What can a theater space be at a time when we need such cultural repair? That question has been presented as the reason for being at Upstate Midtown, an intimate new cinema opening September 19th on Broadway.

Analise and Seb sat down last month in Midtown Linear Park to discuss Seb’s creative process as he explored a new medium and prepared to share his comics with an audience for the first time...

There is tremendous power in collective healing. I realized this during my yoga teacher training. Every day, we rose with the sun and made our way to the shala where we would do more than just flow. We went deep into our pasts, our traumas, our fears. Over the course of a month, we carried ourselves through deep holistic healing work and I found the strength to bring that to my community. During my training, I imagined how revolutionary it would be if this level of healing could extend beyond th...

J9: I don’t know if I remember my first experience, but the most profound experience I had was when I was up in the mountains at this rastaman house where they play dub music on a Sunday night out of these huge speakers, big subwoofers just really, you know, body shaking the base line [laughs]. That’s where I was introduced. There weren’t any words; it was just the dub, stripped down. It was so low that I could sing as loud as I wanted to and bring something forward, so easily, so naturally.
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