What's the story behind your art?
What's the story of your community?

Calling The Circle is an open gathering space for artists and community members to come together to share their stories, experiences, and creativity.

The Culminating Circle serves as a gathering that honors all voices and invites stories, wisdom and arts into our collective while seeking to offer different communities an interpersonal space in which we may courageously listen to each other, speak our truths, express our talents and act with clear intentions.

Free!
Catering by Brooklyn-based I Eat Lao Food.

Special Performances from:

• Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Poet, Writer, Educator, Artist, Robleswrites Productions; Spaceworks Bronx Community Artist Grantee
• Melinda González, Co-Director of BombaYo; Teaching Artist at El Puente CADRE; Spaceworks and El Puente CADRE Dance Lit Grantee
• Vivika Westwood Mugler, Community Organizer, Advocate, Artist, Choreographer, Director, Entertainer

Guest Storytellers:

• Shanelle Washington, NAACP Next Generation Committee Mid-Manhattan Branch, Co-Chair; Neighborhood Advisory Board, Vice Chair; Education, Youth and Libraries Committee, Vice Chair; Manhattan Community Board 10
• Abou Farman, Artist, Writer and Activist; Founder of Art Space Sanctuary; Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research
• Mauricio Higuera, Artist and Educator, Art Space Sanctuary; Administrative Assistant for Public Programs and New Projects at The Cooper Union
  
• Peggy Robles Alvarado (see above)

Please bring something that’s meaningful to you or your culture: an instrument, a piece of writing, flowers, a candle, artworks or any items you would like to share!

This program is supported in part by funding from Race Forward, an organization that advances racial justice through research, media and practice. Spaceworks is part of Race Forward’s Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab, a year-long lab that is training 60 New York City arts and cultural organizations to deepen their racial equity work.