UPCOMING
Friday, November 6
6:00 – 9:00 pm
The LP Storefront
1476 Fulton Street
November Liberation Series: Mycelium Movement Workshop
First Fridays, or Liberation Series, is a monthly, artist-led, community-building gathering hosted in our Bed-Stuy storefront. Each season is guided by an artist working at the intersection of culture, imagination, and collective power. Our theme for Fall is Joy is a Rhythm, where we embody collective joy with LP alum Fei Li at Accented Projects and cultural organizers born and raised in New York to practice rap, R&B, game, somatic movement, and hip-hop dance. Together, we’ll create joy through art, culture, and belonging across generations and diasporas.
For November, Accented Projects is partnering with Djassi DaCosta Johnson to present Mycelium Movement. This activation mirrors the alchemy of the fungal world: a somatic journey through Qi Gong, Kemetic yoga, and Afro-Diasporic dance toward collective transmutation. The room learns together, then loosens into a dance party with Belinda Becker.
Free food and refreshments will be provided.
About the Facilitators
Djassi DaCosta Johnson is a dancer, choreographer, actor, filmmaker, and doula whose work spans stage, film, television, and fashion. She has performed with MOMIX, Pilobolus, Bill T. Jones, and Urban Bush Women, and choreographed for ESSENCE, NIKE, Gloria Gaynor, and Joan Baez. A former Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of the Virgin Islands, she recently joined the Met Opera Ballet in El Niño and appeared in The Gilded Age. She holds degrees from Barnard and NYU Tisch, and teaches “Mycelium Movement,” a modality she created to reconnect people with ancestral earth wisdom. She lives in Brooklyn with her daughter, Luna Vera Lu.