Our Programs
Healing the Black Body is a community building and cultural organizing offering for Black communities, including our Kinetic Altar Residency, Black Abundance Festival, Black Breath Fellowship, and our annual Community Ritual.
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 August 2024: Our Black Abundance Festival!
Coming in 2025: Our Black Breath Fellowship!
Black Abundance Festival! is a free inaugural healing arts festival in August! We are advocating for, celebrating, and practicing all the healing work done in our Black communities through the arts!
Black Breath Fellowship is for young Black women who identify as survivors of intimate partner violence. We gather, practice, and study Black love as a liberation politic. How can healthy Black love be the key to Black liberation? We dance, write poetry, study Black Feminism, engage in healthy relationships education, and create a community offering!
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.