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This conversation kicks off David Sánchez’s Spring 2026 residency with a retrospective on his life and career. The conversation will be led by the legendary Branford Marsalis, who produced Obsesión and Melaza, reflecting their shared commitment to artistic rigor and exploration.
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Journalists Taylin de la Caridad Jimenez Sevilla and Ana González Vila join Camila Tiburcio Rubio to discuss how reparto’s music, performance, and subcultures shape new forms of expression and belonging in Cuba and its diaspora.
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #Reparto #LaRepúblicaRepartera #NYU
A conversation exploring a groundbreaking theatrical and research initiative that reconnects tragedy, classics, and contemporary theater from the perspective of Africa and the Global South.
Guests: Mandla Mbothwe, Mark Fleishman (University of Cape Town)
#HemiEvents #ReTAGS #GlobalSouthTheatre
A conversation with the creative leaders of South Africa’s Magnet Theatre on the company’s history, contemporary work, and theatre as cultural infrastructure.
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #MagnetTheatre #SouthAfricanTheatre #DecolonialDramaturgy #Performance #ArtsInResidence #NYU
Reimagined by contemporary artists, the event honors the creative legacy of the National Black Theatre.
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NationalBlackTheatre #BarbaraAnnTeer #SoljourneyIntoTruth #Theatre #ArtsInResidence #NYU
Reimagined by contemporary artists, the event honors the creative legacy of the National Black Theatre.
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NationalBlackTheatre #BarbaraAnnTeer #SoljourneyIntoTruth #Theatre #ArtsInResidence #NYU
Visualizing Legacies and Futures reflects the historical and contemporary memory of the National Black Theatre, celebrating its ongoing legacy in shaping Black performance, art, and cultural imagination.
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NationalBlackTheatre #VisualizingLegaciesAndFutures
Presented by the National Black Theatre, the Fall 2025 Arts Institution in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute.
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NationalBlackTheatre #ReflectionsFromOurElders #BlackTheatre #ArtsInResidence #NYU
Presented by the National Black Theatre, the Fall 2025 Arts Institution in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute.
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NationalBlackTheatre #ReflectionsFromOurElders #BlackTheatre #ArtsInResidence #NYU
Visualizing Legacies and Futures reflects the historical and contemporary memory of the National Black Theatre, celebrating its ongoing legacy in shaping Black performance, art, and cultural imagination.
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NationalBlackTheatre #ArtsInResidence
A promotional graphic with a background of a damaged coastal building and debris under a cloudy sky. Text reads: “THIS WEEK. Huracán Architectures – Artist Talk and Luncheon. hemispheric.org/FA25-10.
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Join us Thursday 10/02 at 12:30 pm for Huracán Architectures: Artist Talk and Luncheon
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor
🔗 RSVP: hemispheric.org/fa25-10
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #HuracánArchitectures #RubenNatal-SanMiguel
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Convened by our Fall 2025 Artist in Residence, Charlotte Brathwait. Participants include Malick Welli, Ebony Noelle Golden, Dr. Wendell Marsh, Kamau Sadiki, and Anaïs Maviel.
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #Roundtable #CharlotteBrathwaite #Memory #Loss #Survival #ArtistInResidence
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Join us TONIGHT 09/18 @ 6 pm for “I Was There”: Stories from the Elders of the House/Ball Community
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor
🔗 RSVP: hemispheric.org/fa25-02
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #Ballroom #Pioneers
Join us 09/10 from 3-6 PM for the 20 Cooper Live! Provostial Centers and Institutes’ Open House
📍 20 Cooper Square, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th floor
🔗 For more info: bit.ly/4n3v9k4
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #20CooperSquare
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Join us Thursday, 09/18 @ 6 pm for “I Was There”: Stories from the Elders of the House/Ball Community
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/3Jgc9jR
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #Ballroom #HouseofOmni #HouseofXtravaganza #HouseofLaBeija #HouseofLaWong
We invite you to join us for an exploration of Art, Movement, and Music, curated by the Hemispheric Institute’s first Folklorist in Residence, Aissatou Bey-Bara. This conversation and community dance circle reflects on the foundational influences and creative beginnings of African performance arts. It measures the long collective impact of African dance, visual arts, music and performance in a global diaspora – an impact that informs the Afro future. Panelists Aquah Tcherbu Beale, Januwa Moja, Amaniyea Payne, and Obara Wali Rahman King will discuss the power of the drum, of embodied performance, and the visual grandeur of African regalia. The panel will be followed by a movement workshop led by Amaniyea Payne and drummer Obayana Olumide. This program is the culminating event of the series, “We Not New To This, We True To This”, curated by Archivist Camille Lawrence, at the Hemispheric Institute. Camille will moderate the event, which will be documented and preserved in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL).
Join us Friday, 5/2 @ 6pm for “An Elders’ Gathering & African Dance Circle: The History & Humble Beginnings of Afrofuturism from a Sankofa Lens”
📍 Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St, Brooklyn – Multipurpose Room
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/3EtkpLl
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #Sankofa
“Huracán Architectures” is a new exhibition by Puerto Rican photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel. For almost a decade, Natal-San Miguel has situated his practice at the intersection of the island’s devastating financial crisis and the deterioration and disappearance of its vernacular architecture as a result of neglect, mass migration, and the catastrophic weather events that define climate change in the region.
Join us Thursday, 5/1 @ 5pm for “Huracán Architectures” – A Photography Exhibition by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Curated by Lisa Paravisini-Gebert
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/42teVcH
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #PuertoRico #ClimateChange
The “Hurricane Worlds: Extinctions and Futures” symposium will consider the forms of life that hurricanes decimate, what they inaugurate, the human and non-human displacements they produce, and how hurricane worlds augur the future of the planet. The event is part of “Hurricane Worlds,” a multi-year initiative led by Institute Director Ana Dopico that seeks to gather the epistemologies, world-making, and art-making of people who live and have lived in hurricane worlds.
Join us Thursday, 5/1 @ 10am for “Hurricane Worlds: Extinctions and Futures Symposium”
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor — Conference Space
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/3GdD1PW
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #HurricaneWorlds #Hurricanes #CrisisCapitalism #CommunalArchives
Join us tomorrow, 4/10 @ 7pm for “Blackface in Conversation: Racial Geographies and Transatlantic Entanglements”
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor — Conference Space
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4l1pJpH
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #Blackface #SilviaAlbertSopale
Join us tomorrow, 4/2 @ 6pm for “Parranda con Paranda: Women’s Voices from Puerto Rican and Garífuna Music Traditions”
📍 Bronx Music Hall – 438 East 163rd Street, Bronx, NY
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4aj3RRq
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #PuertoRico #Garifuna #AfroCaribbean #GarifunaMusic
This year marks 200 years since France imposed an independence ransom on Haiti–which the country spent more than 100 years paying off–that has long grounded the country’s claim to reparations. At the same time, there is increasing recognition globally that colonialism and slavery have shaped the unequal, racist, and unjust impacts of the climate crisis in Haiti, the Caribbean, and around the world. Speakers will address how the unjust impacts of climate change–as outlined in the Global Justice Clinic and The Promise Institute for Human Rights’ recent report, Bay Kou Bliye, Pote Mak Sonje: Climate Injustice in Haiti and the Case for Reparations–may connect to and reinforce demands for reparations for colonialism, slavery, and ongoing racial injustice. They will also examine the possibilities and limitations of international law to advance reparations claims.
Join us today, 3/13 @ 5:30pm for “Movements for Reparations: Racial Justice, Climate Justice, and the Case of Haiti”
📍 NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South – Snow Dining Room, Vanderbilt Hall
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4hl8DQk
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #Haiti #ClimateJustice #RacialJustice
Join us for “Women’s Voices in the NYC Afro-Puerto Rican Musical Renaissance”! This event will feature women who were part of the early bomba and plena scene in New York City before the emergence of Los Pleneros de la 21, and women who were inspired by this East Harlem-based ensemble to form all-women groups. It is part of the Pleneros de la 21 Oral History Project, and is directed by Elena Martínez, 2025 Folklorist in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute.
Join us tomorrow, 2/27 @ 6pm for “Women’s Voices in the NYC Afro-Puerto Rican Musical Renaissance”
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor — Conference Space
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4jaxc4C
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #BombayPlena #AfroPuertoRican #LosPleneros #PuertoRico
This event will feature women who were part of the early bomba and plena scene in New York City before the emergence of Los Pleneros de la 21, and women who were inspired by this East Harlem-based ensemble to form all-women groups. It is part of the Pleneros de la 21 Oral History Project, and is directed by Elena Martínez, 2025 Folklorist in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute.
Join us Thursday, 2/27 @ 6pm for “Women’s Voices in the NYC Afro-Puerto Rican Musical Renaissance”
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor — Conference Space
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4jaxc4C
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #BombayPlena #AfroPuertoRican #LosPleneros #PuertoRico
It’s About “The Movement,” Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture
We invite you to join us for “It’s About ‘The Movement,’ Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture.” This conversation will bring together key figures, trailblazers, and artists to take a deep dive into the origins, migrations, and evolution of African folkloric dance and music in the West. 2025 Mellon Folklorist in Residence Aissatou Bey Bara will lead us in a dialogue with elders through a Sankofa lens by honoring the past, celebrating the present, and mapping the future.
Tomorrow, February 6th 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join us tomorrow, 2/6 @ 6pm for “It’s About ‘The Movement,’ Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture”
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor Conference Space
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4hdnNHN
🔗 Zoom: bit.ly/4ast3oL
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #AfroFuture
It’s About “The Movement,” Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture
February 6 2025 at 6:00 PM
We invite you to join us for “It’s About ‘The Movement,’ Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture.” This conversation will bring together key figures, trailblazers, and artists to take a deep dive into the origins, migrations, and evolution of African folkloric dance and music in the West. 2025 Mellon Folklorist in Residence Aissatou Bey Bara will lead us in a dialogue with elders through a Sankofa lens by honoring the past, celebrating the present, and mapping the future.
Join us this Thursday, 2/6 @ 6pm for “It’s About ‘The Movement,’ Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture”
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor — Conference Space
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4hdnNHN
🔗 Register for Zoom: bit.ly/4ast3oL
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU
It’s About “The Movement,” Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture
February 6th 2025 at 6:00 PM
We invite you to join us for “It’s About ‘The Movement,’ Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture.” This conversation will bring together key figures, trailblazers, and artists to take a deep dive into the origins, migrations, and evolution of African folkloric dance and music in the West. 2025 Mellon Folklorist in Residence, Aissatou Bey Bara, will lead us in a dialogue with elders through a Sankofa lens by honoring the past, celebrating the present, and mapping the future.
Join us Thursday, 2/6 @ 6pm for “It’s About ‘The Movement,’ Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture”
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor Conference Space
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4hdnNHN
🔗 Register for Zoom: bit.ly/4ast3oL
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #Sankofa
Join us for a night of music, performance, and memories as we commemorate 45 years of Omnipotence, Ovahness, & Opulence. Get ready to move and groove while rubbing shoulders with Ballroom Legends, LGBTQIA+ organization executives, and KiKi Houses making their name on the scene. This event is a celebration of a rich history, honoring House of Ultra Omni founder and Diamond Pioneer Icon Kevin Omni Burrus. See you at the Ball!
Join us tomorrow, 12/14 @ 7:30 pm for The House of Ultra Omni 45th Anniversary Celebration!
📍 The Ivory on Park – 12 Park Street, Brooklyn, New York City 11206
🔗 To get a free ticket, visit: bit.ly/4g8Qohf
#HemisphericInstitute #NYU #HemiEvents #Ballroom #UltraOmni #BallroomHistory #LGBTQIA
Join us for a night of music, performance, and memories as we commemorate 45 years of Omnipotence, Ovahness, & Opulence. Get ready to move and groove while rubbing shoulders with Ballroom Legends, LGBTQIA+ organization executives, and KiKi Houses making their name on the scene. This event is a celebration of a rich history, honoring House of Ultra Omni founder and Diamond Pioneer Icon Kevin Omni Burrus. See you at the Ball!
Join us on Saturday, 12/14 @ 7:30 pm for The House of Ultra Omni 45th Anniversary Celebration!
📍 The Ivory on Park – 12 Park Street, Brooklyn, New York City 11206
🔗 To get a free ticket, visit: bit.ly/4g8Qohf
#HemisphericInstitute #NYU #HemiEvents #Ballroom #UltraOmni #BallroomHistory #LGBTQIA
Racial Profiling & Mass Deportations: Perspectives from the Dominican Republic & Haiti
Tuesday, December 10th 3:30 PM EST
On October 2nd, 2024, the Dominican Republic announced that it would drastically increase deportations to Haiti with a target of deporting 10,000 people each week. By the end of the campaign’s first month, Dominican authorities reported that over 60,000 had been repatriated to Haiti. On International Human Rights Day, join NYU Law’s Global Justice Clinic, Edwidge Danticat, Dominican and Haitian activists, and the Hemispheric Network for Haitian Migrants’ Rights for a webinar discussing the human rights violations resulting from this deportation campaign and actions to address the ongoing harms.
Join us today, 12/10 @ 3:30 pm for “Racial Profiling & Mass Deportations: Perspectives from the Dominican Republic & Haiti”
📍 Virtual Event
🔗 Register: bit.ly/3BbecSt
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #Haiti #DominicanRepublic #InternationalHumanRights #HaitianRights #Deportation
“Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective”: Book Launch Party
Monday, December 9th at 5:00 PM
Join us for a book launch party for “Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating Performance Archives,” celebrating the first-ever retrospective exhibition of performance art icon Jess Dobkin. This book reflects on the internationally acclaimed artist’s playful and provocative practice as performer, curator, and community activist and asks: How do archives perform? With a riot of full-color photographs, “Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective” provides unparalleled access to Dobkin’s artistic process and production from the last thirty years.
Join us tonight, 12/9 @ 5 pm for the “Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective”: Book Launch Party
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor – Conference Space
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/3AQ5rx5
#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #PerformanceArt #Archives #Activism #BookLaunch
