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Thursday, October 15
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Weeksville Heritage Center
158 Buffalo Ave
Shifting Systems for Change: Celebrating the 2026 Create Change Fellowship
Fellows, LP staff & community members gather to celebrate the partnerships built across the 6 month fellowship and talk about its legacy.
Shifting Systems for Change: Celebrating the 2026 Create Change Fellowship brings together artists, community partners, and neighbors to celebrate the completion of the 2026 Create Change fellowship. This presentation offers a public reflection on how The LP’s approach offers multiple models of how artists and organizations can build relationships, collaborate and create together. Hosted at Weeksville, and moderated by Rasu Jilani, these reflections will explore how artists and community organizations can work together toward the most pressing concerns of our Bed-Stuy neighborhood, concerns shared across many neighborhoods and cities: medical inequity, displacement prevention, economic justice, and environmental justice. Through a moderated conversation, Fellows and community partners will share their experiences, lessons, and reflections on the collaborative process.
ABOUT THE HOST
Rasu Jilani is an independent curator, cultural producer, and social sculptor who investigates the intersections between art, culture and civic engagement as a means of raising critical consciousness. The main objective of his work is to catalyze interaction between artists, cultural institutions, the local community and the wider public, in order to promote cultural awareness through exhibitions, public programs, and cultural events. Currently Rasu is Executive Director of Brooklyn Arts Council. Prior to Brooklyn Arts Council, Rasu served as the Cultural Network Curator at the Lambent Foundation. From 2016-2019, Jilani joined the NEW INC staff as Director of Recruiting and Community Engagement for the art-tech-entrepreneurship incubator at New Museum and from 2013 through 2016, Jilani worked at MAPP International Productions as the Director of Community Programs.