Our Programs
Healing the Black Body is a community building and cultural organizing offering for Black queer and trans communities, including our Kinetic Altar Residency, Catharsis Embodied Mental Health Program, Black Abundance Festival, and our Healing Justice Organizing Fellowship.
The Kinetic Altar Residency
The Kinetic Altar Residency integrates how Black queer, trans and gender expansive communities heal from institutionalized violence and grief. We aim to challenge and confront institutionalized dance/creative spaces that often neglect Black, queer, trans and gender expansive folks.
Image by Kalyn Jacobs.
Coming in 2026: New Kinetic Altar Residency, Catharsis Embodied Mental Health Program for Black queer and trans youth with bipolar disorder, Healing Justice Organizing Fellowship, Black Abundance Healing Arts Festival, and more!
Our offerings make space for Black communities to indulge in healing at the palms of their own hands. We give our community the spotlight to build with each other, conjure the magic of performance rituals, and share tools for collective healing and liberation to create worlds and futures with healing and liberation at its center.
Past Programming:
Warm, That’s How It Began
Performance Ritual by our original Healing the Black Body 2019 Fellows
2019 Community Ritual
Our Community Ritual is an annual offering of performance rituals, workshops, artist talks, and overall queer magic. This is for Black queer and trans people! All events are free and ASL Interpreted. Healing the Black Body is an offering to create, build, and practice healing and liberation in Black queer and trans communities through performance, movement, and Black Feminism. The Community Ritual is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. The Community Ritual is also funded through Third Wave Fund.