Black Empowerment Summit 2025 Workshop: Knowledge is Power: Leveraging Education for Success

E-Building, E-111 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY, United States

Education is the key to unlocking opportunities, but success goes beyond the classroom. This session explores strategies for academic excellence, career preparation, and using education as a tool for social mobility. Learn how to navigate resources, build networks, and position yourself for success in a rapidly changing world. Moderator: Dr. Allia Abdullah-Matta, English Professor (CUNY […]

Black Empowerment Summit 2025: Networking Mixer Event

Skylight Area 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY, United States

It’s a time for business owners, poets, entrepreneurs, authors, and changemakers to attend and connect, collaborate, and share insights with other attendees. Register for this event. For more information, contact Rachel Romain at rcharles@lagcc.cuny.edu.

Greenway Earth Day

Greenway (29th Street) 29th Street & Skillman Ave, Long Island City, NY, United States

LaGuardia will host a day dedicated to celebrating the environment at the Annual Earth Day Festival. Organized by the Sustainability Council, the Festival will feature environmental groups, agencies, and vendors from around the city, games and activities, and raffles and snacks. For more information, contact the Sustainability Council at SustainabilityCouncil@lagcc.cuny.edu.

Dabke Workshop with Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre

Little Theater NY, United States

Dabke is a Levantine folkloric dance traditionally used in cultural moments of celebration and resistance. Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Dabke classes blend contemporary dance and theater with traditional Dabke tools (rhythm, footwork, unison movement etc.) to invite improvisation and play within the traditional form. Class starts with an anatomically mindful warm-up and builds skills including […]

Free

The New York Forum of Amazigh Film

Little Theater of LaGuardia Performing Arts Center 31-10 Thompson Ave, Long Island City, NY, United States

The annual New York Forum of Amazigh Film (NYFAF) is a showcase of feature, documentary, and short films about the Amazigh or "Berber" people of North Africa and in the diaspora. NYFAF's mission is to create a space where filmmakers, artists, and scholars, whose work focuses on indigenous Amazigh identity and culture, can gather yearly […]

Symbols and Self: A Creative Workshop with Artist Alia Benslimane

Skylight Room 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY, United States

Please join us for a creative workshop with artist Alia Benslimane, immediately following the NYFAF screening of The Tattooed documentary. Alia Benslimane combines traditional North African, Amazigh and contemporary art to make intricate drawings full of pattern and symbolism. This workshop is open to all and materials are provided. For more information, visit www.nyfaf.com or contact […]

Contemporary Workshop with Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre

Little Theater NY, United States

Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre views technique as a means of furthering our bodies as instruments for creative expression. Blending contemporary dance and theater to explore themes of repertory works, YSDT classes draw on visualization, improvisation and play to facilitate an experiential, process-driven environment that empowers students and meets them where they are. Our goals as […]

Free

Emerging Choreographer Series 2025

LaGuardia Performing Arts Center 31-10 Thomson Ave, Long Island City, United States

Through the years, ECS has been established as a one-of-a-kind mentoring program that has provided over 70 NYC choreographers with the tools and resources to create new works. It is conceived and administered by Mare Nostrum Elements, a non-profit arts organization based in Queens, NY. This year we further our support for five ECS alumni […]

$20

Emerging Choreographer Series 2025

LaGuardia Performing Arts Center 31-10 Thomson Ave, Long Island City, United States

Through the years, ECS has been established as a one-of-a-kind mentoring program that has provided over 70 NYC choreographers with the tools and resources to create new works. It is conceived and administered by Mare Nostrum Elements, a non-profit arts organization based in Queens, NY. This year we further our support for five ECS alumni […]

$20

Emerging Choreographer Series 2025

LaGuardia Performing Arts Center 31-10 Thomson Ave, Long Island City, United States

Through the years, ECS has been established as a one-of-a-kind mentoring program that has provided over 70 NYC choreographers with the tools and resources to create new works. It is conceived and administered by Mare Nostrum Elements, a non-profit arts organization based in Queens, NY. This year we further our support for five ECS alumni […]

$20
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