BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Flux Factory - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Flux Factory REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:EET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:EET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:EET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220828T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220828T230000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220802T123957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220825T125532Z UID:31239-1661713200-1661727600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:At the Cookout with Ka (Black Sun) & K’la Soul DESCRIPTION:At the cookout will be an immersive artistic party celebrating American black culture. Black folk often need to see each other\, bond\, laugh\, and embrace. We will explore ritual  with music\, food\, and  live performances. The cookout is a joyous event that celebrates our advancements\, kinship\, and growth. \n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook for this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/at-the-cookout/ LOCATION:Institut for (X)\, Skovgaardsgade 5C\, Aarhus C\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/PHOTO-2022-08-24-20-50-09.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220831T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220831T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220803T135517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220819T060711Z UID:31254-1661968800-1661979600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Speed Fortune Telling & Plushy Karaoke DESCRIPTION:For a festuge edition of Flux’s weekly Wednesdays at Camping Book1\, Gil Lopez will lead in making personalized origami fortune tellers and lead a round of speed fortune telling for everyone to read each other’s fortunes using their freshly folded divination tools. \n\n\n\nSimultaneously\, Maureen Catbagan wiill lead Plushy Karaoke – Bring your favorite plushy\, dress up in costume\, cosplay\, or your favorite rock star and sing your heart out! No judgments\, only arty fun! \n\n\n\nMaureen Catbagan is a Filipinx American\, multi-media artist based in New York whose work engages social collectivity\, examines relations between identity and experience\, and explores new forms of empowerment. Collaborative projects include Object II Body with artist IV Castellanos\, Abang-guard with artist Jevijoe Vitug\, Flux Factory\, and HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? Collective. They have also written critical essays with Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser. Catbagan has performed and exhibited in venues such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, and the Center for Book Arts in New York\, Witte de Withe Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam\, and The Cotemporary Museum in Honolulu. \n\n\n\ngil lopez is steeped in Southern hospitality and culturally entangled through summers with his family in the barrios of LA. Formally educated in landscape architecture and philosophy\, gil currently creates & recreates in Lenapehoking (so called Queens\, NYC) as a community organizer\, environmental educator and water protector.  Through integration of topics spanning culinary arts\, gardening and fermentation to primitive skills and mysticism\, and through the reciprocity between soil\, plants and humans/animals\, gil creates opportunities to reclaim the commons cultivating inter-species community through experiential learning\, participatory activism\, civic eco-ritual and the potential legacies their events have on our shared future(s). \n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook for this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/speed-fortune-telling-plushy-karaoke/ LOCATION:Camping Book1\, Møllegade 3A\, 8000\, Aarhus\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Plushy-Karaoke.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220908T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220908T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220811T141707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T135933Z UID:31315-1662660000-1662670800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Moippen Mama! Screening and PUSH / PULL DESCRIPTION:Join Flux Factory for a screening of the new film Moippen Mama! by Makoto “Chill” Okubo. The film will be followed PUSH / PULL by Maureen Catbagan\, Abdul Dube\, Makoto Chill Okubo\, and Wren Noble. PUSH / PULL is a multimedia performance that examines the interplay between constraint and attachment\, tension and dependency through different acts of tethering and marking. Through the lens of queerness and diasporic movements\, the piece explores the complicated histories and interrelations between bodies\, material resources\, technology\, and surveillance. \n\n\n\nFilm Synopsis:Filming in subjective camera\, the author follows their japanese mother on a trip to Japan in 2013. From Kôbe to the areas affected by the March 2011 tsunami and the house of writer Natsume Sôseki\, we discover a poetic mother\, and the complex relationship between the two. Gradually a portrait emerges emerges of two « in between ». With the archival footage shot In Japan by the grandfather between 1931 and 1940\, the transgenerational question arises\, with its connection to the disaster too. This travel through the country is also an initiation trip through time\, an intimate confrontation with the impermanence of things. the Mujô. \n\n\n\nParticipant Biographies \n\n\n\nMakoto C. Friedmann (aka Makoto Chill Okubo)\, born in 1984\, is a director\, cinematographer anda photographer. They live and work in Paris. They have collaborated with artists: Beyoncé & Jay Z\, Jeff Mills\, Mansfield.TYA\, Philippe Grandrieux\, Vimala Pons\, Bernardo Montet\, François Chaignaud\, Patricia Allio\, Eléonore Weber\, Benjamin Karim Bertrand\, Violaine Lochu\, Lucie Antunes\, Léonie Pernet\, Jeanne Added\, Museums : Musée de l’Orangerie/musée d’Orsay\, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco\, labels : Cry Baby\, Warrior Records\, InFiné.  Their first documentary film “Moippen Mama!” made in 2016 has been screened in various Festivals : FIFF Créteil\, ICE Festvial\, BPI mois du documentaire\, Photo Saint-Germain\, Every Women Biennal NY – Best Film Award Their photographic work has been shown at the Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris\, les filles du Calvaires gallery\, Agnès B. gallery\, Lieu 37 gallery\, 21 gallery\, Paris 7 university\, H.E.C.\, at Dupon Central\, at Point Ephemère.www.chill-okubo.cominstagram.com/chillokubo \n\n\n\nMaureen Catbagan is a Filipinx American\, multi-media artist based in New York whose work engages social collectivity\, examines relations between identity and experience\, and explores new forms of empowerment. Collaborative projects include Object II Body with artist IV Castellanos\, Abang-guard with artist Jevijoe Vitug\, Flux Factory\, and HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? Collective. They have also written critical essays with Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser. Catbagan has performed and exhibited in venues such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, and the Center for Book Arts in New York\, Witte de Withe Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam\, and The Cotemporary Museum in Honolulu. \n\n\n\nmaureencatbagan.cominstagram.com/moofro \n\n\n\nAbdul Dube is a multidisciplinary artist\, designer\, curator and workshop facilitator based in Aarhus\, Denmark. He was born in ‘||Hui !Gais’ indigenous Khoe language meaning “where clouds gather.” Now known only as  “(Cape Town)” South Africa. His work concerns questions of multicultural belonging\, racism and resistance\, intersectional solidarity\, heritage\, sustainability\, Black imagination and activism. Abdul’s heritage related work includes facilitating an antiblack racism in our public archives workshop with Black Archives Sweden; teaching\, writing and creating Zines for the Horizon-2020 funded project European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities; and Creative Liaison to the Aarhus Museum Education Department. \n\n\n\nabduldube.nuinstagram.com/dubephotog \n\n\n\nWren Noble is a photographer and filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn\, NY. She completed her MFA in Photography at Concordia University in Montréal before returning to New York City in 2017. Her work is primarily environmental documentary and archival narrative\, dealing with topics of family\, age\, illness\, identity\, and queerness.  \n\n\n\nwrennoblephotography.wordpress.cominstagram.com/iamwren URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/moippen-mama-screening/ LOCATION:ARoS Public\, Aros Allé 2\, Aarhus\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/d0192c_1668e07c5cf74c3195cbbfeb15a1b6d8.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220910T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220910T220000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220824T132825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220830T162101Z UID:31408-1662825600-1662847200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Newtown Odyssey Public Workshop DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our ongoing Creekworthy series of events on and around the Newtown Creek\, Flux Factory is happy collaborate with Newtown Odyssey and the Newtown Creek Alliance. Join early for a shore cleanup\, with Newtown Odyssey’s waterborne opera at 6:30 – with Flux hosting an afterparty with live DJs and refreshments. \n\n\n\nSchedule of events:4-6 shore cleanup with NCA6:30-7:30 GIA/GUIDE Public workshop with Newtown Odyssey8-? Afterparty at Plank Road Public Shoreline with Flux Factory \n\n\n\nThis public workshop by Newtown Odyssey presents two scenes from the upcoming floating opera Newtown Odyssey\, a collaborative project with Marie Lorenz (artist)\, Dana Spiotta (writer)\, Kurt Rohde (musician)\, with support from the Newtown Creek Alliance. The workshop will feature singer Charlotte Mundy\, singer/horn player Kyra Sims\, and percussionist Josh Perry\, with an additional performance element by Melissa Brown. \n\n\n\nThe workshop builds on their Summer 2022 performance in Riverside Park as part of Re:Growth Riverside. This year\, we bring together two contrasting scenes from Spiotta’s libretto: The Tour Guides and The Creek Being. In Sept. 2023\, the full opera will be produced on moving vessels at Plank Road.  \n\n\n\nNewtown Creek lies at a critical intersection between vibrant growth\, chaotic collapse\, and utter neglect\, and thus becomes a perfect place to contemplate our current age. Through storytelling\, sound\, and our presence here\, we hope to find paths forward. \n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook for this event as well URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/newtown-odyssey-public-workshop/ LOCATION:Plank Road Ecological Park\, 50-0-50-98 58th Rd\, Maspeth CATEGORIES:Homepage Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/LorenzProposalImage-copy.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220910T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220910T235900 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220811T135507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220820T044810Z UID:31313-1662840000-1662854340@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Full Harvest Moon ritual DESCRIPTION:On the occasion of a full moon\, Fluxer Gil Lopez will create create a public ritual/ceremony\, including a fire. We will mythologize on lunar cycles\, astrology and offer a guided meditation. Expect a bonfire\, dance party\, projections and anything else the space\, talent and spirit allows. \n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook for this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/full-harvest-moon-ritual/ LOCATION:Institut for (X)\, Skovgaardsgade 5C\, Aarhus C\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/full-moon-1809630_1920.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220811T161552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220822T122849Z UID:31338-1663007400-1663014600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Flaunours of Area K: Past\, Present and Future DESCRIPTION:Join Gil Lopez and Fluxers for a leisurely evening walk (re)discovering the hidden treasures and future histories of Area K and the UAC. Bring your personal\, ecologic\, industrial and other cultural knowledge and imaginations to share as we redefine our mental maps and place in time.  \n\n\n\ngil lopez was born on the Louisiana bayou to a Los Angelino chicano and a working class southern belle\, gil lopez is steeped in Southern hospitality and culturally entangled through summers with his family in the barrios of LA. Formally educated in landscape architecture and philosophy\, gil currently creates & recreates in Lenapehoking (so called Queens\, NYC) as a community organizer\, environmental educator and water protector.  Through integration of topics spanning from culinary arts\, gardening and fermentation to primitive skills and mysticism\, and through the reciprocity between soil\, plants and humans/animals\, gil creates opportunities to reclaim the commons cultivating  inter-species community through experiential learning\, participatory activism\, civic eco-ritual and the potential legacies their events have on our shared future(s). \n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook for this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flaunours-of-area-k/ LOCATION:UAC\, Skovgaardsgade 5C\, Aarhus\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Kwalk.001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220915T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220915T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220811T131602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220824T114701Z UID:31307-1663264800-1663275600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Shocking Haircuts at ARoS DESCRIPTION:Rules for a shocking sesh. We take no requests. You will trust us with the choice of hairstyle. Your openness to your new\, deep and profound haircut will arise from our interaction. You will reestablish yourself. \n\n\n\nWhy don’t you sit down? I’m thinking frosted tips and tricolor in the sides… \n\n\n\nShocking Studios session is a popup initiative by the cultural entrepreneurs Jimmy Sommer and Vivian Vesterager. The mission is to seek discomfort and shock your otherwise Mundane haircut up. We wish you a shocking eXperience. Shocking studios sets up on the mountain\, in the caves\, in the midst of a partying crowd\, over land and sea – anywhere we feel like. It’s about time you get a new haircut. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/shocking-haircuts/ LOCATION:ARoS Public\, Aros Allé 2\, Aarhus\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image_6487327-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220811T122233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220825T153832Z UID:31290-1663869600-1663880400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Failure Egg Screening DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of screenings created by ‘Failure Egg’ collective artists Jack Helfrich\, Jemila MacEwan\, and Rob Ruth. \n\n\n\n‘Failure Egg’ is a multi-disciplinary performance collaboration that takes an improvisational approach to creative resistance and survival within a traumatized ecosystem. This project embraces open-ended improvisation as a foundation for creating multimedia works that intermesh dance\, writing\, music\, digital animation\, stop-animation\, and motion capture technology. \n\n\n\n‘Failure Egg’ takes inspiration from the eco-queer evolution of life on earth\, drawing from examples of vulnerable yet enduring survivors of planetary transformation. These life forms testify how mutation and hybridization dissolve notions of hierarchy\, gender binary\, species distinction\, and egoic notions of individuality. They are also foundational to the survival and adaptation of life throughout past and present ecological catastrophes. The artists aim to learn from the evolutionary genius of these sensitive beings\, to find meaningful creation methods for an ecologically uncertain future. \n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook for this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/failure-egg-screening/ LOCATION:ARoS Public\, Aros Allé 2\, Aarhus\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image_6483441.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220923T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220923T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220811T122918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T184459Z UID:31294-1663956000-1663966800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Failure Egg Performance DESCRIPTION:Join us at Institut for X for a live performance including video\, movement\, motion capture\, and live music by ‘Failure Egg’ collective artists Jack Helfrich\, Jemila MacEwan\, and Rob Ruth. \n\n\n\n‘Failure Egg’ is a multi-disciplinary performance collaboration that takes an improvisational approach to creative resistance and survival within a traumatized ecosystem. This project embraces open-ended improvisation as a foundation for creating multimedia works that intermesh dance\, writing\, music\, digital animation\, stop-animation\, and motion capture technology. \n\n\n\n‘Failure Egg’ takes inspiration from the eco-queer evolution of life on earth\, drawing from examples of vulnerable yet enduring survivors of planetary transformation. These life forms testify how mutation and hybridization dissolve notions of hierarchy\, gender binary\, species distinction\, and egoic notions of individuality. They are also foundational to the survival and adaptation of life throughout past and present ecological catastrophes. The artists aim to learn from the evolutionary genius of these sensitive beings\, to find meaningful creation methods for an ecologically uncertain future. \n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook for this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/failure-egg-performance/ LOCATION:Institut for (X)\, Skovgaardsgade 5C\, Aarhus C\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image_6483441-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T150000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220906T134043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T144949Z UID:31455-1663977600-1664031600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Alchemical Rituals For Decolonial Repair DESCRIPTION:UAC presents a public event from their currently artist in residence Nova Scott-James.RSVP on Facebook for this event \n\n\n\n What will happen during the event? \n\n\n\nAlchemical Ritual For Decolonial Repar is a presentation and workshop where participants will explore the alchemical process and create ways to transform energy that is holding them back into energy that fuels their heart’s truest desires being fulfilled. \n\n\n\nWhen we become intimate with our fears and move them through the body with intention\, they become fuel\, raw power that can be used to create the results we want with freedom and joy.  \n\n\n\n Artist and facilitator Bio:  \n\n\n\nNova Scott-James is a filmmaker\, innovation doula and community organizer from Harlem\, NYC. Her childhood experiences of being flooded with the sounds and culture of jazz has impacted her creative aesthetic greatly as her work honors improvisation\, altered states of consciousness\, ritual and collaboration.Nova is also a reiki practitioner and dedicated intuitive worker – she uses these abilities to serve people as a director and creative coach by guiding them in honoring their creative genius. \n\n\n\nLearn more about UAC here URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/alchemical-rituals-for-decolonial-repair/ LOCATION:Institut for (X)\, Skovgaardsgade 5C\, Aarhus C\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/305562592_10159169356663450_136453277873017552_n-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220916T220926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T154734Z UID:31558-1664028000-1664038800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:September Flux Saturday: Help Wanted! DESCRIPTION:Performance by Kahori Kamiya 3-5 pmScreening performances by Brendan Fernandes\, and Jevijoe Vitug & Maureen Catbagan as the Abang-guard Duo (Performances will be on loop) 3-5 pmPoetry by Alyssa Andrews\n\n\n\nHelp Wanted! Features the screening of performances by Brendan Fernandes\, and Jevijoe Vitug & Maureen Catbagan as the Abang-guard Duo\, poetry by Alyssa Andrews and in situ performance by Kahori Kamiya. \n\n\n\nThis project explores the invisibility of immigrant domestic workers by analyzing the relationship between dominance and resistance\, their social isolation\, and how they organize in solidarity. How is it possible to reflect on migrant workers as both a commodity and as an essential labor force? Domestic workers are part of an invisible community rejected by society for different reasons\, such as their ethnicity\, and their social and immigration status. This category of work includes but is not limited to nannies\, cleaning services\, direct caretakers\, doormen\, gardeners\, maids\, and security guards\, among other activities. \n\n\n\nHelp Wanted! centers domestic workers and how they fortify themselves in an unjust and unequal system by inciting resistance and solidarity. Domestic workers are the focal point to be seen\, heard\, and appreciated. They are portrayed as a vital element in the labor market.  \n\n\n\nSeptember Flux Thursday is the first of a series of events organized by curator Emireth Herrera\, in which she invites participants to discuss the resilience and empowerment necessary for domestic workers to navigate their roles in a capitalist labor force.  \n\n\n\n3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Performance by Kahori Kamiya  \n\n\n\nKahori Kamiya Performance\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n3:00 – 5:00 pm Screening: Performances by Brendan Fernandes\, and Jevijoe Vitug & Maureen Catbagan as the Abang-guard Duo (Performances will be on loop)  \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBios: \n\n\n\nBrendan Fernandes (b. 1979\, Nairobi\, Kenya) is an internationally recognized Canadian artist  working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Currently based out of Chicago\, Brendan’s  projects address issues of race\, queer culture\, migration\, protest and other forms of collective  movement. Always looking to create new spaces and new forms of agency\, Brendan’s projects  take on hybrid forms: part Ballet\, part queer dance hall\, part political protest…always rooted in  collaboration and fostering solidarity. Brendan is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study  Program (2007) and a recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Fellowship (2014). In 2010\, he was  shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award\, and is the recipient of a prestigious 2017 Canada Council  New Chapters grant. Brendan is also the recipient of the Artadia Award (2019)\, a Smithsonian  Artist Research Fellowship (2020) and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant (2019). His  projects have shown at the 2019 Whitney Biennial (New York); the Solomon R. Guggenheim  Museum (New York); the Museum of Modern Art (New York); The Getty Museum (Los Angeles);  the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); MAC (Montreal); among a great many others. He is  currently Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and represented by Monique Meloche  Gallery in Chicago. Recent and upcoming projects include performances and solo presentations  at the Noguchi Museum\, New York\, NY; The Richmond Art  Gallery\, Richmond\, BC; The National Gallery of Canada and new commissions with The DR Vocal Ensemble\, Copenhagen\, Denmark and a new dance performance with Munch Museum\, Oslo\, Norway. \n\n\n\nKahori Kamiya makes art to heal human trauma. All of her works are visceral and rooted in her memories and experiences. Using diverse materials and hybrid techniques she explores opposing themes of suffering and healing. \n\n\n\nKamiya was born in Nagoya\, Japan and moved to New York\, where she received her second MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts. She is a recipient of the Face mask Award from Hudson Valley MOCA in 2020\, the ISCP Residency Program (upcoming) in 2021\, and Puffin Foundation Grant in 2022. Recently her works are featured by Art Spiel (Art Review)\,  WMHT Public Media TV\, and Ever Emerging Magazine. \n\n\n\nKamiya has been participating in both national as well as international exhibitions including Woodstock Artists Association Museum in NY\, Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn\, Van Der Plas Gallery in NY\, Oculus Westfield World Trade Center in NY\, Carrie Able Gallery in Brooklyn\, DIY Cultures in London\, Prospect Gallery in Australia\, Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn\, the 14th Media Art Biennale Alternative Now in Poland\, and Pärnu International Film & Video Festival in Estonia. \n\n\n\nEmireth Herrera Valdés (b. Saltillo\, Mexico) is an independent curator and writer based in New York City. Herrera’s curatorial and writing practice reflects her commitment to socially-engaged projects and the contextualization of issues of migration\, mobility\, dislocation\, refugees\, and indigenous culture within the development of Latin and American art. Herrera has curated exhibitions at Queens Museum\, Flux Factory in NYC\, the Sinaloa Museum of Art in Mexico\, and the Institute of Fine Arts\, NYU. Her articles have been published by Arte Fuse\, Brooklyn Rail\, VISTAS by ISLAA\, and LAR magazine. \n\n\n\nThe Abang-guard duo is a collaboration between New York-based Filipinx artists Maureen Catbagan and Jevijoe Vitug. Utilizing avant-garde concepts and practices\, they visibilize hidden and forgotten histories of labor and migration while infusing their personal narratives with humor and wit as museum workers. They have exhibited and performed in New York\, San Francisco\, Denmark and Philippines which include Daydreamer’s Manifestation at Socrates Park\, NY (2019)\, Abang-guard Manifesto at PS 122 Gallery\, NY\, Abang-guard Work Habits at ARoS Museum\, Denmark (2018)\, Geary Contemporary\, NY (2019)\, UP Vargas Museum\, Philippines (2019)\, San Francisco Art Institute\, CA (2021)\, and Center for Book Arts\, NY (2021). \n\n\n\nAlyssa Andrews (b.1993\, Reno\, NV) is a multidisciplinary artist originally from the American Southwest. Through sculpture\, drawing\, performative installations\, film photography and poetry she explores the identity of the human form and its relation to the natural environment. She has worked as an artist\, art educator and ceramic fabricator in Tucson\, Arizona\, New York City and Miami\, FL. She currently lives and works in Miami\, Fl. \n\n\n\n RSVP on Facebook for this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/september-flux-saturday-help-wanted/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Clean-Labour-Brendan-Fernandes-Photo-by-Chester-Toye.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220928T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220928T235900 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220811T125603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220820T042532Z UID:31303-1664380800-1664409540@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Pizza Party Picnic at Huggeormen DESCRIPTION:Huggeormen is hosting a celebration with Flux Factory\, Aarhuspanti\, Aarhus Billedkunstcenter and BKF Midt. We’ll bake pizza in an outdoor kiln\, light the bonfire up proper\, consume copious cool beverages\, and host karaoke\, performances and more! \n\n\n\nNB We start at 4 pm. Because of the long queue last year\, we will also light up the grill at 4pm. There will be some form of registration via MobilePay -so we know how much to bye bar and food. I will send the info asap! \n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook for this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/pizza-party-picnic-at-huggeormen%ef%bf%bc/ LOCATION:Huggeormen\, Thomas Koppels Gade 19\, Aarhus CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/241978591_1253946458399676_1127294529430196945_n-e1632495279228.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220929T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220929T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20220811T115157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220826T204812Z UID:31287-1664474400-1664485200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Seeking the Source DESCRIPTION:Storyteller Sara Domingo Brauner and participatory artist Hey There Kapplow invite you into a conversation and crafting workshop investigating the place of the intuitive arts in the modern world. \n\n\n\nInspired by the (Jewish) story of the angel Lailah\, and the way that water divination has been woven into or used alongside scientific methods in the professions that seek and map underground water sources\, we will share personal stories and experiences with one another while making and experimenting with some tools from the intuitive arts and techniques for strengthening the intuition\, despite the noise and chaos of modern life. \n\n\n\nBIOS \n\n\n\nSara Domingo Brauner is a storyteller and a body therapist. As a storyteller and artist\, Sara has traveled collecting stories and studied in the International School of Storytelling\, in England\, where stories are used as a method to bring change to the world. In addition\, she has studied under the mentorship of Shonaleigh Cumbers\, in the way of traditional Jewish storytelling\, using this art as a way of transmitting wisdom. Currently she is holding monthly storytelling circles and workshops\, bringing the art for storytelling into her community in Aarhus. \n\n\n\nHey There Kapplow uses prompts\, conversations\, objects\, sound\, installation\, walks and circumstances to invite people to pause their usual ways of operating and participate in embodied\, anti-capitalist discovery processes together. Kapplow facilitates collective experimentation with alternative ways of being and understanding\, in an effort to reduce suffering bred by the social structures around us. \n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook for this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/dowsing-workshop-with-heather-kapplow/ LOCATION:ARoS Public\, Aros Allé 2\, Aarhus\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Aarhus Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/aros_event_with_sara1080square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T160000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20221011T145131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221011T150553Z UID:31591-1665928800-1665936000@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Conflict / Resolution DESCRIPTION:image by Lee Tusman\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAn event at Harvestworks on Governor’s Island\, focusing on sound art and new media works-in-progress from the Flux Factory community. We will consider how being part of a group of socially engaged artists working as a collective contributes to the development of creative technology practices. \n\n\n\nRoopa Vasudevan \n\n\n\n“Slow Response” is an ongoing series in which I laboriously attempt to render working quick response (QR) codes through a variety of materials\, methods\, and configurations. In each code\, I attempt to re-create a process that is typically done within milliseconds by computational systems; the techniques I use take much\, much longer than that.Unlike computer-generated codes — and maybe contrary to the intent of the format — the QR codes I create are fickle\, inconsistent and do not always scan. They also often contain technical imperfections due to distractions\, miscounting/miscalculating\, and other errors that can only be described as human.The series\, as a whole\, addresses the ubiquity of these digital artifacts that never quite seem to fit within everyday life or appeal to our aesthetic standards\, yet have so quickly engendered automatic responses and expectations from those who regularly use mobile devices.  \n\n\n\nimage by Roopa Vasudevan\n\n\n\nDario Mohr \n\n\n\nThis is a recorded conversation regarding the spiritual practices of West Africa that I had with brothers from Nigeria that I traveled across West Africa with. This took place during a personalized tour with Ucomeafrik tour company. It was an honest conversation I had as a First Generation Grenadian\, U.S. citizen\, visiting West Africa (Ghana\, Benin\, Togo and Nigeria) to learn about my Akan and Ga tribal ancestry. I would consider myself agnostic with pantheist beliefs\, and they (Confidence and Evans) practice a version of Christianity with some Vodun beliefs. I struggled to find videos\, podcasts and articles online answering the questions that I had regarding ancestral West African spirituality\, and found this to be an important conversation. My hopes are that it answers some questions and that people of African descent may have but don’t have the opportunity to ask about. I was blessed to have had the opportunity to meet these men and hope that it expands other’s understanding of West African spiritual practices.  \n\n\n\nLee Tusman \n\n\n\nDuring the pandemic I have been creating experimental interactive autobiographical stories presented within game engines\, websites or computer operating systems. These works use my own drawings\, audio recordings and writing\, stitched together with custom software I write that makes them ‘playable’ in a manner similar to a video game in an attempt to create new forms of poesis and personal narrative. Despite my emphasis on writing code\, my background in zinemaking\, collage and electronic music production drive the aesthetic in ways that feel more beholden to DIY arts cultures than the current crop of Machine Learning-driven artworks.In my current body of work I am designing autonomous generative systems to present abstract narratives\, dream diaries\, and new unfolding simulations. In these works\, a story is presented non-linearly. They appear as abstract animated stories where even I the creator are uncertain what may happen next. There is a tension in these two different ways of working between finding new and surprising narratives and the ‘authentic’ and personal\, and a risk of algorithms to produce ‘sameness’ that permeates most AI-driven artworks.  \n\n\n\nAmelia Marzec \n\n\n\nAll That Is Seen And Unseen examines the relationship of queerness and Catholicism within the Central/Eastern European diaspora. It includes a series of sculptures based on roadside shrines\, such that one would find in liminal spaces where people need to feel protected\, like at the edge of a marsh. Ironically\, these are often situated in rural areas of Poland that are present-day LGBT-free zones. The sculptures contain an electronic communication system which broadcasts stories collected from the community. I also include software for projection mapping\, where imagery based on traditional Slavic papercutting techniques is generated and projected onto churches. The images depict women’s bodies\, weapons\, and pre-Christian symbols.  \n\n\n\nHeidi Neilson \n\n\n\nRemote Magnetometer is a quasi-replica of an actual magnetometer scientific instrument on the NOAA-NASA geostationary weather satellite GOES-16. Remote Magnetometer is in a sense paired with the actual magnetometer instrument in near-real time\, expressing here on earth the data collected by the satellite instrument in orbit.The satellites we place in Earth’s orbit are in essence our robot avatars—we experience alien\, deadly\, distant orbital space through their sensor-based eyes\, ears\, and skin. This project is intended to convey the reality and activity of a particular sensor instrument aboard an operational satellite to have a way of directly sensing-by-proxy what it detects: the energy of the Sun and its interaction with the Earth’s protective magnetosphere. The project mission is to inspire an appreciation for infrastructure systems we rely on and the protective nature of Earth as a whole for life. \n\n\n\nimage by Heidi Neilson\n\n\n\nFull artists Bios are here \n\n\n\nRSVPs on Facebook on the event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/conflict-resolution/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Nolan Park\, Building 10a CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/lee_tusman_image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20221003T211609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T184205Z UID:31586-1666346400-1666544400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Flux Treasure Island DESCRIPTION:Hours:10am-5pm Friday & Weekends \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFlux Treasure Island is an island-wide scavenger hunt\, taking place over Friday October 21 through Sunday October 23. Artworks will be hidden all across Governors Island in secret unexpected locations. \n\n\n\nStrange nooks\, wooded groves\, long-disused forts: anywhere! \n\n\n\nCryptic clues on a treasure map will guide visitors to their destinations. Works will include site-specific sculpture\, performance\, video\, AR\, and more. They might respond to the local area and its history\, or maybe they will play with viewer’s perceptions. Some pieces will only be visible at certain times\, so everyone’s experience will be different. \n\n\n\nAdditionally\, we’ll have performances by different artists. Treasure Island is a bit of a last hurrah before Flux Factory’s collective residency closes at the end of October. \n\n\n\nCome to Flux HQ at 404a Colonels Row and pick up a treasure map. From there\, the island is yours to explore. Remember: unless an artist says otherwise\, look with your eyes\, not so much with your hands! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCurated by Georgia Muenster \n\n\n\nParticipants: \n\n\n\nItala Aguilera\, Sally Beauty Twin\, Ranjit Bhatnagar\, Yen Yen Chou\, Thea Cohen\, Julie Evanoff\, Gui.dance\, Dew Igworia\, Ryan Oskin\, Magnus Pind\, John Pugh XI\, Theda Sandiford\, Sabrina Sims & Jeong Lee\, Zachary Sun\, Hannah Lutz Winkler & Katy Brett\, and Andrew Yoon \n\n\n\nThe Center for Psychic Technology – John Pugh XI  \n\n\n\nRSVPs on Facebook on this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-treasure-island/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Treasure-Island-PR-Image-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20221020T200156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T183741Z UID:31643-1666440000-1667149200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:UltraViolet Archive (Censorship is Spooky) DESCRIPTION:Christina Freeman\, UltraVioletArchive\n\n\n\nOctober 21-23\, October 29-30\,12-5pm \n\n\n\nUltraViolet Archive is a nomadic collection of endangered creative works including films\, graphic novels\, music\, literature\, visual and performing arts that were banned\, challenged\, or partially censored.  \n\n\n\nThe Flux Island installation will feature a Halloween-themed collection of frequently censored works. \n\n\n\nVisitors are invited to conduct research using the reference materials provided and recommend additional works to expand the archive. 
 \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nChristina Freeman (she/her) is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn. Her participatory installation\, UltraViolet Archive was exhibited in the Queens International Volumes (Queens Museum)\, with mentions in Artforum and Vulture. She is a 2022 Bronx Museum AIM Fellow. Her projects have received support from Creative Time (2019)\, Culture Push (2018-2019)\, National Coalition Against Censorship (2018-2019)\, Danish Arts Foundation (2018)\, and Red House\, Sofia\, Bulgaria (2012). Her previous residencies include: ARoS Public\, Aarhus\, Denmark; Flux Factory\, Queens\, NY; and SOMA\, Mexico City. As part of ABC No Rio’s Visual Arts Collective\, Christina organizes exhibitions in noncommercial spaces in NYC.  \n\n\n\nwww.christinafreeman.net/ \n\n\n\n@freeman_christina \n\n\n\nRSVPs on Facebook on this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/ultraviolet-archive-censorship-is-spooky/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/01_Christina_Freeman_UltraVioletArchive.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20221020T201800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T183527Z UID:31646-1666440000-1667149200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Double Foreign New Zealand Chinese Kitchen DESCRIPTION:Weekends 12-5 pm \n\n\n\nOctober 22-23 \n\n\n\nOctober 29-30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn installation by Li-Ming Hu \n\n\n\nPart of the Mama’s Augmented Reality exhibition series\, where artists are asked to create/interpret their mother’s kitchens as they exist in memory with whatever materials they have at their disposal. Curated by Eleni Zaharopolous. \n\n\n\nLi-Ming Hu hails from Aotearoa New Zealand\, where her parents landed in the 70s\, from Singapore and Taiwan\, where their parents in turn\, had fled to from China due to war and other awfulness. Her parents prioritized cultural assimilation\, so she was not taught any of the Chinese languages\, or introduced to many elements of the cultures they were brought up in. This approach extended less to food\, so the kitchen was a place to be (kind-of) Chinese\, to make dishes whose names she could not pronounce\, with ingredients out of packages she could not read\, while also learning to bake out of the Edmonds Cookery Book. \n\n\n\nRSVPs on Facebook on this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/double-foreign-new-zealand-chinese-kitchen/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Double-Foreign-NZ-Chinese-Kitchen-Li-Ming-Hu.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20221011T162533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T183843Z UID:31604-1667055600-1667062800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Spooky Sound Effect Community Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Join us in playing a spooky sound composition live!  \n\n\n\nWe will have various instruments\, objects\, and microphones set up to create our own live haunted house soundtrack for Colonels Row on Governors Island! Everyone of all ages are welcome to participate in creating sound effects. \n\n\n\nThis durational performance will feature live synthesizer performances by will owen and Eugene Lew with many special guests! \n\n\n\nWe plan to be performing outdoors with everyone\, but in case of inclimate weather we will move inside. Hot cocoa and cider provided.   \n\n\n\nWill owen originally from North Carolina\, US is an artist\, composer\, and curator currently based in Philadelphia\, PA. Will works mainly with Sound\, Sculpture\, and Food. Will loves to collaborate and either solo or in collaboration has exhibited internationally in China\, France\, Iceland\, Freetown Christiania\, Wales\, Pakistan\, and most recently in ARoS Public part of the ARoS Museum in Denmark in the summer of 2022 with Flux Factory. \n\n\n\n@weeowie \n\n\n\nRSVPs on Facebook on this event URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/spooky-sound-effect-community-orchestra/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Flux-Saturday-Flier-instagram.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230115T003000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230115T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230111T182619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T172218Z UID:31905-1673742600-1673802000@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Soft Opening: The Voice of Many\, The Voice of One: Collective Actions for Resistance and Mutual Aid DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to the Soft Opening and Artist Reception on Sunday\, January 15th: \n\n\n\n12:30 – 2 pm: There will be food and Yvette Molina’s volcano dress activation  \n\n\n\n2 – 4 pm: The Art of Land panel with MoMA PS1 (all are welcome) \n\n\n\n4 – 5 pm: Beverages served and more time to just meet one another \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLES Gallery is open 10 – 6pm\, 7 days a week. \n\n\n\nCurated by Haiba Hamilton and Natalia Nakazawa  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Clemente and The Flux Factory Rhizome Project present visionary work from a range of artists working in and through collective action\, creating solidarity networks that facilitate different ways of being with one another. We asked the artists to respond to the following set of questions: How\, as a collective\, do you center the work of building and sustaining communities? In what ways does your collective support others to surThrive?  How have you activated creativity in your world? Who are the people of your collective and community? \n\n\n\nFrom 12:30-2pm\, join artist Yvette Molina for an activation of her open experience work Volcano Goddess Outfit. \n\n\n\nMeet the Artists \n\n\n\nYvette Molina is a Mexican-American artist focused on the relationship between justice and caring. Her work incorporates processional banners\, ritual\, storytelling\, costumes\, action figures\, collage\, and painting. Current projects include New Pantheon\, a series of reimagined gods born to confront the world’s challenges\, and Big Bang Votive\, a communal storytelling project where participants are invited to share a personal story of love or delight. Yvette memorializes each story with a painted symbol on a starry backdrop to create an expanding constellation of our collective joy and love.  \n\n\n\nYvette has exhibited across the US and internationally at venues such as the Stockholm Fringe Festival\, the American Embassies in Uruguay and Latvia\, Brattleboro Museum in Vermont\, the Visual Art Center of New Jersey\, Arsenal Contemporary\, Spring Break Art Show\, NADA Art Fair\, and the Legion of Honor and de Young Museums of California as an AIR awardee. Other residency fellowships include the Vermont Studio Center\, Jentel Foundation\, UC Berkeley Worth Ryder Gallery\, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Born in Kansas City\, Yvette currently splits her time between Oakland\, CA and Brooklyn\, NY.  https://www.yvettemolina.com/ \n\n\n\nAriel Mercado is a concept-based artist\, independent arts educator\, founder and lead programmer for The Salon. arielmercado.art \n\n\n\nMelika Davé is a multimedia artist and organizer working in the realms of audio\, poetry\, painting and design. offeringrain.com \n\n\n\nHector Gomez is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography\, photogrammetry\, binary code and weaving. Hectorgomez.net \n\n\n\nNaomi Momoh is a Fiber artist working in sculpture\, textile and furniture.  \n\n\n\nDouglass Henry is an interdisciplinary artist working in dance\, sculpture\, and animation. douglasshenry.com/ \n\n\n\nYon Mi Kim is an artist who works with photography\, sculpture\, poetry\, and installation to explore ideas around domesticity\, family\, memory\, and trauma. yonmikim.com \n\n\n\nAndina Marie Osorio is a photography based artist who uses her practice to examine family lineage and lived experiences as a Nuyorican to investigate the duality inherent within matriarchy and its relationship to domestic space. andinamarie.com \n\n\n\nRhonnda Haynes is an executive producer/co-producer\, director and writer for the award-winning  documentary  film “Bringin’ In Da Spirit.”  She has garnered nearly 30 years of experience in the technical aspects of film and television production. She has worked behind the scenes on productions\, such as The Cosby Show\, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?\, MTV\, the John McEnroe Talk Show for CNBC as well as independent features and short films. \n\n\n\nThrough the alchemy of intention\, AnAkA’s multimedia practice reconnects the Self to ancient wisdoms severed from personal and collective bloodlines. Since 2012\, AnAkA has cultivated an ethnographic project entitled AKTIV8: an original archive of photos\, films\, music\, dance\, tattoos and herbal creations. AKTIV8 is created with the intention to document and strengthen the heartbeat of the Afro Indigenous movements\, practices and rituals of our current time. In order to share and exchange this cultivation of sacred wisdom\, AKTIV8 archive presents itself as shapeshifting experiential portals: a physical space woven with AKTIV8 sounds\, movement and visuals. \n\n\n\nDenae Howard is A Brooklyn-based Conceptual artist\, educator\, curator and advisor. At the moment she is solely a collaborative artist. Working with her cooperative #Dayonesart and other Black creatives invested in making work that forces necessary conversation. Her work is a coded-guide that promotes discussions that reveal the similarities and differences in the way individuals’ experience systems. Her practice stems from a need to create space and conversation around the systems that govern our natural existence. As a visual artist and contributor to culture she feels it is imperative to create art that reflects cognitive\, emotional and social pedagogy. Her works are re-appropriations of negative archetypes and stereotypes to reclaim and transcend positive meaning for Black people. But also re-imaginings of the limitless opportunities of Black Existence. \n\n\n\nDennis RedMoon Darkeem is inspired to create artwork based on the familiar objects he views through his daily travels. He discovers elements in existing architecture and among everyday items found within the home. Darkeem ultimately set out to express a meaningful story about events in his life and the lives of people in the communities where he lives and works. Darkeem utilizes multiple mediums in his work. This creates a rich viewer experience as the eye uncovers the multiple layers. Dennis was the 2020 Black Utopian Fellow. \n\n\n\nYanni Young is a Black\, queer\, multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Harlem\, NYC. For two years Yanni had a podcast called “Soul Rebel Podcast” centering Black artists\, healers\, and grassroots organizers\, allowing them to speak on their work and their life journey that led to where they are in the present. Yanni is the 2022- 2023 Black Utopian Fellow. \n\n\n\nMakeba Rainy is a self-taught artist from Harlem best known for her digital collage portraits of contemporary and historical Black icons. Makeba an internationally-exhibited artist\, a 2017 Create Change Fellow with the Laundromat Project\, a 2018 member of Vox Populi gallery in Philadelphia\, a 2018 CFEVA Fellow\, a 2018 Season III NARS resident Artist\, and an Absolut Art artist. Makeba is also the Co-Founder for #DayonesArt \n\n\n\nCOLLECTIVE DESCRIPTIONS: \n\n\n\nThe Salon was founded in 2019 as a crit group for working class artists of color using an originally developed crit model. Its function has been to provide nuanced feedback (from peers) in order to combat implicit bias within criticism in institutional spaces and its resulting effect on cultural production. Through their “salon style” critiques participants practice the politics of seeing/experiencing in order to support their peers in becoming confident and autonomous cultural engineers. \n\n\n\nSince its founding The Salon has experimented with various forms of organization and programming in order to support the practice of its participants. Currently The Salon is an artist cooperative with six(6) core members developing programs that are utilized by their respective networks and the public.  \n\n\n\nThe Chrysalis Kali Collective is a group for Filipina/x women (and non-binary folk) to explore Filipino Martial Arts (Kali) as an empowering mind/body/spirit practice. In our group\, we delve into how historical trauma impacts our physical\, mental\, emotional\, and spiritual health from a global perspective down to the cellular level. We unpack what it means to “decolonize\,” but we don’t stay stuck here. We bear witness to our struggles\, but we also celebrate our resilience. We question dominant paradigms and let go of what isn’t working for us any more. We deeply listen to our bodies as sacred guides to help us navigate life. We make space for emerging potential. \n\n\n\nThe sole purpose of #DayOnesArt is to promote and support independent artists coming out of urban meccas. Through collaboration we generate a bridge to further growth within our shared communities. We are a collective of working Artists and Cultural Consultants – here as an amenity. We are project developers who serve Artists and Creative leaders with intention building – establishing cultural equity and resilience within Institutions and Corporate entities. We began with pop-ups and now have created outreach in the form of our fellowship “BUF”.The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center Inc. is a Puerto Rican/Latinx multi-arts cultural institution that has demonstrated a broad-minded cultural vision and inclusive philosophy rooted in NYC’s Lower East Side/Loisaida. While focused on the cultivation\, presentation\, and preservation of Puerto Rican and Latinx culture\, we are equally committed to a multi-ethnic / international latitude\, determined to operate in a polyphonic manner that provides affordable working space and venues to artists\, small arts organizations\, emergent and independent community producers that reflect the cultural diversity of the LES and our City. \n\n\n\nThe Flux Factory Rhizome Project is a commitment to give intentional space to Black voices\, and provide a platform for Black narratives by offering the support needed to help these narratives thrive and evolve. The Rhizome Project is an evolving entity. As it grows\, we will add programs focused on professional development and other forms of support. We commit to listening to the leadership of Black artists with an ongoing commitment both economically and through action. Many roots support the plant. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSoft Opening / Artist Reception: 1 – 5 pm\, Sunday\, January 15\, 2023 \n\n\n\nRSVP to Attend the Soft Opening. Feel free to invite friends and fam. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThere is also another public opening on Thursday\, January 19th\, 6 – 8pm. \n\n\n\nPublic Closing: Sunday\, February 26\, 2023 URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/soft-opening-the-voice-of-many-the-voice-of-one-collective-actions-for-resistance-and-mutual-aid/ LOCATION:The Clemente Center\, 107 Suffolk Street\, Manhattan CATEGORIES:Homepage Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Voice.of_.Many_.flier_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230119T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230104T230148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T172102Z UID:31887-1674151200-1674158400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:The Voice of Many\, The Voice of One: Collective Actions for Resistance and Mutual Aid DESCRIPTION:Public Closing: Sunday\, February 26\, 2023 \n\n\n\nLES Gallery \n\n\n\nCurated by Haiba Hamilton and Natalia Nakazawa  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Clemente and The Flux Factory Rhizome Project present visionary work from a range of artists working in and through collective action\, creating solidarity networks that facilitate different ways of being with one another. We asked the artists to respond to the following set of questions: How\, as a collective\, do you center the work of building and sustaining communities? In what ways does your collective support others to surThrive? How have you activated creativity in your world? Who are the people of your collective and community? \n\n\n\nThis exhibition will include works from collectives: The Salon / DayonesArt Collective / and The Chrysalis Kali Collective\, including artists: \n\n\n\nYVETTE MOLINA CAROLINE GARCIA DANAE HOWARD / Artschoolscammer DENNIS REDMOON MAKEBA RAINEY YANNI YOUNG AnAkA RHONDA L. HAYNES ARIEL MERCADO NAOMI MOMOH YON MI KIM MELIKA DAVE HECTOR GOMEZ DOUGLASS HENRY ANDINA OSORIO \n\n\n\nMeet the Artists \n\n\n\nYvette Molina is a Mexican-American artist focused on the relationship between justice and caring. Her work incorporates processional banners\, ritual\, storytelling\, costumes\, action figures\, collage\, and painting. Current projects include New Pantheon\, a series of reimagined gods born to confront the world’s challenges\, and Big Bang Votive\, a communal storytelling project where participants are invited to share a personal story of love or delight. Yvette memorializes each story with a painted symbol on a starry backdrop to create an expanding constellation of our collective joy and love.  \n\n\n\nYvette has exhibited across the US and internationally at venues such as the Stockholm Fringe Festival\, the American Embassies in Uruguay and Latvia\, Brattleboro Museum in Vermont\, the Visual Art Center of New Jersey\, Arsenal Contemporary\, Spring Break Art Show\, NADA Art Fair\, and the Legion of Honor and de Young Museums of California as an AIR awardee. Other residency fellowships include the Vermont Studio Center\, Jentel Foundation\, UC Berkeley Worth Ryder Gallery\, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Born in Kansas City\, Yvette currently splits her time between Oakland\, CA and Brooklyn\, NY.  https://www.yvettemolina.com/ \n\n\n\nAriel Mercado is a concept-based artist\, independent arts educator\, founder and lead programmer for The Salon. arielmercado.art \n\n\n\nMelika Davé is a multimedia artist and organizer working in the realms of audio\, poetry\, painting and design. offeringrain.com \n\n\n\nHector Gomez is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography\, photogrammetry\, binary code and weaving. Hectorgomez.net \n\n\n\nNaomi Momoh is a Fiber artist working in sculpture\, textile and furniture.  \n\n\n\nDouglass Henry is an interdisciplinary artist working in dance\, sculpture\, and animation. douglasshenry.com/ \n\n\n\nYon Mi Kim is an artist who works with photography\, sculpture\, poetry\, and installation to explore ideas around domesticity\, family\, memory\, and trauma. yonmikim.com \n\n\n\nAndina Marie Osorio is a photography based artist who uses her practice to examine family lineage and lived experiences as a Nuyorican to investigate the duality inherent within matriarchy and its relationship to domestic space. andinamarie.com \n\n\n\nRhonnda Haynes is an executive producer/co-producer\, director and writer for the award-winning  documentary  film “Bringin’ In Da Spirit.”  She has garnered nearly 30 years of experience in the technical aspects of film and television production. She has worked behind the scenes on productions\, such as The Cosby Show\, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?\, MTV\, the John McEnroe Talk Show for CNBC as well as independent features and short films. \n\n\n\nThrough the alchemy of intention\, AnAkA’s multimedia practice reconnects the Self to ancient wisdoms severed from personal and collective bloodlines. Since 2012\, AnAkA has cultivated an ethnographic project entitled AKTIV8: an original archive of photos\, films\, music\, dance\, tattoos and herbal creations. AKTIV8 is created with the intention to document and strengthen the heartbeat of the Afro Indigenous movements\, practices and rituals of our current time. In order to share and exchange this cultivation of sacred wisdom\, AKTIV8 archive presents itself as shapeshifting experiential portals: a physical space woven with AKTIV8 sounds\, movement and visuals. \n\n\n\nDenae Howard is A Brooklyn-based Conceptual artist\, educator\, curator and advisor. At the moment she is solely a collaborative artist. Working with her cooperative #Dayonesart and other Black creatives invested in making work that forces necessary conversation. Her work is a coded-guide that promotes discussions that reveal the similarities and differences in the way individuals’ experience systems. Her practice stems from a need to create space and conversation around the systems that govern our natural existence. As a visual artist and contributor to culture she feels it is imperative to create art that reflects cognitive\, emotional and social pedagogy. Her works are re-appropriations of negative archetypes and stereotypes to reclaim and transcend positive meaning for Black people. But also re-imaginings of the limitless opportunities of Black Existence. \n\n\n\nDennis RedMoon Darkeem is inspired to create artwork based on the familiar objects he views through his daily travels. He discovers elements in existing architecture and among everyday items found within the home. Darkeem ultimately set out to express a meaningful story about events in his life and the lives of people in the communities where he lives and works. Darkeem utilizes multiple mediums in his work. This creates a rich viewer experience as the eye uncovers the multiple layers. Dennis was the 2020 Black Utopian Fellow. \n\n\n\nYanni Young is a Black\, queer\, multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Harlem\, NYC. For two years Yanni had a podcast called “Soul Rebel Podcast” centering Black artists\, healers\, and grassroots organizers\, allowing them to speak on their work and their life journey that led to where they are in the present. Yanni is the 2022- 2023 Black Utopian Fellow. \n\n\n\nMakeba Rainy is a self-taught artist from Harlem best known for her digital collage portraits of contemporary and historical Black icons. Makeba an internationally-exhibited artist\, a 2017 Create Change Fellow with the Laundromat Project\, a 2018 member of Vox Populi gallery in Philadelphia\, a 2018 CFEVA Fellow\, a 2018 Season III NARS resident Artist\, and an Absolut Art artist. Makeba is also the Co-Founder for #DayonesArt \n\n\n\nCOLLECTIVE DESCRIPTIONS: \n\n\n\nThe Salon was founded in 2019 as a crit group for working class artists of color using an originally developed crit model. Its function has been to provide nuanced feedback (from peers) in order to combat implicit bias within criticism in institutional spaces and its resulting effect on cultural production. Through their “salon style” critiques participants practice the politics of seeing/experiencing in order to support their peers in becoming confident and autonomous cultural engineers. \n\n\n\nSince its founding The Salon has experimented with various forms of organization and programming in order to support the practice of its participants. Currently The Salon is an artist cooperative with six(6) core members developing programs that are utilized by their respective networks and the public. \n\n\n\nThe Chrysalis Kali Collective is a group for Filipina/x women (and non-binary folk) to explore Filipino Martial Arts (Kali) as an empowering mind/body/spirit practice. In our group\, we delve into how historical trauma impacts our physical\, mental\, emotional\, and spiritual health from a global perspective down to the cellular level. We unpack what it means to “decolonize\,” but we don’t stay stuck here. We bear witness to our struggles\, but we also celebrate our resilience. We question dominant paradigms and let go of what isn’t working for us any more. We deeply listen to our bodies as sacred guides to help us navigate life. We make space for emerging potential. \n\n\n\nThe sole purpose of #DayOnesArt is to promote and support independent artists coming out of urban meccas. Through collaboration we generate a bridge to further growth within our shared communities. We are a collective of working Artists and Cultural Consultants – here as an amenity. We are project developers who serve Artists and Creative leaders with intention building – establishing cultural equity and resilience within Institutions and Corporate entities. We began with pop-ups and now have created outreach in the form of our fellowship “BUF”.The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center Inc. is a Puerto Rican/Latinx multi-arts cultural institution that has demonstrated a broad-minded cultural vision and inclusive philosophy rooted in NYC’s Lower East Side/Loisaida. While focused on the cultivation\, presentation\, and preservation of Puerto Rican and Latinx culture\, we are equally committed to a multi-ethnic / international latitude\, determined to operate in a polyphonic manner that provides affordable working space and venues to artists\, small arts organizations\, emergent and independent community producers that reflect the cultural diversity of the LES and our City. \n\n\n\nThe Flux Factory Rhizome Project is a commitment to give intentional space to Black voices\, and provide a platform for Black narratives by offering the support needed to help these narratives thrive and evolve. The Rhizome Project is an evolving entity. As it grows\, we will add programs focused on professional development and other forms of support. We commit to listening to the leadership of Black artists with an ongoing commitment both economically and through action. Many roots support the plant. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRSVP to Attend the Public Opening URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/the-voice-of-many-the-voice-of-one-collective-actions-for-resistance-and-mutual-aid/ LOCATION:The Clemente Center\, 107 Suffolk Street\, Manhattan CATEGORIES:Homepage Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Voice.of_.Many_.flier_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230128T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230128T150000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230126T202748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T183238Z UID:31925-1674910800-1674918000@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Ceremony: Self-Care for Collective Liberation by Rebecca KellyG DESCRIPTION:Ceremony is a an interactive sound experience for releasing limitations and cultivating inner abundance. \n\n\n\nIn this workshop we will start to disentangle from the ideas of “self” given to us by the oppressive systems we live within and begin tapping into our own gold. Through live soundscapes\, self-reflection\, and intuitive movement\, we access our bodies and imagination in order to act on purpose\, serve our collective in our fullest integrity\, and joyfully step into the sun.  \n\n\n\nNo materials are needed\, but feel free to bring supplies to write/draw with\, if that supports your process of integrating information. For more confort you are encourage to bring your own mats\, towels and pillows.  \n\n\n\nRebecca KellyG is a sound artist\, equity strategist\, and facilitator supporting individuals and groups to challenge oppressive conditioned beliefs\, embrace accountability\, and cultivate self-love for our personal and collective liberation. Rebecca weaves intricate vocal harmonies and percussive sounds to create meditative soundscapes\, which are often accompanied with story-telling and affirmations in a unique blend of public speaking and performance. As a former civil rights attorney\, Rebecca’s approach is informed by experience in structural and institutional advocacy and understanding of oppression. As an artist and facilitator\, her methods are led by heart\, inquiry\, and intuitive communication. With over a decade of experience in the arts and social change\, she engages in this work through workshops\, immersive sound experiences\, consulting\, and retreats. Connect with Rebecca at www.rebeccakellyg.com\, on Instagram @rebeccakelly_g\, or through her sounds available on all streaming platforms.  \n\n\n\nThis program is part of the current exhibition in our LES gallery The Voice of Many\, The Voice of One: Collective Actions for Resistance and Mutual Aid \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to this event on Eventbrite URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/ceremony-self-care-for-collective-liberation-by-rebecca-kellyg/ LOCATION:The Clemente Center\, 107 Suffolk Street\, Manhattan CATEGORIES:Homepage Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Ceremony-Self-Care-for-Collective-Liberation-by-Rebecca-KellyG.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230204T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230204T140000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230202T191801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231020T163520Z UID:31934-1675515600-1675519200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Chrysalis Kali: Pay Salutation DESCRIPTION:Join us for an artist talk and performance with Caroline Garcia and the Chrysalis Kali Collective.  \n\n\n\nPay Salutation is a somatic exploration of Kali – the national martial art of the Philippines\, also known as Arnis/Escrima/Eskrima. It is a system that emphasizes weapon-based fighting with sticks\, knives\, bladed weapons\, and various improvised weapons\, as well as “open hand” techniques. \n\n\n\nThis performance opens up a deeper dive into the potentials of Kali when one is not operating in the reactive modes of fight\, flight\, or freeze. It offers slowness as an aesthetic platform for somatic curiosity and assessment\, as well as offensive drills and combinations to demonstrate the importance of repetition and practice\, all useful techniques in the spectrum of healing collective trauma. \n\n\n\nPerformed by members of the Chrysalis Kali Collective (including Katrina Cabanban\, Caroline Garcia\, Kimberly Tate\, and founder\, Kristen Cabildo)\, they define themselves as “a group of Filipina/x women redefining power\, reclaiming ancestral wisdom\, and restoring resilience through the practice of Kali\, Filipino Martial Arts.”  \n\n\n\nThe program will start at 1:00PM with a 15 min performance followed by a conversation between Caroline Garcia\, the Chrysalis Kali Collective members and curator Natalia Nakazawa.  \n\n\n\nPerformers: Caroline Garcia\, Kristen Cabildo\, Katrina Cabanban\, Kimberly Tate \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP for the event on Eventbrite URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/chrysalis-kali-pay-salutation/ LOCATION:The Clemente Center\, 107 Suffolk Street\, Manhattan CATEGORIES:Homepage Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/photo_2023-02-02-2.10.53-ПП.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T140000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230214T213546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T183349Z UID:31949-1676811600-1676815200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:The Autonomous Artist - An Artist Talk with Yon Mi Kim & Ariel Mercado DESCRIPTION:An Artist Talk with Yon Mi Kim & Ariel Mercado\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAn afternoon conversation with Yon Mi Kim and Ariel Mercado two of the founding members of The Salon a New York City based cooperative. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Sunday February 19th for an afternoon conversation with Yon Mi Kim and Ariel Mercado two of the founding members of The Salon a New York City based cooperative comprised of working class artists of color. Together they will discuss the content of their featured work within the “The Voice of Many\, The Voice of One: Collective Actions for Resistance and Mutual Aid” show and the urgency of The Salon’s “The Autonomous Artist Manifesto” co-written together.  \n\n\n\nThe afternoon discussion will answer “what role does arts criticism play in creating a more equitable art world?”\, “in what ways does collectivizing support the survival of working class artists of color?” and “What effect does ontological warfare have on continued cultural production? How does contemporary artists combat it?” \n\n\n\nAriel Mercado is a Queer Black Nuyorican conceptual artist from the Bronx who explores the intersections of poetry and visual arts. Their work centers around the domestic space\, transcendental psychology\, consciousness\, the diaspora and ontology. They utilize ritual/performance work to highlight the responsibilities of audiences to artists\, consent\, and trust.  \n\n\n\nTheir work as a program designer & arts administrator is an extension of their arts practice.  \n\n\n\nYon Mi Kim is a first-generation Korean-American artist\, writer\, and educator from Queens\, NY. She uses photography\, sculpture\, poetry\, and installation to explore ideas around domesticity\, family\, memory\, and trauma – weaving together the chasm between intimacy and alienation; love and grief. \n\n\n\nRSVPs to this event on Eventbrite URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/the-autonomous-artist-an-artist-talk-with-yon-mi-kim-ariel-mercado/ LOCATION:The Clemente Center\, 107 Suffolk Street\, Manhattan CATEGORIES:Homepage Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Autonomous-Artists-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230124T183042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T130034Z UID:31917-1680112800-1680123600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Flux Factory 2023 Benefit Gala DESCRIPTION:Purchase gala tickets today Purchase raffle tickets and view the prize list \n\n\n\nDress code: festive attire \n\n\n\nJoin Flux Factory’s community for our first gala since 2019! Proceeds from the big night will support our free public exhibitions and affordable artist-in-residency and Flux Factory reopens its recently purchased building in an exciting new era of sustainability in our thirty year history. \n\n\n\nDJ set by Vinyl RichieLight installation by ChromadeticLive Performance by Poncili CreaciónOpen bar courtesy of Braven Brewing Company\, Grapevine Distributors\, Keg & Lantern\, M. Wells\, Radiant Pig Beer\, Sanzo\, Uni Brand Group\, and Urban Market of LICCatering courtesy of Little Chef Little CafeOnline Raffle from numerous LIC small businesses\, with a prize pool worth $4000 \n\n\n\nGuests of Honor\n\n\n\nPoncili Creación is an art collective\, composed of identical twin brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro from Santurce\, Puerto Rico. Known for their creative and improvisational approach to puppetry\, the brothers use their works as a form of protest and a call to action. \n\n\n\nDavid Picket\, CEO of Gotham Org\, has served for many years on the Brooklyn Academy of Music Board of Trustees and is actively involved with the Cornell English Department Creative Writing Program. Flux Factory will soon partner with Gotham Org to launch its new venue\, Flux IV\, at Gotham Point on the Hunters Point South waterfront. \n\n\n\nThis event would not be possible without our Gala Sponsors\n\n\n\nBarre3\, Bad Habits Astoria\, Bartleby & Sage\, Big Reuse\, Blend Astoria\, Blend LIC\, Blend on the Water\, Book Culture\, Braven Brewing Company\, Brickhouse Ceramic Art Center\, Brooklyn Boulders Queensbridge\, Brooklyn Grange\, Citrico Cafe & Agaveria\, Dive Bar LIC\, Enoteca\, Grapevine Distributors\, John Brown BBQ\, Keg & Lantern \, Lion Physical Therapy\, Little Chef Little Cafe\, M. Wells\, Orangetheory\, Pita Pan\, Quintessential Therapy / The Spiritual Bodega\, Radiant Pig Beer\, The Rabbit Hole\, sLICe & sLICe Astoria\, Strength City\, Sweet Leaf\, Uni Brand Group\, Urban Market of LIC\, and Woodbines \n\n\n\nThank you for our Gala Committee and Supporters\n\n\n\nCarla Nicdao Greco (Gala Coordinator)\, Aliya Bonar\, Amber Musser\, B Entsminger\, Carina Kaufman-Gutiérrez\, Frank Wu\, Haiba Hamilton\, Hannah Huston\, Hannah Schutzengel\, Liz Dunn\, Maria Varona\, Maxwell Neely-Cohen\, Melanie Cohn\, Mike Lawrence\, Morgan Meis\, Natalia Nakazawa\, Natsuko Komatsu\, Janis Suess\, Jake Pratt\, Jason Brown\, Jean Barberis\, Jennie Lamensdorf\, Robert Roe\, Rodrigo Sanchez\, Roy Dahlinger\, Sarah Frazier\, Sallie Sanders\, Sarah Weitlauf\, Scott Hirst\, Sean McIntyre\, Thomas Iglehart\, Will Owen \n\n\n\nThis event would not be possible without our Gala Sponsors URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-factory-benefit-gala-2023/ LOCATION:The Clemente Center’s Flamboyán Theater\, 107 Suffolk St\, Manhattan CATEGORIES:Homepage Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/48087210141_ebd757dd6c_o-scaled-e1674584843922.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T000000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230513T152646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230513T152917Z UID:32071-1684972800-1684972800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Feralpy OPEN CALL DESCRIPTION:Feralpy is a radical and untamed exploration of experimental forms of therapy by artists curated by Jemila MacEwan and Amelia Heintzelmann for Flux Factories summer programming. Taking place on Governors Island over consecutive weekends over the summer this wild and free-range exhibition is open to performances\, meditations\, classes\, installations\, video work\, and one-on-one experiences offered by artists. \n\n\n\nThese events will take place over a series of weekends grouped as following \n\n\n\n– Workshops/participatory/experiential projects \n\n\n\n– Films/video works for in person screening \n\n\n\n– Live performances – music\, dance\, multimedia etc. \n\n\n\nIn addition to this\, we will have an exhibition that is an archive of processes. We are accepting works appropriate for exhibition with a focus on process\, documentation of previous events\, instructive writing etc. \n\n\n\nTraditional forms of talk therapy can often be problematic\, unsuitable or inaccessible for many reasons. As a matter of personal and creative survival\, many artists have developed their own unique therapeutic practices that utilize aspects of their creative processes. These experimental forms of therapy are often born out of a need for distinct creative methods for working through the specific needs of coping with neuro-divergency\, trauma\, queerness\, high sensitivity\, and alienation which are common experiences for artists. In Feralpy we get curious about these free-range healing practices and invite artists to share them with a wider audience in an accessible\, stigma-free\, and donation-based format. \n\n\n\nThrough its open call for artists\, Feralpy invites those who have discovered therapeutic value in their art to offer their skills and expertise to others. We also welcome work that has been created through critical examination of existing therapies\, or would be meaningfully illuminated when viewed through the context of therapeutic practice. Each artist will be free to design and facilitate their own approach to the topic\, creating a diverse and multifaceted experience for attendees. We hope that through sharing this often invisible and deeply considered aspect of artists’ work attendees will be empowered to explore and experiment with creating their own personally tailored therapeutic practices.  \n\n\n\nTo apply please fill the Google form URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/feralpy-open-call/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Feralpy-open-call.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230527T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230527T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230512T143022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T143026Z UID:32065-1685188800-1685221200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:May Flux Saturday DESCRIPTION:indoors and front lawn area \n\n\n\nGovernors Island \n\n\n\nJoin us for our first Flux Saturday and celebrate a new season as an Organization-in-Residence on Governors Island! \n\n\n\nWelcome to Flux Island picnic 12 pm – 3 pm  \n\n\n\nKaraoke 3 pm – 9 pm \n\n\n\nFlux Factory will host Flux Saturdays on the last Saturday each month from May through October. Organized by different artists each month\, the program will take many forms including pop-up exhibitions\, performances\, workshops\, screenings\, artist presentations and more. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/may-flux-saturday/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Flux-Governors-Island-2023.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230624T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230624T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230618T202954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T203150Z UID:32080-1687604400-1687626000@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:June Flux Saturday: Tangled Vines DESCRIPTION:For June Flux Saturday Governors Island Abby Cheney and Hanna Washburn invite you to join them in creating Tangled Vines\, a temporary installation made of reused and recycled materials happening at 404A Colonels Row. \n\n\n\nThe installation will be an exquisite corpse of materials from our own studios\, MFTA\, found objects\, and items brought by collaborators or passersby. We will work across media\, primarily using fabric and string to stitch and tie everything together. The artwork will expand throughout the course of the day\, reaching through different rooms and out into the front lawn. \n\n\n\nWe invite anyone to bring any materials they wish to add to the installation to the island on Saturday\, June 24. We will also have materials on hand for anyone to use. \n\n\n\nThe work will be constructed on Saturday and will be on view through 5pm on Sunday\, June 25. \n\n\n\nAbby Cheney\, abbycheney.com \n\n\n\nHanna Washburn\, hannawashburn.com URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/june-flux-saturday-tangled-vines/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tangled-Vines.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230722T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230722T180000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230711T172709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230718T200727Z UID:32103-1690023600-1690048800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Feralpy Workshops and Performances DESCRIPTION:Join Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition. View more event details and RSVP for workshops and performances at Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nWorkshops:11am-4pm: Watching Sheep Workshop with Hannah Lutz WinklerIn Watching Sheep\, I will lead one-on-one sessions in which I shepherd the participant towards a state of heightened attention\, focusing deeply on the five sheep that spend the summer on Governor’s Island. Techniques employed in this feralpeutic process may include interactive rituals\, mugwort tea\, sculptural objects\, flexible instructions\, and/or touching wool.12pm-1:30pm: Touch Study Workshop with Leah FournierIn this workshop/experiential practice\, we apply basic empathy to develop intuitive touch. Following a simple\, guided body work score\, this workshop asks first for participants to therapize themselves to understand tone\, quality\, structure\, and time. What does it feel like with my thumb here\, and how much pressure in this spot is not enough\, too much\, just right? With that information\, we can move into partnered bodywork (IF DESIRED) and practice honest and frequent feedback to offer//receive one another’s touch.12pm-6pm: Transformation Masks with Tyler Kline and Megan BridgeTransformation MasksRainbow Iridescent Glitter SkinTo excite the blood withinFluid Movement is the Taskto empower this sly and expressive Talisman’s Mask \n\n\n\nPerformances:1pm-6pm: Performances with Feralpy Artists \n\n\n\nSet by Jemila MacEwan & Jack Helfrich \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSoul Cymatics by Jennifer Pyron“Soul Cymatics promotes deep listening awareness through breathing and humming exercises. Benefits include positive circulation throughout your nervous system to calm your responses to stimuli.” \n\n\n\nBind by Riven Ratanavanh“Bind/unbind” is a meditation on the body’s entanglements to place\, history\, and time. \n\n\n\nCeremony by Rebecca KellyG“Ceremony” is an interactive sound experience for identifying and releasing our conditioned beliefs for our personal and collective liberation facilitated by Rebecca KellyG. This session includes live vocal soundscapes\, guided meditation\, and intuitive movement. Please wear comfortable clothes and something to write/draw with if that supports your process of integrating information. \n\n\n\nwe were never meant to survive by Ülkü ÇağlayanThis is a participatory performance exploring themes of eroticism\, death\, and the radical togetherness with a particular focus on the role of desire in revolt. Using the Erotic as Power\, as a psychological and philosophical weapon\, a remedy to restore our senses\, the process will focus on mental & emotional preparation for death and dying together. By incorporating narrative construction and participatory nature of the body\, we will imagine humanity on a battlefield; in the state of being on the edge; a state of about-to-die. This work is influenced by teachings of queer performance artist\, Keith Hennessy and gives references to Audre Lorde\, Bataille and Byung Chul Han’s concepts of dissolution into the Other. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/feralpy-workshops-and-performances/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/JemilaAmelia_Feralpy_Instagram01.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230723T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230723T180000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230711T185848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230718T201250Z UID:32138-1690120800-1690135200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Feralpy Workshops and Performances DESCRIPTION:Join Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition. View more event details and RSVP for workshops and performances at Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nWorkshop:2pm-6pm: Group-as-a-whole Workshop with Julia GladstoneGroup-as-a-whole theory posits that when individuals form a group\, the resulting union becomes an entity in its own right with a sum greater than its parts. We will apply both experiential and meta-analysis of our “groupness” together through embodied investigations\, scores\, and LARPing. We will focus on the “here and now“ as a lens through which to uncover underlying themes and dynamics of power\, care\, ambivalence\, desire\, etc. — acknowledging that the content of the greater systems that we are embedded within can be traced through what is happening between us in the present. During the second half of the workshop we will generate scenic reenactments of earlier moments as gestures towards reinterpretation and integration. Some practices may resemble something akin to group therapy\, and while I am trained as a psychotherapist\, this is not therapy. The intent is towards thickening community\, intimacy\, and experimentation. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/feralpy-workshops-and-performances-2/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/JemilaAmelia_Feralpy_Instagram01.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230729T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230729T180000 DTSTAMP:20260412T192322 CREATED:20230711T190330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230725T200951Z UID:32140-1690632000-1690653600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Feralpy Workshops and Performances DESCRIPTION:Join Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition. View more event details and RSVP for workshops and performances at Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nWorkshops:12pm-6pm: Feel Like an Island Today? Freeform Drawing and Collage Workshop with Cayla Lockwoodyour feelings and assembling your thoughts alone/together with Flux Factory. This lightly guided workshop will provide prompts and materials for therapeutic drawing and collage-making. Our efforts from the day will be compiled into a group ocean or choose to work on your own private island. Take it easy\, come and go as you please. All ages welcome and no skills required.1pm-2pm\, 3pm-4pm & 5pm-6pm: How to Hold on While Letting Go Workshop with Jemma Rose BrownTo fly a kite\, stand with your back to the wind. Start with a short\, tight line. As the kite catches air\, you’ll feel a small tug. Only let the line out very slowly. Let go too quickly\, and the kite will swirl\, loose and crumpled\, to the ground. \n\n\n\nFor this guided workshop\, we will be making and flying kites with the names of emotions that we need to grasp before we can fully release. Collectively\, we’ll hold on\, and then we’ll let the wind and the slack of the line and one another help us to let them go.2pm-4pm: The School for Anything Workshop with Jonathan Matthews-GuzmánThe School for Anything : Positively Thoughtful\, Self-Performatively Studied Stim Circle / or\, “casting a w i d e net” / or\, Constructing a “minimal trash h e a p ” . \n\n\n\nLifted from their work with elementary school ages as well as their sensibly paradoxical existence in this lifetime as an multi-disciplinary artist who also identifies in this lifetime as a multi-racial\, genderfree(fluid)\, and neuroplastic(divergent) person\, Jonathan Matthews-Guzm​​án \, or Schrōdinger\, will facilitate a time-space in which all are welcome to share and receive the results of “both/and” thinking. \n\n\n\nWe begin with a grounding and trust building welcome circle\, punctuated by a musical talisman (instrument)\, that may be employed for sonic purposes\, or held onto for grounding and presence. \n\n\n\nWe ask ourselves and our community what we need\, and manifest an actionable artistic happenstance to serve as the macrocosm for our microcosm\, accepting its mere impermanence on this sphere we call home for only so long and so forth. \n\n\n\nThe result could be anything\, but we are headed towards an anarchist dismantling of opera as a Gesamtkunstwerk\, or “total art form” \, towards a facsimile of life itself in which there are expressive tools to cope with life’s left turns – essentially\, a fully improvised opera\, or “life” itself\, however\, in tender loving community (lovingly referred to as a “minimal trash heap”). \n\n\n\nAnything goes\, as long as your intentions are prepared and pure\, a process we will come to know as we embark on this journey together. \n\n\n\nPerformances:12pm-6pm: Open House with Laurel AtwellDuring these two days\, we shall open the house to whatever may come. We will gather\, establish our rules of engagement\, assess the group mood\, and embark on an experience together. Anything can shift at any time: we can go from sharing our dreams to crafting to performing a play to learning a dance to taking a silent walk. The time is ours\, we will begin with the unknown\, and invite what wishes to appear. As facilitator\, I will have options to pull from my bag of tricks\, but I encourage everyone to show up open to stepping in and out of roles within the group. If you feel inspired\, bring something to share (could be anything: food\, a book\, an image\, an oracle\, a song)\, wear comfortable clothes\, and feel free to come and go throughout the time. Looking forward to being with you. Inspired by the work and study of Process as Guide with Melanie Maar.12pm-6pm: Doing Nothing Together with Hey There KapplowDoing Nothing Together is an accountability container for practicing pause and presence\, collectively\, in resistance to perfectionist culture. It helps people build their capacity to reject the pressure and debilitating effects of unnecessary urgency. Four 30-minute sample sessions will occur throughout the course of the day at 12pm\, 2pm\, 4pm and 6pm. The experience is offered at no cost\, but because the facilitator has traveled from Boston\, unpaid\, to host this experience\, donations are gratefully accepted. If you find the experience satisfying\, you are also welcome to join regular\, weekly\, telephonic Doing Nothing Together gatherings. Learn more at https://doingnothingtogether.com/ URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/feralpy-workshops-and-performances-3/ LOCATION:Governors Island\, Colonels Row House 404A CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Welcome to Flux Island Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/lockwood_sad_cloud-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR