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Assembly Fellows premiere new plays in live readings by professional actors. Join us for a public sharing and conversation.

Taught by Critical Resistance, a space for collective learning around the prison industrial complex and the movements working to dismantle it.

Join us for Assembly’s Open Mic! Sound, story, community—drop-ins welcome.

Taught by Critical Resistance, a space for collective learning around the prison industrial complex and the movements working to dismantle it.

Swap clothes, customize your finds, and build community. Free, creative, and open to all.

A circle of creative exchanges between Assembly youths and 3 incarcerated participants from Parole Prep’s Archive-Based Creative Arts program

Join us for Assembly’s Open Mic! Sound, story, community—drop-ins welcome.

we’re honored to partner with Black & Pink for their annual Holiday Card Writing event

Current Assembly Fellows and Peer Leaders share their reflections on the year and we come together to celebrate their journeys

Browse and purchase original works, enjoy live DJs, food, skateboarding lessons, and a night of connection and joy.

Exploring the history of Bomba, a traditional Afro-Puerto Rican art form rooted in resistance

A set of musical works, sculptures, and performances working to protest against the demand of labor and productivity in the US.

a series of events, political polls, and artistic gestures chronicling events of 2020 in hindsight

A community event about community safety and abolition, highlighting the abolitionist benches and paper alchemy created at Recess Art.

Exploring Palestinian culture, history, and resilience through the lens of movement and contemporary performance.

Artist Marcela Torres and Assembly will make a series of food vessels and ask Recess community members and the public who want to attend, to bring dis

Torres in collaboration with Assembly will explore the history of New York through its soil and natural clay deposits.

a community talk + artist showcase centering and celebrating Black queer safety through joy and dance

visualization & embodiment exercises that invite us to challenge our preconceived notions, while developing a historical understanding of policing

This For Freedoms billboard campaign will culminate their series of creative programming exploring dimensions of carceral justice.

Assembly collaborated with Performance Artist Ayana Evans for C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me): A career fair for more than survival

Political Intimacy, a collaboration between Recess: Assembly and Pratt Institute students, demystifies and humanizes local electoral candidates.

The Gallatin Galleries, Assembly, with Shaun Leonardo and Peer Leaders—What role can art, the image and and performance play in abolition?