Events
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: Healing Using Movement with Kierra Foster-Ba
Saturday, October 10, 2026
12:30-2:00 PM EST (9:30 AM PST / 5:30 PM WAT)
Online via Zoom
Join us for monthly Reparations Café sessions exploring how to reclaim integrated ways of knowing and being that safely connect us to one another and our ancestral intelligence. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson (Community Tour at the Met Museum)
"Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson" Community Tour
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Join Black Exhale and One Hundred Black Men for a guided tour of John Wilson's first major museum retrospective. Experience six decades of Black life rendered with profound dignity and power through printmaking, painting, and sculpture.
Free community event. Limited to 25 participants.
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: Resourcing Through Crisis
Thursday, October 23, 2025
6:30-8:00 PM EST / (3:30 PM PST)
Online via Zoom
Join us for bi-weekly Reparations Café sessions exploring how to reclaim integrated ways of knowing and being that safely connect us to one another and our ancestral intelligence. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" Community Tour
"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" Community Tour
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
12:45-2:00 PM EST
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Join Black Exhale and Akoben Institute (of Mahaba House) for an exclusive guided tour of the exhibition that inspired the 2025 Met Gala. Explore 300 years of Black fashion as resistance and cultural innovation through ritual and collective witnessing.
Free community event. Limited to 25 participants.
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: Resourcing Through Crisis
Sunday, October 12, 2025
12:30-2:00 PM EST (9:30 AM PST / 6:30 PM CEST)
Online via Zoom
Join us for bi-weekly Reparations Café sessions exploring how to reclaim integrated ways of knowing and being that safely connect us to one another and our ancestral intelligence. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" Community Tour
"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" Community Tour
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
12:45-2:00 PM EST
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Join Black Exhale and Arts Justice Safety Coalition for an exclusive guided tour of the exhibition that inspired the 2025 Met Gala. Explore 300 years of Black fashion as resistance and cultural innovation through ritual and collective witnessing.
Free community event. Limited to 25 participants.
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: “Imposter Syndrome” and Belongingness
Thursday, September 18, 2025
6:30-8:00 PM EST / (3:30 PM PST)
Online via Zoom
Join us for bi-weekly Reparations Café sessions exploring how to reclaim integrated ways of knowing and being that safely connect us to one another and our ancestral intelligence. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" Community Tour
"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" Community Tour
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
1:00-2:00 PM EST
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Join Black Exhale and Intelligent Mischief for an exclusive guided tour of the exhibition that inspired the 2025 Met Gala. Explore 300 years of Black fashion as resistance and cultural innovation through ritual and collective witnessing.
Free community event. Limited to 25 participants.
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: “Imposter Syndrome” and Belongingness
Saturday, September 6, 2025
12:30-2:00 PM EST (9:30 AM PST / 6:30 PM CEST)
Online via Zoom
Join us for bi-weekly Reparations Café sessions exploring how to reclaim integrated ways of knowing and being that safely connect us to one another and our ancestral intelligence. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: Boundary Work as Ancestral Healing
Saturday, August 9, 2025
12:30-2:00 PM EST (9:30 AM PST / 6:30 PM CEST)Thursday, August 21, 2025
6:30-8:00 PM EST / (3:30 PM PST)
Online via Zoom
Join us for bi-weekly Reparations Café sessions exploring how to reclaim integrated ways of knowing and being that safely connect us to one another and our ancestral intelligence. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: Boundary Work as Ancestral Healing
Saturday, August 9, 2025
12:30-2:00 PM EST (9:30 AM PST / 6:30 PM CEST)Thursday, August 21, 2025
6:30-8:00 PM EST / (3:30 PM PST)
Online via Zoom
Join us for bi-weekly Reparations Café sessions exploring how to reclaim integrated ways of knowing and being that safely connect us to one another and our ancestral intelligence. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: Boundary Work as Ancestral Healing
Saturday, July 12, 2025 @ 12:30-2:00 PM EST / 6:30-8:00 PM CEST
Thursday, July 24, 2025 @ 6:30-8:00 PM EST / 3:30-5:00 PM PST
Online via Zoom
Join us for bi-weekly Reparations Café sessions exploring how to reclaim integrated ways of knowing and being that safely connect us to one another and our ancestral intelligence. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
NYC Juneteenth Reparations Café
NYC Juneteenth Reparations Café
Decolonizing Our Inner Landscape
June 21, 2025 | 10:30 AM - 7:30 PM | Bailey's Cafe, Brooklyn
Join us for our first NYC in-person Reparations Café featuring three facilitated healing sessions exploring how colonial patterns shape our inner landscapes. Led by trained Collective Trauma Facilitators, these community-specific spaces create sanctuary for collective healing.
RSVP at Culture Push
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: Diasporic Connections: Healing Across Borders
Sunday, June 8, 2025 | 12:30-2:00 PM ET / 6:30-8:00 PM CEST
Online via Zoom
Join us for a Juneteenth month exploration of how Black people globally have developed strategies for protection, adaptation, and joy. We'll witness the resourcefulness and wisdom embedded in our survival strategies. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: Diasporic Connections: Healing Across Borders
May 24, 2025 | 12:30-2:00 PM ET / 6:30-8:00 PM CEST
Online via Zoom
Join us for a special Saturday Reparations Café exploring how collective trauma and healing practices manifest across the global Black experience. As Black Exhale brings its work to the diaspora in Germany, we gather to share wisdom across borders. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: Decolonizing Our Inner Landscape
April 10 & 24, 2025 | 6:30-8:00 PM ET | Online via Zoom
Join us for bi-weekly Reparations Café sessions exploring how to reclaim integrated ways of knowing and being that connect us to our ancestral wisdom. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
Reparations Café: UN Special Event
Reparations Café: UN Forum Special Event
April 16, 2025 | 6:30-8:00 PM ET | Online via Zoom
A special Reparations Café session offering embodied integration for reparatory justice discussions at the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. This space is created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora.
RSVP: cafe.blackexhale.org
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: A Diasporic Space for Collective Healing
Thu, Mar. 13 & Thu, Mar. 27, 2025 | 6:30-8:00 PM ET
Online via Zoom
RSVP @ cafe.blackexhale.org
An intentional gathering space for Black peoples in the diaspora to connect through ancestral wisdom and collective healing practices.
Reparations Café
Reparations Café: A Diasporic Space for Collective Healing
Thu, Feb 13 & Thu, Feb 27, 2025 | 6:30-8:00 PM ET
Online via Zoom
RSVP @ cafe.blackexhale.org
An intentional gathering space for Black peoples in the diaspora to connect through ancestral wisdom and collective healing practices.
Voices of the Ancestors: An Evening with Mara the Storyteller
Panga ya Saidi cave, Kilifi County, Kenya—where ancient stories whisper through time.
Reparations In Public Space: Reclaiming Sacred Ground
Reparations in Public Space: Reclaiming Sacred Ground
Immersive Art Exhibition
Experience powerful artworks by Ifeoma Ebo (Creative Urban Alchemy) and narratives by poet Antoinette Cooper (Black Exhale) that reimagines public spaces as sites of healing, rest, and community-actualization.
This rest exhibition weaves together Artificial Intelligence through Midjourney images, Ancestral Intelligence from New York’s African Burial grounds, alchemy through quilting, and liberation through language.
We invite you to treat the exhibition space as a "third place" beyond home/work/school—a communal respite to experience interdependence with the land and each other. While visiting, please daydream with the quilted artwork, leave an offering of your words at the Reclamation Altar, and support the vendors at the Flatbush Central Caribbean Marketplace.
Opening: Reparations in Public Space
How can we reclaim rest in a world built on unrest?
Join us for the opening of "Reparations in Public Space: Reclaiming Sacred Ground," an immersive exhibit that reimagines public spaces as sites of healing and remembrance. Through speculative design, poetic narratives, and community participation, the exhibit honors the historical wounds of African Burial Grounds while envisioning more liberatory futures for the collective.
RSVP for the opening event on June 15, 2024, 6-8pm ET, will feature:
Guided meditation and reflections led by community healers
Embodied movement with Kierra Foster-Ba from Shaking Spirit Waves
Collective altar-building to honor ancestors and sacred spaces
Interactive art installations inviting participants to share their visions for reparative public spaces
Nourishing refreshments provided by local Black-owned businesses
Welcome remarks from Rita Joseph, District 40 NYC Council Member
Workshop: Reparations in Public Space
Black Exhale, in partnership with Creative Urban Alchemy, invites you to join us in collectively reimagining spaces of trauma in NYC in order to transform the lands into healing spaces for the Black community. On Friday, October 20th we begin with a trauma-informed conversation, followed by a community-engaged design workshop using the Midjourney AI program to develop imaginary ideas for the Flatbush African Burial Ground in central Brooklyn. Here we will make sanctuary.
Register and learn more about the event here.
The Black Exhale Nest Gallery Exhibition
The Black Exhale Nest will be moved into the Weeksville Heritage Center gallery space for the remainder of June.
When not being used for private portrait and interview sessions for participants, the Black Exhale Nest will be open for public viewing tours, along with projected images and narratives in the gallery.
Come to learn more about the sanctuary space of Weeksville, and how we continue to create sanctuary in a paradigm that is still learning how to love the Black body. Come to embrace your own fugitivity as part of this liberation work. Come to understand why even the trees are a necessary part of our collective healing. Come to practice the distinction between witness, voyeurism, gaze and the other ways of looking.
Share your thoughts in a survey here.
The Black Exhale Nest Community Contribution Day at Weeksville
Community members are invited to make a contribution and offering to the Black Exhale Nest and the collective creation of sanctuary. There will be branches on-site to add to the Black Exhale Nest, or you can feel free to bring a flower, a prayer, a whisper, or a song.
Our Community Contribution Day will also include sound healing and a shamanic drum journey to invoke and receive the blessings and love of the ancestors as we prepare the Black Exhale Nest to witness, hold and transmute our collective ancestral wounds.
Building the Black Exhale Nest at Weeksville
The Black Exhale Nest build begins at Weeksville Heritage Center, located at 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, with youth participation from Recess Art’s Assembly program. 11am - 2pm each day.
Using organic materials gathered from Hudson, NY, and a former slave plantation in Virginia, artist and nest builder from the Nest Project will be collectively, and in community, creating sanctuary space to support healing the Black body.
Black Bodies Heal
This meditation gathering isn’t solely about finding your calm or being silent enough to hear the birds chirping. This gathering is about...
creating sanctuary for the Black body so that we can practice fully surrendering to a future full of possibilities!
sharpening intentions, elevating emotions, and getting beyond your exquisite body so that you can heal your body.
Black folk stepping into the supernatural, individually, and as a collective.
creating a melanated collective energy that can amplify your internal experience to be greater than any external environment!