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Dennis Leroy Kingalee’s Play Takes on New Life
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January 13, 2026
The Kangalee Arts Ensemble, led by our Advisory Board member and Artists in Action fellow Dennis Leroy Kangalee, was recently awarded an artist initiative grant from the Venturous Theater Fund for: My Dying City Vol. II (The Social Justice Suicide Hour).
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All News and Updates
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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 22, 2024
Power to Win Report
We are excited to share an important new report with you, created to help us address some of the key challenges facing the progressive movement today...
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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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June 24, 2024
Latin American Foto Festival Warm-Up
The Action Lab is excited to be co-sponsoring the expansion of the Bronx Documentary Center’s 7th Annual Latin American Foto Festival to three new boroughs as part of our Liberation Summer programming! This is the festival's first expansion beyond the South Bronx...
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June 15, 2024
Liberation Summer Warm-Up: Salsa y Resistencia
Salsa y Resistencia was a powerful and fun evening of community and a perfect warm-up for our Liberation Summer kick-off at SOBs...
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June 13, 2024
Art of Purpose Practice Circle at NYCC
The Art of Purpose fellows gathered in a day-long Practice Circle at the offices of NYCC on June 13th...
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