We have entered a critical era for storytelling in the streets, and we have a role to play in transforming our city and refusing authoritarian overreach. From No Kings marches and ICE watch groups to electing Zohran Mamdani, our movements are rising to the moment.
It’s a time of change and possibility in New York City. Visual and cultural work has a critical role to play in transforming our city and combating the rise of authoritarianism. Our movements are growing to rise to the moment. Yet, there is so much more work ahead.
From rapid response action support, skill shares, and community distribution of materials, this convergence space is an offering to welcome all to plug into visual and creative movement-building.
Whether you are an experienced artist, puppeteer, or it is your first time working with visuals, all are welcome to skill up together in the design and technical skills needed to make ideas into moments. Sign-up to plug in and check our instagram for news and events.
Many Hands Workshop is stewarded by a cohort of seasoned cultural workers in NYC including leaders affiliated with No Kings March, Planet Over Profit, Desis Rising Up and Moving, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace, Naming the Lost Memorials project, ACT UP NY, Gender Liberation Project, and Jews for Zohran.
Anchor organizations for Many Hands Workshop include Hands Off NYC, Look Loud, and Action Lab.
The Many Hands Workshop is a convergence space to mobilizes cultural workers, current organizing, and communities in New York City and nationwide to create visual and cultural interventions that strengthen pro-democracy movements, resist authoritarianism, and activate mass participation at moments of urgent political threat. Through shared production, training, and mobilization, we build the cultural power needed to shape this political moment and expand democratic possibility in NYC and beyond.
Convergence spaces help us take back the story from centrists, soothe internal rifts and tensions, and ignite hope and possibility when it barely exists. We need those things right now.
The Many Hands Workshop debuts in NYC, 2026——growing our collective ability to use art and culture to fortify and narrate our movements’ power and resistance. The workshop headquarters will open a new front door to the movement, growing networks of organizers, cultural producers and everyday people to ignite visual and cultural interventions that will grow our collective power in the months and years to come.