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Culture Push is about hands-on learning, group problem solving, serious play and creating connections. http://www.culturepush.org

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, wine, 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!

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”]

12/03/2025

As the year comes to a close, we ask you to join us in getting to know artists with Culture Push and support our work through donations either one time or as a monthly donor.

Culture Push artists come from all over the world but they have one thing in common, they call NY home.

Here we caught up with for a lil small talk with the longer version available later this week and the upcoming weeks get to know more Culture Push artists.

10/31/2025

We are proud of present PUSH/PULL Issue 22!

Explore the breadth of ‘Silence and Love, In Every State of Mind’ edited by Culture Push Associated Artist, storyteller, producer, and educator, Da Monique Ballou . The issue chronicles a deeply personal journey that explores family, bipolar disorder, and community, through theater.

Link in bio to read the issue!

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10/06/2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED! All applications now due Wednesday October 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM (one minute before midnight!) Link in bio for all the application forms—we have three themed Fellowships and one catch-all Fellowship that accepts every idea. Featured here—the Climate Justice Fellowship! Climate Justice Fellowship alums include , , Von Davienne, , Alicia Raquel Morales, and .nyc

09/24/2025

The Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice Open Call continues! Applications due Oct. 5, 2025!
about our PROCESS-BASED Fellowships at the links in our bio. We’re already getting some great applications, so join the movement and send in your ideas. We would love to see what you’re thinking. There are three themed Fellowships (the Black Utopian Fellowship, the Disability Arts + Dreaming Fellowship, and the Climate Justice Fellowship) and one wide-open Fellowship for whatever you may be conjuring.

And…join us on SUNDAY 9/28 for an in person info session picnic at 2 PM in Fort Greene Park. Come meet the staff, meet some current and former CP Fellows, and ask your questions! The weather report for Sunday looks good and we’ll have snacks… link in bio to sign up and with more info on location.

The Fellowship for Utopian Practice is a process-based program aimed at artists and other creative people who are seeking to test new ideas through civic engagement. Culture Push offers the Fellows concrete financial and institutional support, including feedback and mentoring, a stipend, and fiscal sponsorship for fundraising efforts, and heightened legibility, through support from the Culture Push institution. During the Fellowship year, Fellows collaborate with different communities and the Culture Push staff to find viable working methods for realizing ambitious hybrid projects. While Culture Push emphasizes the visual and performing arts, the Fellowship program is open to people working in any discipline aiming to expand their practice beyond its traditional borders.

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09/17/2025

Do you want to meet the CP team? Want to get more information about our upcoming Fellowship application? Want to have a fun picnic in the park with some interesting people? Join us for the FIRST in-person Fellowship info session! Sunday, Sept. 28 at 2 PM (note the date change!), in Fort Greene Park near the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument at the top of the hill—look for the Culture Push sign. Conveniently located near many subway lines!
Some small snacks and drinks provided, bring something to share!
RSVP at the link in bio (so we know how many supplies to bring) or just show up.
We (, ) look forward to seeing there!

09/15/2025

New York City! Join Cripple Punk Mag and Culture Push for
NYC Crip Open Mic, a place for disabled musicians and fans to connect and celebrate crip music. New York’s music scene is full of venues without elevators, basements with no seats and filled with rooms of people without masks. It’s time to make our own scene!

Sunday October 5th ON ZOOM
Early evening: doors 6:15 /music starts 6:30 PM
Sign up to perform or attend at link in bio
All genres, all disabilities welcome
Open to performers in NYC- Build local community online
Accessibility Menu + Transparency:
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09/09/2025

🎺🎺📯📯 Attention! Our 2026 Fellowship Open Call is LiVe! Four different Fellowships for up to 8 Fellows!
Applications due: Sunday, Oct 5th, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET
More info and links in bio!
Info sessions coming up soon! Links in bio!

Culture Push supports projects that are in their beginning stages, ideas that haven’t been extensively developed or received institutional backing yet.

This is the kind of work that emerges from your ongoing relationship with a particular New York City community and asks: what if we tried this? What would happen if we brought people together around this question, this problem, this possibility?

🗽What we’re looking for:

Interactive, participatory projects that engage the public and work toward social change. Not exhibitions or performances in the traditional sense, but series of events, actions, and experiments that test new ways of thinking and being together. Work that happens within the five boroughs over the course of the Fellowship year, though it doesn’t need to conclude within that time.

🍎 Who can apply:

Artists and creative practitioners with at least three years of experience in their field. Group applications are welcome. If you don’t live in or plan to ground your work in NYC, this Fellowship won’t be the right fit.

⌛ One year. Five boroughs. Endless possibility.

The Fellowship lasts one calendar year, from January to December 2026. It’s designed as a testing ground, as a space to develop ideas, make connections, and build the foundation for work that may extend far beyond the Fellowship itself. We’ll provide financial, logistical, and collaborative support as you develop work that matters!

More coming and/or—visit the links in our bio!

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07/18/2025

☑️Let’s recap Break the Silence: a conversation about bipolar disorder, an event led by associated artist, DaMonique Ballou ( )! Break the silence was filled with insightful conversations, many laughs, and admirable talent. Thanks to DaMonique and guest speakers Michael Russell, John F. O’Donnell, Craig T. Williams, and Camille Simone Thomas. This event gave participants the space to uncover the stigmas surrounding bipolar disorder.

☑️Congrats to all facilitators and artists for a successful event, & a big thank you to all participants involved.

07/14/2025

☂️Reminiscing back on our final symposium events from June. Including What is the shape of this wound w/ Katherine Toukhy ( ) & thought partners Obadah Aljefri ( ) and Nadia Khayrallah ( ). As well as Dreamscapes: the waving stories of rest & care w/ Laura Dudu ( )& Huiyin Zhou (.zhou ). Both of these amazing events showcased somatic practices from journaling to movement. Helping to navigate our relationships with trauma and rest.

☂️Thank you to all participants and artists involved in these wonderful events!!!

07/11/2025

🌟Let’s continue our streak with looking back at our past symposium events! Today we’re highlighting Time Flies with Us w/ Suzanne Schuz and Our Healthcare Reality and Our Healthcare Dreams w/ Megan Bent ( ). These two events touched on the importance of time as it pertains to us and advocacy for disability rights.

🌟Thank you to the very talented artists who led these events!!

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Our goal at Culture Push is to create a lively exchange of ideas between many different communities; artists and non-artists, professional practitioners and laypeople, across generations, neighborhoods, and cultures.

Culture Push was founded in 2008 by Clarinda Mac Low, Aki Sasamoto, and Arturo Vidich. Their individual visions feed into a larger vision; a fluid culture where the lines between art, politics, daily life, and social experiment can blur.

Culture Push serves a diverse international community of thinkers and doers from all different professions. We focus on collaboration and group learning through active participatory experiences, including practical symposia, artists’ projects, residencies, educational workshops, and dinners. Our public programs are low-cost or free, to give the widest access to the widest audience.

The current focus of Culture Push is the Fellowship for Utopian Practice, which is aimed at artists and other professionals seeking to test new ideas through civic engagement. We offer the Fellows concrete financial and institutional support, including feedback and mentoring, a stipend, and fiscal sponsorship for fundraising efforts.