Pioneers Go East Collective is a Radical Queer laboratory dedicated to dance-theater and video art to empower the LGBTQ and immigrant experience. Based in NYC, the collective is led by artists and cultural organizers Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Daniel Diaz, Philip Treviño, Joey Kipp, Hilary Brown-Istrefi, Jo Wiegandt, Anabella Lenzu. We portray same-gender-loving experiences, memory, and marginalization that resonate with contemporary lives. The collective combines stories of vulnerability and courage with popular culture to facilitate communal meaning and advocate for cultural integrity. Since 2012, our accessible and free creative platform includes performance and film, curated series, reflections/discussions, and educational programs for social change.

Movement Research, founded in 1978, is one of the world's leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms. Valuing the individual artist, their creative process and their vital role within society, Movement Research is dedicated to the creation and implementation of free and low-cost programs that nurture and instigate discourse and experimentation. Movement Research strives to reflect the cultural, political and economic diversity of its moving community, including artists and audiences alike.

On any scale Great Small Works productions seek to renew, cultivate and strengthen the spirits of their audiences, promoting theater as a model for participating in democracy. They collaborate with artists from varied traditions, provides performance opportunities for artists in diverse genres, and engages the participation of young artists in the process of finding their own voices. In community-based pageants and parades, the company works with groups of students, activists and artists to address issues of common concern.

Since November 1979, the Peoples’ Voice Cafe has been one of New York City’s premier venues for social justice oriented performing artists, most often singers and musicians. While these have included Pete Seeger, Odetta, Roberta Flack, Holly Near, David Amram, and playwright Eve Ensler, most Peoples’ Voice Cafe performers are not such high profile individuals. Although less well known, they are a diverse assortment of artists who all have something important to say and the talent with which to say it.

Admission to the Peoples’ Voice Cafe is by contribution. While we do have a suggested amount, we never turn anyone away for lack of money. Over the years, the Peoples’ Voice Cafe has met at various locations. Since September 2021 our home has been the Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall, where we present a show most Saturday nights from September through May.

The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood. More complex theater pieces followed, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners.