On Tuesday, November 9th, we gathered for Storytelling in Crisis, a virtual community dialogue exploreing strategies for crafting storytelling responses that center care and connection, amplify resistance, and support resiliency.
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A self-guided walking tour that celebrates local businesses and community groups involved in mutual aid work during the pandemic.
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On April 12, 2021, NOCD-NY and Arts & Democracy co-presented a peer learning exchange about how stories, narrative and cultural power can help create a just and liberatory vision for the future
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On November 16, NOCD-NY hosted a Mutual Aid + Culture Peer Learning Exchange that explored mutual aid, community culture and solidarity practices across New York City.
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On Oct 9, 2020. NOCD-NY, Arts & Democracy, and The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture convened for Activating the Cultural Power of a Movement. Participants shared resources during the non partisan event. Photo: El Puente Global Justice Institute
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On April 17, 2020, a network of artists, activists and community members gathered online to exchange stories and resources on the theme of Arts and Climate Justice.
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For our first Peer Learning Exchange in 2020, we convened friends and colleagues for a discussion of Community Culture and Activism. The January 16th event was inspired by ACTIVIST ESTATE: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida.
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On July 13, 2019, artists, cultural workers, small businesses and city agency staff came together in East New York for our Peer Learning Exchange: Cultural Marketplaces and Entrepreneurship, discussing the values behind community-based markets and cultural entrepreneurship and the conditions needed for them to thrive.
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On March 14, 2019, No Longer Empty, Arts & Democracy, and NOCD-NY hosted Above and Beyond Borders, a webinar with artists and cultural organizers from Chicago, IL, Douglas, AZ and New York, NY who are actively working to envision a life of dignity for immigrants, detainees and prisoners, and individuals who have been violated and rendered invisible.
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On Thurs, March 28th, 2019, NOCD-NY and Arts & Democracy hosted a Walking the Talk webinar on different approaches to grounding equity commitments through training, program design, and day-to-day practices…
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In March 2019, NOCD-NY partnered with A Blade of Grass to co-host Creative Collaborations with City Government, a peer learning exchange and discussion about the diverse ways arts and cultural groups can intersect with city government
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by Charlie Vazquez, Arts Innovation Consultant, charlievazquez.com
Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY (NOCD-NY) organized a Peer Learning Exchange: Cultural Hubs and Community Anchors–hosted by THE POINT CDC in Hunts Point, Bronx–on Friday, October 26, 2018.
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Every year, NOCD-NY partners with The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) and arts organizations across the city to bring an Undestanding & Undoing Racism/Cultural Organizing training to a network of artists, neighborhood leaders and cultural workers.
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On Sept 12, 2018, Raquel de Anda (No Longer Empty), Abou Farman (Art Space Sanctuary) and NOCD-NY invited a core group of allies to come together at Downtown Art to explore what arts and cultural organizations and organizers might be able and willing to do to support immigration rights.
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On Monday, April 9, 2018, a group of our core members, partners and allies converged to learn about the exercise of power mapping.
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by Addison Vawters
Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc)
On November 8th, 2017, the NOCD-NY network and partners kick started a series of thematic “peer learning exchanges.” The focus of the evening was the role of artists and cultural organizations in helping to address the challenging conditions that immigrant communities face in today’s hostile political climate.
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On Monday, August 11, we held a Spacing Out event to celebrate the release of seven reports from our profile series, Innovative Cultural Uses of Urban Space.
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