All past events from our FF LOFT

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Return to the Story That Holds You

[October 25, 2025. 1:00pm EST (7:00 pm CEST) streamed live from Munich, Germany] “Return to the Story That Holds You” situates performance as a site of ancestral remembrance and embodied research. Drawing on South Asian heritage and Indigenous epistemologies, the work reactivates practices of communal gathering in which ritual, storytelling, and care functioned as modes of survival and connection.

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Esther Newton Made Me Gay: screening and discussion

[June 19, 2025, 6-8pm EST] Join us for a special virtual screening of Esther Newton Made Me Gay, a feature documentary that celebrated the life and legacy of cultural anthropologist, activist, and iconic butch lesbian Esther Newton. With a career spanning over seven decades, Newton has been a trailblazer in queer scholarship, shaping the foundations of LGBTQ+ and Gender Studies through her groundbreaking work on drag, lesbian identity, and the politics of representation.

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Return to Valhalla, video with the artist

[April 22, 2025, 6-7pm EST] Through salvaged artworks, travel videos, and recuperative actions, Return to Valhalla is an essay film that traces the scale of the personal against that of the epic. It has a particular sense of lost time, and of blurred boundaries between realities lived, imagined, and hypothesized. An obsession is lived out in pursuit of the elements of a 30 year old trauma: can what seems fated be rewritten through some digging in history, or language, or location?

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Koloto Siraji: NABBUZANA, the melting Moon

[December 14, 10–11 a.m. ET] This live performance will take place in Jinja, Uganda and will be broadcast live via the Franklin Furnace LOFT. "Nabbuzana" is an exploration into the depths of African traditional rituals, particularly the hwambula ritual in Uganda, which seeks to liberate spirits ensnared by human constraints.

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