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Adventures in the Art of Life: Music, Dance, Film, Theater, Travel, Activism, Culture … #ArtIsAWeapon

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Party People! Today we're dancing outdoors at @jadalareign's @onelovefromthesun with special guests @specter708 @noshaluv!

🗓 July 19, 2026

📍The Nursery @publicrecordsnyc, 233 Butler Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217

🕓 4PM-10PM

🎟 www.dice.fm

🖼✍️🏾reposted from @jadalareign Announcing the next love from the sun ✹ ⋆ ꥟ ˚࿔ with two of my favorite DJs in the world, Chicago’s own @specter708 + @Noshaluv Rime. Prepare to dance under the sun to some of the best music you’ve heard in your life, iykyk! Sunday, July 19 in The Nursery, PUBLIC RECORDS’s outdoor space. Tickets are where tickets be. Not to be missed!

#HouseMusic #DanceMusic #LoveFromTheSun

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Theater lovers! Be sure to catch the @classicalharlem 's "Othello," at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem through July 26, 2026. CTH 's annual productions are one of my absolute favorite NYC summer events, and it's FREE! This year's cast, direction and set design are fantastic. GO!

Also, let's support NYC's outstanding community arts and culture institutions so that they can continue to provide free, accessible experiences to diverse audiences. Please learn more about and consider making a donation to CTH:

https://www.cthnyc.org

📍Richard Rodgers Ampitheater, Marcus Garvey Park - 18 Mt Morris Park W, New York, NY 10027

🗓🕗 July 5–26 · Tue–Sun 8:30 PM · Fri 9 PM

🖼 ✍️🏾 reposted from @ClassicalHarlem Jealousy. Power. Betrayal. The whisper that ends it all.

James Udom, Isabel Arraiza, and Nick Westrate lead Othello, directed by Carl Cofield.

Free in Marcus Garvey Park

July 5–26, Tu-Sun, 8:30 PM

RSVP in bio and cthnyc.org

📸 by @richardtermine

@brittanyhartmandesign @zachryjbailey @westratenick @tyjonesnyc @kvaish @katyhumphreydesign @mr_wungati @rebecca_ana @cfm150 @brynlie_ @landograntww @carlcofield @Gapped_tooth @kerucha @jor1ch @SordeletInc @treafisher

#BlackGirlTheaterGeeks #CTH #Othello #FreeShakespeare

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The air quality is a little bit better in NYC than it has been this week, so it looks like tonight's @summerstage show featuring @wearedelasoul, @hannibalburess and @realpeterock is a go. Stay tuned to Summerstage's social channels for any updates.

🖼✍️🏾reposted from @summerstage @capitalone @cpfnyc #SummerStage is heading to Queens! We’re taking over Flushing Meadows-Corona Park on July 17 for a FREE show with the iconic hip-hop group @wearedelasoul, Bronx legend @realpeterock, and a DJ set by @hannibalburess, all starting at 6PM by the World’s Fair Flagstaff near the Fountain of the Planets!

This show is in association with @queensbprichards and powered by @massappeal.

#Summerstage40 #FreeConcert #DeLaSoul

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#BetyeSaar #Hero!

📷✍️🏾 reposted from the @latimes_entertainment Betye Saar turns 100 on July 30, but she plans to start her day the same way as always: in the studio.

In a small, light-filled room near the top of the Laurel Canyon home where she’s lived since 1962, Saar spends the morning filling sketchbooks with watercolors. Symbols that the pioneering assemblage artist has been “remixing” for more than seven decades — stars, moons, eyes, hands — emerge in vibrant washes of magenta, teal and her favored crepuscular blues.

Since the late 1960s, Saar has transformed washboards, dolls, clocks, family photographs, racist memorabilia and other salvaged materials into emotionally charged assemblages now held in the permanent collections of more than 60 museums.

“There are certain people,” says curator Zoé Whitley, “who redefined what was a very narrow definition of American art, and Betye is absolutely one of them.”

Read full story:

Enough about her legacy. At 100, Betye Saar just wants to keep making art in L.A.

As Betye Saar turns 100, she's more interested in creating new work than reflecting on her legacy as one of America's most groundbreaking ar

📷 @therealchristinahouse / Los Angeles Times

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#NYCMusicLovers - We got dope #DJsets and #LivePerformances of Funk, Disco, Jazz, R&B, Soul, House and Dance music on deck this weekend!

🗓Friday, July 10:

▪️@soulsummitmusic Summer Fridays Outdoor Dance Party, presented by @theshedny

⏰ 5:00 PM -  8:00 PM

🎟️ FREE

📍The Shed outdoor plaza, Hudson Yard 545 W 30th St, NYC 10001

▪️@djspinna's DISCO x JOURNEY Party - Summer Edition

All Vinyl Disco & Dance Classics

DISCO x All White + Silver GLAM ATTIRE (Dress Code Optional)

⏰ 8:00 PM - 2:30 AM 

📍The SpinnaVerse - BK NY 11237

🎟️ www.DJSpinna.com

Presented by DJ SPINNA + @KeiStarProductions 

▪️@thebaylorproject “Livin’ On Joy” Tour stops at @bluenotenyc 

🎫 3 Nights, Friday– Sunday, July 10–12 for 6 Shows

⏰ 8:00 PM & 10:30 PM nightly

🎟️ www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/

131 W. 3rd Street, New York, NY 10012 

🗓Saturday, July 11:

▪️@kindredthefam @kindredthewife return to @CityWineryNYC for 2 shows

⏰ 6:00 PM & 9:00 PM

🎟️ www.citywinery.com/nyc

📍City Winery, 25 11th Avenue New York, NY 10011

▪️@briccelebratebk & @legalaidnyc Present Community Joy Day featuring DJ set by Saint James Joy @saintjamesjoy and live music by @pahuamumsic

⏰ 3:00PM - 8:00PM

🎟️ FREE

📍Prospect Park - Lena Horne Bandshell

141 Prospect Park W, Brooklyn, NY 11215

▪️@thesoapboxpresents The Soapbox Presents: STOOP SESSIONS, The FUNK of July

Opening DJ set by @djmondayblue and a skate session, and live music featuring 

@chrisrobonline @yahzarah  @e_r_i_n_boyd @ireneblackman @reggiehinesmusic @chillthrill89 @officialjoshjennings @william.barnes.984 @andrecleghorn @jeremy_gaddie @bendjiallonce 

⏰ 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

🎟️ FREE

📍Halsey Street by Marcy & Tompkins, Brooklyn, NY 11216

Sunday, July 12: 

▪️@soulsummitmusic at Fort Greene Park

⏰ 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM

🎟️ FREE

📍Closest entrance is at Willoughby Avenue and Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY 11205 

▪️@capitalone & @cpfnyc’s @summerstage Present @bilalmusic, @genagenagenaaaaaaa (@pronouncedliv.e + @karriemriggins1), and opening DJ set by @djtaranyc

⏰ 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

🎟️ FREE

📍Herbert Von King Park, 670 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216

#ArtIsAWeapon #MusicIsLife

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Tanya Weddemire Gallery Presents BUYART WITHIN REACH

🥂OPENING RECEPTION

🗓July 9, 2026 | 🕕6PM - 9PM

📍TANYA WEDDEMIRE GALLERY @tanyaweddemiregallery

Industry City | Bldg. 2

254 36th Street, Suite C257

Brooklyn, NY 11232

(🎨 by Lamar Bailey @mann_made.art)

🖼✍️🏾 reposted from @tanyaweddemiregallery YOU’RE ALL INVITED ☀️

BUYART WITHIN REACH returns for its THIRD ITERATION with all original small works priced at $5k and under with twelve artists exploring identity, community, healing, spirituality, memory, love and transformation through painting, collage, sculpture, and mixed media.

[Featuring works by]:

Huey Lightbody (@lightbody.studio)

Lamar Bailey (@mann_made.art)

Brittney S. Price (@brittneysprice)

Emmanuel Gillespie (@emmanuelgillespie25)

Puretee Philip (@pureteeelusive)

Brooke Fierce Bronner (@brookefiercebronner)

Candace Caston (@candaceincolor)

Addis Gezehagn (@addisgezehagn)

Workneh Bezu (@worknehbezu)

Philip A. Robinson Jr. (@philiparobinsonjr)

Nyzere Dillon (@erezyn)

Tyvette Symone (@tyvettesymone)

🥂OPENING RECEPTION

July 9th of 2026 | 6PM - 9PM

📍TANYA WEDDEMIRE GALLERY

Industry City | Bldg. 2

254 36th Street, Suite C257

Brooklyn, NY 11232

Inquiries: [email protected]

#buyart #BlackGirlArtGeeks #BlackArtCollectors

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Black Theater Lovers! Catch these #Broadway shows before they end, and check out how you can buy tickets on a budget:

▪️“Proof” @proofbroadway Newcomer Ayo Edebiri & veteran Don Cheadle @doncheadle make their Broadway debuts playing daughter and father in David Auburn’s Pulitzer and Tony Award -winning “Proof,” directed by Thomas Kail.  I saw it when my history-making, two-time Tony-winning FAVE Kara Young @karaakter was in the cast, and Tony award-winner Adrienne Warren @adriennelwarren ("Tina - The Tina Turner Musical") is now in that role. “Proof” ends July 19, 2026, at the Booth Theatre, (222 W. 45th) so hurry! www.proofbroadway.com

▪️“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” @joeturnerbway - My favorite #AugustWilson play, this revival was directed by my hero Debbie Allen, and stars Taraji P. Henson @tarajiphenson (with whom I was pleasantly surprised in her Broadway debut), Cedric the Entertainer @cedtheentertainer, the incomparable Broadway legend Ruben Santiago Hudson (who received a 2026 Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role}, and the captivating Joshua Boone. “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” is at The Barrymore Theatre, 243 W 47th Street, until July 26, 2026!

www.joeturnerbway.com 

▪️“Cats: The Jellicle Ball" @catsjellicleball - This Broadway-Meets-Ballroom reimagining of Andre Lloyd Weber’s “CATS” - is so fun and fabulous! Congratulations to Tony award winners Qween Jean for Best Costume Design of a Musical, Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch for Best Direction of a Musical, and Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles for Best Choreography.  “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” is playing at the Broadhurst Theatre, 235 W. 44th Street, through January 2027.  www.catsthejellicleball.com

Pro-Tip: If you want to save some coins and have the time, $45 in-person RUSH tickets are available at some theater box offices for same-day performances.  There is a two-per-person ticket limit, subject to availability. Most box offices open at 10:00 AM on performance days, so I suggest getting there no later than 9:30 AM, especially for really popular shows, and going for Tuesday & Wednesday performances.

#BlackGirlTheaterGeeks #Theater

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NYC Dancers and HouseHeads! Here are some events where a few of my faves are spinning for us to get free on the dancefloor this holiday weekend. Swipe 👈🏿 to see fliers for details. Wherever you end up, be sure to stretch, HYDRATE and stay cool in this heatwave! 😎

Saturday, July 4

▪️@soulsummitmusic @analog_soul_ @lovie.world Timmy Regisford & more at @publicrecordsnyc

▪️@saintjamesjoy x @soulsummit × @houseofyesnyc @houseofgoalny at Industry City

▪️@kaialce @k.tea and more at 333 Stagg Street Rooftop, presented by @goldenrecordnyc @vin.yl_nyc @sandianyc

▪️@juan.cybotron.atkins and more at @signalnyc

Sunday, July 5:

▪️@musclecars.nyc & @iamrimarkable at @signalnyc

▪️@louievega & @ananesworld @the_ritual_anane_louie_vega_ @jihadmuhammad at @publicrecordsnyc

#NYCDancers #DanceMusic #HouseMusic #DancingIsFreedom

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MOOD on this drenched-in-blood and draped-in-hypocrisy "holiday," courtesy of artist/activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh and poet/author Lucille Clifton

🎨 Untitled, wheat pasted mural, Tulsa, OK 2026

Artist @tlynnfaz

🎨✍️🏾 reposted from @tlynnfaz

"why some people be mad at me sometimes

they ask me to remember

but they want me to remember

their memories

and i keep on remembering

mine."

- Lucille Clifton

Clifton’s words feel particularly relevant on today’s #250thanniversary

#IndependenceDay

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NYC Mayor Mamdani Approves Record $323M Funding for Culture

The overall city budget also establishes a "Cultural Stability Fund" for struggling arts organizations.

🗽👏🏿 #ArtIsAWeapon

Thank you @nycmayor and the @nyccouncil for making this historical investment in NYC artists and cultural institutions.

Early in his campaign, I learned that Mayor Mamdani's mother is acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair ("Mississippi Masala," "Salaam Bombay!," "Queen of Katwe"), and heard him speak about how this fueled his deep connection to and appreciation for the arts.

As a Black arts advocate, I am glad that we have a mayor who is committed to making the arts accessible for all New Yorkers, affordable for artists to live here, and to supporting small, community-based arts & cultural institutions.

Reposted from @hyperallergic @nyculture “Our city’s artists and cultural institutions are the beating heart of New York City. … But a crushing affordability crisis has threatened to drive out the very artists who have long defined life this city. My administration is proud to make a historic, record-level investment in New York City’s arts and cultural organizations because we believe the people who make this city what it is should be able to build their lives here.” — Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

The City’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget includes a historic $323.8 million for @NYCulture—the highest-ever appropriation of funding for arts and culture in NYC! 🙌

For the first time, the budget includes a Cultural Stability Fund to support struggling arts organizations. The initiative provides a $10 million annual pool through fiscal year 2029, serving as an emergency resource for cultural organizations and artists.

“At a time when artists and cultural organizations have been asked to do more with less, this budget says something powerful: New York believes in the arts and in its artists. Arts and culture are how we tell our stories, care for one another, and shape the future of this city. I’m incredibly proud that we’re choosing to stand with the people who make New York the creative capital of the world.” — NYC Cultural Affairs Commissioner Diya Vij

Visit the link in our bio to read Isa Farfan’s full article in @Hyperallergic.

#NYCulture #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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I am looking forward to seeing this #newexhibition

🎨"Water No Get Enemy"

🗓 July 11-August 2, 2026

📍@governorsisland, 403 Colonels Row.

🛥It is easily accessible via @nycferry.

🖼✍️🏾 reposted from @artcrawlharlem “Water No Get Enemy” Curated by @jomanidanielle is inspired by #Afrofuturism and the mythology of Drexciya, Water No Get Enemy explores water as a site of memory within the African diaspora. Water becomes an archive, holding histories that continue to shape the present. July 11 - August 2 at 403 Colonels Row on @governorsisland with Spacial Design by Starr Solie Smith @sstroyed

At the center of the exhibition is the Drexciyan myth, which imagines that although enslaved African women perished during the Middle Passage, the children carried in their wombs survived beneath the ocean and formed an underwater civilization beyond the reach of slavery. The myth positions Black women as the origin of a future world. Their wombs become vessels not only for life, but for the continuation of African society itself.

This idea extends beyond mythology. Across the diaspora, Black women carried cultural knowledge through generations, preserving stories, spiritual practices, and ways of understanding the world. When African traditions were threatened by displacement and forced assimilation, they survived because people remembered them, adapted them, and passed them forward. In this sense, the womb functions as both a physical and metaphorical site of preservation.

Water No Get Enemy approaches these histories through an Afrofuturist framework where the future is informed by the past, and where remembrance is an act of world-building. The exhibition asks what becomes possible when memory is treated as inheritance rather than loss.

#BlackGirlArtGeeks

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This @summerstage show tomorrow is gonna be dynamite!

Stay cool NYC...

Reposted from @summerstage This week in Central Park! Don’t miss a FREE show on Wednesday, 7/1, as the next wave of British jazz and soul musicians make their way to SummerStage. Catch performances by @shabakahutchings, @kokorokomusic, @omar_lyefook, and @lovie.world in association with @giantstep & @bluenotenyc - doors open at 5PM!

#FreeConcert #Summerstage40 #OmarLyeFook

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@louievega & The Elements of Life return to @bluenotenyc tonight & tomorrow, June 27 & 28, for the #BlueNoteJazzFestival!

🎟 www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/

✍️🏾 reposted from @louievega Louie Vega & The Elements Of Life Live are coming to the Blue Note New York City for the first time in June during the month long Blue Note Jazz Festival! We are truly excited to be asked to join and hope to see you there.

On June 27 we bring you our very special guest the boogie disco King himself Leroy Burgess @boogieking1. Premiere songwriter / artist / producer who has helped shape the worlds of disco, r&b, boogie, house music, hip hip (his songs have been sampled by many), and just an all around artist who has inspired many producers, djs, songwriters, artists, for decades!

Elements Of Life!

On June 28 you never know who will pop up, and I’m not gonna say anything but the Elements of Life show will take you on a trip with some of the staple tunes and various tunes off the upcoming new album slated for Feb 2027! A full on 11 piece band conducted by yours truly with lead vocals by Josh Milan @joshmilan6969 and the EOL ladies with a stacked on all star band of talented musicians coming together to create this wall of sound! Get your tickets and don’t miss your spot ! Tickets available at link in bio.

Two dates June 27, 28, two shows a night!

#LouieVega #JoshMilan #LiveMusic

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#BlackMusicMonth

Our living musical legend @mspattilabelle is performing at @briccelebratebk and tickets are 50% off!

🗓 June 26, 2026

🕕 Doors at 6PM / Show at 7PM

📍Lena Horne Bandshell, 141 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215

🎟 Use code LABELLE50 at checkout www.bricartsmedia.org/celebrate-brooklyn

(🔗 @briccelebratebk BIO)

✍️🏾🖼 reposted from @briccelebratebk A little something for the BRIC fam ✨✨✨

If you’ve been thinking about joining us for Patti LaBelle’s Benefit Concert, now’s the time. We’re offering our community 50% off tickets with promo code LABELLE50.

On Friday, June 26, the legendary Patti LaBelle takes the Bandshell stage for a night of timeless music and pure icon energy the only way Patti knows how. Retro-soul powerhouse Lady Wray (@ladynicolewray) and NYC’s hottest R&B party @morernbplease will set the stage.

Use code LABELLE50 at checkout and come celebrate with us. 🎟️ Link in bio.

#PattiLabelle #CelebrateBK

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Thank you @djtaranyc for all you do to promote, preserve and protect #NYCNightlife. I am looking forward to tonight's conversation and hearing more about your project @thisusedtobeaclub. 

✍️🏾reposted from @djtaranyc THANK YOU so much for your interest in @thisusedtobeaclub! We are so excited to present the work and be in conversation. I am so grateful to @prattcenter @nycnightlifegov @nycsmallbiz for supporting this work!

The response has been great and we are thrilled to announce that we can accommodate additional attendees virtually on Zoom!

If you have an in-person ticket and are unable to make it/prefer to attend virtually, please release the ticket so that we may offer it to someone else to attend in person.

Register to attend on Zoom! Link in my bio!

Food & Drink will be served and attendees will have an opportunity to purchase @djdisciplenyc 's book The Beat the Scene the Sound which is an EXCELLENT READ (he will sign copies!), and we will learn more from @danceparadenyc about the ongoing restrictions to dancing in NYC.

✍️🏾Reposted from @prattcenter Join us at Pratt Manhattan for an evening of conversation on archiving, protecting, and advocating for nightlife spaces!

Nightlife has long been more than entertainment. For Black, queer, immigrant, and other marginalized New Yorkers, nightlife is infrastructure—a form of inclusive public space in the face of racialized zoning, policing, and gentrification.

This Used to Be a Club (@thisusedtobeaclub) is a data-driven reconstruction of club geographies that visualizes cultural displacement. It also celebrates how nightlife communities have persistently engaged in placemaking, culture, and joy. 

This Used to Be a Club’s founder and Pratt Center’s Senior Planner, Tara Duvivier (@djtaranyc) will introduce new data on former nightlife spaces in Manhattan and lead a conversation with David Banks (@djdisciplenyc) and Greg Miller (@greg_nyc), Executive Director at @danceparadenyc on how we can learn from the past to save the nightlife spaces of today.

#NYNightlife #ThisUsedToBeAClub

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Happy Pride to my LGBTQIA+ friends and loved ones in the Bronx and beyond!

@1917_studio is hosting The Bronx People's Pride

🗓 Saturday, June 27, 2026

🕑 2PM-7PM

📍@brucknermotthavengarden

684 E. 136th Street, Bronx, NY

🖼✍️🏾 reposted from @1917_studio

🏳️‍🌈✊🏽 In commemoration of the Stonewall Rebellion, we are hosting The Bronx People’s Pride on June 27th, 2026 to celebrate Pride’s revolutionary spirit!!

🎨 Throughout the day, we’ll have speakers and art workshops that will touch on the importance of reclaiming Pride as our fight for liberation and not a day when the capitalist class can profit off our plight. Stop by and participate in our screen printing, cyanotype printing and collaging activities

🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Support our local 🏳️‍🌈 vendors and help fundraise for a local community organizer’s , @elsyjuliet, surgery

🗞️ Grab the latest issue of @the.block.times and @aplredphoenix along with original zines

☀️🌈 Family friendly, for the dolls, the gays and the comrades

📍 Date: June 27, 2026

Time: 2pm-7pm

Location: 684 E 136th Street

Bruckner Mott Haven Garden

DM us if you’d like to supportand volunteer! Come visit the garden, see you there! 🪴

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I hope the rain holds off for tonight's @publictheaterny Public Forum of @amysherald's "American Sublime: Stories from Elsewhere In III Acts."

🗓 June 22, 2026

📍Delacorte Theater, 81 Central Park West, NYC 10024

🕗 8:00 PM

🖼✍️🏾 reposted from @publictheaterny Join us for the next FREE Public Forum of Amy Sherald’s AMERICAN SUBLIME: STORIES FROM ELSEWHERE IN III ACTS at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park on this Monday, June 22 at 8PM!

The exciting evening will feature live performance by Leland Fowler, The Harlem Chamber Players, Niles Luther, Alicia Hall Moran, Jurnee Smollett, Anthony Wayne, and an onstage conversation with Sherald and Tony Award-winning director Zhailon Levingston, reflecting on the creative process and the evolution of Sherald’s work for the stage.

Creatively developed in association with National Black Theatre (Sade Lythcott, Chief Executive Officer; Jonathan McCrory, Executive Artistic Director) and featuring work by James Ijames, Raja Feather Kelly, Niles Luther, Jessie Montgomery, and Anna Deavere Smith, PUBLIC FORUM: AMERICAN SUBLIME is supported by The Hearthland Foundation.

Don’t miss this in-progress theatrical exploration inspired by artist Amy Sherald’s acclaimed body of work, originally exhibited as American Sublime at major US museums, is now taking shape for the stage.

Here are the 4 ways you can access FREE Public Forum tickets:

1. 🌳 The line at The Delacorte.

2. 🌙 Evening Standby at The Delacorte.

3. 📱 Digital lottery with TodayTix.

4. 🎟️ In-person lottery at The Public.

Visit thepublic.nyc/PublicForum for more info on tickets and this summer’s series.

#AmySherald #FreeInNYC #PublicTheater #BlackGirlTheaterGeeks