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Opens May 14, 2026

DAWN-DUSK-DAWN

Bel Falleiros

A project that calls us, in this moment of social and environmental collapse, to make space to be with nature.

Opens March 22, 2026

sonata for cello, electronics and voice to seed whatever flourishes after the end of the american empire 

Zeelie Brown

The artist will compose and premiere a new sonata exploring the links between music, ecology, and spatial justice

Opens January 14, 2026

Abolition Film Society

Kriss Li

A circle of creative exchanges between Assembly youths and 3 incarcerated participants from Parole Prep’s Archive-Based Creative Arts program

Opens November 13, 2025

Sick (Music) Center

Anna RG

An experimental research, development, and community space exploring and supporting Sick Listening and Music

Opens September 14, 2025

Portals: Traversing Black Continuums

Kendra Bostock, Ziedah Diata, and Pia Monique Murray

This work uses dance, sound, participatory art, and multi-sensory stimulation to examine everyday items in our lives that serve as portals.

August 9, 2025, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Closing Gathering: Performance of dances sent from Bayamon Correctional Institution, Puerto Rico and Auburn Correctional Facility, NY

Dancing Through Prison Walls

Final FREEDOM TIME sharing. Dances from NY & PR, Freedom Tea, community convo, and a last collective jam.

July 26, 2025, 3:00 – 6:00pm

FREEDOM TIME Book Launch and Performance of dances sent from Bayamon Correctional Institution, Puerto Rico and Central Michigan Correctional Facility, MI

Dancing Through Prison Walls

Launch FREEDOM TIME with dances from Puerto Rico & Michigan. Book release, performances & a powerful community conversation.

July 19, 2025, 3:00 – 6:00pm

Performance of dance sent from South Dakota State Penitentiary, SD: Ocean Dreams/Mni Owanca Tanka Woihanbla

Dancing Through Prison Walls

Witness a dance from South Dakota to the Atlantic. Ocean dreams ripple with Indigenous creativity and abolitionist love.

July 18, 2025, 3:00 – 6:00pm

Community Screenprinting with Assembly & Dancing Through Prison Walls

Dancing Through Prison Walls

Print your own garment, sip tea, and witness FREEDOM TIME—an abolitionist art project created across prison walls.

July 5, 2025, 5:00 – 8:00pm

FREEDOM TIME Opening Gathering, Dance sent from Jenin, Palestine

Dancing Through Prison Walls

We will share the first draft of Detainee written choreography by Motasem Abu Hasan and sent to us from Jenin, West Bank, Palestine.

June 28, 2025, 2:30 – 7:00pm

Cypher for Gaza

Dancing Through Prison Walls

Join us for a powerful cypher to support youth in Gaza—breaking, art, and community care in solidarity and resistance.

Opens June 28, 2025

FREEDOM TIME: Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls

Dancing Through Prison Walls

A project of activated, inter-disciplinary response to written dances, deeply imagined and authored from bunks within prisons.

June 7, 2025, 2:00 – 3:30pm

How to Become an Octopus (and sometime squid): Kid Friendly Edition

Miriam Simun

Psycho-physical practice to develop cephalopod abilities - for a future that is sensorial, relational, wet, attuned, and in the body.

May 10–June 14, 2025

INSTITUTE FOR TRANSHUMANIST CEPHALOPOD EVOLUTION

Miriam Simun

A psycho-physical practice for human enhancement, with the octopus, squid and cuttlefish as our role model species.

Saturdays, May 10, May 24, and June 14, 2-4pm

How to Become an Octopus (and sometime squid): Saturday Afternoon Options

Miriam Simun

This series is open to anyone curious about cephalopods, new ways of sensing, and expanding the definition of self.

April 2025

The Second Head of Hercules: Art and Resistance Through Four Years of Upheaval

Shakeem Floyd

written in conjunction with artist Onyedike Chuke's Session x Assembly project, The Forever Museum Archive: Circa 2020_An Object

April 2025

Lenapehoking

Shakeem Floyd

written in conjunction with artist Marcela Torres' Session x Assembly project, The flow of mud/barro.

March 15–April 26, 2025

CUNTRY: Always the Horse, Never the Jockey

Cleo Reed and Assembly

A set of musical works, sculptures, and performances working to protest against the demand of labor and productivity in the US.

March 2025

A Homeplace (The Meeting Place)

Jenée-Daria Strand

written in conjunction with artist Helina Metaferia's Session project, The Meeting Place.

March 2025

iNKED with iNTENT

Glenn Quentin

written in conjunction with artists' KING COBRA's and Hue Hallums' Session project, Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present.

February 13–18, 2025

Untitled (Screen Tests)

A.K. Burns

After months of research & collaboration with a screenwriter, the artist will stage public screen tests that will be used to develop a new video work.

February 8, 2025, 12:00 – 6:00pm

Deli Radio All Day: Closing Reception

Deli Radio

Say goodbye to Deli Radio with fresh baked pão de queijo, drinks, and a marathon of DJ sets all day

February 7, 2025, 3:00 – 5:00pm

Deli Radio Presents: Dream Ki by Zella Vanie. Followed by Yatta & earthheaven

Deli Radio

an immersive day inside a makeshift deli within a curated soundscape

February 1, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00pm

Deli Radio Presents: M:sco Disco

Deli Radio

Dj set by M:sco Disco—a visual artist, record collector and sound enthusiast.

January 31, 2025, 3:00 – 9:00pm

Deli Radio Presents: Daniel Santos, Gabriel Tate, & Alima Lee

Deli Radio

Waves On The Rocks, a fusion of field recordings and music that explores the depths of ambient sound