What is the cHURCH? | cHURCH OF MONIKA: Tusia Dabrowska | Artist website | Recommended Readings November 12, 2017 11:00am Join us at the cHURCH as Tusia Dabrowska hosts and explores her work and different kinds of “work.” This is a free event. Bagels and …
What is the cHURCH? | Watch on Livestream | Facebook Event October 8, 2017 11:00am Join us at the cHURCH to participate in ritual cools the head, an interactive project by Nia I’man Smith. This event is presented in conjunction with Reimagining Tradition. This is …
What is the cHURCH? | Watch on Livestream | Facebook Event September 10, 2017 11:00am Join us for a screening of a short film and discussion with Sara Gozalo and Francis Madi about DACA. This is a free event. Bagels and coffee will be served. …
What is the cHURCH? | Livestream August 13, 2017 11:00am Join us for the an artist talk via Skype by Sana Obaid at the cHURCH OF MONIKA. Obaid will discuss her work, her current exhibit at Open Source, دیوار | De-war | Wall, and her …
What is the cHURCH? | Artist website June 11, 2017 11am Join us for a conversation and discussion with artist Leigh Davis focusing on ELEs (end-of-life experiences). This is a free event. Bagels and coffee will be served. ELEs are unusual experiences that typically occur …
What is the cHURCH? | Nia & Ness | Within May 21, 2017 11:00am This event has been postponed from 5/14 to 5/21 due to rain. Join us at the cHURCH as Nia & Ness discuss their work together and Within, their upcoming project inspired …
What is the cHURCH? | KC Crow Maddux | Facebook Event Join us for POST HUMAN ANIMAL INSTINCT / I wanna melt your gender hairs at the cHURCH OF MONIKA as KC Crow Maddux discusses their work. This is a free event. Bagels and coffee …
What is the cHURCH? | WITNESS Media Lab | Livestream March 12, 2017 11:00am Join us at the cHURCH OF MONIKA as Karen Stevenson discusses the her work with the WITNESS Media Lab and their new project, “Capturing Hate.” This is a free event. Bagels …
What is the cHURCH? | The Middle Passage | The Vanderbilt Republic | The People Movers | Livestream | Facebook Event February 12, 2017 11:00am Join us at the cHURCH OF MONIKA for Cornucopia, a discussion with the curators and artists of The Middle Passage, …
What is the cHURCH? | Livestream | Facebook Event January 15, 2016 11:00am Join us for the cHURCH OF MONIKA as Heidi Langeneckert and Nancy Shimmel host a community meeting to affirm shared values of tolerance, social and economic justice, and love for each other. …
What is the cHURCH? | Terzo Paradiso/The Third Paradise | Facebook Event | On Livestream November 6, 2016 11:00am Join us for the cHURCH OF MONIKA as we participate in Terzo Paradiso by creating our own symbol of The Third Paradise. This is a free …
What is the cHURCH? | Artist Website | Facebook Event | Livestream October 16, 2016 11:00am Join us at the cHURCH as sound artist and conceptual songwriter Sara Bouchard presents new work exploring the translation of landscape into song. This is a free event. Bagels …
cHURCH OF MONIKA: Songül Boyraz | Press Release | Facebook Event | Artist Website | What is the cHURCH? September 11, 2016 11:00am This September, artist Songül Boyraz will host the cHURCH OF MONIKA and discuss her recent project Game Over. In Yenibosna, a district …
What is the cHURCH? | Facebook Event | Livestream August 14, 2016 11:00am Join us at the cHURCH as Stacie Evans discusses her writing and her current project, Adventures in Racism. This is a free event. Bagels and coffee will be served. Stacie Evans lives …
What is the cHURCH? | play:ground website July 17, 2016 11:00am Join us at the cHURCH as members of the play:ground team discuss their work and perspective on adventure playgrounds. This is a free event. Bagels and coffee will be served. play:groundNYC is an adventure …
What is the cHURCH? | Marco Castro’s website June 12, 2016 11:00am Join us as photographer Marco Castro discusses his work at the cHURCH. Marco Castro was born and raised in México City, where the mixture of cultures gave birth to the nation that we …
May 15, 2016 11:00am At this Sunday’s cHURCH, Maria-Christina Villaseñor will invite the community to explore community spaces. The shifting demographics of Open Source’s immediate community, at the intersection of South Slope, Sunset Park, and Greenwood Heights, reflect an alarmingly ramped-up pace of gentrification and …
What is the cHURCH? | 11 Commandments of the cHURCH | cHURCH OF MONIKA: Redell Creary | On Livestream Sunday, April 10, 2016 11:00am In conjunction with our current exhibit Sole Exchange, Redell Creary will discuss his role as a peer advocate in mental health. …
What is the cHURCH? | cHURCH OF MONIKA: Ken Butler | Artist Website | On Livestream Sunday, March 13, 2016 11:00am Join us as artist and musician Ken Butler discusses his work and gives a short performance. Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose …
What is the cHURCH? | cHURCH OF MONIKA: Margrethe Aanestad | Artist Website | Facebook Event Sunday, February 21, 2016 11:00am Join us as Margrethe Aanestad, co-founder of Prosjektrom Normanns, discusses her work and the current exhibit at Open Source, Transcendental Tactility. This is a …
What is the cHURCH? | Betty Yu | Artist Website January 17, 2016 11:00am Betty Yu is a Chinese-American NYC based filmmaker, multi-media artist, media educator and longtime social justice activist. Her documentary “Resilience” about her garment worker mother fighting against sweatshop conditions, screened at …
What is the cHURCH? | Rachael Wren | Artist Website November 8, 2015 11:00am Rachael Wren’s paintings combine elements of both landscape and geometric abstraction. Join us as she discusses the evolution of her work: from representational landscape paintings to pure abstractions, and now, more …
Ethnicity/Community/Identity/Art | Panelists | Facebook Event October 18, 2015 6:00pm Artist Savas Boyraz’s work looks at Kurdish ethnic identity and community and the ways it has been disrupted by borders, wars, and government policies. His work seeks to reunite Kurdish identity and document current Kurdish experiences …
What is the cHURCH? | Shellyne Rodriguez | Artist website September 13, 2015 11:00am “Hope is a crack high. I mean that in the way that Beckett might have proposed it. Of course this implies that one might know what a “crack high” is. I …
