Fresh off a solstice summit, surrendering to the summer season, blessed by beach raves and puppet parades, the vibrant energy of this season doesn’t let up. Perhaps the busiest couple of weeks are ahead, as the Summer of Ludd kicks off. What’s the Summer of Ludd? Well, you might learn more about it by watching this interview with Hasan Minhaj, reading the full run-down of events via Nick’s calendar, dialing 347-814-5194, or — the best way — just showing up! Starting June 28, the city will come alive with free, public, participatory programming particularly centered in Tompkins Square Park. There’s a wealth of great offerings, but I’m sharing the highlights below — stuff I’m hosting or in. Hope to see yall there!

🌔 Elemental: Air at Saratoga Park: Waxing Gibbous (Tue Jun 23 @ 6pm). Element 3 in Kayla and Miranda’s art + food event series. This time, make dried citrus garlands while sharing in good vibes, community, and yummy homemade food. $35 suggested.

🌔 The Spectacular Vermin Sisters: Taking Back What’s Ratfully Ours at Brooklyn Comedy Collective: Waxing Gibbous (Wed Jun 24 @ 7pm). Before they bring it to Edinburgh Fringe, Amelia and Ari share their comedy show in Brooklyn! Sister showgirls shown up (perhaps?) by their rat shadows, so I hear.. $13.70

🌔 Chestnut: Far From Home at Pete’s Candy Store: Waxing Gibbous (Thu Jun 25 @ 7pm). I’m gonna be missing this one to teach the last seminar of The Party, but wish I could be there, as last time was my first ever time doing impromptu storytelling in front of an audience and I really enjoyed it! Free.

🌕 Sunday Pride with ACT UP at Thompson St & WashSq South: Full Moon (Sun Jun 28 @ 12pm). Skip the ticketed nonsense and corporate-captured pride festivities and perhaps enjoy something a tad more radical with ACT UP. Free.

🌕 Summer of Ludd Opening Ceremony: Full Moon (Sun Jun 28 @ 5pm). The story of the original luddites, followed by a ritual welcoming to the summer of ludd. Luddite renaissance, today! Free.

🌕 Strawberry Moon Ritual at Fort Greene Park: Full Moon (Mon Jun 29 @ 8pm). Honor the full strawberry moon with an offering of something strawberry related for our communal altar. We’ll gather atop the hill, east of the monument, with rituals to start at 8:30. Don’t be late! Free.

🌕 March to Palantir at 63 5th Ave: Full Moon (Tue Jun 30 @ 3:30pm). Direct action, luddite style : soap boxes, speeches, magick, maybe me as peter thiel again… who knows! Free.

🌕 New Rat City at Tompkins Square Park: Full Moon (Tue Jun 30 @ 8pm). I love rats. You could learn to love them, too! Let’s hang out with the rats, learn more about their lives, and leave with a better appreciation for our neighbors. Free.

🌖 Leafing Out at Tompkins Square Park: Waning Gibbous (Wed Jul 1 @ 3pm). Leaves are full of stories. Learn to read them, learn to tell them. Free.

🌖 We Are All Already Cyborgs at Tompkins Square Park: Waning Gibbous (Wed Jul 1 @ 5pm). Donna Haraway: “By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.” Together we’ll investigate this statement using our bodies, minds, and spirits. Free.

🌖 Computer Care Cafe at 15 Rutherford Place: Waning Gibbous (Thu Jul 2 @ 7pm). Engage in a ritual cleansing of a personal device and build a more lucid relationship with technology — set up anti-surveillance tech stacks, activate a dumphone, etc. Care for yourself, too, with tea, pastries, and some light spa treatments. Free.

🌖 LET’S GET OFF TOGETHER at telos.haus: Waning Gibbous (Fri Jul 3 @ 10pm). All night dance party and celebration of nightlife as it’s meant to be: free from the grip of greedy tech platforms. Weaving together immersive art, facilitated experiences, ritual, magick, pageantry, and DJ sets. Come dance! $15-20 suggested donation.

🌖 S.H.I.T.P.H.O.N.E. at Tompkins Square Park: Waning Gibbous (Sat Jul 4 @ 2pm). Scathing Hatred of Information Technology and the Passionate Hemorrhaging of Our Neoliberal Experience… protest the nation of empire and consumption while wearing a gnome hat. Free.

🌖 Fourth of July Rooftop Party in Bed-Stuy: Waning Gibbous (Sat Jul 4 @ 7pm). Your favorite neighborhood rooftop will be open for dancing , grilling , and viewing the fire works on July 4th. Tunes provided by DJ city down. BYOB, your swimsuit, or something to grill ! Free.

🌖 Beach Kookout for a New America at Beach 90th St, Rockaway: Waning Gibbous (Sat Jul 4 @ 8pm). Kite flying, group rituals, envisioning a new america, go crazy. Free.

🌗 Summer of Ludd Closing Ceremony at Tompkins Square Park: Last Quarter (Sun Jul 5 @ 5pm). May Lady Ludd guide us into the future, and may our bodies be companions as we strive into the unknown and integrate a week of revelry and revolution into our lives. Free.