Van Cortlandt Park 6142 Broadway, Bronx, NY 1047 (map)

Presented by City as Living Laboratory (CALL)

LED BY NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ RAFUL ESPEJO (NDERE)
WITH PRISCILLA MARRERO, JOHN BUTLER AND IVÁN ASÍN

Set aside some time on a Friday afternoon to disconnect from busyness and reconnect with the ecosystem you are a part of! Join us for "Growing a Green Heart", a three-hour experiential community gathering-walk-movement-drawing workshop at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, where participants are invited to become ONE with its ecosystem, and thus for us to develop deep connections with it that can lead to advocacy for our borough's green areas and for the future of Tibbetts Brook.

In this experience, participants will engage art as a transformative process, leading them back into Nature and while highlighting the personhood of rivers, trees, and fields, to name a few. "Growing a Green Heart" encompasses walking in ways that develop mindful awareness and focus; moving our minds-bodies away from technology and with our immediate surroundings, and engaging in performative exercises that seek to move participants from empathy to compassion for Nature, but also to awaken Nature within us. At the end of the session, participants will be invited to join in a plant-based meal.

We hope you’ll join us in this transformative experience….and let your heart turn green like the Park!  

This will be an in-person, socially distanced event following covid safety protocols.  Tickets are limited to allow for appropriate distancing, so while this is a free event, registration is required.

Growing a Green Heart is an experience conceived by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, combining choreography, pedagogy, and performance art, resulting in a multidisciplinary engagement to be presented with CALL, and the Bronx Council on the Arts . This project is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts.

Nicolás will be working with Argenis Apolinario and Geoffrey Jones to document this experience in photograph and video.

To RSVP click HERE / To learn more about City as Living Laboratory (CALL) click HERE

AN IMPROVISATION BY NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ RAFUL ESPEJO (NDERE) AND PRISCILLA MARRERO

To join the broadcast on IG LIVE click HERE / To watch live meet us at Van Cortlandt Park right by Tibbetts Brook. For map click HERE

Presented with The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival from CEC ArtsLink, City as Living Laboratory (CALL), Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and supported by grants from the Bronx Council on the Arts

Join Nicolas and Priscilla for a performative online experience via instagram live in Van Cortlandt Park, near the Tibbetts Brook inflow. This program will be livestreamed between 10am-11am on CALL’s instagram account. There is no need to register- simply pop into our instagram stories between 10-11am on Saturday the 23rd! Join us on IG by clicking HERE

This performance is a ‘warm up’ for our in-person workshop, the following weekend, October 30th. click HERE

To learn more about The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival organized by CEC ArtsLink click HERE / To learn more about CEC ArtsLink click HERE / To learn more about Van Cortlandt Park Alliance click HERE / to learn more about City as Living Laboratory click HERE / To learn more about Bronx Council on the Arts click HERE

The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival transforms familiar urban landscapes filling streets, courtyards, parks, and other public spaces with works of contemporary art.

Visit the CALL page for Nicolás’s participation in The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival HERE

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. He has exhibited or performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, CALL, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Nicolás has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo and MacDowell. Nicolás holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with Coco Fusco; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in 2011 he was baptized as a Bronxite; a citizen of the Bronx. Nicolás is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, a space working at the intersection of creativity and healing:www.interiorbeautysalon.com @interiorbeautysalon 

Priscilla Marrero(ella/she) is an experimental performing + teaching artista from sunny Seminole, Taino and Tequesta land, also known as Miami, Florida. She is a passionate storyteller and loves to discover new ways to collaborate with interdisciplinary artistas through live performance or filmmaking. She has performed and presented her collaborations in the Musée Dapper (Paris, FR), The Empty Circle (Brooklyn, NY), Miami Light Project (Miami, FL), Inkub8 (Miami, FL), Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church (New York, NY) y más. Priscilla has received support from grants such as Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade Community Grants, Here and Now Grant, and Gluck Fellowship Grant, MFA Graduate Fellowship, and currently the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship Award. She graduated from Florida International University with a BA in Performance and Choreography (09’) and is currently an MFA Candidate for Experimental Choreography from the University of California Riverside (22’) for her research practice on La Pelvis. Priscilla lives and works on/with Munsee Lenape land, known as Harlem, NY and often travels to Miami Beach for el mar and some familia time. https://www.priscillamarrero.com

Growing a Green Heart and all of its components are an experience conceived by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, combining choreography, pedagogy, and performance art, resulting in a multidisciplinary engagement to be presented with CALL, Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and the Bronx Council on the Arts . This project is supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts. This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the Bronx Council on the Arts. Nicolás will be working with Geoffrey Jones to document this experience in video.

Growing a Green Heart © 2019 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo 

"leave the room" #Indoor  #Virtual
Indoor Admission: $10 to $20
Online Admission: $0 to $20
Purchase Tickets  click HERE

"leave the room" is a shared evening of works by gender non-conforming, genderqueer, non-binary, womyn, and trans artists of color. It will feature works by Marble Jumbo Radio, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Jasmine Hearn and Luis Lara Malvacías / 3RD CLASS CITIZEN.

Organized and curated by trans-disciplinary artist Luis A Lara Malvacías, the evening continues the interest of this artist in presenting interdisciplinary works that stir, excite, and ask questions about social and political issues, contemporary creation, and artistic processes. In 2003 Luis A created the Latino American Dance Not Festival Project, prompted by the question What is it to be a Latin immigrant artist living and making work in New York? It has evolved into the NOT FESTIVAL project, and its interdisciplinary offerings deal with a larger range of social and aesthetic concerns. 

The title of the evening is based on a short text that Luis A wrote for the solo Me an Idiot (2016) Read at the beginning of the performances, it asks the audience to think about their position on racism, xenophobia, homophobia, sexism, and other forms of intolerance and, based on that, to decide to stay to see the show or to "leave the room". 

To learn more about Performa click HERE

The Second Annual Performa Telethon is a tribute to the radical artists of New York and the streets we all inhabit. New York City: Forever Radical embraces the televisual space pioneered by Nam June Paik, with three hours of live performances, biennial previews, and a time-travelling remix of media innovations by New York City artists. Our dynamic host for the evening is Wildcat Ebony Brown who will welcome downtown legends. My Barbarian, Lee Ranaldo and the Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners with Luciano Chessa, Narcissister, Michelle Handelman and John Kelly, as well as Vuyo Sotashe, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles and Jeanette Andrews, all joining us to help raise essential funds for future artist commissions. Join the fun—Watch incredible video material from the archives of television-art pioneer Jaime Davidovich of Cable Soho fame, and Courtney Harmel, who captured the 1980-1984 New York art and performance scene, rare footage of Mr. Fashion and Joey Arias, video works by Constance DeJong, and tributes to Barbara Ess and Gretchen Bender. Presented in collaboration with director, artist, and Broadcast Director Victoria Keddie.

Special guest Chloe Wise will want you to be ready to call in to 212-366-5700 or text PERFORMA to 44-321 to make your gift. When you pledge your donation, choose from a variety of special Telethon premiums such as editions by Ericka Beckman an dSara Cwynar, as well as rare ephemera from the Performa Vaults such as Barbara Kruger’ss kate deck, Don’t Be A Jerk,from her 2017 Performa Commission.

Your generous support means everything to the artists of the Performa 2021 Biennial and the next one. Thank you!

Performa’s three-week biennial program will be accompanied by PERFORMA RADIO: THE CITY SPEAKS, a live radio series from Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center; PERFORMA TV: FOREVER RADICAL, a program of artist projects and live, made-for-broadcast performances on the biennial website; ARTIST INTERVIEWS, twenty-minute, in-depth video conversations with each of the eight Performa 2021 Biennial artists; and LIVE STREAMING of the entire Performa 2021 Biennial, which for the first time in its sixteen-year history will be open to the public free of cost and viewable on www.performa2021.org

Tune in for additional live broadcasts from the Performa TV Studio on October 15, 20 and 27 from 7pm-10pm.

IDEAL FOR: All levels including beginners / To register click HERE

During this workshop, participants will spend time alone developing lists, notes, narratives, and simple mental sketches that might help them discover noteworthy legacies linking them to close elder relatives who have died, be it a grandmother, grandfather, godmother, or godfather, among others. All materials generated on-site will serve to bring awareness to the ways others express themselves and continue to manifest themselves past their time on Earth using language, gestures, and postures as performed by those who hold them dear in the here and now. 

Participants are invited to use original or new objects representative or reminiscent of the relatives whose contributions the participant is seeking to discover. Emphasis will be placed on performance as a channel for enacting, rehearsing, remembering, healing, forgiving and, most importantly, honoring a departed elder. 

The Elder I Hold Dear expands from the solitary to the collective exploration of one’s departed elder with the whole group. The Elder I Hold Dear relies on the potential for the performance of day-to-day life to expand one’s personal boundaries and reveal the many legacies constantly shaping one’s identity at any given time. 

Tuition:

$80.00 – covers all the expenses of the program and supports others who cannot afford to attend

$60.00 – covers most of the expenses of the program

$40.00 – covers some of the expenses of the program

Program Format:  Skill Level:  Category: 
Online Workshop. All Levels. Mindfulness, Spirituality, Compassion, Practice

To learn about Copper Beech Institute click HERE

Photo of Nicolás: Rafaelina (Dhyana) Tineo / Courtesy of Nicolás DERE / The Elder I hold Dear © 2018 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo 

Way Out #5 / Presented with Agència de Turisme Popular and Kelly Street Garden
Kelly Street Garden, Bronx, NY // Community Gardens in Vallcarca, Barcelona

Saturday, October 2, 2021, 12 PM EDT / 18 h in Barcelona

Walk and shared conversation via Zoom between community gardens in the Bronx, NY, and Vallcarca, Barcelona.

Nicolás Dumit Estévez hosts in the Bronx and Joan Bernà in Vallcarca /

We open a channel of communication, or rather an ear attuned to deep listening between the Bronx and Barcelona, involving community gardens in Vallcarca, on the European continent and Kelly Street Garden, in the South Bronx, in the Americas. For more than a year, and throughout the pandemic, Nicolás has been kindly nurtured every week by the organic produce, the beauty and the communities that he has been able to access at Kelly Street Garden. This has become a place of healing for him as well as for many of his neighbors because the Bronx, despite having one of the largest food markets in the United States, is still a food desert.

The network of community gardens in the barrio of Vallcarca is a group of spaces that have been rescued by neighbors from neglect and the greedy real estate speculation that threatens a great part of the city of Barcelona. This has resulted in a continuous effort over the years of defending and caring for each liberated space from development, to turn them into green areas for the coming together of community—gardens, vegetable plots, and urban forests reclaimed for free enjoyment and a renewed commitment with the Earth given the high density of the city.

During this encounter with Nicolás and Joan Bernà, via Zoom, we will share and exchange the generosity and regeneration that can sprout in metropolitan gardens in times of isolation. These spaces are natural doctors and remedies for the senses of the people who live around them and for the souls of these barrios. We will also engage neighbors, those who frequent these spaces, and those ultimately responsible for their creation and preservation. The idea is to listen as well to those who work in these gardens, while we witness what they do, their inspiration and their vision for the immediate future.

Kelly Street Garden / Assemblea de Vallcarca

To Register to follow the tour in person or virtually through Zoom, please send an email to Sitezise by October 1st. To send email click HERE or contact info@sitesize.net / The location of the meeting point or the link to follow the session via Zoom will be sent.

To learn more about Agència de Turisme Popular click HERE

Nicolás’s contribution to this event is presented as part of Ven-ve. Ven-ve is presented with funds as part of a regrant program awarded Kelly Street Garden by Kalliopeia Foundation, as an important part of making Kelly Street Garden a spiritual hub and cultural treasure within the Longwood/ South Bronx community. With Ven-ve, Nicolás is interested in walking as art, but also for healing, and to kindle community and links amongst communities, peoples, organizations and towns as he has done for 20 years.