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SUMMARY:Opening • Maureen Catbagan: Alagaan ang Salaysáy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception of Alagaan ang Salaysáy (Take Care of the Story)\, a solo exhibition by artist Maureen Catbagan. The artist’s new project honors Filipino nurses in Queens\, Brooklyn\, and New York City. Drawing on the migration story sparked by the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the 1970s nurse recruitment drives\, Catbagan gathers oral histories from a community whose work has sustained the city’s healthcare system for decades. The words tita (aunt)\, ate (sister)\, and kuya (brother) recur—titles of care and respect that transcend bloodlines. Visitors are invited to read these stories vocally\, transforming each into what Catbagan calls “a living monument of care.” In doing so\, the exhibition turns listening into an act of devotion\, infusing nurses’ labor into cultural memory. \n\n\n\nOpening: October 4\, 6:00 – 9:00 PM at Flux IV7:00 Opening remarks7:30 Performance by Cordillera Cultural Ensemble (CCE)7:45 Performance by Kinding Sindaw \n\n\n\nKinding Sindaw  is a non for profit theater and dance theater established in 1992 and based in NYC that presents repertoire from living tradition and intangible cultural heritage of the Mindanao\, Southern Philippines through performances\, dance\, storytelling\, kulintang music ensemble and silat martial art. We are Honoring the Indigenous and Sultanate Bangsamoro and those in diaspora. Kinding Sindaw is non for profit\, AAPI / BIPOC lead and membership. Founded by Artistic Director Potri Ranka Manis\, a Meranao Bai Labi in diaspora in 1992.  \n\n\n\nCordillera Cultural Ensemble is an ethnic group representing the Igorot people of the Cordillera Administrative Region in the Northern Philippines\, primarily based in New York and other states. Our mission is to preserve and promote our indigenous culture and history through traditional dances\, songs\, and other cultural performances celebrating friendship\, courtship\, and other ethnic festivities\, in collaboration with government and non-government organizations.  \n\n\n\nImage: Maureen Catbagan\, Alagaan ang Salaysay: Potri Ranka Manis (video still)\, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/opening-maureen-catbagan-alagaan-ang-salaysay/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Opening • Xyza Cruz Bacani: The Diaspora is Home
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception of The Diaspora is Home\, a solo exhibition by Xyza Cruz Bacani. This exhibition presents photographs of the Asian American diaspora\, from portraits in living rooms to scenes of community gatherings\, food traditions\, and religious practices. Installed within a living room environment\, Bacani’s work evokes belonging and cultural continuity\, transforming the gallery into a space of warmth\, reflection\, and collective memory. The opening reception on Saturday\, October 4 is accompanied by the presence of community members who appear in the photographs\, sharing food they have prepared\, and a tea demonstration by Anna Ye. \n\n\n\nOpening: October 4\, 6:00 – 9:00 PM at Flux IV6:30 Sushi demonstration by Chef Tab7:00 Opening remarks7:15 Tea demonstration by Anna Ye
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/xyza-cruz-bacani-the-diaspora-is-home-opening/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Panel • Historias Entrecruzadas: In the Dome
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Historias Entrecruzadas: In the Dome with artists Natalia Nakazawa\, dre jácome\, and Matt Mottel. Moderated by Flux Factory’s Curator & Exhibitions Director Meghana Karnik\, this conversation addresses the importance of telling our own stories in three perspectives rooted in social architecture\, oral history\, and community organizing. As more people live under threat of deportation and organized abandonment — what crucial learnings have arisen through the artists’ participatory projects? \n\n\n\nNatalia Nakazawa engages people in creating spaces of resistance through collective map making experiences\, recording oral histories\, and 3D scanning objects through Our Stories of Migration. She is a Socrates Sculpture Park 2025 Artist Fellow. \n\n\n\ndre jácome’s interactive storytelling installation\, Earthseed\, weaves together land-based\, Indigenous\, and contemporary technologies — inspired by temazcal ceremonies\, ecological design\, and the survival cosmologies envisioned in Octavia Butler’s Parable series. Modeled after the protective form of the pinecone\, which opens and closes in response to its environment\, Earthseed encodes intimate stories of survival onto seedlight sculptures\, functioning as an emergent archive that reveals itself only through chosen protocols of entry. She is a 2025 Rhizome Fellow at Flux Factory. \n\n\n\nMatthew Mottel builds geodesic domes as a performance architecture\, based on Syeus Mottel’s (father) 1970’s photojournalism of Loisaida cultural organization CHARAS\, who built geodesic domes in collaboration with Buckminster Fuller. This event is hosted in partnership with the 2025 Socrates Annual: Up/Rooted. Light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nAbout the Panelists\n\n\n\nNatalia Nakazawa (b. 1982\, Charlotte\, NC) is a Queens-based interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work spans painting\, textiles\, and social practice. As a child of Latin American (Uruguayan) and Asian (Japanese American\, Yonsei) diasporas\, she draws on complex cultural legacies to explore identity\, migration\, and storytelling. Through collaborative\, community-driven projects\, Nakazawa blurs the boundaries between education\, activism\, and art\, inviting collective participation. Her jacquard textiles incorporate images from open-access museum collections\, often highlighting historical moments of cultural exchange. These works serve as tactile archives; places to critically engage with memory. https://www.natalianakazawa.com/ \n\n\n\ndre jácome (b. 1992\, Atlanta GA) is a transdisciplinary storyteller weaving across land-based and digital technologies. as a child of the andes mountains\, magdelena river\, and georgia red clay\, she has been a lifelong student studying the subversive healing technologies found on the land and body. inspired by magical realism and the survival arts of everyday living\, her work aims to oppose and propose experimental counter archives that honor and defend BIPOC intimate knowledge systems held in story\, nature\, and recovering cosmologies. with her background as a herbalist\, historian\, and cultural organizer\, she grounds her projects with relational methods including archival research\, oral history\, critical ethnobotany\, and partnerships with community organizations and chosen family. her work has appeared at Lincoln Center\, Smack Mellon\, and MOCADA Abolition House. she received a BA in History & Latin American Studies from Swarthmore College\, and a MS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. https://www.drerenate.xyz/ \n\n\n\nMatt Mottel (born 1981\, New York\, NY) is an artist\, performer\, and writer whose work enlivens primary source materials and creates collaborative projects that open access to subterranean culture. Social activism and cultural community run throughout his performances\, videos\, sculptures\, and music. Rooted in his New York upbringing\, Mottel holds a B.A. in Political & Cultural Studies from SUNY New Paltz (2003) and an M.F.A. in Digital Intermedia Art Practice from City College (2019). His projects have been presented internationally\, including a co-improviser residency in Moers\, Germany (2021)\, and the solo exhibition burnt truth at Gundula Gruber Gallery in Vienna (2021). He was an SPCUNY Fellow in 2022–2023. In 2024\, Mottel co-founded Parents in the Avant Garde with his wife\, artist and educator Nicole Lattuca. The collective makes intergenerational art and music with parents and children\, with performances at The Stone (April 2024) and in Newburgh\, NY. In summer 2025\, they were educators-in-residence at Catskill Arts Space\, where they developed Scribble Scores\, an ongoing project exploring collaborative mark-making as graphic scores for sound and music performance. https://www.mattmottel.info/ \n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks: Themes discussed in this panel were developed in dialogue with The Clemente as part of Historias\, a citywide program charting the impact of Latinx communities on NYC. \n\n\n\nImage: From a Village Preservation event at The Loisaida Center titled\, “Chino Garcia Oral History and Screening of CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Earth\,” 2018 (detail). Source link. CC BY-SA 2.0.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/historias-entrecruzadas-in-the-dome/
LOCATION:Socrates Sculpture Park\, 32-01 Vernon Blvd\, Queens\, New York\, 11106
CATEGORIES:Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Block Printing Workshop with Sunaina Bhalla
DESCRIPTION:Open to all beginners\, learn how to print using traditional Indian carved wood blocks to create your own unique works of art. Led by artist Sunaina Bhalla\, the workshop will begin with a brief history on wood block printing traditions in India and China\, with demonstrations of different methods of block printing. Choose from over 100 motifs to practice on paper\, and bring home your own tote bag with your printed designs. Participants are encouraged to bring additional materials and clothes from home they would like to print on!Workshop LeaderSunaina is a contemporary artist of Indian origin\, living in Singapore. Educated in India\, she moved to Tokyo in the late 90’s and has spent the last two decades in various parts of North and South Asia. Having completed her formal education as a textile designer specializing in print\, she chose to pursue an immersive education in the traditional art form of Nihonga in Japan\, where she spent 5 years studying under Suiko Ohta-sensei of the Kyoshin-Do school. She completed her Masters of Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths University\, London and Lasalle College of the Arts\, where her thesis topic was ‘The Gesture and the Ritual of Pain’.Her work revolves around the repetitive and ritualistic nature of gestures and their traces. She explores the transformative effects of the deliberate infliction of pain on the human body during the curative process of alleviating disease and decay. By using materials analogous to the fragile nature of the body\, juxtaposed with photography\, fabric and embroidery\, she examines the passage of time and the mark making that documents this process. Some of the materials used are blood test strips\, gauze bandages and suture needles. \n\n\n\nUsing her personal experiences as a Breast cancer survivor and a caregiver to her daughter with Type 1 Diabetes\, she documents the journey of trauma and relief through gestures as a visual language. Sunaina has exhibited in Japan\, India\, Singapore\, Europe and the Middle East. Her works are in the permanent collections of the ESSL Museum\, Vienna and Mumbai Airports Authority\, India\, and in various private collections globally. She also runs wood block printing workshops regularly in Singapore\, Myanmar\, Indonesia\, USA and Australia.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/block-printing-workshop-with-sunaina-bhalla/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Flux Factory 2025 Art Auction
DESCRIPTION:At 55 Suffolk Street\, Manhattan \n\n\n\nPurchase Your Gala Tickets NoworPreview and Bid Online Now in our Silent Art Auction \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlux Factory’s Art Auction is back! The auction featuring over 50 artworks from Flux’s community will launch online on October 9 and culminate in a Gala on Thursday October 23. \n\n\n\nThe Online Auction is Now Live. Bid Today! \n\n\n\nWe’re excited to return for a second year to 55 Suffolk where you can enjoy the lovely rooftop view of downtown Manhattan with a catered open bar\, gathering 150 of Flux’s supporters\, artists and community members. This annual fundraiser makes Flux’s free public programs and affordable artist residency possible. \n\n\n\nAuction Artists \n\n\n\nAlex Nathanson | Alexa Hatanaka | Aliya Bonar | Allen Frame | Amelia Marzec | Amir Badawi | Angela Washko | Bahareh Khoshooee | Ben Galaday | Bhasha Chakrabarti | Cameron Granger | Candace Jensen | Caroline Woolard | Catalina Alvarez | Cayla Lockwood | Claudia Cortinez | Dana Sherwood | Danny Crump | Doug Paulson | Eboni Olivia Louigarde | Ellen Harvey | Farrah Karapetian | Flux Iron Chefs (Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez\, Lena Hawkins\, Sarah Dahlinger\, Will Owen\, and Aliya Bonar) | Gino Romero | Greg Stewart | Jean Shin | Jevijoe Vitug | Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow | Joshua Goode | Joyce Yu-Jean Lee | Kendal Henry | Li-Ming Hu | Mark Dion | Maureen Catbagan | Melanie Delach | Melissa Joseph | Naeem Mohaiemen | Natalia Nakazawa | N.D. Austin | Patrick Costello | Petr Shvetsov | Rebecca Forstater | Roopa Vasudevan | Sally Beauti Twin | Sara Jimenez | Sarah Dahlinger | Space Invader | sTo Len | Swoon | Tod Seelie | Vadis Turner | Walker Tufts | Wieteke Heldens \n\n\n\nAbout our Guests of Honor: \n\n\n\nWe are proud to honor Jean Shin and Shaun Leonardo for their visionary work in NYC’s cultural landscape. \n\n\n\nShaun Leonardo recently returned as Co-Director to Socrates Sculpture Park\, a place where he had previously spent a decade in various positions. Shaun’s humorous energy embodies the Park’s spirit of presenting ambitious public sculptures in an accessible\, prolific green space. An active and widely exhibited artist\, Leonardo’s work critiques conventional masculinity by absurdly exaggerating depictions of sports and masculinity in performances and multimedia. His work has been featured at the Brooklyn Museum\, Walker Art Center and LACMA\, among many others. \n\n\n\nJean Shin creates sprawling installations transforming accumulations of discarded objects into powerful monuments that interrogate our complex relationship with material consumption. Her notoriety exploded with a 2004 MoMA Solo Exhibition and she has since exhibited in over 150 museums. Jean serves as a faculty member at Pratt and on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation. \n\n\n\n2025 Auction Committee and Lead Donors \n\n\n\nMelissa Joseph\, Auction Chair | Jean Barberis | Tom Finkelpearl | Kendal Henry | Elana Herzog | Grace Hong | Houda Lazrak | Jane Lombard | Esen Karol | Natalia Nakazawa | Carla Nicdao | Jake Pratt | Nirmal Singh | Sallie Sanders | Eugenie Tsai | Walker Tufts\, Auction Coordinator | Lilly Wei | Sarah Weitlauf | Anonymous Donors \n\n\n\nYour involvement to make the gala a success is sincerely appreciated. To join the Auction & Gala Committee or sponsor the event\, please contact Gala Coordinator Walker Tufts at walker@fluxfactory.org \n\n\n\nThank you to our Sponsors
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-auction-2025/
LOCATION:The Suffolk\, 55 Suffolk Street
CATEGORIES:Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Closing • FILAM Fashion Show & Artist-Led Exhibition Tours
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the second-to-last weekend our current exhibitions\, Xyza Cruz Bacani: The Diaspora is Home and Maureen Catbagan: Alagaan ang Salaysáy\, closing November 2. On October 26\, Xyza Cruz Bacani and Maureen Catbagan will lead walkthroughs of the current shows\, followed by a fashion show by ParadoxVestedRelics\, accompanied by the electronic rock duo Turbo Goth.  \n\n\n\nFilipino baked goods and snacks will be served\, sponsored by Arellano Pandesal and we will be joined by community organizations Chhaya\, Filipino-American National Historical Society\, and Ascend Applied Behavioral Analysis. \n\n\n\n3:00 – 3:30 pm — Tour with Xyza Cruz Bacani \n\n\n\n3:30 – 4:00 pm — Tour with Maureen Catbagan \n\n\n\n4:00 – 4:30 pm — Fashion Show by ParadoxVestedRelics (PVR)PVR’s fashion manifestos propose a complete wardrobe of 12 looks\, in theory one per month of the year\, to complete a theme or concept. Our 18th manifesto\, titled FILAM\, unite Filipino and American cultural parallels and paradoxes through flashbacks of a nomadic childhood in the US\, an adolescence in Manila\, and adulthood in NYC. We present 12 looks that are familiar yet peculiar\, sacred yet universal\, and stem from personal experience. You’ll meet lola\, manong\, my classmate\, the nurse\, Carrie\, and the Manananggal\, among others. \n\n\n\nParadoxVestedRelics is a brother-sister duo (Paolo and Rina Raymundo) whose interdisciplinary approach to a prolific range of creative projects have amused and intrigued\, flying under the radar since their return to NYC via Manila in 2002. Rina’s experience in the entertainment industry and Paolo’s background in fashion have led to an art installation at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and video art shown at Boston Center for the Arts. Paolo encourages community building as a co-host of swap meets\, free events\, technical workshops and art performances at Vers::clothing for people. With a motley crew of contributors\, PVR has combined fashion\, film\, photography\, performance\, and music to produce work that explores identity\, function\, and the sociology of youth and sub cultures through a Filipino-American lens. They are always excited for new applications to bridge extremes by finding understanding in cultural parallels through fashion\, craft\, and art.Turbo Goth is a NYC based\, electronic rock duo from the Philippines. Formed in 2008\, Turbo Goth is composed of Sarah Gaugler (on lead vocals) and Paolo Peralta (on guitar/electronic sampler)\, they were originally the only electronic rock duo in the Philippines at the time. Turbo Goth’s music is semi-experimental electronic music with distorted bass synths backed by aggressive heavy beats\, and guitars\, stitched together by light vocals. Turbo Goth has had numerous performances in the Philippines and at Music Festivals in Asia\, but after their show at South by Southwest in 2014\, they decided to relocate\, for a broader audience\, finding a new home in New York by the end of that year. Turbo Goth’s notable international performances are 2011 Baybeats Music Festival in Singapore\, 2012 CAMA Festival in Hanoi Vietnam\, TURBO GOTH opens for OMD”History Of Modern” Manila 2012 at the Araneta Coliseum. 2014 South by Southwest in Austin Texas\, 2015 CMJ Music Marathon in Brooklyn New York\, 2016 Move Music Festival in Albany New\, 2016 Northside Music Festival Brooklyn New York\, 2016 Indie Week Toronto Canada and SXSW 2017\, 2019 Official Showcasing Artist. 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/closing-event-pop-up-fashion-show-artist-led-exhibition-tours/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
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