Celebrating Nari Ward's "Breathing Court" with the New York premiere of [HOME TEAM] Dance Works

DATE:

July 22, 2023

LOCATION:

St. Nicholas Park, St. Nicholas Ave. between 133rd St. and 134th St.

9:00am - Youth Basketball Clinic

10:45am - Community Stretching and Breathing

11:00am - [HOME TEAM] Dance Works Performances

11:15am - Intermission

11:20am - [HOME TEAM] Dance Works Performances

11:35am - Community Stretching and Breathing

12:00pm - 3X3 Basketball with Live music by Jay Mumford

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Edgar Heap of Birds Reclaims a Long Island City Park as Native Land

“Of course all good and productive public art is often created for a community,” Edgar Heap of Birds said. “These citizens can use the work, add to it and/or be enlightened. Effective public art is not to only ‘decorate.’ The community adds to the work by playing/being active on the court paintings.”

“Our courts speak from a Sovereign perspective, in that to honor the earth, seas, animals, sky, natural world is a Native focus and priority,” he said. “Sovereignty is about origins and honor to offer the good as well as protect what we hold sacred, such as our youth and elders, those entities should always come first along with our natural world.”

Read the full essay written by Blake Gillespie at www.sacredhoopsbook.com.

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