Participants will get a chance to create a collage work with handmade paper and other collage materials.

Where is Brownsville From? Participants will have the opportunity to examine pivotal historical moments in Brownsville history and how they fit into its present through a mapping arts activity.

This conversation will introduce participants to open source resources and and tools for immersive and interactive world building, and critically approach topics such as the limitations of the binary logic of programming languages, node based building, user access, and community support for MR/VR creators.

What is passed down to us by our environment? How do we live with what we inherit? What is considered hereditary? What defines a lineage, and is it always bound by blood? By disposition? By tragedy? Ray's investigation into the history and mismanagement of Newtown Creek with collaborator Dena Igusti, poses these questions as we look towards the future of creating cleaner and more equitable waterways. In this presentation, Ray and Dena will showcase parts of their documentary piece about Newtown Creek and detail their personal experiences with the waterfront. Utilizing archival photographs of past and present they interrogate what it means to "inherit" the mistakes of the past and what can be done to fix them in the future.

This presentation is an introduction to Ray and Dena’s Tending the Edge project.

Archiving ideas and actions that shape respect and care between people and their living environments

Iki has been documenting people who inspired her through the caring ways that they provide stewardship of the places where they live. In recent years, she begun to see their actions as movement, much like she experiences dancers when she frames and records their movements. Out of that came the idea of “Movements of Today”.

During her time as Associated Artist with Culture Push Iki will be developing a project of recording and archiving people who are taking care of issues to do with clean water and food sovereignty in New York City. Her aim is to develop a sustainable structure to document, produce, and archive water stewards and urban farmers. She also plans to cultivate a platform where the filming and archiving could then generate resources and support for the endeavors of people and groups she is documenting.

In this one hour workshop we will mend your broken garments as a ritual practice. Bring one garment in need of mending. We will provide thread, needles and assorted buttons. Together, we will enter into sensory relationship with our garments, allowing ourselves to be permeated by their material and energetic qualities and conducting physical and metaphysical repairs in relationship with our garments, ourselves and each other.

[POSTPONED] An introduction to the Abuela Neighborhood Maintenance project and a virtual demonstration of how Angela constructs the lettering for the volunteers' vests and clothing. There will be a chance to win your very own phrase on a vest! Check our IG (@culturepusher) and @abuela_neighborhood_maintenanc for details.

Just breathe. A sound experience focused on breath and movement. This guided sound meditation will allow for a moment of reflection and release. The aim is to take a moment for grounding in peace and joy.