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Join us for our second session of Beyond Symbol: Culture + Reparations - Organizing Asheville on March 17, 4pm. Featuring Tashia Ethridge and Robert Thomas from the Racial Justice Coalition (@rjcavl) located in Asheville, North Carolina! Hear about how grassroots organizers secured city legislation formalizing a reparations process in Asheville, NC. In July 2020, national media broadcast that the Asheville City Council had approved reparations. Now there's concern that loc...al leaders are backing away from any substantive implementation. We'll be hearing from organizers from the Racial Justice Coalition on how they built support for reparations, frustrations they've encountered, ways they are mobilizing now, and how they've used culture and storytelling to organize in Asheville. http://www.fabnyc.org/reparationsnyc/ The event will also be live streamed via our Facebook page. #ReparationsNYC See more

Reparations, Culture, and Cities Wednesday, February 3 4pm Guest: Justin Hansford, Executive Director Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University... Co-hosts: Catherine Mbali Green-Johnson Executive Director, ARTs East NY Amy Andrieux Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Arts of the African Diaspora (MoCADA) Ayesha Williams Deputy Director, The Laundromat Project Jordana De La Cruz Co-Director, JACK Ryan Gilliam Executive Director, FABnyc How cultural reparations have been implemented in U.S. cities in the Southeast, and their connections, if any, to other reparation measures, as documented by the U.S. African American Redress Network.

FAB’s so pleased to be working with Ariana Allensworth and Dennis RedMoon Darkeem on two commissioned projects this spring. For the Lower East Side iteration of Staying Power, artist Ariana Allensworth (@arianafaye) will expand upon a collaborative, multidisciplinary art and research project that celebrates the people’s history of New York City public housing in the neighborhood through photography, personal collections, and interview with residents. The project offers c...ounter-narratives to the stereotypes surrounding the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) through the lens of residents raised and living in NYCHA Selected through FAB’s LES African and African-American Histories Open Call, we will work with Dennis RedMoon Darkeem (@redmoondennis) , an artist and educator of Yamassee Creek-Seminole Native American and African American descent, on a walking tour through the Lower East Side highlighting underrecognized Black and Indigenous histories in the neighborhood. We look forward to sharing more as these two artist projects develop! Photo Credit: Ariana Allensworth by Jeanette Spicer

Join us for the first public dialogue of Beyond Symbol: Culture & Reparations on Reparations, Culture, and Cities, featuring Justin Hansford, Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University. Read more about the series/upcoming events! Event all will be live streamed via Facebook Live ... Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-symbol-culture-reparati

CALLING ALL RESIDENTS OF THE LES! Interested in strengthening opportunities for LESiders to connect to, enjoy, and actively participate in local arts and culture experience? Then this is the call for you! The Lower East Side Community Culture Council is seeking new members for 2021! some great benefits: ... ~ meet and interview local cultural leaders ~ opportunities to attend cultural events in the LES ~participate in curating and producing public events ~ learn new skills in arts creation and production through occasional Council workshops ~ stipend of $50.00 for attendance and participation at each monthly meeting APPLY TODAY -- http://www.fabnyc.org/lesccc/

At FAB, we understand the importance of cultural organizing (intersection of arts and activism), make a donation today so that we may continue to support local resiliency efforts all over the LES. This year we were able to organize, coordinate, and create a toolkit for the New York Memory Project, an effort in connecting with and learning from local elders in both recorded and unrecorded interviews We want to continue to partner with artists to raise awareness and empathy, ...and promote taking action when the Lower East Side is threatened. We hope you do too. Consider making a donation today to support us in our work in honoring and celebrating the cultural diversity of the LES! Thank you for any support you can give. http://ow.ly/dh9250CBY2G

On October 3rd, groups on East 4th Street created an amazing array of pop up live performance eventsall safe and socially distanced! And we're doing it again TOMORROW, November 14th, 12-5pm. We're being joined by others beyond 4th Street (see list below). Meet up with us in front of 70 East 4th Street from 125 for brief performances by @ubwdance and DJ Yana Allpa of @cucharadepalonyc, who draws from indigenous Andean sounds. We'll also have Who Got You Though 2020?, a pu...blic shout-out & gratitude project. See what's happening by following the hashtag #morewaysthanbroadways. Participating Organizations: Chen Dance Center / H.T. Chen & Dancers| Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center | Gene Frankel Theatre | IATI Theater | La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club | Red Room | Theater for the New City| Rod Rodgers Dance Company | Urban Bush Women | WOW Café Theatre image description: Nicky Paraiso sings on the fire escape of the @lamamaetc building during 4th St. Arts ALIVE. Nicky is wearing a face shield, black pants and shirt with a blue coat. : @s.j.rphotography

OPEN ARTS LES 2020! Open Arts LES is an arts open house ten days during which our local cultural organizations invite neighbors get to know what they do and how to engage with their programs. All programs are free. Open Arts LES 2020 includes... Interviews with 50+ arts and culture leaders in the Lower East Side so you can get to know them and the organizations they lead Free online programming from theaters, museums, dance companies, and galleries - https://vimeo.com/showcase/7554766 FAB's Lower East Side Guide to Arts & Culture 2020 featuring more than 70 arts and culture organizations in the Lower East Side We hope you take a moment to explore the amazing cultural resources of the Lower East Side. Thanks to all those who participated in the interviews! http://www.fabnyc.org//Lower-East-Side-Arts-Culture-Guide-

#4thofjuly Profound gratitude for generations of Black leaders who with extraordinary determination and courage have sought to set us free. Because, as Fannie Lou Hamer said, none of us are free until all of us are free. #amazinggrace

We all have a role to play. Here's encouragement to bring your best self -- with the fierce urgency of now. #BlackLivesMatter

People's LES feature of the week! Downtown Art, GOLES & LES Ready! >> LES People Power Listen to conversations about some resistance-resilience experiences through the history of the neighborhood, thoughts and practices by members of the community and creation of the murals that are hung outside of GOLES. ... https://www.peoplesles.org/dta-goles-les-ready-les-people-/ #tbt __________________ LES PEOPLE POWER mural panels, by Raul Ayala, based on oral histories collected by Antigona Gonzalez, commissioned by Downtown Art with Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES). #LESmonth #PeoplesLES #staystrongLES #resilience #resistance

Every year we honor those who have been chosen by our community for their work in preserving the vitality of the Lower East Side. Now more than ever is a time to think of our neighbors, families, groups, and organizers who fortify our community - always, but especially during times of crisis. This year, we encourage you all to submit a recognition that honors an effort made to go above and beyond as our neighborhood navigates COVID-19. These are our Heroes Next Door. https:/.../www.peoplesles.org/heroes-next-door/ #PeoplesLES #LESmonth #staystrongLES

MAY IS LOWER EAST SIDE HISTORY MONTH! To celebrate Lower East Side History Month this year, FAB is turning its focus to the People’s LES. We are gathering narratives of community health and wellness and histories of mutual support in the neighborhood’s past. Please join us in growing our archive of stories, profiles, oral histories, and other resources. https://www.peoplesles.org/... The ongoing Lower East Side Heroes Next Door, in lieu of the LES Community Hero Awards, will honor efforts made to go above and beyond as our neighborhood navigates the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.peoplesles.org/heroes-next-door/ #LESmonth #peoplesLES #staystrongLES

Our artist open call is still accepting submissions FABnyc has launched an open call for socially-engaged artistic projects that draw attention to African and African-American histories of the LES in order to bring greater visibility to these histories in the neighborhood, better understand their legacies, and connect the past to the neighborhood today. Chosen projects will be produced and presented Fall 2020 or Spring 2021.... http://ow.ly/jgww50yQlAB

In response to the needs of independent artists, arts organizations, and other vulnerable people in our community during this pandemic, we will continuously share resources and updates, both here and on our website. One general source we have found very, very useful: https://covid19freelanceartistresource.wordpress.com/

Dear friends, we’ve all been watching the COVID-19 situation as it unfolds, and it’s abundantly clear that our city needs a chance to slow down the spread of this virus which means big changes in all of our lives. Like many others, we feel the only right option is to close our offices and our Dance Block program as well as suspend upcoming public events including NO HOUSING NO PEACE, which would have opened next week. Full refunds will be provided to cancelled Dance Block re...ntals, and NO HOUSING NO PEACE tickets can either be honored at a future performance or fully refunded. We will be working from home and available by email. We are hosting video-conferencing meetings. We’re looking at all the ways we can stay active and engaged with our community while understanding the need for social distancing to "flatten the curve." Thank you for your understanding in this stressful, strange time. We are thinking about you, your loved ones, our elders, our vulnerable, and wishing for your health and well-being. FAB Ryan, Patrick, Dakota, Imani, and Janeill <3