Join photographer and marine scientist Oriana Poindexter for an interactive cyanotype workshop. Learn this early alternative photographic process and use foraged seaweed and organic material to create your own photo prints using techniques first developed in the 1840s. Cyanotype is an alternative photographic process used to create photographic prints in the distinctive shade of Prussian […]
On April 8, 2024, join Pioneer Works and the Green-Wood Cemetery to slow down, look up, and celebrate our solar system at a rare astronomical event, a solar eclipse – the last total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous United States until 2044. New York City will experience 90 percent totality and, weather permitting, we’ll […]
Queer Ecology is an emerging and shapeshifting field, challenging long-held perspectives in the sciences. This course, hosted and curated by Dr. Patricia Kaishian, will explore biological systems through the lens of queer theory, blending ideas from ecofeminism, philosophy of science, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Central to this approach are liberatory principles for humans and non-humans […]
PRACTICE CULTIVATING RADICAL ATTENTION THROUGH A WALKING MEDITATION
In collaboration with Ethan Howard, the Repair Atelier will host a REPAIR WORKSHOP on April 13. Volunteers will help you repair your broken stuff. - This workshop is free and open to the public. - To participate, RSVP and come prepared to repair the object yourself with help/guidance from volunteers. The Repair Atelier looks forward […]
During Milan Design Week 2024 from April 16 to 21, the Nieuwe Instituut presents the second edition of the New Store . In this experimental pop-up shop, which made its debut during Dutch Design Week 2023 in Eindhoven, we test alternative forms of production and consumption that make a positive contribution to people and the […]
For this year's Jan Van Eyck Museum Night, some 14 cultural organizations across Maastricht are laying out a programme of vibrant events. The Jan van Eyck Academie sheds light on the Printing & Publishing Lab, invites the public to the display of The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022, and lays out a programme of screenings, workshops, talks, […]
In parallel with this year’s United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII 2024), CTHQ will accompany each other on a walk through ancestral Lenape territory focused on land protection and reclamation, with the historical dispossession and current gentrification of Harlem paralleling land invasions in the Amazon. Opening a narrow path through the trees by […]
The story of land in what we refer to as the United States of America, is complex. We investigate land through many frames, including theft, domination, or stewardship, and still have an incomplete understanding of the layers of fraught meaning and history associated with it. In this event, we shine a light on one slice […]
Happy Spring! Choy Commons is waking up and emerging from winter rest—restored and energized to embark upon another season together. They are gathering their community in ceremony to open the growing season and would love to see you there. Choy Commons will be building a communal altar to set intentions of reciprocity between land and […]
Jaskrit Bhalla is an herbalist, naturalist, cook, and creator based in Southern California. She aims to help foster a connection between her community and the food that they eat, the land that they live on, and to each other through interactive workshops, classes, and digital offerings. She also cooks and produces culinary events inspired by […]
Drawing upon the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, this exhibition will explore food as a community-builder, access to food, and how we can eat in a shifting climate across over a hundred works from thirty-seven different artists, brought together to break bread over a shared matter. On view there will be […]
Ethan DeLorenzo is a permaculture farmer, wild forager and multi disciplinary artist. Ethan spent the last 7 years living in an intentional community on Vashon Island, WA. He spent his time learning to farm, forage and live in community with others. When the pandemic hit, much of his focus leaned on orchard rehabilitation and wild […]
Power up with a battery made from soil. ABOUT FACILITATOR Madeleine Young is a cross-disciplinary artist and designer whose practice muddies the boundaries between written, sculptural, and experiential modes of work. She investigates death and decay in natural systems and the subsequent possibilities for renewal by locating unintentional collaboration sites between humans and the […]
Launch of FMFM and Community Picnic. ABOUT FACILITATOR Bryant Wells is a designer and educator working independently and in collaboration with artists, writers, musicians, and institutions on websites, publications, identities and objects. Guarionex Jr. is a Dominican-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011. […]
What is queer food? What makes food queer? A hybrid conference on queer food and drink to be held at Boston University from April 27- 28, 2024. This conference will bring together scholars, activists, artists, journalists, and food industry professionals. The conference includes a mixture of panels, roundtables, and workshops. Topics include but are not […]
ABOUT FACILITATOR Eliza Axelson-Chidsey is a designer, artist, and curator based in New York City. Her interest in material culture is manifest in explorations of form, value, and ephemerality. Excited by research and concepts, and informed by her senses, she is regularly reminded how much learning is found through doing. OBJECTIVE The Time Being […]
Arbor Day tree walk along Nostrand Avenue. ABOUT FACILITATOR Michael Cafiero is an ecological landscape designer passionate about connecting people, plants, and place. Confronting a rapidly changing planet, he designs for climate adaptation and ecosystem diversity, fully embracing the complexity of the living world. OBJECTIVE Get to know your tree neighbors, with your […]
CONSIDER THE WORLD AS A FORAGING FIELD AS WE BUILD A PORTABLE ALTAR ABOUT FACILITATOR Alma (they/them) is a trans herbalist, landworker and poet who is from northern New Mexico. They have resided in NYC going on 9 years and are forever committed to making connections between land being, surviving and dreaming. Their practice […]