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alisa yang • OH SNAP!Express your crip rage and care with each other while we discuss NY’s new SNAP work rules and make ...
09/17/2026

alisa yang • OH SNAP!

Express your crip rage and care with each other while we discuss NY’s new SNAP work rules and make 1-page black & white zines.

alisa yang • OH SNAP!

Express your crip rage and care with each other while we discuss NY’s new SNAP work rules and make 1-page black & white zines.

Tyrel Hunt • People vs Power: The Fight for Addisleigh Park Film Screening

An environmental documentary film screening and Q&A with the filmmaker.

Tyrel Hunt • People vs Power: The Fight for Addisleigh Park Film Screening

An environmental documentary film screening and Q&A with the filmmaker.

Zazel-Chavah O'Garra • The Art of Resilience

A powerful performance celebrating healing, hope, and the resilience of the human spirit through dance, music, and spoken word.

Zazel-Chavah O'Garra • The Art of Resilience

A powerful performance celebrating healing, hope, and the resilience of the human spirit through dance, music, and spoken word.

On Saturday, October 17, 2026, (In)Visibility Culture Push’s Fellows and Associated Artists make visible those experiences and realities which people are not always able, or willing, to see.

Register: https://luma.com/hswidf7z

Chloe Smolarski • Waterfront Patchwork: Social Ecologies, Coastal Peripheries and the LatentSpaces of the Brooklyn Marin...
09/17/2026

Chloe Smolarski • Waterfront Patchwork: Social Ecologies, Coastal Peripheries and the Latent
Spaces of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal

A tapestry composed of quilt squares dyed with locally foraged materials serves as a meditation on place, an incomplete archive of coastal peripherals and a point of departure for a multi-media performance lecture examining the intersection of flooding, and real estate speculation in Red Hook and the Columbia Street Waterfront District.

Chloe Smolarski • Waterfront Patchwork: Social Ecologies, Coastal Peripheries and the Latent
Spaces of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal

A tapestry composed of quilt squares dyed with locally foraged materials serves as a meditation on place, an incomplete archive of coastal peripherals and a point of departure for a multi-media performance lecture examining the intersection of flooding, and real estate speculation in Red Hook and the Columbia Street Waterfront District.

gil lopez • Kin Between / Kin Within

A small ceremony for remembering the invisible relationships that make us who we are. Explore
the relationships within and around you through ecological divination, symbolic encounters, and
chance.

gil lopez • Kin Between / Kin Within

A small ceremony for remembering the invisible relationships that make us who we are. Explore
the relationships within and around you through ecological divination, symbolic encounters, and
chance.

Shenghan Gao • Invasive Kin

An interactive presentation that recounts a year of endeavors to understand the concept of "invasive kin," specifically through the plant portal of "mugwort." The presentation will not be an ordinary powerpoint, but a nonlinear telling that will include an origin story of the project, how the artist met each of her collaborators, tangents that led her to the core of the project, the people who fed her throughout, the attempts (workshops) she did in New York, the connections and plant relatives in China, as well as some film clips and physical traces from this journey.

Shenghan Gao • Invasive Kin

An interactive presentation that recounts a year of endeavors to understand the concept of "invasive kin," specifically through the

Alexis Harrison • Jazz:CommunityA soundscape of Brooklyn's emotional space and ameditation on place.Alexis Harrison • Ja...
09/17/2026

Alexis Harrison • Jazz:Community

A soundscape of Brooklyn's emotional space and a
meditation on place.

Alexis Harrison • Jazz:Community

A soundscape of Brooklyn's emotional space and a
meditation on place.

Taking New Shapes: Embodying Liberatory Futures in the Present • Haileigh Nelson

An installation positioned as a living studio where garments operate as portals to memory and
possibility.

Taking New Shapes: Embodying Liberatory Futures in the Present • Haileigh Nelson

An installation positioned as a living studio where garments operate as portals to memory and possibility.

Gursha: Communal Eating Lovers • Mai’yah Kau

To feed someone by hand is an act of love.
Gursha builds a small ceremony around that gesture, honoring afro diasporic food traditions,
q***r intimacy, and the memories we carry to the table.

Gursha: Communal Eating Lovers • Mai’yah Kau

To feed someone by hand is an act of love.
Gursha builds a small ceremony around that gesture, honoring afro diasporic food traditions,
q***r intimacy, and the memories we carry to the table.

SENSORIUM invites attendees to play with their senses – namely sound, taste, and touch. Join
us on Oct 15 for a place-based soundscape, a living, tactile dressing room, and a lovingly
crafted food experience rooted in traditional practices.

Register: https://luma.com/2ox3qf4y

This October, our ninth Show Don’t Tell Symposium will bring together artists, activists, neighbors, dreamers for three ...
09/17/2026

This October, our ninth Show Don’t Tell Symposium will bring together artists, activists, neighbors, dreamers for three days of conversations and experiences.

Day 1, Thursday, October 15 • SENSORIUM
Day 2, Friday, October 16 • around us //inside us
Day 3, Saturday, October 17 • (In) Visibility

Join us each day, 6-9 PM at the BPL Library for Arts & Culture to engage with the work of our Fellows and Associated Artists through workshops, presentations, performances, and panels.

All events are free and open to the public. Register at the link in the bio.

If you require special access accommodation for any of our events, please contact moira williams at [email protected].

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Show Don’t Tell: A Symposium with The Fellowship for Utopian Practice is a yearly opportunity to get an up-close and participatory view into the projects of artists working at the intersection of their imaginations, social change, and civic participation

More Culture Push-ing this weekend! On Sunday, August 9, 12-3 PM, Fellow Araceli Poma is headlining and co-organizing a ...
08/05/2026

More Culture Push-ing this weekend! On Sunday, August 9, 12-3 PM, Fellow Araceli Poma is headlining and co-organizing a wonderful line-up as part of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Part of her experiments with her Fellowship project RUNA SIMI: The Future Tongue.

SAVE THE DATE 🗓️BLACK AUGUST BROOKLYN 8/8/2026MANHATTAN BEACH 12:30 - 4PMMUSIC, FOOD, ART, CULTURE + INFORMATION [Bring ...
07/24/2026

SAVE THE DATE 🗓️

BLACK AUGUST BROOKLYN
8/8/2026
MANHATTAN BEACH 
12:30 - 4PM
MUSIC, FOOD, ART, CULTURE + INFORMATION 

[Bring your picnic blankets and swimsuit and enjoy the day with and Culture Push]

Transportation [B Q B1 B49] 🚌

It’s always such a treat when we can meet with our Fellows in person! Thank you for walking us through the research and...
06/29/2026

It’s always such a treat when we can meet with our Fellows in person! Thank you for walking us through the research and interviews you’ve done with stewards of indigenous languages from the Andes to Mexico, all living here in NYC. And it was great to meet Araceli’s wonderful Thought Partner . and were in the house for CP.

We didn’t document the meeting itself but here’s Araceli in a glorious serendipitous matching moment with the hallway at the New School University Center.

Save the date for an exciting event that Araceli is hosting on August 9, with indigenous music dance and food from throughout South, Central, and North America. Keep your eyes out for more information, coming soon!

Some bittersweet news from our Administrative Director, C. (Constantine Jones) --🖋Hi friends, some news: after two very ...
05/04/2026

Some bittersweet news from our Administrative Director, C. (Constantine Jones) --
🖋
Hi friends, some news: after two very special years working with Culture Push, I am sad to announce that I will be transitioning out of my role as Administrative Director. This was not an easy decision to make, but I am happy to say, however, that I will be leaving this role in the hands of someone who will hold it with the same real care, attention, and generosity that she brings to everything she does--our very own Bianca Mońa.
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Over the past two years, I have felt so sincerely blessed to have collaborated with, borne witness to, and participated in the extraordinarily generous future-building projects brought to life by Culture Push Fellows, Associated Artists, and Staff. As a fellow artist and cultural facilitator, I am always grateful for the moments in life which open me to new possibilities and remind me that there is always something more to learn. The wild and lumious garden of possibility that is the Culture Push extended network has taught me so very much, and I hope you believe me when I say, emphatically, /thank you/. Clarinda has often said that Culture Push is a kind of haven for artists / culture workers in periods of transition, and I believe that. So let this not be a "good-bye," but a "see you around"--and you WILL see me around at Culture Push events in the future.
Warmth always
xxC.
🖤

Have you RSVP’d yet for our HARDLY PARTY? 🧐 Bring a friend, a cousin, a lover, a mentor, or just bring yourself. No fee ...
01/23/2026

Have you RSVP’d yet for our HARDLY PARTY? 🧐 Bring a friend, a cousin, a lover, a mentor, or just bring yourself. No fee for entry, just a suggested donation to support our work. Link is in the bio!

There will be an abundance of activities, music, film, w**e, food and no expectations except performance-free-comfort 😬

To be expected at Culture Push’s introvert rager:
- silent screenings through headphones (your own private cinema in a room full of people).
- silent auction where pointing beats pitching.
- Crafts with no purpose except the pleasure of your hands making something.
- Poetry and prose you can sink into without someone asking “so what do you do?”
- Spaces designed for the kind of attention that only happens when we stop performing presence and actually be present.

THURSDAY JANUARY 29 6:30 PM we can’t wait to see you!

We are so grateful for the support we found out about in the last few months of 2025, so a belated post of thank you! 1....
01/19/2026

We are so grateful for the support we found out about in the last few months of 2025, so a belated post of thank you!
1. THANK YOU to for the generous and timely multi-year support. In a time when other sources of support are shrinking are disappearing, this really gives us hope and allows us to continue moving forward. [ID: A logo for the Ruth Arts Foundation, with “Ruth Arts” in capital letters, serif font, with some slashes through the letters. On the lower right corner, “Foundation for the Arts” snakes down and around in a much smaller sans-serif font]
2. THANK YOU! We are honored to receive a 2025 Disability Futures Fellow Nominated Award to support our organization’s work in the disability community. This is a one-time funding opportunity from United States Artists [], supported by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation, as a result of an anonymous nomination process by artists who have received a 2020-2024 Disability Futures Fellowship. [The image features a background of a light blue color melded with white and graphic dark blue lines intersecting and coalescing on the right side. Text reads: 2025 Disability Futures Fellow Nominated Awards]
3. THANK YOU to the New York State Council for the Arts [] for continuing organizational support, and for supporting our sponsored Individual Artists: and .mbayo
We are so grateful that we and these artists have resources to create and support creation! [ID: NYSCA FY26 GRANTEE in large capital letters on a dark blue background. At the bottom of the image is an outline of NY State and the words “New York State Council on the Arts”]

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