KINFOLK: COMMUNITY
IMAGINATION WORKSHOP
Presented in partnership with:
SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2025, 2 PM
LGBT Community Center
208 West 13 Street, NYC
About the Project
Join the New York City AIDS Memorial and Kinfolk Tech for a Community Imagination Workshop at The LGBT Community Center National History Archive, a community-based archive that collects, preserves, and makes available to the public the documentation of LGBTQ+ lives and organizations centered in and around New York. Participants are invited to dream with the archives to explore the under-told histories of LGBTQ+ communities, and to imagine expansive futures through collaging and zine-making using the LGBT Center archives.
This workshop is presented as part of Portals of Remembrance (May 17, 2025—Spring 2026), a new exhibition featuring three monuments created by four renowned contemporary artists. The exhibition honors and illuminates the stories of underrepresented figures within the HIV/AIDS movement through three virtual monuments created by Derek Fordjour, Egyptt LaBeija, Tourmaline, and Jacolby Satterwhite, reimagining the New York City AIDS Memorial as a dynamic site of memory and empowerment.
This program is free & open to the public. Registration is required.
This program is part of the Third Annual West Side Fest. Organized by the West Side Cultural Network—a group of 20 museums, parks, performing arts centers, and cultural institutions located within a half-mile portion of historic New York—West Side Fest is a weekend of free admission, special indoor and outdoor programming, crafts for kids, artmaking for all ages, and more to welcome all New Yorkers to the culturally vibrant western edge of Manhattan. For more information, visit westsidefest.nyc.
Location
Kinfolk: Community Imagination Workshop will take place at the Center, located at 208 West 13th Street (between 7th Avenue & Greenwich Avenue), New York City.
Support & Thanks
Leadership support for Kinfolk: Portals of Remembrance was generously provided by Google.
Cultural programming at the New York City AIDS Memorial is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Support for Kinfolk has been provided by the Mellon Foundation.
Thank you to the Kinfolk Tech Foundation: Idris Brewster, Aja Evans, Angie Fan, Micah Milner, and Ravon Ruffin Feliz, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center and Lou McCarthy. The New York City AIDS Memorial and Kinfolk extend an extra special thanks to Karen Wong.
Banner images courtesy of the Center, photo by Travis Dubreuil.