Events
We provide tools and methodologies to help confront the challenges of our time. Join us for free workshops and events that incorporate community healing practices.
Currently on View
Incorrigibles: Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls of New York
Open by appointment until October 15th
Incorrigibles is a transmedia art project that focuses on youth justice and social services for girls, using the past to shed light on the present and a better future through art, storytelling, and healing modalities.
This work voices the untold stories of those sent to the New York Training School for Girls (NYSTSG) throughout the 20th century. Located nearby in Hudson, New York, the institution was established in 1904 as the only state-run re-educational facility to provide training for “delinquent” or “incorrigible” girls between the ages of 12 and 18, including jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald; it closed in 1975.
Artists include Alison Cornyn, Heather Greer, Amanda Krische, Rita Peress, Beth Thielen, and Diana Weymar.
This special exhibition features large-scale archival photographic portraits, artist books, embroidery, videos, several interactive elements, and participant contributions.
Past Events
Author Ona Gritz's reading, book-signing, and discussion
Saturday July 20, 7:30-9:00 PM
In 1982, Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered in her San Francisco home, along with her husband and infant son. Ten years earlier, she'd been a teen runaway, dubbed incorrigible and locked away at The New York State Training School for Girls, the notorious reformatory in Hudson, NY..
With courage and a detective's compulsion, Angie's younger sister Ona set out to learn all she could about her sister's turbulent life and unthinkable death. The result is Everywhere I Look, a beautifully rendered memoir of sisterhood, longing, true crime, and family secrets. A profoundly moving reckoning and love letter.
Join author Ona Gritz for a reading, book signing, and discussion with interdisciplinary artist Alison Cornyn, creator of the Incorrigibles Project.
Friday & Saturday, July 19 & 20, 12:00 to 5:00 PM
Sunday, July 21, 12:00 to 4:00 PM
Flower Essences
Flower essences are low dose preparations used to sympathetically treat and bring awareness to emotional, spiritual, and energetic wellness. They are homeopathically prepared and are ritually crafted from cold water infusions of fresh plants. Flower essence therapy was developed by Dr Edward Bach in the early 1900s to restore emotional balance, increase vitality, and encourage ease in the body. Flower essence therapy teaches us how to be our own healer, how to gain deeper awareness of our emotional patterns and, in doing so, sets us free from the blocks that prevent our most vital states of being.
In a flower essence therapy session, we enter meditation, a short somatic practice, and a discussion about your current sense of your life: How do you feel in your body? What do you long for? Are there any particular situations that are causing a block in your ability to be present? What are the primary emotions that you experience? Is there anything specific that you are looking to bring healing to? You are welcome to share as deeply as you would like. From there, I will craft a personalized flower essence blend that addresses what we speak of, and walk you through how to work with these flowers over the course of the next month. This short and sweet protocol is designed to help you anchor into the intelligence of your emotional body, build self-intimacy, increase self-regulation, and encourage healing that helps you walk a path of joy and authenticity.
Wand Making Workshop
Friday & Saturday, July 19 & 20, 12:00 to 5:00 PM
Sunday, July 21, 12:00 to 4:00 PM
Wand-making: the craft of power reclamation, is an invitation to join an art-making space, a self-organized community project hearkening back to the sewing bee. It values interconnected creativity and promotes individual and collective responses to feminist political and social struggles of today. Historically, wands have been seen as extensions of the self, whether to channel/transform one's energy into something new, or as a way of establishing a connection to a spiritual realm.
For our wand-making practice, we fashion a physical extension of the self, which requires reflection and introspection. Many of the women with whom we work are survivors in some capacity, often of childhood trauma. Repeatedly, we've heard how they felt like they didn’t have a childhood because of the hardships they had to endure and the responsibilities they were burdened with from an early age. We use wand-making as a creative and playful way to reclaim girlhood later in life.
Wand-making can simultaneously be a more serious and contemplative practice that allows wandmakers to channel themselves– their pasts, their presents, their emotions, their failures, and successes– into an object to share with the world. Wands have functioned as vehicles for telling life stories and reclaiming agency. Wands have also been made in honor of powerful women who are no longer with us.
Sunday, July 21, 12:00 to 4:00 PM
Sound Bath - Follow The Sound
Led by Tyler Beatrice and May Lin Le Gof, “Follow The Sound” is a 90-minute sound meditation that combines light breathwork, visualization, vocal tuning, and a sonic experience with overtone-emitting instruments such as kalimbas, chimes, and singing bowls. These modalities affect our brainwave cycles, neurochemistry, autonomic nervous system, heart-rate variability, and subtle energy in the body—all designed to invite the body and mind into a state of rest and contemplation.
During this sound meditation, the invitation is to engage in active listening. Through this practice, one can learn to focus the mind by tuning into the distance between sounds, the intervals between musical notes, and silence. These create an explorative space for one’s inner world.
Advance registration required. Please bring a yoga mat.
