK IN PROCESS: "A Soviet Film on Negro Life in America." Get on board at hi-artsnyc.org🔗⁠ ⁠

Don’t miss this WORK IN PROCESS from a brilliant Black, Queer voice reshaping how we remember history.⁠ 🎭️ A Soviet Film on Negro Life in America by Alle Mims (@allemims)⁠ 📅 Thursday, June 26, 7pm⁠📍 Hi-ARTS⁠ 🎟 FREE w/ registration at hi-artsnyc.org

In this sharp political satire, CRITICAL BREAKS Artist, Alle Mims, uses masks and puppets to bring to life the true story of 20 Harlem Renaissance artists who traveled to Moscow in 1932 to create a film that could have changed everything.⁠

What do Langston Hughes, Louise Thompson Patterson, and Soviet propaganda have in common? 👀

Meet CRITICAL BREAKS Artist in Residence ⁠Alle Mims. A Black, biracial, genderfluid playwright, Alle Mims generates work that brings out the forgotten, the misremembered & the deliberately buried stories of Black, Queer, & Radical life. hi-artsnyc.org to learn more.

Audra McDonald makes Tony Awards history as the singular most nominated performer with 11 nominations.

📸🎉: I’m excited to share that I’ve joined Maryland’s Executive Office of the Governor as a Photographer for Governor Wes Moore! It is an incredible honor to continue my journey in public service, documenting the people, moments, and stories that shape the Moore-Miller Admin.

BAC Unlocked: An Open House for Creative Minds is less than 2 weeks away! ✨🧠💡Have you RSVPed yet? 🎟️ This event is FREE and open to the public. 🔗 bit.ly/bac-unlocked

FROM OUR FRIENDS // @herearts A man in a box for 24 hours. HERE Arts Center invites you inside the confined, boundary-pushing world of [Untitled Miniature.] Performed entirely from a 34”x19” box — a performance unlike anything you’ve ever seen. 🎟️ here.org

Pull up a chair for Temporary Flesh, a by Resident Artist Evelyn Tejeda.⁠Temporary Flesh explores impermanence, identity, and bodily autonomy through dance. Using chairs as extensions of the body, this work questions our origins and the transitory nature of existence.

Join us for Mid-Week Wind Down as we move through:⁠ Reiki healing⁠, Sound bowl healing⁠ and A mirror exercise—speaking love and life into our reflections in the ways we often seek from others⁠ March 12 6-8:30pm

Meet CRITICAL BREAKS Artist Evelyn Tejeda! ⁠ ⁠ During her residency, Evelyn continue the development of "Temporary Flesh", a work that explores impermanence and the body's autonomy through movement. 🔗 Learn more at hi-artsnyc.org

FROM OUR FRIENDS @BAXarts Between & Beyond Gender Drag Performance Class This class focuses on developing drag characters that expand what it means to be a drag queen, king, thing, in between or beyond what we’ve seen.

Connect to a thriving community of BIPOC, migrant, and LGBTQIA+ practitioners who challenge dominant narratives through cultural resistance. Learn more and apply now! 👉🏾 bax.org/emergenyc/prog…

From our Friends 🫱🏿‍🫲🏾 BAX (@baxarts) Take advantage of BAX's Artist Program EmergeNYC. EmergeNYC(@emergenyc_art) is a Latinx-led incubator and affinity network for socially engaged artists to develop their creative voice, explore the intersections of art and activism.

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS on Journal 2 Journey's opening night of "En Route"! We had a full house as Fatima, Delaney, Myleah and Rix took to the stage with their original writing and moving performances. Come thru tonight for our final performance of "En Route". ⁠

🚨 En Route premieres tomorrow! 🚨⁠ ⁠ Don’t miss this powerful performance by the Journal 2 Journey cohort as they bring their stories to life on stage.⁠ ⁠ 📅 Dec. 18 & 19 | 7 PM⁠ 📍 Hi-ARTS | Black Box Theater⁠ 🎟️ RSVP now at bit.ly/J2J2024

We had the pleasure of sitting down with our current CRITICAL BREAKS Artist, Reynaldo Pinella(@reynaldorey), for a conversation you won't want to miss! 🎥👌🏾