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

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

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

Explore the art and ethics of sound description with composer Jay Afrisando—online or in person.

Experience GHOST BARRELS—a final, experimental performance by disabled artists closing the Sick Center at Recess.

Join a tribute to Sick Music ancestors: songs, sonic experiments, and unheard histories of sound.

Explore sick and disabled music at the Sick Center opening reception, featuring an immersive listening session by artist & musician Anna RG.

An experimental research, development, and community space exploring and supporting Sick and Disabled listening and music

Create mantras and meditations with Ziedah Diata in a water- and word-centered workshop.

Gabrielle Rucker reflects on the radical intimacy and auditory life at the heart of Deli Radio

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

Hear from Gaza Biennale organizers & artists about their work and the project’s goals in this hybrid talk, Sat, Sept 13, 12–2pm.

Recess is honored to be the first North American site hosting the Gaza Biennale, a global exhibition shaped by Palestinian artists.

Recess is honored to be the first North American site hosting the Gaza Biennale, a global exhibition shaped by Palestinian artists.

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

Current Assembly Fellows and Peer Leaders share their reflections on the year and we come together to celebrate their journeys

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

Browse and purchase original works, enjoy live DJs, food, skateboarding lessons, and a night of connection and joy.

Witness a dance written and sent out from inside South Dakota State Penitentiary, a love letter to the ocean....a place the author has never been

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

Assembly fellow Ericka Pérez reflects on clowning, resistance, and CUNTRY’s radical refusal to perform.

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

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

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

Exploring the history of Bomba, a traditional Afro-Puerto Rican art form rooted in resistance