A multimedia project in collaboration with SISTA Fire. A series of community collages representing the idea of Justice, turned into tarot cards and accompanied by a sound piece and sculpture called the Justice Portal. Community is invited to embody walking through and into Justice.

ART EXHIBIT • Featuring artists Shey Rivera Ríos, Feda Eid, Luana Morales, this was a reconfiguration of the exhibit ‘Nothing Living Lives Alone’ and its cancellation and censorship by Providence College.

WORKSHOPS • A series of workshops using art, theatre, and cultural practice as healing justice, by and with SISTA Fire members. This became the Healing Justice Committee at SISTA Fire, a reproductive justice organization in Providence, RI. We learn and practice Healing Justice as a political framework, using art and culture to address grief, cultivate joy, and generate energy for political organizing.

ART EXHIBIT • An art exhibit showing how artists and organizers in Rhode Island responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, art turns into ‘community portals’ that help us process grief and envision better futures.

ART EXHIBIT • A climate justice art exhibit that celebrates the deep relationships that Black, Indigenous, and people of color have with the land and the outdoors, including ancestral practices of land stewardship. Curated with and for Movement Education Outdoors.

PERFORMANCE • A futurist and queer Boricua story of familial grief, political upheaval, and Boricua liberation. A glitched adaptation of Antigone. We are welcomed in the Motherboard of Ancestral Technologies, an altar space between dimensions, where ancestors Antigona and Ismene are awakened.

PLACEKEEPING PROJECT • A peacekeeping project where artists were commissioned to create sound, poetry, and live performance pieces based on research about the waterways of the city. Providence Waterways is a research archive and multimedia storytelling project. Co-curated by Shey Ri Acu Rivera Rios & Seth Tourjee.

MULTIMEDIA COMMUNITY PROJECT • An AfroFuturist and abolitionist VR film and community-organizing project that challenges city investment in policing and state sponsored violence, and instead proposes a Health Justice Academy for futures of care and community-centered emergency response. Led by Vatic Astahili Tayari Kuumba & Shey Ri Acu Rivera Rios.

PLACEKEEPING PROJECT • A ‘placekeeping’ and public art project along Main Street in Holyoke, MA, that engages local artists in the creation of public artworks that honor the histories of the neighborhood and the cultural fabric of the long-standing Boricua and Latin community in Holyoke. El Corazon counts on an Advisory Board of residents, local businesses, culture bearers, and grassroots organizations.

PLACEKEEPING PROJECT • A bilingual public arts and health campaign to share resources and create awareness during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project involved 11 Latine artists wh created altworka for large public art vinyl murals installed in Providence Community Health Centers and important locations to the Latinx community in Providence.