WATERPROOF DANCE FESTIVAL

Dance film screening at Tambour Place

tickets and program info HERE

Wendy’s Subway presents a three-day convening celebrating the recent publication of A Grammar Built with Rocks, edited by Shoghig Halajian and Suzy Halajian. 

In the introduction to the publication, the editors write, “violence is never totalizing, but rather leaves marks of collective action and insurgent refusal.” Taking up this proposition, this convening centers histories of resilience and collective struggle while tracing how artistic practices respond to conditions of dispossession and ecological harm, alongside the narratives of crisis and development that shape material and symbolic forms of erasure.

Bringing together contributors and new interlocutors, the program expands on, and offers multiple points of entry into, the syntax of A Grammar Built with Rocks, foregrounding artistic and activist practices that engage questions of colonialism, ecology, and resistance. Composed of a screening, reading group, conversation, performance, and listening session, the weekend’s multilayered format honors the interdisciplinarity of the publication.  

Reading Group, Conversation, and Performances
Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA)
Saturday, January 24, 1–6pm

Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s theory of relational belonging, this program emphasizes interconnectivity among liberation struggles while remaining attentive to the specificity of place and history. Across disciplines and forms, the publication and program reflect a shared commitment to relational, cross-disciplinary exchange and collective modes of inquiry.

The day begins with a reading group facilitated by Amber Jamilla Musser that focuses on key concepts across the writings of Édouard Glissant and Suzanne Césaire. A conversation between Laura al-Tibi, Adam HajYahia, and Fawz Kabra then considers place-based methodologies developed by artists engaging landscapes shaped by ongoing colonial and ecological harm. The program concludes with a reading by Ryan C. Clarke, followed by a performance by Muyassar Kurdi. Throughout the day, a playlist of audio recordings selected by A Grammar Built with Rocks contributors can be experienced in the listening room.

More information, and RSVP here.

**Note: My performance begins at 5PM

Paris, France suburbs

palestinian films screendance, Arab Film Festival curated by Ciné-Corps

andrea haenggi & slice of elder tree with Muyassar Kurdi

Keep in Our Circle
2025, Live-performance: wood slice from an elder tree cut by the city during the destruction of East River Park; dance, voice, circle of witnesses; air, breath, and time. ~45 minutes, 4PM

The exhibition is curated by artist Amelia Marzec. It is presented by Flux Factory, in partnership with Fall of Freedom.

What is a Palestinian performance in this moment of genocide, catastrophe, the world clinging to its fundamental qualities as we are annihilated? What does it do? Who does it reach? Who, sorrowfully, closes their eyes and ears and heart to its hatred, its grief, its stubborn insistence on survival? How does it circulate, make anything possible, get eaten and metabolized by the vultures of a counterrevolutionary art world? Why do we do it?

These are questions with no answers, questions which instead we devote the entirety of our lives to asking. Towards those questions, this event gathers Palestinian performance artists across medium, genre, place, and practice for an afternoon and evening of performance, research, and performance-research. Curated by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, featuring work by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Mette Loulou von Kohl, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, and Muyassar Yousef Kurdi

Triple Canopy Magazine Symposium

"Holes Marathon": readings, brief performances, lectures, presentations, etc. on the theme of holes: absences, portals, clearings, and various forms of destruction or erasure—everything from pot holes to plot holes, holes as sexual currency (and metaphysical quandary) to historical aporias.

***Muyassar’s debut collaboration with Maki Makkkuk (voice and electronics)

SOLO embodied sound performance + graphic scores

The Movement Research at the Judson Church gives local and international artists an opportunity to showcase performance work at any stage of development. This is a high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights happening throughout the fall and spring seasons.

Also performing: Lydia Östberg Diakité, Dorchel Haqq, and NiNi Dongnier.

Admission is FREE, Doors open at 6:30

Wednesday, August 6 · 8 - 9:30pm EDT. Doors at 7:45pm

Trustfall Series on lower east side NYC, location provided with ticket. This one will feature Melinda Faylor (piano & electronics), Muyassar Kurdi (voice & electronics), and Jess Tsang (percussion, objects & electronics).

Tickets: Sliding scale $8-20
Free for artists and arts workers

RSVP below for address

Triple Canopy HQ after-hours situation

Tongues Untied—is a call to resist the current political moment’s suffocating grip that continues to compromise our ability to publicly share our voices, stories, histories, and lived realities.

Performances by: Niki Afsar, Sevinç Çalhanoğlu, Rawya El Chab, Muyassar Kurdi, Yesenia Rojas & Kai Sundermann, Hind Shoufani & Timothy Cleary. DJ Set: Salar Ansari

Kurdi will present an interdisciplinary performance combining 16mm film and poetry. The dance film Field Dances (2019) will be screened alongside a recitation of her new poetry.

Performance Mix Festival presented by New Dance Alliance in the Underground Theatre at Abrons Arts Center. Muyassar Kurdi’s performance is co-presented by ASM. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Tickets available in the link below.

Thursday, June 5th

Program A 7:00 pm:

Karen Bernard, Lisa Parra

Program B 8:30 pm:

Elle Sofe Sara*, Egbésola Efunyemi, jay beardsley, Jo Warren, Muyassar Kurdi

Join us for the closing event of our Mad World Group Exhibition, featuring works by David Anaya Maya, Alice Austen, Dakota Gearhart, Amina Gingold, Institute of Queer Ecology, and Zulu Padilla. This year's group show explores themes of Queer Ecologies and the natural environment.

The closing event will include a film screening of 10 experimental short films that probe the complexity and wisdom of the natural world.

Film Screenings

Act 1: 7-8pm

FLORE  by Emily Sasmor

Linden Beer by Eden Attar

Zoonomia by Yeon Jin Kim

The Gatekeepers by Zen Cohen

THE STIGMA FOG SAINT Wards Off Extinction by Angie Jennings

Stroad Movie by Pablo Garcia

*surprise performance*

30 min Intermission

Act 2: 8:30-9:30

Field Dances by Muyassar Kurdi

Our Mine by Shayna Strype

I Get to Have My Own Private Hope by Yue Nakayama

Fleeting but Prolonged by Ada Yueting Wu

Filipino food and snacks by Bibingka Mama will be available at the event.

Mad World 2025

The project celebrates the history of gardens as secret meeting places and sanctuaries for queer people, and features the planting and interpretation of non-binary and sex-changing species, such as ferns. We’re excited to keep with that same spirit!

tickets available here

Event Programming

1pm - 11pm: Fine art exhibition, pop up shop, vegan and vegetarian cuisine

5pm: Artist talk

1pm - 8pm: Experimental film screening spotlighting artworks about the natural world

8pm - 10pm: Performances

A group improvisation will serve as the highlight of the closing event of Andrea Haenggi’s exhibition on Thursday April 3rd 6-8pm.

UNDER THE INFLUENCE – BODY POETICS: A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR THE CAMERA (Maya Deren) + EDWARD SAID: THE LAST INTERVIEW

A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR THE CAMERA
1945, Maya Deren, 3 minutes

EDWARD SAID: THE LAST INTERVIEW
114 minutes / color

Screening: Friday, March 21 at 6PM
Tickets: $15 General admission / $7 Reduced Price

Curator: Muyassar Kurdi

"This curated program pairs Maya Deren's seminal 1945 short film A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR THE CAMERA, a mesmerizing exploration of the intersection of dance and cinematography, with THE LAST INTERVIEW (2004), a poignant conversation with the late Edward Said. Together, these two works form a powerful dialogue about the intersections of art, politics, and the human body, highlighting the ways in which creative expression can be a potent form of resistance and embodiment. The spirit of resistance that animates both films is deeply rooted in the body – as a site of expression, of oppression, and of liberation. Deren's choreographed camera movements and Said's impassioned words both attest to the body's capacity to resist, to subvert, and to create.” 

Diasporic Dreams is a sonic ritual by interdisciplinary artist Muyassar Kurdi. Weaving voice together with electronic sound, Kurdi’s soundscape courses through ancestral memories, conjuring a tapestry of diasporic experiences. Diasporic Dreams is contemplative, journeying sonically into the spaces between identity, belonging, and collective memory.

From Every River to Every Sea- an evening of readings and performances, hosted by PAGEANT and Wendy's Subway

RSVP for entry

As part of my ACF|Create 2024 commission

For Hind Rajab

A duo with Lucie Vitkova at Prospect Park, Center Dr/East Dr 11238, under the bridge

Closest Trains at B/Q/S at Prospect Park

Free and open to the public.

Curated by Muyassar Kurdi with performances by Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Muyassar Kurdi, Zekkereya El-magharbel, and Alex Zhang Hungtai

program information and tickets are available here.

Teaching a Masterclass for analog filmmaking. An interdisciplinary approach. All artists are welcome.

In the evening there will be a projection of my films in the cinema. The screening is followed by a conversation with Art Jones.

Workshop details and registration: here.

16mm film screening details and registration: here

Open to public.

Curated by Muyassar Kurdi

A special film program of Space Exodus by Larissa Sansour and Neptune Frost by Saul Williams.

tickets available: here

Cello- Lester St. Louis

graphic score- Muyassar Kurdi

location details: Prospect Park, South End

Sumud is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

Kinstillatory Fire series, free entry.

This is a fundraiser for Maysles, which gives kids neighborhood free lessons in documentary filmmaking and shows socially aware films.

My poetry will be shared as well as a short 16mm dance film will be projected in the theatre. There will be performances and screenings throughout the event.

March 29th at Ki Smith Gallery (170 Forsyth st). Doors will be at 7pm, music at 7:45.

tickets available in link below.

I will perform solo.

Also on the program:

Ras Moshe, Malik Washington & Georgia Wartel Collins trio 

Kevin Nathanial Hylton solo 

Alexis Marcelo/Will Glass duo

Location: Nublu Classic

More info TBA

50th anniversary New Year's Day Marathon at Poetry Project

Many artists involved including Meredith Monk and Patti Smith. Each performance is about 5 minutes long.

more details TBA