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SUMMARY:OPEN CALL: TALK BACK
DESCRIPTION:“A gif of the words TALK BACK written in large\, block letters\, with colorful patterns changing over the letters. The background is yellow with red dots.” \n  \nFLUX FACTORY OPEN CALL- TALK BACK\nTALK BACK is supported by a generous grant from the NYC Cultural Affairs Disability Forward Fund. \nFLUX FACTORY is thrilled to announce TALK BACK\, Flux Factory’s first open call and exhibition specifically for artists and organizers with disabilities. \nDEADLINE: MONDAY MARCH 18th\, 11:59pm\nAPPLY HERE\n\nFor audio guidelines please go to www.fluxfactory.org/news/talk-back-audio\nFor PDF version of this Open Call\, please go to www.docdroid.net/BhQ57lx/talk-back-pdf.pdf\n \nTALK BACK seeks to center the lives and leadership of disabled artists and asserts that deep-rooted cultural changes must be made within the art world to become more inclusive and accessible. TALK BACK believes that disability must be included in conversations about diversity. One part of affecting change in the art world is by placing disabled artists in positions of influence within the arts to influence change from within.\n\nTALK BACK focuses on how contemporary artists with disabilities are presenting their work and invites disabled artists to submit work that dismantles systems of ableism\, either overtly or quietly. How do we examine\, interrogate\, and resist ableist and classists systems inside the art world? How can we employ the art world to examine social and cultural systems that surround disability outside the art world?\n\nTALK BACK imagines a reality yet to exist\, shifts able-normativity assumptions that every body is able-bodied\, illuminates non-binary futures from able to disabled and debunks disability and “heroism”. TALK BACK envisions and celebrates joy\, radical care\, sovereign bodies\, community building\, non-verbal and alternative forms of communication. TALK BACK disrupts through quiet protest\, individual\, overt and mass protest that includes multiple ways of showing up. TALK BACK works within and against Capitalism\, classism and medical ableism to redefine value\, productivity and worth. TALK BACK makes room for criticism\, restoration liberation\, coming out\, ownership of one’s mind and body\, access demands\, intersectionality and utopias to offer multiple entry points to TALK BACK.\n\nTALK BACK invites proposals for workshops\, performances\, gatherings\, walks\, spoken word\, screenings\, visual arts\, video\, sound works\, DIY\, panels\, grassroots\, poetry\, books\, installations\, zines\, artist talks\, performance lectures\, discussions\, events\, collaborations with your caregiver\, allies\, advocates\, support and service animals. Please know that TALK BACK is an an open call for artists and organizers with disabilities.\n\nDEADLINE: MONDAY MARCH 18th\, 11:59pm\nGo to TALK BACK application HERE\, thank you! \n\nImportant TALK BACK dates to note:\nOpen Call Closes: March 18\nInstallation Dates: May 6th – 8th\nOpening Date: Thursday May 9th \nClosing Date: June 2nd  \nDeinstallation Date: June 3rd and 4th\n\nParticipants will receive a small honorarium for their work and limited access to Materials for the Arts.\n\nFlux Factory gallery and ground floor bathroom is ADA Accessible. The closest subway stations with street level elevators is Queens Plaza (E\, M\, R trains)\, and 21st Street Queensbridge (F Train). MTA Elevator and Escalator Status\n\nPlease feel free to contact curators Lexy Ho-Tai or moira williams at access@fluxfactory.org for further assistance concerning our TALK BACK Open Call and if you have accessibility questions or concerns. Thank you!\n\nTALK BACK is made possible through in-kind support from Materials for the Arts\, and supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/open-call-talk-back/
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SUMMARY:PARTY: Flux on the Floor
DESCRIPTION:Flux on the Floor: New sounds for Old Souls \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, February 28th\nDoors: 8pm\nMusic: 9pm-1am\nSuggested Donation: $5-10\nLet us know you’re coming!\nFlux Gallery\, this location is wheelchair accessible\nFlux on the Floor is a monthly dance party open to the public and featuring artists-in-residence PlayPlay and Vinyl Richie. \nEach month we will be bringing in guest musicians\, visual artists\, and other performers to create a multidimensional experience centered on dancefloor magic. \nThis February Flux on the Floor will be celebrating “New sounds for old souls”. The curator for the night will be DEW from the Flux Factory. DEW will display installations through the space. PlayPlay and Vinyl Richie will be providing the sounds for the night. Expect to hear some new styles of music\, mixed in with old vibes of yesterday.\n\n\n  \nUpcoming Dates:\nMarch 21st\n  \nPrevious Dates:\nJanuary 31st\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-on-the-floor-old-souls/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP: Embroidery with María Lulú Varona
DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOP: Embroidery with María Lulú Varona  \nSunday\, March 3rd\n1pm – 3pm\nFREE\nFlux Gallery\, this location is wheelchair accessible \nPlease tell us that you’ll be coming on Facebook \n Participants will learn the basics of embroidery\, such as skillful ways to thread a needle\, making secure knots and creating images in textiles. Once completing the workshop\, participants will have a good foundation for exploring this medium on their own. The facilitator will also lead the group through a discussion on the meditative and healing properties of these techniques\, and invite participants to share techniques from around the world.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/workshop-embroidery-with-maria-lulu-varona/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:March Flux Thursday: Organizing Against Artwashing in Queens
DESCRIPTION:March Flux Thursday\nOrganizing Against Artwashing in Queens\nMarch 14th\ndinner at 7pm\nConversation at 8pm\nSpeakers:\nJustice for All Coalition\nQueens Neighborhoods United\nPriscilla Stadler\nDenae Howard presenting on her exhibition\, “You’re Welcome”\nArtists Studio Affordability Project \nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook\nThis event will take place in the Flux Factory Kitchen\, which is NOT wheelchair accessible. If you use a wheelchair and would like to come\, please let us know. We may be able to move it to the gallery\, which is accessible. Please email: jaime.iglehart@gmail.com \n\nFlux Thursday is a monthly potluck and artists salon for people to present their work and gather together for food and socializing. The event is free\, but please do bring food or drink to share! \n\nOrganizing Against Artwashing in Queens \n\n\nArtwashing is a term used to describe a process in which artists and arts organizations are strategically used in real estate development to disguise and mask gentrification. In artwashing\, opportunities for showcasing artwork\, free or subsidized studio space or ‘pop-up’ galleries and shops are offered to artists as part of real estate expansion projects\, while simultaneously long-time residents – the overwhelming majority of which are marginalized\, working class and people of color – are displaced from their homes due to rising rents and associated landlord harassment. \n\n\nAmazon may not be moving to Long Island City (or are they?)\, but with or without a corporate behemoth moving into our midst\, the question still remains for artists and arts communities in the neighborhood: How can artists work against the grain of Artwashing and ally themselves alongside neighborhood organizations fighting against displacement? \n\nThis Flux Thursday\, we want to turn our attention towards this issue. We will have short presentations from Queens-based organizations working to fight displacement\, as well as individuals\, followed by a group discussion to encourage learning and understanding around this.  If you are engaged in a practice to fight against artwashing and gentrification and would like to present\, or would like to recommend someone who is\, please email: jaime.iglehart@gmail.com
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/march-flux-thursday-artwashing/
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SUMMARY:You're Welcome: [Not a rebuttal but conscious thoughts from us/pre-recorder sistory]
DESCRIPTION:You’re Welcome:\n[ Not a rebuttal but conscious thoughts from us/pre-precorder sistory] \nOpen Hours:\nSaturday March 16th & Sunday March 17th\n1pm – 6pm\nFlux Factory\, this location is wheelchair accessible \nFlux Thursday\nMarch 14th 7pm-10pm\nCurator Denae Howard will be speaking on the works in You’re Welcome\, during Flux Factory’s longest running potluck and art salon. \nOpening Reception + Programming\nMarch 15th 7pm-10pm \nSharing Stories. Scripts and Poetic Thoughts\nMarch 16th 4pm-6pm\nProgramming will include poetry\, found literature and performance by Sage K Howard\, Emily Waters\, Gia Shakur\, and Nzingha Tyehemba. \nYou’re Welcome features works of art by black women that attend to their discrete lived experiences while representing how we are framed by the collective contexts of our lives\, and within our own consciousness. \nFeaturing artists: Denae Howard\, Makeba Rainey\, Alexandria Antoine\, Jessica Lennay\, Ajani Russell\, Tasha Douge\, Mercy Carpenter\, Felicitia  Maynard\, Nandi Loaf\, Ronis\, Kiki Green and Isis A Swaby.  \nPlease RSVP here.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/youre-welcome/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:OPEN CALL: Wicket Leeks
DESCRIPTION:Open Call: Wicket Leeks \nDEADLINE: MONDAY\, APRIL 15TH\nPLEASE APPLY HERE \n \nJune 18th- July 16th\, 2019 (including install+ De-install–exact exhibition dates TBD) \nFlux Thursday Potluck and Presentation— July 11th\, 2019 \n Using the lenses of food and sports\, Wicket Leeks invites cooks\, athletes\, researchers\, artists\, coaches\, and makers to help investigate the unsavory histories of nationalist\, religious\, and corporate colonialism in a palatable way\, while not sugar-coating its effects\, in order to help us better digest our present and cook up a healthier future. \n The title Wicket Leeks refers to the wicket– a part of the equipment for the sport of Cricket spread by the British Empire\, and Leeks– one of the most common and ancient edible plants in the onion family. It is also in reference to WikiLeaks– the international investigative journalism non-profit. \nWe are interested in Artists\, Cooks\, Athletes\, Nutritionists\, Food Activists\, Athletic Historians\, Gardeners\, Coaches\, and any sort of cultural producer or critic that might be interested in presenting lectures\, performances\, sports practices\, traditional visual art\, sound installations\, dinner parties\, themed dance parties\, etc. for this exhibition. \nThe exhibition will have a gallery component at Flux Factory\, but we are also interested in exhibiting outside of the gallery space in such locations as: Sports Fields\, Parks\, Restaurants\, Historical Sites\, Gyms\, Kitchens\, and so on. \nCompleted works as well as not yet formalized ideas are both open to consideration. \nIf you are Queens based and / or part of an Indigenous Nation we are especially interested in your work / research / Proposal. \nAll participants will be financially compensated for their work and time. \n** All artists will be expected to install and de-install their own work unless they have contacted us specifically / are ** \nPLEASE APPLY HERE\nIf you have any questions\, please email leeks@fluxfactory.org \nFlux Factory\, This location is wheelchair accessible. Attendees are expected to adhere to our safer space policy\, which is posted throughout the space.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/open-call-wicket-leeks/
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SUMMARY:Trans-Form-Nation: Residency Exhibition by Kalon Hayward
DESCRIPTION:Trans-Form-Nation\n\nFlux Factory\, this location is wheelchair accessible\n\n \n\nMusic Video Dance Party x Flux on the Floor \nMarch 21\, 8pm – 1am\n\nFeaturing art work by Mensa Kondo\nperformance from the Artist formally known as Joe Smokes Wisdom\nHosted by BriFrei\n8pm – Music video screenings\n10pm-1am – After party\, FLUX ON THE FLOOR\nDJ Richie Rich and DJ Play Play\nSuggested Donation $10\n\n\n\nSoul Brother Circle\nMarch 24\, 12pm- 5pm\nSafe space for men of color to connect\, expand\, and heal. Drum meditation\, Tai Chi\, and sound healing.\nSuggested donation $10\nPlease RSVP to Kalon at universekhay@gmail.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKalon is a multifaceted performance Artist\, teacher\, and curator. With such influences as  D’Angelo\, Sun Ra\, OutKast\, Cee Lo green\, Erykah Badu\, and Anderson Paak. Kalon’s incorporation of movement\, soul music\, and theater to create musical theater experiences. A graduate of both the Duke Ellington school of the arts and Fordham university. Kalon has been a working artist since the age of twelve. \nHe regularly collaborates with renowned theatre artist in the New York City area. He has performed throughout the United States\, Africa\, and Europe. He earned his B.A. in theater performance from Fordham University at Lincoln Center. \nHis performance pieces have been presented at The Brooklyn Arts Exchange\, The Bronx Museum of the Arts\, and Flux Factory\, The Brooklyn Museum \nHe is an artist in Residence at Flux Factory in Long island City\, NY. Most recently\, he completed Artist Residency at Aros Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Demark\, where he premiered new solo performance work. He serves as a teaching artist and company member of F.U.S.H.A Dance Company (west and Congolese dance). He is excited to release his Cosmic Soul EP later this year.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/trans-form-nation/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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SUMMARY:Flux on the Floor: Trans-Form-Nation edition
DESCRIPTION:Flux on the Floor: Trans-Form-Nation Edition\nMarch 21\, 7:30pm- 1am \nFlux Factory\, This location is wheelchair accessible. Attendees are expected to adhere to our safer space policy\, which is posted throughout the space. \nThis month Flux on the Floor is being held in conjunction with Kalon Howard‘s show Trans-Form-Nation\, featuring music videos\, artwork\, performances\, and DJs all night in the Flux Factory Gallery. \nMusic Videos curated by Kalon to be screened at 8 pm. Performance from Artist formally known as Joe Smokes. Dance party to follow featuring resident DJs Vinyl Richie and PlayPlay. \nHosted by BriFrei\nArtwork by Mensa Kondo \n$5-10 suggested donation\, with no one\, turned away for lack of funds. \nFlux on the Floor is a monthly dance party open to the public and featuring artists- in- residence PlayPlay and DJ Vinyl Richie. Each month we will be bringing in guest musicians\, visual artists\, and other performers to create a multidimensional experience centered on dancefloor magic. \nPlease RSVP through our facebook event here
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-on-the-floor-trans-form-nation-edition/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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