Amsterdam Collective’s Directory features virtual offerings of healing arts, fitness, music, art classes and our collective’s documentary film project.
Since the pandemic started in March 2020, we have transitioned to our Virtual Directory. We’ve have also been sprouting herbs and flower seeds with the intention of sharing them to create joy and share health with our neighborhood. Come say hi to our baby kale, sunflowers, cilantro, parsley, sage, and basil.
Julieta’s mission with Casa de Cultura is to co-create a community art space ith her neighbors in Harlem Julieta’s home, a place that has always provided her sanctuary. She created She co-created this collective haven as a love letter for Harlem, a place that’s steeped in artists looking for places to exhibit and share their creations. Julieta curated events programming, with her close and extended communities. They shared interdisciplinary workshops, art, dance, herbalism, fitness, self defense classes, curated visual art exhibitions, film screenings, celebration, ceremony, healing arts, music performances, and artisan markets. Click here for the calendar. Check out our Collective’s Directory of virtual offerings.
Casa de Cultura is fiscally sponsored by Urban Creators Organization.
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The residency of 1608 Amsterdam began on October 24th, 2019, when the space opened with an artistic activism exhibition, the Free Lula group show, representing our collective’s core mission, to be a social justice centered public art center by and for Harlem.
On Novemeber 9th, 2019, co-founder and organizer Julieta Varela opened her solo exhibition "Alcoher.” This collection of work meditates with the concept of sanctuary, real and imagined, in both New York and Brazil, two places near and dear to her heart and identity. During Julieta’s exhibition she began to host programming including field trips and workshops with neighborhood schools, musical performances, healing artists, herbalists, teaching artists of visual, salsa classes, performance art, sexual education, self defense, food justice, environmental justice, skill shares, film screenings, sanctuary drawing card making for incarcerated qtpoc for F2L, as well as fundraising for artists and causes including food-drives and fundraising for youth education.
Amsterdam Collective has exhibited the works of Daze, Julieta Varela, Akeem Berry, Noemi Bilger, Yeka Garzon, Paolo Paci, Lyndell Brockhouse-Gil, Paloma Garcia, Barry Goldberg, Maverick Inman, Darren Joe, Dawn-Marie Blackwell, Christopher Walsh, Nadege Alexis, Taurean Davis, and Marco Da Silva. Collaborative collectives, organizations and institutions include Hamilton Grange Middle School, City College University and early college, Kadampa Buddhist center, Harlem Wellness Network, Ceremonial Souls, Athena’s Apothecary, Herban Cura, Soul Tribe Workouts, Queer Arts, Center for Anti-Violence Education, and Fight2Live and more creatives. If you’d like to get involved in supporting the sustainment of Amsterdam Collective Casa de Cultura, collaborating, &/or joining the mailing list please stay in touch by click here!
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