The Laundromat Project Presents:
GATHER 2026: GET FREE!
November 19, 2026
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street (at Rockwell Place)
With very special performances by
Patricia Spears Jones
Staceyann Chin
Kai Diata Giovanni
Join us for an evening of healing, restoration, and collective power, including…
Divine LP alums, the Black queer and nonbinary DreamSeed Collective, who will be reading tarot!
A pop-up for Brooklyn’s buzziest community sanctuary, Gladys Books & Wine!
Limited-edition fine art zines for guests to take home, with original artwork by the Create Change ‘26 Artists-in-Residence, produced and hand-printed by Du-Good Press’s own Leslie Diuguid!
The LP alum archives and a preview of The LP’s first-ever publication, Sourcebook!
Come early to enjoy an open bar, our activations, and a viewing of the 2025–2026 BRIClab Contemporary Art and Video Art artists-in-Residence exhibition.
Abundant thanks to
Our Community of People-Powered Donors
How to Get Your Ticket to GATHER
Your ticket to GATHER comes with a donation to People Powered: GET FREE!, The LP’s community campaign. Here’s how it works:
1. Make a donation. Give a fully tax-deductible gift on our campaign page.
Every $25 you give covers one ticket. For example, a $50 gift covers two tickets.
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It may take up to 1 week to receive your tickets. Thank you for your patience. If you don’t receive a code, please contact [email protected] by forwarding your donation receipt.
Thank you for powering this work with us. We can’t wait to GATHER together!
Read more about GATHER 2026: GET FREE!
GATHER 2026: GET FREE! is The Laundromat Project’s annual community celebration. On November 19, we will bring together community voices and celebrated spoken-word artists and poets in an event that is both a homecoming and a declaration.
This year’s GATHER draws on New York’s deep legacy of poetry and spoken word as tools of resistance and liberation. In addition to the poets who shaped this tradition, we honor organizations and spaces like the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Brooklyn Moon Cafe, Cave Canem, and countless informal, everyday gathering places that carry it forward. Together they have nurtured generations of Black and Brown poets whose voices continue to shape Brooklyn’s cultural and civic life. BRIC House belongs to this constellation: a home where Brooklynites see themselves reflected. We are thrilled to gather there this year, honoring the spaces, past and present, that make room for our stories.
At GATHER 2026, we will name and honor the cultural contributors whose legacy we stand firm in and whose vision we carry forward.
The LP sits in the lineage of Brooklyn’s rich legacy of poetry and the spoken word as a tool for resistance and liberation at our annual celebration, honoring traditions shaped by poets such as June Jordan and Audre Lorde, and by community spaces like the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Brooklyn Moon Cafe, and Cave Canem, as well as countless informal everyday spaces — spaces that have nurtured generations of Black and Brown poets whose work continues to shape Brooklyn’s cultural and civic landscape.
Thursday, November 19, 2026
BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street (at Rockwell Place)
Accessibility information
6:00 pm Doors open; cocktail hour
7:00 pm Program and performance begins
9:00 pm Event closes
Advance RSVP required. Questions? [email protected]
Dress Code: Get Free, Get Fly
Come as your liberated self, in your best ’90s Afro-boho ‘fit. However you show up, show up free.
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Curious about last year’s GATHER celebration? Watch our recap!