Join us for an Artist Discussion on the development of If This Be Sin by CRITICAL BREAKS with CRITICAL BREAKS duo Kirya Traber and Sissi Liu. Set against the sultry backdrops of Harlem Renaissance nightclubs and Old Hollywood of the 1950s, If This Be Sin is a musical work based on the life and legacy of Black queer & gender-bending creative Icon Gladys Bentley.

What does PURPLE sound like? is a multi-media installation that activates oral histories and makes visible the stories of elder communities connected to SLMDances. In its 2021 iteration, What does PURPLE sound like? captures the radical joy in a place — public housing communities in New York City — via the stories of its decades-long residents to uncover strategies of resilience, amplify cultural traditions, and shift public discourse and housing policy.

What does PURPLE sound like? is a multi-media installation that activates oral histories and makes visible the stories of elder communities connected to SLMDances. In its 2021 iteration, What does PURPLE sound like? captures the radical joy in a place — public housing communities in New York City — via the stories of its decades-long residents to uncover strategies of resilience, amplify cultural traditions, and shift public discourse and housing policy.

What does PURPLE sound like? is a multi-media installation that activates oral histories and makes visible the stories of elder communities connected to SLMDances. In its 2021 iteration, What does PURPLE sound like? captures the radical joy in a place — public housing communities in New York City — via the stories of its decades-long residents to uncover strategies of resilience, amplify cultural traditions, and shift public discourse and housing policy.

What does PURPLE sound like? is a multi-media installation that activates oral histories and makes visible the stories of elder communities connected to SLMDances. In its 2021 iteration, What does PURPLE sound like? captures the radical joy in a place — public housing communities in New York City — via the stories of its decades-long residents to uncover strategies of resilience, amplify cultural traditions, and shift public discourse and housing policy.

Join SLMDances for a Live Virtual Gallery Walkthrough of What does PURPLE sound like? Experience this multi-media installation with a behind-the-scenes commentary of the visual works, processes, and collaborations.

What does PURPLE sound like? offers audiences opportunities to engage with this work both in person and virtually. Programming includes gallery hours, live performances, and virtual walkthroughs and discussions.

What does PURPLE sound like? offers audiences opportunities to engage with this work both in person and virtually. Programming includes gallery hours, live performances, and virtual walkthroughs and discussions.

What does PURPLE sound like? offers audiences opportunities to engage with this work both in person and virtually. Programming includes gallery hours, live performances, and virtual walkthroughs and discussions.

Join Jayah Arnett, Camille Napoleon, Saundrea Coleman, and Michael Partis for a conversation around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on residents of NYCHA and how residents built networks of care and solidarity for each other. Presented in partnership with Bernard Center for Research on Women.

Join Sydnie L. Mosley, Kim Hall, Shani Peters, Ebonie Smith, Sharon Udoh, and Jules Slutsky for a virtual discussion on the What does PURPLE sound like? Moderated by SLMDances Creative Partner in Development Halima Mossi, and Hi-ARTS Curator in Residence Kirya Traber.

What does PURPLE sound like? offers audiences opportunities to engage with this work both in person and virtually. Programming includes gallery hours, live performances, and virtual walkthroughs and discussions.

What does PURPLE sound like? offers audiences opportunities to engage with this work both in person and virtually. Programming includes gallery hours, live performances, and virtual walkthroughs and discussions.

What does PURPLE sound like? offers audiences opportunities to engage with this work both in person and virtually. Programming includes gallery hours, live performances, and virtual walkthroughs and discussions.

We invite you to witness the creative process and development of (construct)Clearing with a series of daily live rehearsals, construction, documentation, dance, labor, and performance streams. Tanika and Nehemoyia will share the building of a garden flower bed and winterization of a garden as a meditation on care.

We invite you to witness the creative process and development of (construct)Clearing with a series of daily live rehearsals, construction, documentation, dance, labor, and performance streams. Tanika and Nehemoyia will share the building of a garden flower bed and winterization of a garden as a meditation on care.

Alexander Lambie is also known as Gina Cakestand, a drag persona living in the kitchen on the intersection of anime and the black experience. In Wittiness! Gina’s trial of soul as she struggles (elegantly, stylishly, lithely, and majestically) to discover not who she is, but why she would never give in to the temptation to be anything BUT who she is. Also, why is everybody eating sweet potato pie?