Thank you to all who GATHERED with us for a night of bending time and building futures!
The Laundromat Project Presents:
GATHER: Bending Time, Building Futures
November 19, 2025
6 pm – 9 pm
Crown Hill Theatre
Featuring:
Visionaries in Dialogue: Create Change 2025 Artists-in-Residence
A conversation with our 2025 Artists-in-Residence, as they share stories of art, resistance, and community-rooted practice.
Main Stage Performance: Big Freedia Live
A high-energy, can’t-miss performance by the Queen of Bounce herself—bringing powerful joy and celebration.
And special activations with Moon Mother Apothecary, Mz. Icar, Kinfolk Tech, and Olalekan Jeyifous
Event Production by We the Roses
Abundant thanks to
Our Community of People-Powered Donors
Troutman Pepper Locke
Amalgamated Bank
Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC
New Inc.
Read more about GATHER: Bending Time, Building Futures
On November 19, join us for an unforgettable evening of joyous connection at The Laundromat Project’s annual, community-centered celebration, GATHER.
Rooted in loving care and collective power, this year’s GATHER: Bending Time, Building Futures, becomes a site of reclamation where we honor the past, inhabit the present, and co-create the future simultaneously!
With sound, spirit, and storytelling guiding us, we’ll convene at the Crown Hill Theatre in Brooklyn for an evening that pulses with rhythm and reflection and invites us to bend time—honoring where we’ve been while imagining what’s yet to come. Visit our Spin Cycle to learn more about Crown Hill Theatre.
Our 2025 Create Change Artists-in-Residence will anchor the night, sharing their projects and insights that illuminate art’s role in community-led change and the many ways creativity becomes a force for collective healing. While the incomparable Big Freedia, the Queen of New Orleans Bounce, will bring her signature energy to GATHER, reminding us that celebration itself is a form of resistance and love—a living testament to our resilience and creativity.
We’ll also enjoy special activations, including AR experiences by Mz. Icar and Kinfolk Tech, a Dream Pillow Workshop with Moon Mother Apothecary, VR experiences by Olalekan Jeyifous with support from NEW INC., and grazing stations by Aunts et Uncles!
Together, we’ll honor and relish in the extraordinary work of our Artists-in-Residence, neighbors, friends, and every person who brings The Laundromat Project’s vision to life and helps us dream of what’s possible. Come ready to dance, connect, and celebrate. Because when we GATHER, we not only witness transformation—we become the transformation we seek.
GATHER dress code: Future Soul-where ancestral roots meet cosmic possibility. Come dressed in your vision of the future: bold, glowing, and unapologetically you.
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GATHER 2025 is made possible by our generous community of People-Powered donors.
Curious about last year’s GATHER celebration? Watch our recap!