Join artist Le’Andra LeSeur for a Covid-friendly, in-person workshop using language to connect and build community. In this workshop, participants will answer a writing prompt in response to audio sourced from Jamaica Ave by the artist. From there, participants will be given specific writing tools to break down their own responses to create a poetic rhythm of words to be spoken out loud at the end of the workshop. These poems will be recorded and used for a full sound installation set to open in June of this year for Jamaica Flux!

Spots are limited–reserve yours today! Guests will be asked to fill out a health screening form upon entry and to observe social distancing and other safety measures while in the building.

“There is Only Language Between Us” is a project by LeSeur that includes interviews and community spoken-word and writing workshops around the question, “What do you need?” LeSeur explores healing within absence, gestural language, and repetitive actions. As a black queer woman, visual and sonic fragments become a transcending element that connects identities affected by regulated systems of oppression.

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Jamaica Flux is a contemporary public art project organized by the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning and created in collaboration with various sites, businesses, and organizations along Jamaica Avenue in Queens, NY. The 2021 edition features 14 New York-based artists and collectives, many from Southeast Queens. First conceived in 2002 to address the separation of art from life, Jamaica Flux has since evolved with the community in every iteration to reflect the pressing issues of the times and to advocate for social change through art that is created in collaboration with the local community. Jamaica Flux 2021 is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, Resorts World Casino New York City, and the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.