Practices of Becoming: Assembly Workshop Day

Join Assembly artists for free workshops in writing, movement, breathwork, mapping, yoga, and papermaking.
About this Event

Experience Assembly through practice.

Join Assembly artists and educators for a full day of free, hands-on workshops exploring writing, breathwork, movement, mapping, yoga, and papermaking. These are some of the creative practices that have helped shape Assembly over the past decade, offering tools for artistic growth, healing, leadership, and community building.

Participants are welcome to attend one workshop or stay for the full day.

Workshops include:

• Assembly Writing Workshop
• Liberation Breathwork
• Maps to Manifest
• Yoga
• Papermaking Workshop

All experience levels welcome.

Access Note: The gallery space at 46 Washington Avenue, where the exhibition is on view, is fully wheelchair accessible. Our restrooms are gender-neutral and ADA compliant. Please note that some public programs associated with the exhibition will take place upstairs and require one flight of stairs. If you have questions about accessibility, or would like to discuss possible accommodations, please email [email protected].

About Assembly

Founded in 2016, Assembly offers system-impacted young people aged 18-26 an inroad to art and connections to working artists, while serving as an alternative to incarceration and intersecting systems of harm and oppression. Assembly empowers young people to take charge of their own life story and envision a future through art.

About Recess

Recess partners with artists, youth, writers, and their chosen publics to create transformative cultural experiences.

Our programs welcome radical thinkers to imagine and shape networks of resilience and safety. By challenging dominant narratives and activating new forms of creative production, Recess defines and advances the possibilities of contemporary art.

Recess is free and open to the public to serve as a meeting place to generate art, ideas and actions.

Support our mission.

Agenda

🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Writing & Breathwork Workshops

Info: Assembly Writing Workshop with Clay Shakeem Floyd (2nd floor)
• Liberation Breathwork with Ian Martin (1st floor)

🕑: 01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Maps to Manifest & Yoga

Info: Maps to Manifest with Glenn Quentin (2nd floor)
• Yoga with Ian Martin (1st floor)

🕑: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Paper Making Workshop

Info: With Sara Zielinski, KT Kennedy, + Cindy Hwang from Brooklyn J*il Support, Assembly, and Artists Against Displacement (1st floor)