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Liberation Summer | June, July, August 2026
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June 17, 2026
Through performances, workshops, and community gatherings across New York City, Liberation Summer 2026 brings people together through music, storytelling, art, and collective resistance.
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September 6, 2024
Announcing a 55-leader Strong Learning Delegation to Barcelona
The delegation aims to deepen our understanding of tenant power and housing movements in Barcelona, focusing on how activists resist corporate landlords and fight for affordable social housing...
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August 31, 2024
Repurposing of LAFF to BronxArtSpace
Facilitated by The Action Lab, The Latin American Foto Festival's stop in Hunts Point was a great success...
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August 26, 2024
Sembrando Resistencia: Los Jardines de Loisaida
As part of our Liberation Summer programming, 'Sembrando Resistencia' celebrated Loisaida's Puerto Rican community gardens over three days in August...
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August 23, 2024
Art of Purpose Field Trip
On August 19th, thanks to a recommendation from our dear NYU fellow Aaliyah Weathers, we took our Art of Purpose Fellows to Monuments of Solidarity by LaToya Ruby Frazier at the MoMA...
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August 1, 2024
Welcoming Angeles Solis!
We are delighted to welcome Angeles Solis as The Action Lab’s new Director of the Impact and Innovation Initiative! Formerly at Make the Road New York, Angeles helped co-found the Fund Excluded Workers Coalition and led major escalations to pass a $2...
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July 20, 2024
Art of Purpose + Strategy School
From July 17-19, The Action Lab gathered our Art of Purpose and Strategy School cohorts...
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July 8, 2024
Advisory Board Spotlight: Minal Hajratawala joins The Action Lab’s Advisory Board
Minal Hajratwala (they/she) is the founder of the Unicorn Authors Club and co-founder of the Changemaker Authors Cohort, supporting movement leaders and activists to develop narrative-changing books...
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July 7, 2024
Introducing Artist in Action fellows Karina Hurtado & Julián Gómez Londoño!
Karina (Kari) Hurtado-Ocampo, they/all pronouns
Kari is a cultural worker, multimedia artist and (screen)writer, tending to place-based and genre bending stories...
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July 6, 2024
Announcing a New Fellowship for Cultural Workers and Artists in our Community – Artists in Action!
The Artists in Action Fellowship at the Action Lab will cultivate the relationship between art and social justice by connecting artists to organizers and organizers to artists...
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July 5, 2024
Welcoming Our New Director of Development, Nasreen Jilani
The Action Lab is excited to welcome Nasreen Jilani, our new Director of Development...
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June 28, 2024
We Outside! Liberation Summer Officially Underway!
Our second annual Liberation Summer Kick-off was a blast and a brought more than 300 people together in community to dance to the amazing artists Combo Chimbita, El Hijo de Borikén, Maraca Bruja, and DJ Bembona who brought their soul, energy, and essential voices to the stage...
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