S T A R R busby’s
Working Up A Surrender: Collective Healing Experiments
AUGUST 8 - 17, 2024

Conceived, Arranged, and Performed by S T A R R busby

Working Up A Surrender: Collective Healing Experiments is a two-part experience consisting of sound healing experiments followed by a series of performances of electric songs from S T A R R ’s forthcoming album that invite audiences into an experiential, community-based, listening experience shaped by the audience's interaction with the music itself.

JACKLAb:
Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities (Exit Route I-485)
September 12 - 15, 2024

Written By Carolina Đỗ
Directed by Vas Eli 

Fresh off her summer residency at JACK Carolina Đỗ returns to present their new play Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities (Exit Route I-485) this September. In Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities (Exit Route I-485) four humans walk into an immigration facility... and three walk out as aliens. When going up against a money-hungry and remorseless bureaucratic immigration system that’s designed for you to fail, are you willing to gamble your life, your sanity, your self-worth, and your humanity for a chance? A chance at what?

¡OYE! Avant Garde Night
October 10 - 13, 2024

Presented and Curated by Oye Group

¡OYE! Avant Garde Night is a festival devoted to the development of new performances by artists from New York City. ¡OYE! Avant-Garde was created as a platform to celebrate and share what is unique about the city’s converging arts communities. Each artist is given ten minutes and a full technical team to experiment beyond the boundaries of their traditional work through a work-in-progress excerpt. Each festival culminates in performances of theater, dance, film & more.

Special Pop-up Engagement: 
Molto Ohm
October 24, 2024

Created by Matteo Liberatore

Molto Ohm is a sonic and visual exploration of the interplay between digital life and social decay on an emotional level. In today's alluring digital world, we are merely users, to whom health, beauty, love, and connection are promised. But at what cost? In the end, we find ourselves alone, void of purpose yet still mindlessly scrolling, pulling furtively on a pane of glass, unable to break through.

(POSTPONED) FKA I AM A BAD BLK PERSON
READINGS NoveMEBER 2024

Written by Z & Co aka AzizA Barnes
Directed by nicHi douglas

FKA I AM A BAD BLK PERSON investigates, in the form of Z, our main character and existential detective, of all the kaleidoscopic ways you can “fail” or be “bad at” being a queer blk american turning 30 in the year 2022. What kind of blk person would blk twitter disown? One who occasionally smells bad (ie, is mentally ill), and becomes in servitude to their borderline personality ex-girlfriend. One who joins a white woman’s cult in the pursuit of the promise of levitation instead of standing up for herself in her actual life. One who attempts being a social media mogul, but fails due to making other blk people her slaves on another continent. A human sized fuzzy purple teddy bear guides Z toward becoming a self respecting blk person, as they navigate inherited respectability politics, borderline personality leeches, and the affirmation of their own neurodivergency.

UNDOXX
November 6 - 23, 2024

Curated by zavé martohardjono, Maya Simone Z., and Jamie Chan

Censorship of artists in the U.S. is currently a powerful force, yet it is not unprecedented. By bringing together global majority artists, queer artists, marginalized artists who have understood its inner workings for generations, UNDOXX will spark conversation and generate resources for U.S. artists to understand censorship in the arts, its history, and its current evolutions. Making space for artists to learn in community and presenting works by artists being censored is UNDOXX’s primary intervention.

JACK's programming is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with Mayor Eric Adams, Speaker Adrienne Adams and the City Council, NYC Department of Youth and Community Development with the support of City Council Member Crystal Hudson, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forrest, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, The Hyde & Watson Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Bains Family Foundation, The John Golden Foundation, Ridgewood Savings Bank, Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman in addition to many generous individuals.