
Our eighth Show Don’t Tell Symposium was a chance to experience the evolving work of the Culture Push Fellows and Associated Artists.
In June 2025, ˖°𓇼🌊⋆🐚 Culture Push brought together artists, activists, neighbors, dreamers for two weeks of conversations and experiences.
👣 We walked through the city talking about who gets to use public land.
🤸♂️ We moved our bodies to process grief, shared recipes over fresh produce, and dreamed together about cities that could be.
🌿 Each gathering reminded us that the work of imagining better worlds happens best when we do it together.
Thank you again to our WONDERFUL partners and hosts — Flux Factory, Socrates Sculpture Park, Bailey’s Cafe, The Living Gallery, Secret Riso Club, The New York Center for Creativity and Dance, and Topaz Arts. Your generosity and warm hospitality made this Symposium possible.
All Events were free and open to the public.

EVENTS
Time Flies for Us is a community event to share, brainstorm and imagine remedies for overwork, overwhelm, and lack of rest, especially for female and nonbinary artists.
What are your wildest dreams and haunting nightmares? What's your relationship to sleep and rest, and how do they inform the futures we want to build collectively? Join Laura and huiyin for a collective journaling workshop that hopes to reground visions of solidarity and healing in the everyday practice of dreaming.
Katherine Toukhy catalyzes a process of somatic movement, drawing, and writing refined over the past year working with Obadah Aljefri and Nadia Khayrallah. Through the collective exploration of grief, rage, and reinvention Toukhy discovered her guiding question. Join her at the Symposium to experience this embodied collective process and a minimalist installation.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL LATER IN THE YEAR
If you’re interested in participating, send us an email at cp@culturepush.org and we’ll keep you up to date on the new day and time.
This hands-on, workshop welcomes curious learners, crafty gardeners, chefs, and plant lovers. to come explore DIY hydroponic systems made from recycled materials with teaching artist, Aiyo Cheboi. They will introduce seed starting + plant propagation and guide you through building your own small-scale hydroponic system!
In this 3-hour event, Megan will share her personal connection to protesting, healthcare justice, and art as activism. We will check out artwork, zines and photos on healthcare and disability activism. After our conversation, there will be open time to make art together.
If you’re curious about urban food justice, cooking, and finding groceries in NYC, you don’t want to miss this! Join us for an engaging workshop as we explore how we’re collectively navigating NYC’s food environment. Space is limited, RSVP today!
An interactive workshop where together, we’ll explore and create devices based Benin City using a variety of materials, including our own bodies as conductors and working on water filtration techniques
An intimate community gathering space where we move from isolation to safely process collective wounds and reclaim ancestral wisdom. These facilitator-led sessions create sanctuary for decolonizing our inner landscapes while discovering pathways to liberation within our own bodies.
Join the Nuovo Beach collective as we reflect on our beach experiences and create a collective map of our place connections. We invite you to bring objects that connect you to meaningful beach spaces.
This event is a meetup for mothers to console, share, and inspire as we continue to grow as women and mothers. A gathering of Mamas to talk about motherhood and desires for their children. By the end of the gathering Mamas will write a letter to their offspring.
The successful fight against Amazon's proposed HQ2 in Long Island City was an important victory for community groups in NYC. What should happen to this land now that Amazon isn't going to get it? Will public land be used for the public good?