Latin Dance Social
06:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Looking for a relaxed and fun atmosphere in which to dance? Come to our Latin Social Fundraiser where we have salsa, bachata, and cumbia. A free thirty minute lesson will take place within the first hour of doors opening. We ask for a $5 donation at the door; all donations go to the operations costs of Mitchell Street Arts. REGISTER HERE
¿Buscas un ambiente relajado y divertido para bailar? Ven a nuestra fiesta latina benéfica donde podrás bailar salsa, bachata y cumbia. Se impartirá una clase gratuita de treinta minutos durante la primera hora de apertura. La entrada cuesta 5 dólares; todas las donaciones se destinarán a cubrir los gastos de funcionamiento de Mitchell Street Arts. REGÍSTRATE AQUÍ
Latin Dance Social
06:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Looking for a relaxed and fun atmosphere in which to dance? Come to our Latin Social Fundraiser where we have salsa, bachata, and cumbia. A free thirty minute lesson will take place within the first hour of doors opening. We ask for a $5 donation at the door; all donations go to the operations costs of Mitchell Street Arts. REGISTER HERE
¿Buscas un ambiente relajado y divertido para bailar? Ven a nuestra fiesta latina benéfica donde podrás bailar salsa, bachata y cumbia. Se impartirá una clase gratuita de treinta minutos durante la primera hora de apertura. La entrada cuesta 5 dólares; todas las donaciones se destinarán a cubrir los gastos de funcionamiento de Mitchell Street Arts. REGÍSTRATE AQUÍ
Opening Reception: No Place For Self Pity, No Room For Fear by Ahmari Benton
06:00 PM – 09:00 PM
Ahmari Benton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans wet and dry media, collage, and textile art. Her work centers on interrogating boundaries, self-identity, and social identity within the realms of gender and race politics.
“Borrowing its title from Toni Morrison’s essay “No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear”, this exhibition embraces her insistence that artists must work, especially in moments of uncertainty. The works gathered here are anchored in the alchemy of endurance and the practice of ancestral forward motion. Across layers of surface and symbol, the work inhabits the threshold “where the flesh ends and the spirit begins.” It moves through polarities—fear and surrender, rupture and renewal, grief and propulsion. Endurance is not rendered as silent suffering; it is an active transformation. Wounds are transmuted into material. Strife becomes texture. Patience burns slow and steady, a disciplined flame that fuels forward motion. Echoing the emotional reckoning found in “Can’t Keep Running Away” by Hip Hop group The Pharcyde, the exhibition calls the self back from distraction and into accountability. To surrender to fear is not to succumb, but to face it long enough for it to become instruction. Guided by the principles of Sankofa (go back and get it) and Kujichagulia (self determination), this work retrieves from the past in order to move deliberately into the future. Legacy is understood as a charge: a responsibility to continue, to grow, to define oneself beyond inherited constraints. Like jazz and soul, the compositions are layered and improvisational—honoring lineage while insisting on expansion. No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear positions Black autonomy as an alchemical force. Closing a chapter becomes an act of agency. New growth emerges not in spite of difficulty, but through it. In this space, resilience is rhythmic, spiritual, and self-defined—an embodied declaration to deliberately stride, one forward step at a time."
Bachata
06:30 PM – 07:30 PM
In this Pay-What-You Can workshop (Suggested Donation: $20) Jason Suav, Debrasha Greye, and Sarah Brister will teach participants posture, hand position, footwork, several turns, partner switches (cross body lead, etc), transitions to different positions and improvisation techniques. The level will be beginner, but continuing students will be challenged with additional moves when they are ready. No partner required to come. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION INTO MiSA. Register Here.
Yoga
06:00 PM – 07:00 PM
In this pay-what-you-can class (suggested donation: $20) Sam Margason will be instructing a yoga class using a Hatha style vinyasa flow, while guiding the breath through each movement. Class begins with some mindfulness, breathwork, meditation and centering into the space, followed by some slow stretching. Then we will flow through many different yoga poses, and end by slowing it down once again with deep breathing and reflection. REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION. Register Here.
Bachata
06:30 PM – 07:30 PM
In this Pay-What-You Can workshop (Suggested Donation: $20) Jason Suav, Debrasha Greye, and Sarah Brister will teach participants posture, hand position, footwork, several turns, partner switches (cross body lead, etc), transitions to different positions and improvisation techniques. The level will be beginner, but continuing students will be challenged with additional moves when they are ready. No partner required to come. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION INTO MiSA. Register Here.
Latin Dance Social
06:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Looking for a relaxed and fun atmosphere in which to dance? Come to our Latin Social Fundraiser where we have salsa, bachata, and cumbia. A free thirty minute lesson will take place within the first hour of doors opening. We ask for a $5 donation at the door; all donations go to the operations costs of Mitchell Street Arts. REGISTER HERE
¿Buscas un ambiente relajado y divertido para bailar? Ven a nuestra fiesta latina benéfica donde podrás bailar salsa, bachata y cumbia. Se impartirá una clase gratuita de treinta minutos durante la primera hora de apertura. La entrada cuesta 5 dólares; todas las donaciones se destinarán a cubrir los gastos de funcionamiento de Mitchell Street Arts. REGÍSTRATE AQUÍ
Bachata
06:30 PM – 07:30 PM
In this Pay-What-You Can workshop (Suggested Donation: $20) Jason Suav, Debrasha Greye, and Sarah Brister will teach participants posture, hand position, footwork, several turns, partner switches (cross body lead, etc), transitions to different positions and improvisation techniques. The level will be beginner, but continuing students will be challenged with additional moves when they are ready. No partner required to come. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION INTO MiSA. Register Here.
Yoga
06:00 PM – 07:00 PM
In this pay-what-you-can class (suggested donation: $20) Sam Margason will be instructing a yoga class using a Hatha style vinyasa flow, while guiding the breath through each movement. Class begins with some mindfulness, breathwork, meditation and centering into the space, followed by some slow stretching. Then we will flow through many different yoga poses, and end by slowing it down once again with deep breathing and reflection. REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION. Register Here.
Bachata
06:30 PM – 07:30 PM
In this Pay-What-You Can workshop (Suggested Donation: $20) Jason Suav, Debrasha Greye, and Sarah Brister will teach participants posture, hand position, footwork, several turns, partner switches (cross body lead, etc), transitions to different positions and improvisation techniques. The level will be beginner, but continuing students will be challenged with additional moves when they are ready. No partner required to come. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION INTO MiSA. Register Here.