Judson Arts: Two people lying on a wooden floor in a performance space, observed by an audience, with a screen displaying an image above them, in black and white.

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Sunday Service
Jul
13

Sunday Service

This Sunday, in the wake of the rise of the Big Brutality-full Bill and as so many of the most endangered among us continue to be threatened by unceasing cruelty, Micah will excavate what it takes to embody “Neighbor Behavior,” in which empathy is the guiding principle and truth, urgency, and kindness combine to create the mutual aid we all desperately need.

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Life After at Film Forum
Jul
18
to Jul 24

Life After at Film Forum

LIFE AFTER (dir. Reid Davenport) is opening at NYC’s Film Forum from July 18-24.


LIFE AFTER exposes the fault line of systemic ableism and personal autonomy, challenging the idea that assisted dying always represents a free choice. Sundance award-winning filmmaker Reid Davenport asks a probing question, why is it acceptable to give disabled people the means to die, before supporting them in the chance to live?

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Gaia Collective One Day Choir
Jul
6

Gaia Collective One Day Choir

Gaia Music Collective's One-Day Choir series is an opportunity to sing in a choir for one day only. A celebration of song and the connective power of singing in harmony. An opportunity to build community, make some new friends, and raise our powerfully diverse voices as one.

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Sunday Service
Jul
6

Sunday Service

This Sunday, as we struggle to understand and respond to the continuing heartlessness and cruelty of some, Rev. Bridget will lift up the continuing legacies of intersectional movements that have thrived through radical honesty, enduring empathy, and uncompromising dedication to the most endangered among us as she encourages all of us to “Pass It On.”

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BLACK AESTHETICS: LOUDER* tall tails and black bottoms**
Jul
2

BLACK AESTHETICS: LOUDER* tall tails and black bottoms**

LOUDER*tall tails and black bottoms** is a multi-sensory celebration of the radical legacy of queer Black blues singers whose voices carved space for sensuality, resistance, and unapologetic presence. Through dance, poetry, and DJing, this performance reimagines their stories, weaving the grit and grace of the blues with the lush textures of new age R&B. LOUDER moves through sound and body to honor the erotic, the mythical, and the untamed—echoing a lineage that refuses silence and insists on being felt.

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Gaia Collective One Day Choir
Jun
29

Gaia Collective One Day Choir

Gaia Music Collective's One-Day Choir series is an opportunity to sing in a choir for one day only. A celebration of song and the connective power of singing in harmony. An opportunity to build community, make some new friends, and raise our powerfully diverse voices as one.

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Sunday Service
Jun
29

Sunday Service

This Pride Sunday, as we continue to be visited by dream-fueled wins and despair-inducing losses, Micah will invite us to lean into "Bending the Rainbow," looking to the margins to guide our next steps in our neverending quest to be the radical faith, hope, and love we wish to see in the world.

Please Note: Service will begin at our normal 11am start time, but we will not have Celebrations & Concerns so that anyone marching in the Queer Liberation March can head there immediately following service.

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Sunday Service
Jun
22

Sunday Service

This Sunday, following the Varieties of Cinematic Experience film symposium (Join us on Friday and Saturday!), SB Rodríguez-Plate will share their experiences growing up with and through the movies. How does cinema open us up to new experiences, new identities, and new intimacies, especially in a world being weaponized against empathy? How can movie-watching move us beyond plot and character, setting and cinematography, in order to become an act of modeling public intimacy that is filled with radical hope and possibilities for transformation for all?

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VCE Film Festival-Symposium
Jun
20
to Jun 22

VCE Film Festival-Symposium

FREE! From 20-22 June, the VCE film festival-symposium will bring together filmmakers, writers, religious leaders, educators, artists, and enthusiasts, raising questions about why we seek cinematic experiences, and how these experiences move beyond the screen and become embodied in communal and spiritual ways. Collectively, the group will creatively and critically examine how we receive cinematic works in community and how our environment affects the viewing experience.

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH: Daria Faïn, Kat Sotelo, Trishawna Woods
Jun
16

MOVEMENT RESEARCH: Daria Faïn, Kat Sotelo, Trishawna Woods

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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When We Free the World Screening
Jun
15

When We Free the World Screening

Join us for a screening of “When We Free the World,” in honor of Father’s Day, Juneteenth, Pride, and Men’s Health Month.

"In a time when gender, sexuality, and race are in the crosshairs of so much of our public discourse, Judson is honored to host Kevin Powell and When We Free the World to add a vibrant layer to our conversations about the many types of masculinities and how we manifest the future we all need." — Rev. Micah Bucey

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH: Juli Brandano, Maho Ogawa, Allí O Allá Project
Jun
9

MOVEMENT RESEARCH: Juli Brandano, Maho Ogawa, Allí O Allá Project

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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BaroQUEER
Jun
5

BaroQUEER

The iconoclastic Brooklyn collective ChamberQUEER teams up with Grammy-winning Boston institution the Handel and Haydn Society for BaroQUEER: Historically Informed, presented by Carnegie Hall Citywide. Co-curated by superstar countertenor Reginald Mobley and CQ cofounders Brian Mummert and Jules Biber, this concert asks: "whose histories inform the way we play and perceive Baroque music, and what would it mean to center performers’ voices and stories?" Featuring music by composers ranging from George Frideric Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully to Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw, the program celebrates queer perspectives that have shaped the early-music revival and influenced generations of boundary-breaking artists.


Free Admission - RESERVE HERE

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BLACK AESTHETICS: DARK OXYGEN
Jun
4

BLACK AESTHETICS: DARK OXYGEN

dArK oXyGen is a sonic dance exploring the spiritual connection between Blackness as a space of breathlessness and the recent discovery of oxygen production in the deep ocean without sunlight or photosynthesis. The public is invited into a dance installation that conjures breathlessness as spiritual awakening. Can we catch our breath and catch the spirit collectively in these trying times? Movement into shadows that speak and ghosts that dance fill the air. The ocean is the lungs of the earth. What would happen if the ocean couldn't breathe? What happens when the ocean whispers my ancestors names?

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH: Allí O Allá Project, Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Alexa West, Katherine Paola De La Cruz
Jun
2

MOVEMENT RESEARCH: Allí O Allá Project, Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Alexa West, Katherine Paola De La Cruz

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.

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