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Jourdan Ash, SKY LAB, Storytelling from a Visual Eye
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Upcoming Events
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Friday, October 9, 6:30pm
Join us for a staged reading of playwright Jeannie Barroga's BUFFALO'ED directed by Claro de los Reyes. The reading will be followed by a facilitated conversation by historian Michael Salgarolo and scholar Cynthia Marasigan. This event is presented in partnership with Hi-ARTS, and is a featured program within Baryo Brooklyn: a public programs series on Filipino History in Brooklyn
Buffalo Soldiers and the Philippines' is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.
Tickets: $0-$17.85
Join us in blessing our ofrenda with one another in community. The evening will begin with altar meditations curated by spiritual curator, coach, and nomad Donney, and a blessing of the altar led by Rasu Jilani, Priest of Ifa Yamoja. Janis Russel, Director of the Lafayette Inspirational Ensemble, will lead us in song, and the evening will conclude with closing remarks by Hi-ARTS Executive Director, Aaron L. McKinney.
Thursday, October 29, 2026
7pm | 10 Lafayette Avenue, FL 4
Join us on October 29 for our first [WORK IN PROCESS] of the Season! Anichi Moon’s Oceans Between Our Names explores migration, diaspora memory, and the body’s relationship to displacement through movement, sound, and paper boats — tracing how memory travels, transforms, and carries us toward home.
$5-20 | Pay what you can
In between activities, visitors are invited to mingle, meditate, pray, journal, tend to the altar, and/or participate in shrine making and marigold folding.
Join us on November 5 at 5pm at Hi-ARTS for the Closing Ceremony of The Art of Remembrance: Días de los Muertos.
As the holiday comes to a close, join us for a casual yet intimate closing and celebration of a vibrant Días de los Muertos. Fret not — the altar will still be open for visits and another round of thematic programming will follow in Spring 2027.
Join us on November 5 at 5pm at Hi-ARTS for the Closing Ceremony of The Art of Remembrance: Días de los Muertos.
As the holiday comes to a close, join us for a casual yet intimate closing and celebration of a vibrant Días de los Muertos. Fret not — the altar will still be open for visits and another round of thematic programming will follow in Spring 2027.
Residency Application season is around the corner! Join us for Pitch Prep with Robyn Ayers, a hands-on workshop for artists at any stage of their careers. In this first session, we’ll dig into the writing that helps you introduce yourself, advocate for your work, and bring your ideas to the page.
This is a two-part series! We encourage participants to sign up for both sessions, which build on one another and take your materials from first draft to submission-ready.
Tickets: $5-20 | Pay what you can
Ready to keep building? Join us for Pitch Prep with Robyn Ayers, the second session of our two-part workshop, where we’ll move from introducing your work to developing the materials that help bring your projects into focus.
In this session, we’ll dig into the writing that helps you articulate your project, communicate your creative vision, and map out your developmental process.
Tickets: $5-20 | Pay what you can
Join us on February 25 for Camille Simone Thomas’ [WIP] of Bad American! Bad American is a solo show and interactive retrospective tracing Camille’s journey from “only a few bad police officers” toward abolition — and the art she created along the way. The work asks: What makes people shift towards abolition?
DUEL is an evening-length duet that transforms conflict into a catalyst for meaning-making and connection. Using movement, spoken text, household items, and projection, the work explores the paradox of “love in tight spaces” through the lens of a queer interracial relationship. As interpersonal friction gives way to surrender and progress, DUEL asks how the love we share with one another can become a tangible source of hope for the future.
Tickets: $5-20 | Pay what you can
The Line is a solo play in which one performer embodies both a father and son — one a famed police officer and the other a passionate social justice advocate – as their relationship comes to a head during the shooting of an unarmed Black man.
Tickets: $5-20 | Pay what you can
Past events
OPEN CALL: Solo & Duo Edition
Hi-ARTS is now accepting applications for 2026-27 CRITICAL BREAKS and SKY LAB Artist Residencies. This cycle, we are on the lookout for Solo & Duo projects seeking their next big break.
Placing an emphasis on process and creative exploration, we take pride in providing our artists with financial support, time and space, and public programming opportunities. We do this through two developmental residencies: CRITICAL BREAKS and SKY LAB.
CRITICAL BREAKS is a residency program for artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new work, while SKY LAB supports artists who center community at the root of creative development, research, and process.
Hi-ARTS and Tribe present ARTIST LAB | In Practice, a movement workshop with award-winning choreographer Shamel Pitts.
Through a 6 Step Program of Artistic Practice | Creation Process, Pitts will explore the following questions:
How do these 6 steps inform the rehearsal & artistic process?
How might what is learned as an artist inform you as an administrator?
How might your Artistic Practice/Artistic Life inform your administration working style/flow within an arts organization?
Attendees should bring pen & paper, and arrive in comfortable clothing, ready to dance as he guides them into movement.
Pitts will also demonstrate how these 6 steps show up inside of the rehearsal process of Touch of RED with dance partner Channce Williams.
Hi-ARTS and TRIBE are pleased to invite you to the film screening of the dance documentary Touch of RED: RECOLLECTION.
Touch of RED: RECOLLECTION is an ethereal dance documentary following MacArthur fellow Shamel Pitts, as he embarks on a storied journey of discovery through multiple art residencies with members of his Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE. The documentary directed by Taylor Antisdel weaves together the threads of memory and experience as we witness Shamel creating his live work, Touch of RED.
Join us for the first screening of this documentary in the heart of our hometown, Brooklyn.
Complete your experience by joining our workshop with Shamel Pitts at Hi-ARTS. More details here.
Free with RSVP
Join us for a monthly dance practice rooted in Zora Neale Hurston’s sacred tools of ritual movement, folktales, and work songs.
Each month, close to the full moon, we will gather to explore the methodology at the heart of The Zora Project. We will activate the earth’s latent energy, make the mundane sacred, and practice what Zora taught us: to be both human and cosmic at the same time.
Led by SPAIR artist-in-residence Tanya Birl-Torres, we will lean into theater, somatic practices, and ritual dance to weave a story of all of us together.