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World Music Institute Presents 'The Healing Project' with Samora Pinderhughes + Guests
Jun
18

World Music Institute Presents 'The Healing Project' with Samora Pinderhughes + Guests

Samora Pinderhughes 'The Healing Project' with Guests

The Healing Project is an arts organization based in New York City, originally conceived in 2014 by composer, multidisciplinary artist, and activist Samora Pinderhughes. The organization partners with individuals impacted by structural violence to create artistic works, collective healing spaces, and advocacy initiatives that drive narrative and systemic change. They envision a world built around healing rather than punishment, where systems of violence are replaced with systems of care.

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Jun
1

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
May
30

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE

PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.

For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.

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THAT SHOW
May
30

THAT SHOW

Created and produced by Kayla White and Taylor Schmuelgen; THAT SHOW is a community gathering and showcase of early career performance artists. Informed by a shared vision of a performance space that provides financial and operational support for risk taking and collaboration, their curatorial style has been described as “rooted in TLC: tender loving care” and one that “makes room for unbridled expression.” Taking place at Judson Memorial Church, we embrace a messy, do-it-yourself, community centered model to present and present multiple works in one evening.

TICKETS $10-$30

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Sunday Service
May
24

Sunday Service

On this Pentecost Sunday, we’ll listen for the voices that have been left out of the larger, legitimized Christian chorus by lifting up The Gospel of Mary through a creatively visionary offering from Judson artists Sylvia Milo and Nathan Davis, joined by Micah, who will remind us that we all have revelations rooted within us waiting to be revealed and shared. Join us in person or online here.

AND! Stick around after service for more art from Nathan in the Meeting Room at 2pm: Experience Sandbath, a unique performance by Nathan Davis that uses sand as its only sound source. Elucidating the live pouring, sifting, and brushing of sand through speakers encircling the audience, this immersive piece explores themes of innumerability, impermanence, time, and the unconscious—inviting you to hear the world in a grain of sand.

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Born Again Queer: Book Launch with William Stell
May
22
to May 23

Born Again Queer: Book Launch with William Stell

Born Again Queer tells the story of how evangelical homophobia got MADE. Believe it or not, homosexuality used to be a peripheral concern for most evangelicals. Over time, for multiple reasons, evangelical leaders turned it into a defining issue for their movement. Join us for the launch of this book by William Stell!

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Judson Arts Wednesdays Presents: A Siren’s Prayer by Kim Macharia
May
20

Judson Arts Wednesdays Presents: A Siren’s Prayer by Kim Macharia

A Siren's Prayer
A new musical by Kim Macharia, with musical direction by Fox Indigo

For generations, a tribe of sirens sang men to their deaths. But when a sailor survives and leaves a message of love and fear, one siren begins to question the story she’s been told—and the legacy she’s bound to.

Presented by Judson Arts Wednesdays and Brave Leap

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
May
18

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
May
16

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE

PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.

For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
May
11

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
May
9

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE

PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.

For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.

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Streetworks x Housing Works: Kiki Ball
May
8

Streetworks x Housing Works: Kiki Ball

A Kiki Ball is a vibrant and affirming celebration rooted in ballroom culture—an expressive space where LGBTQ+ community members, primarily Black and Latinx youth, come together to showcase their creativity through fashion, dance (voguing), and performance. These gatherings offer newcomers a chance to practice their craft, build confidence, and be embraced by chosen families known as “houses.”

We’d be honored to have you join us for this meaningful evening. Your presence would mean a lot to the community, and we hope to see you there!

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Free Brettney
May
7

Free Brettney

Free Brettney is a new web series about Brett, a gay evangelical man desperate to stay in the closet. What happens when Brett meets a hot, gay pastor-in-training who introduces him to queer Christians living happily around the corner in NYC? Will he risk everything to be free? A 10-episode series that's queer, spiritual, & raunchy as Hell. Just like the Bible! RSVP to reserve your free spot!

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Judson Arts Presents: That’s Keen's Mixtape with Monica Bill Barnes Company
May
6

Judson Arts Presents: That’s Keen's Mixtape with Monica Bill Barnes Company

About the Curator: Mona Mansour grew up in a Southern California suburb, the daughter of a Lebanese immigrant father and American mother from Seattle. She moved to New York in the wake of the Sept.11th attacks, when the Middle Eastern theater community was fired up by an urgent need to change the narrative around Arab-Americans. The questions around her own father, who left Lebanon by choice, took her to his village in Southern Lebanon, and an examination of the “villages'' next to it — the Palestinian camps Mieh-Mieh and Ain El Hilweh. This notion of displacement became central to what would become The Vagrant Trilogy, which made its NYC debut at The Public Theater in 2022, directed by Mark Wing-Davey. In 2019, Mona formed SOCIETY, with whom she has created Beginning Days of True Jubilation (New Ohio Theater), and the upcoming ENTANGLEMENT, co-written with Emily Zemba. Other credits: Unseen (Mosaic and OSF), The Way West at Labyrinth Theater and Steppenwolf. Awards: PEN America, Literature Award/Academy of Arts and Letters; Steinberg, Kesselring, Whiting. Beautiful Little Fool, written with Hannah Corneau and directed by Michael Greif, will receive its premiere in London in January 2026 at Southwark Playhouse. Her plays have been translated into Arabic, Italian, Romanian and Hungarian. TV: New Amsterdam and Ammo (in development) with Littleton Road and Fisher Stevens’ Highly Flammable.

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
May
4

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
May
2

PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE

PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.

For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.

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PEN America Festival
May
1
to May 2

PEN America Festival

The World Voices Festival is PEN America’s annual celebration of writers, international literature, and free expression. Taking place from April 29 through May 2, with more than 140 writers from 40 countries, this year’s festival is an insistence on the power of literature and cross-cultural dialogue. This gathering of writers from every part of the globe is a potent reminder—in fact, an antidote in an era of censorship, nativism, and renewed isolationism—that books drive culture and the stories we tell can shape and transform our lives.

NYC TICKETS

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Apr
27

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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Heightened Scrutiny
Apr
23

Heightened Scrutiny

Join us for a first of its kind, hybrid cross-movement event addressing the harm the New York Times has caused to our movements and communities—including to trans folks, Palestinians, Black folks, and working people. Hear from a panel of movement and media leaders about how NYT coverage and op-eds directly inform dangerous legislation domestically and manufacture consent for U.S.-led war and genocide globally. This evening aims to build bridges between our movements and offer an alternative to the corporate and state-powered attempt to silo our communities and struggles.

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Apr
20

MOVEMENT RESEARCH

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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Gaia One-Day Choir
Apr
19

Gaia One-Day Choir

Gaia Music Collective's One-Day Choir series is an opportunity to sing in a choir for one day only. A celebration of song and the connective power of singing in harmony. An opportunity to build community, make some new friends, and raise our powerfully diverse voices as one.

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