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Our mission at Holes in the Wall Collective is to help rebalance the world we’re in through JOY, CREATIVITY AND ACTION.
We give people time & space to do their work.
There is incredible work being done every day, and but there is often a lack of support, access and value given to it. We give people time & space to do their work their way, and offer meaningful feedback and unlikely partnerships.
Because nothing good has ever happened without time, support & feedback.
Across generations, identities and contexts...
Our programs are made to be accessiblepby design Celebrating collective knowledge, wisdom and experience across fields and perspectives. We work to remove silos, decrease polarization and catalyze whole system thinking.
Emergent & established. Rural & urban. Youth & elders. Lawyers & dancers...
We bring magic to the hard stuff.
Creating possibilities of joy, creativity and action to what’s otherwise overwhelming, debilitating, or deafening –whether with giant spoons, brass bands, or amazing meals.
Between total overwhelm and outright denial, we make holes in the wall of what is to see what could be.
We give people time & space to do their work.
There is incredible work being done every day, and but there is often a lack of support, access and value given to it. We give people time & space to do their work their way, and offer meaningful feedback and unlikely partnerships.
Because nothing good has ever happened without time, support & feedback.
Across generations, identities & contexts...
Our programs are made to be accessible by design Celebrating collective knowledge, wisdom and experience across fields and perspectives. We work to remove silos, decrease polarization and catalyze whole system thinking.
Emergent & established. Rural & urban. Youth & elders. Lawyers & dancers...
We bring magic to the hard stuff.
Creating possibilities of joy, creativity and action to what’s otherwise overwhelming, debilitating, or deafening –whether with giant spoons, brass bands, or amazing meals.
Between total overwhelm and outright denial, we make holes in the wall of what is to see what could be.
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We give people time & space to do their work.
There is incredible work being done every day, and but there is often a lack of support, access and value given to it. We give people time & space to do their work their way, and offer meaningful feedback and unlikely partnerships.
Because nothing good has ever happened without time, support & feedback.
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Across generations, identities & contexts...
Celebrating collective knowledge, wisdom and experience across fields and perspectives. We work to remove silos, decrease polarization and catalyze whole system thinking.
Emergent & established. Rural & urban. Youth & elders. Lawyers & dancers...
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We bring magic to the hard stuff.
Creating possibilities of joy, creativity and action to what’s otherwise overwhelming, debilitating, or deafening –whether with giant spoons, brass bands, or amazing meals.
Between total overwhelm and outright denial, we make holes in the wall of what is to see what could be.
Woman rocking it out in Prospect Park Brooklyn with the Giant Spoon, Summer 2020
Our impact is measured not only in numbers by the people we touch through our programming, but the ripples that come when you support people who in turn support others.
Whether it's a past resident like Kat Croft, who was planting the seedlings of her timely work Native Sisters four years ago, that's now in production, or Aika Swai, a scholar on decolonization in Cape Town, who created her website in our Fellowship program so she can present her prescient lectures to the global stage, the work of time & space can leave ripples that reach wider and wider shores.
We support the people and organizations already doing the work to help us rebalance the world we’re in, so they can widen their impact. We converge people across generations, identities and contexts so we have a better chance at finding whole system solutions. And we create the conditions for curiosity and the creative leap, towards collective liberation.
our impact
CREATIVE RESIDENCY
An artist residency not just for artists– done remotely, in the country and in unlikely spaces across NYC.
Revaluing creativity
Catalyzing process & impact
Accessibility, in cost & duration
4 years of programming.
150+ Creative Residents.
12 states & 7 countries.
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED ACTIONS
Directly & indirectly supporting organizations, individuals and new ideas within our 12 themes of the basic needs.
Models of mutual support
Coalition building across sectors
Expanding the basic needs
2 years of programming.
60+ organizations.
$10k+ donated.
3,000+ people reached.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS
Joyously & creatively engaging the public within often complicated, fatigued, or overwhelming subjects
Civic participation & unlikely partners
New & unexpected audiences
Traces & examples of liberation
6 years of programming.
50+ collaborators.
$20k+ raised.
4,000+ people reached.
ENVIRONMENT | ENERGY | EDUCATION | HEALTH | FOOD | CLOTHING | SHELTER | IDENTITY | DESIGN | COMMUNICATION | JUSTICE+GOV | ECONOMY
If we can bring joy, creativity & a diversity of thought & action across sectors, we can catalyze the work already being done to rebalance our relationship to ourselves, the earth & each other.
Pulse of Narrative workshop with Garrard Conley 2017 • Photo by Leah Haydock
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