The Many Hands Workshop is a convergence space for NYC’s pro-democracy movements. The Many Hands Workshop 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. 

We have a critical 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 growing to rise to the moment.

Convergence spaces help us take back the story from centrists, soothe internal rifts and tensions, and ignite hope and possibility when it barely exists. Anti-globalization movements used convergence spaces to challenge and disrupt World Bank and IMF negotiations in the lead up to the “Battle of Seattle.” In NYC, the climate justice movement used a convergence space as a tactic for the 2014 People’s Climate March.

The Many Hands Workshop will begin as an 8 week pilot in NYC—growing our collective ability to use art and culture to fortify and narrate our movements power and resistance. The pilot 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.

Our Values engender frontline and grassroots organizing intersectionality, ecosystem support, and building the cultural power necessary to define strategic perspectives, shape public narratives, and skill up our movements.