A quick update with some gatherings to make your spring equinox / new moon weekend full of delight, connection, nourishment, etc <3 some gatherings that didn’t make it in by the Third Quarter moon!

🌑 it’s the spring equinox so we are gonna climb on all our tallest things and celebrate the sun together and also balance just like the earth our home at Mount Prospect Park: New Moon (Fri Mar 20 @ 5:35pm). Bring your tallest things (stepladder, stilettos, stilts, etc) and your balance-buddies (slackline, exercise ball, roller skates). Also we will cast a spell on Equinox the fitness place for turning such a sacred moment into a symbol of elite consumption. Meet at Mount Prospect Park, the park between the library and botanic garden, not in Prospect Park itself (closer to the sun this way)! Free.

🌒 Return to Home Equinox Grief Celebration at Prospect Park Rose Garden: Waxing Crescent (Sat Mar 21 @ 3pm). It's been a long, cold, dark winter. 2 facts remain: It is still cold and Spring has arrived. Underneath, the ground is softening. Yet we've all grown our little icebergs just to get by. Saturday is the Spring Equinox of 2026, the Fire Horse Year. Ale and Amalia invite you to come (thaw) out with the collective. In community, we will acknowledge what has happened this season, celebrate that we made it through, and hold space to collectively attend to what has died - but is carried by us, (still) in these icebergs, each day, just to survive. Anna Tsing reminds "We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival". So we return to what we know: dirt under our fingernails, seeds between palms, bodies in proximity. We'll practice the small, necessary arts of tending: to the earth, to each other, and to what wants to grow next.  No expertise required. Just your willingness to show up, melt, and be surprised. This is how we practice on-going, not alone, but in the compost of community. Free, RSVP by 3/20 to amalia.mayorga13@gmail.com.

🌒 Sidewalk Study on Tastemakers in the Lower East Side: Waxing Crescent (Sun Mar 22 @ 2pm). Jonathan and I are leading this study on a text that changed the way I speak: Sianne Ngai’s Our Aesthetic Categories. We’re going to meander our way through NYC’s most/least tasteful neighborhood (depending how you look at it…) with her theory of aesthetic judgements by our side to help us hone in on what we really mean when we call a boutique store or trendy art gallery “interesting.” Free, RSVP by responding to this email.

🌒 Tidelands at Index Greenpoint: Waxing Crescent (Sun Mar 22 @ 7pm). Journey with us into the generous currents surrounding Sakhalin Island. Featuring bioluminescent algae performance, sound sea-scapes, and a stunning array of dishes that connect Sakhalin’s Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Indigenous populations. I have been reading 19th century Russian critiques of incarceration to prepare!! $130.