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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.

March 2025

A Homeplace (The Meeting Place)

Jenée-Daria Strand

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

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.

April 2025

Lenapehoking

Shakeem Floyd

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

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

Opens May 10, 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.

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.

Opens June 22, 2025

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.

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.

Opens November 13, 2025

Sick (Music) Center

Anna RG

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

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 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 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.