(In)Visibility make visible those experiences and realities which people are not always able, or willing, to see.
OH SNAP! • alisa yang
Express your crip rage and care with each other while we discuss NY’s new SNAP work rules and make 1 page black and white zines.
With alisa yang, Elizabeth Senja Spackman and Gizela Zuniga!
alisa yang (she/they) is an antidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and emerging disability advocate with a research based practice exploring art making as radical acts of care. Centering the body as a living archive of socio-geopolitical conditionings, they works across video, installation, and situational specific projects in orienting oneself towards social change.
People vs Power: The Fight for Addisleigh Park Film Screening • Tyrel Hunt
Protestors at lithium battery farm.
This event will include a documentary film screening and a Q&A with the filmmaker. People vs Power: The Fight for Addisleigh Park investigates the Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) being constructed near homes, specifically in the historic Addisleigh Park section of Queens, New York.
Tyrel Hunt (he/him) is a novelist, filmmaker, and Marketing Director from Queens, New York.
The Art of Resilience • Zazel-Chavah O'Garra
Two dancers are seated comfortably side by side, dressed in purple dresses one dress long the other short, with their arms extended gracefully to either side. One dancer is dark-skinned with a bald head, while the other is fair-skinned with shoulder-length curly hair. expressive postures and facial expressions convey a range of emotions.
The Art of Resilience is a dance collaboration celebrating the strength of two disabled dancers whose lives have been transformed by adversity. One is a brain tumor survivor, the other a breast cancer survivor. Through movement, they embody courage, vulnerability, and the unwavering human spirit. Dance has become a pathway to healing, offering hope, resilience, and renewed purpose while challenging society’s perceptions of disability and illness. Accompanied by a live musician and spoken word artist, this multidisciplinary performance weaves together rhythm, spoken word, and creative/adaptive movement to tell an inspiring story of survival.
Born and raised in New York City to Caribbean parents, Zazel-Chavah O’Garra (she/her) is a multifaceted artist: a dancer, choreographer, model, educator, social worker, disability advocate, and Artistic Director of ZCO/DANCEPROJECT, a physically integrated dance company.