Thank you for organizing and creating!
When we stand together, our voices are louder. We are creating a new narrative. What began last fall as a spark continues to grow into a national movement of artists and cultural institutions refusing to be silenced.
Every new city, venue, classroom, gallery, stage, and public square strengthens what we are building together. To everyone who made May Day a celebration of solidarity, thank you. Now let’s continue reaching out and inspiring even more artists and institutions to stand up to fascism.
Let’s continue to organize, create, and make visible the communities and voices under attack. Let’s bring more art into public life and build solidarity where we are.
The next national activation: October 2–3.
Registration opens soon. Stay tuned.
#FallOfFreedom #ArtMatters #ArtAndResistance #Solidarity
In 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched unprecedented anti-immigrant enforcement operations flooding major cities with ICE agents, building new detention facilities, and ultimately deploying 4,000 agents to Minneapolis–St. Paul in what became the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history.
Communities fought back: organizing rapid-response networks, mutual aid, and massive protests to protect their neighbors.
In collaboration with @falloffreedom , we created a teaching tool documenting both the psychological terror inflicted on Minneapolis–St. Paul communities and the remarkable humanity of neighbors who refused to let fear win. K–12 students are invited to submit a collage envisioning unity, solidarity, and community care. Selected works will be exhibited to the public during Fall of Freedom’s October activations nationwide.
Youth artists, we want your Blueprints for Love.
This May Day, we remember that the fight for dignity, safety, and the right to exist without fear is not new and we know whose side we are on. Join Fall of Freedom’s May 1st activation and communities gathering nationwide for performances, screenings, exhibitions, and public actions by signing up for the Education Amplifier network and sharing this opportunity with your students.
🗓 Submit collages by September 15, 2026
🔗 Download the Open Call for Art + sign up for the Education Amplifier network — link in bio.
Fall of Freedom is a national call to creative resistance. Last fall, artists, dancers, musicians, comedians, singers, creatives, and venues across the country activated a nationwide wave of artistic action. From galleries and libraries to theaters, schools, and street corners, hundreds of events unfolded across 47 states.
What’s next?
Take part on May 1 and October 2–3, 2026.
Start planning your events.
Visit falloffreedom.com for more details.
#FallOfFreedom #ArtMatters #CreativeResistance #Democracy
SALSACTIVISM - Poetry Highlight
We want to highlight the poetry of our querido amigo @bonafiderojas
He’s been with us since the first Salsa event that we hosted in Sunnyside, and continues to support til now. Muchas gracias for all those magical words of lucha that you have spread in the events. ✊🏽
Catch us May 23 for our next event at @singlecutqns
Se les quiere familia ❤️
In 1896, Alfred Jarry’s seminal play Ubu Roi was performed twice at a cafe in Paris. 130 years later, an experimental revival of the play was staged at Theatre Row as part of @falloffreedom 's national Mayday movement. Written by a diverse group of 28 writers using the Surrealist game of "Exquisite Corpse," the script brings Ubu Roi into the present day, reflecting the concerns of not just a single writer, but of many. It was such an honor to partner with Fall of Freedom on this one-night-only event. Congrats to all on a truly successful experiment!
May Day in Los Sures: three events, one block, one shared mission.
From sketching + salsa at @timelessthreadsvintage , to an open mic at @ampmgallery , ending the night with a live performance by Los Chachos, at our sidewalk concert; the community came together to honor workers, stand against gentrification, and celebrate the roots of resistance in salsa and hip-hop.
More urban guerrilla art from the teen members of the Guerrilla Art Collective. Objects were placed in public spaces as part of their project aligned with @FallOfFreedom Looking to represent identities marginalized by injustice.
On May Day, @climateimaginarium and @climatecafe.eco were proud to participate in #FallOfFreedom, a nationwide cultural movement uniting artists, institutions, and communities in celebration of creative expression and in defiance of authoritarianism.
Visit us on Governors Island this summer to experience “Witness to Change,” our climate art exhibition curated in opposition to the obfuscation, erasure, and dismantlement of climate data by authoritarian forces.
Installed May 2nd, for my Street art workshop participants, in solidarity with @falloffreedom - If you missed us Saturday, do not fret! I’ll be leading another workshop in October. Join us! 🔥 ‘Interruption 430’, paint, plastic on video screen, 44 x 80 inches, Myrtle-Willoughby subway station 🔥#immigrantexperience #immigrantsgetthejobdone #abolishicenow #factsnotfear #intervention
🍊🗽🎨⚖️ Just a snippet, from yesterday's IG Live. Thank you so much @oikerry ! It was a really lovely way to hold space together for #creativity, the #arts and #justice. This is just a tiny portion... giving a shout out to the #orlandoartscene & our #Floriduh roots.
May 1st->May Day Rally to Shut Down Alligator Alcatraz.
• 'Fall of Freedom’ call to Defend Democracy thru the arts.
• United in Resistance of authoritarian forces sweeping the U.S. to:
-> End arrests without due process
-> End child & family detention
-> Protect refugees
-> Defend access to asylum
-> Fund communities, not guns & cages (NIJC)
”Fall Of Freedom"~ an ongoing national call to artists united & using our creative voices / talents against censorship & in celebration of freedom in creative expression & solidarity.
On May Day, May 1st, a movement of artists and art admirers gathered to resist fascism through exhibitions, panels, workshops, and so many other creative activities. On the day honoring the labor movement and workers, we were reminded that art can be a source of solidarity, hope, and community organizing.
I was honored that my exhibition, An American Son, at the @chriswhitegallery was part of the movement
In the spirit of the @falloffreedom and my poem, Creative Destruction, I hope you will use your art and creativity in the service of resisting fascism and organizing for a better society and world.
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
Creative,
embrace
All the destructive intentions
of art -
Enduring lies to be "faithful to nature"
survive
produce works
For the future is formed in the movement
