Last Day for Public Kitchen & Dance Court!
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Dance Court & Public Kitchen Wrap up Today!
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2-6pm
Sunday--rained out
Don't miss our last big day at Mary Hannon Park!
(621 Dudley St, Roxbury)
Public Kitchen:
Saturday: Jollof Cook-off! Featuring Suya Joint, Pelloma and Kwasi of Comfort Kitchen (4pm tasting and voting!)
Conversations about rice, Boston Food Forests, and more...
Dance Court:
Saturday 2-6: 6 workshops + Social Clash Exhibition
- 2:00 - Kizomba workshop
- 2:45 - House w/ @rthymz
- 3:30 - New Style Hustle w/ @kenzie_j_illnest
- 4:15 - Popping w/ @mega_kingz
- 5:00 - Dancehall w/ @ice_mpyre
- 5:45 - Latin Movement w/ @lumyrd
- 6:30 - Social Clash Exhibition (Street & Club vs Partner Dance)
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The Dance Court and Public Kitchen serve as installations designed to help us reimagine, experiment and realize the ways in which public infrastructures can improve the quality of our lives. We have room to imagine the futures we want to create! Doing this takes experimentation and creativity. To spark this, we invite you to experience the Dance Court and Public Kitchen as “productive fictions" in Mary Hannon Park* in Roxbury, over the course of two consecutive weekends.
We are honored to welcome Ashton Lites as our Dance Court Design Lead and Sasha Coleman in partnership with Comfort Kitchen and Kray Plates as our Public Kitchen Design Leads. These community gatherings will include music, dance, and food from a variety of cultures and genres. We also want to thank Dudley Greenhouse and Urban Farming Institute for donating so much beautiful produce! Take some home today...
We can't wait to share time, space and a meal with you!
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With DJ Indiglo spinning, the evening Dance Court was hopping...
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Sign up for Design Gym Classes!
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Design Methods Classes (Wednesday nights, 6-7:30):
Imagination Methodologies--on ZOOM
Wednesdays (come to any or all), November 9th, 16th, 30th
Design Dialogues w/ John Sharp, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, and Rashin Fahandej
Email us here to sign up.
Can one become better at creativity and imagination or is it simply a gift? In Imagination Methodologies, we’ll talk with three different creatives who use methods and techniques as part of their practice of imagination. Through the sharing of these techniques, we hope to make the case that we can all practice imagination.
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John Sharp--November 9th
John Sharp is a designer, art historian, curator and educator. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, art games and non-digital games. Along with Colleen Macklin, John co-directs PETLab (Prototyping, Education and Technology Lab), a research group focused on games and their design as a form of social discourse. He is an associate professor at Parsons The New School for Design.
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Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo--Nov 16th
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo is a Black feminist rap artist and producer from Ithaca, NY, with family roots in Cote D'Ivoire and the Congo. She is an Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University, teaching rap songwriting and feminist sound studies. Enongo is also the Director of Audio for Glow Up Games, a women-of-color led game studio and a member of theKEEPERS, a Hip Hop collective mapping the international contributions of womxn and girls across Hip Hop's 50-year history.
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Rashin Fahandej--Nov 30th
Rashin Fahandej is an Iranian-American futurist, immersive storyteller, and cultural activist. Fahandej’s artistic initiatives are multiyear experimental laboratories for collective radical reimaginations of social systems, using counter-narratives of care and community co-creation to design equitable futures. Her projects center on marginalized voices and the role of media, technology, and public collaboration in generating emotional connections to drive social change.
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Maker Classes (Thursday nights, 6-8pm):
Sewing 101
Thursdays, October 13th, 20th, 27th 6pm-8pm
In this workshop, you will learn all the basics of the timeless craft of sewing. You'll learn how to wind a bobbin, thread the machine and execute basic stitches. Finally, you'll put your new skills to use and make a beautiful throw pillow that you can use in your home or gift to a friend for the holidays.
Email us here to see if there is space in this limited class.
Documentary Video
Thursdays, November 3rd, 10th, 17th 6pm-8pm
In this workshop, you will learn the basics of documentary videography. You will complete your own project from start to finish—learning to use the camera and to utilize editing programs.
Email us here to see if there is space in this limited class.
Woodworking
Thursdays, December 1st, 8th, 15th 6pm-8pm
In this workshop, you will learn the how to use large and small woodworking tools in order to manifest your own project during the winter holidays!
Email us here to see if there is space in this limited class.
Class numbers are limited, so let us know you're interested!
MORE CLASSES & OPEN GYM HOURS COMING SOON!
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