Unfortunately we’re cancelling today’s program due to weather conditions ☔️ Please still check out @general_mischief_dance!! Many Open Streets will still be open today for Car Free Earth Day🚴‍♀️🚴🏽‍♂️🚴— @nyc_dot for more details! (fb)

Join us for Resisting Cultural Erasure: Sharing Black Histories of the LES and Beyond… 🗓️Thursday, February 27 6:30pm-8pm, Free 70 E 4th Street, 1st Floor 🔗 Register thru link in bio In honor of Black History Month, join us for a conversation with Immanuel Oni and Debra Jeffreys-Glass! 🪴 M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden, through an initiative led and organized by resident, educator, and LES Community Hero Debra Jeffreys-Glass, has celebrated local Black history and shared the history of the Chrystie Street African Burial Ground at its annual Juneteenth festivities since 2004​. 💡 In 2022, FAB began collaborating with Jeffreys-Glass and garden members to honor the unmarked Burial Ground. That work recently culminated in the commission and installation of HALO by artist Immanuel Oni. 🤍Immanuel Oni is a first generation Nigerian-American artist whose work explores loss, memory, and its deep connection with space. His series, ‘Beyond Memorial’, has engaged communities in Bushwick and Brownsville. Oni built a close working relationship with Jeffreys-Glass and M’Finda Kalunga Garden members over year in which he developed and refined HALO. —- FABnyc is a team of artists and organizers working to preserve, strengthen, and grow the cultural vibrancy of the Lower East Side. As an organization founded by a dozen cultural and community groups in 2001 as response to the threat of displacement from the neighborhood, we are committed to bringing artists and arts strategies to​ fight physical and cultural displacement​, build collective power and collaboration​, increase equity and access to cultural resources and public space​, and support local resiliency and community health. This program is the first in a series FAB will host over the course of 2025 on Resisting Cultural Erasure, supported by Humanities NY. 📸 by Elyse Mertz (fb)