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We connect artists, scholars, and activists from across the Americas. Focusing on social justice, we research politically engaged performance and amplify it through gatherings, courses, publications, archives, and events. → hemisphericinstitute.org
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Join us Thursday, 12/11 @ 12:30 PM for “Ustedes No Son Reparteros Na’.”

This conversation introduces reparto, a vibrant Cuban genre blending traditional sounds with hip-hop and reggaeton.

📍 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
🔗 hemispheric.org/fa25-12
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December 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Join us Thursday, 12/4 @ 5 PM for “Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South Project (ReTAGS)”.

📍 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
🕔 5 PM
🔗 RSVP: hemispheric.org/fa25-09
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November 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Join us Tuesday, 12/2 @ 6 PM for “Subterranean Infrastructures and (de)Colonial Dramaturgies in the Work of Magnet Theatre”.

📍 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
🕕 6 PM
🔗 RSVP: hemispheric.org/fa25-08
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November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Join us Thursday, 11/20 @ 7 PM for “Soljourney Into Truth: Staging the Unpublished Manuscript” — a staged reading reviving Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s visionary work, last performed in 1979.

📍 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
🕖 7 PM
🔗 RSVP: hemispheric.org/fa25-07
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Join us Thursday, 11/13 @ 5 PM for “Visualizing Legacies and Futures” — an exhibition by The National Black Theatre, the Fall 2025 Arts Institution in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute.

📍 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor Gallery Space
🕔 Opening Reception: 5–8 PM
🔗 RSVP: hemispheric.org/fa25-05
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November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Join us Thursday, 11/13 @ 6 PM for “National Black Theatre: Reflections from our Elders” — an intergenerational conversation honoring the artists, organizers, and cultural workers who laid the foundation for Black theatre.

📍 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
🕕 6–8 PM
🔗 RSVP: hemispheric.org/fa25-06
Text reads “Next Week — National Black Theatre: Reflections from our Elders — hemispheric.org/fa25-06.” Background shows a vintage photo of Black performers in Afrocentric attire holding drums and flags, smiling and dancing onstage. Text reads “Next Week — Thursday, November 13, 6:00 PM.” Background shows a performer in mid-movement with others behind them, dressed in traditional garments and bathed in warm brown tones. Text reads “This intergenerational conversation honors the artists, organizers, and cultural workers who laid the foundation for Black theater. Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, Fifth floor.” Background shows drummers and singers in a lively stage performance with expressive faces. Text reads “Hemispheric Institute — hemispheric.org/fa25-06.” Background shows performers drumming and singing onstage in sepia lighting, evoking a sense of history and celebration.
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Join us Thursday, 11/06 and Friday 11/07 @ 7 PM for “Radical Goddesses,” a dance about three black Cuban women who fought for freedom. Created by Artist in Residence Beatrice Capote.

📍 TEATRO LATEA (107 Suffolk Street (2nd Floor) New York, NY 10002)
🔗 Tickets:hemispheric.org/fa25-04
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October 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Join us Thursday 10/02 at 12:30 pm for Huracán Architectures: Artist Talk and Luncheon

📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor
🔗 RSVP: hemispheric.org/fa25-10

#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #HuracánArchitectures #RubenNatal-SanMiguel
#Photography
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September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Join us Thursday, 10/09 @ 7 PM for “Forgotten Paradise: A Roundtable on Water, Memory, and Survival,” a conversation on the legacies of water as a vessel for memory, loss, and survival.

📍Center for Ballet and Arts Studio, 16 Cooper Square, ground floor

🔗 RSVP: hemispheric.org/fa25-03
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September 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Join us TONIGHT 09/18 @ 6 pm for “I Was There”: Stories from the Elders of the House/Ball Community
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor
🔗 RSVP: hemispheric.org/fa25-02

#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #Ballroom #Pioneers
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September 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The Hemispheric Institute is pleased to announce the beginning of a new academic year. We invite you to join us for forthcoming events and projects, and kindly ask that you mark your calendars.

#HemisphericInstitute #NYU #Events #FallSemester
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September 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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This fall the Hemispheric Institute welcomes our Artist in Residence, Charlotte Brathwaite and our Art Institution in Residence, the National Black Theater.
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September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Join us 09/10 from 3-6 PM for the 20 Cooper Live! Provostial Centers and Institutes’ Open House
📍 20 Cooper Square, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th floor
🔗 For more info: bit.ly/4n3v9k4

#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #20CooperSquare
September 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Join us Thursday, 09/18 @ 6 pm for “I Was There”: Stories from the Elders of the House/Ball Community
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/3Jgc9jR

#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #Ballroom #HouseofOmni #HouseofXtravaganza #HouseofLaBeija #HouseofLaWong
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September 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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University of Cape Town scholars Mandla Mbothwe and Mark Fleishman discuss Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South Project (ReTAGS), a groundbreaking theatrical and research initiative. hemispheric.org/Fa25-09
Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South (ReTAGS) —— Thursday, December 4, 2025 | 5:00 PM —— NYU Hemispheric Institute 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor Conference Space
September 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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South Africa’s Magnet Theatre creative leaders discuss the company’s history and its contemporary work, focusing on theater as cultural infrastructure. hemispheric.org/Fa25-08
Subterranean Infrastructures and (de)Colonial Dramaturgies in the Work of Magnet Theatre —— Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 6:00 PM —— NYU Hemispheric Institute 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor Conference Space
September 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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This staged reading revives Soljourney Into Truth, a work by National Black Theatre Founder Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, last performed in 1979. Recreated by contemporary artists, it honors the unique creative history of NBT. hemispheric.org/Fa25-07
Soljourney Into Truth: Staging the Unpublished Manuscript —— Thursday, November 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM —— NYU Hemispheric Institute 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor Conference Space
September 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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This intergenerational conversation honors the artists, organizers, and cultural workers who laid the foundation for Black theater. hemispheric.org/Fa25-06
National Black Theatre: Reflections from our Elders —— Thursday, November 13, 2025 | 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM
September 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Visualizing Legacies and Futures reflects the historical and contemporary memory of the National Black Theatre, the Fall 2025 Arts Institution in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute.
Visualizing Legacies and Futures — An Exhibition by The National Black Theatre —— November 13, 2025 | 5:00 PM — 8:00 PM —— NYU Hemispheric Institute 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor Gallery Space
September 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Created and choreographed by Artist In Residence Beatrice Capote, Radical Goddesses is a newly commissioned dance work that awakens the legacies of three black Cuban women who fought for freedom in Cuba from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Radical Goddesses: A Dance Performance by Beatrice Capote —— Friday, November 7, 2025 | 7:00 PM —— Teatro LATEA Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center 107 Suffolk Street New York, NY 10002
September 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Forgotten Paradise: A Roundtable on Water, Memory, and Survival. Center for Ballet and the Arts Studio 16 Cooper Square, Ground Floor. Fall 2025 Artist in Residence Charlotte Brathwaite convenes a roundtable conversation on the legacies of water as a vessel for memory, loss, and survival. Confirmed
Forgotten Paradise: A Roundtable on Water, Memory, and Survival —— Thursday, October 9, 2025 | 6:00 PM —— Center for Ballet and the Arts Studio 16 Cooper Square, Ground Floor
September 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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A conversation and oral history listening session with Pioneers and living legends from the New York Ballroom Community. Confirmed participants include: Tommie LaBeija, La Duchess Wong, Egypt LaBeija, José Disla Xtravaganza, Kevin Ultra Omni (virtual) hemispheric.org/Fa25-02
“I Was There”: Stories from the Elders of the House/Ball Community —— Thursday, September 18, 2025 | 6:00 PM —— NYU Hemispheric Institute 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor Conference Space
September 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Did you know that 20 Cooper Square is home to over a dozen Provostial Centers and Institutes at NYU? Join us for a dynamic open house on Wednesday, September 10, from 3-6 PM. Visit our current exhibitions and learn more about our groundbreaking research and programming. hemispheric.org/Fa25-01
20 Cooper Live! Provostial Centers and Institutes’ Open House —— Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 3:00 PM — 6:00 PM —— NYU Centers and Institutes 20 Cooper Square
September 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Join us Friday, 5/2 @ 6pm for “An Elders’ Gathering & African Dance Circle: The History & Humble Beginnings of Afrofuturism from a Sankofa Lens”

📍 Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St, Brooklyn – Multipurpose Room
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/3EtkpLl

#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #Sankofa
We invite you to join us for an exploration of Art, Movement, and Music, curated by the Hemispheric Institute’s first Folklorist in Residence, Aissatou Bey-Bara. This conversation and community dance circle reflects on the foundational influences and creative beginnings of African performance arts. It measures the long collective impact of African dance, visual arts, music and performance in a global diaspora – an impact that informs the Afro future. Panelists Aquah Tcherbu Beale, Januwa Moja, Amaniyea Payne, and Obara Wali Rahman King will discuss the power of the drum, of embodied performance, and the visual grandeur of African regalia. The panel will be followed by a movement workshop led by Amaniyea Payne and drummer Obayana Olumide. This program is the culminating event of the series, “We Not New To This, We True To This”, curated by Archivist Camille Lawrence, at the Hemispheric Institute. Camille will moderate the event, which will be documented and preserved in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL).
April 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Join us Thursday, 5/1 @ 5pm for “Huracán Architectures” – A Photography Exhibition by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Curated by Lisa Paravisini-Gebert

📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/42teVcH

#HemiEvents #HemisphericInstitute #NYU #PuertoRico #ClimateChange
“Huracán Architectures” is a new exhibition by Puerto Rican photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel. For almost a decade, Natal-San Miguel has situated his practice at the intersection of the island’s devastating financial crisis and the deterioration and disappearance of its vernacular architecture as a result of neglect, mass migration, and the catastrophic weather events that define climate change in the region.
April 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM