CultureHub presents
Re–Fest 2026
March 20-27, 2026
CultureHub NYC / Online
Link: https://www.culturehub.org/re-fest-2026
Re–Fest is CultureHub's annual festival that brings artists, activists, and technologists together to explore our role in re-shaping the future. Our 2026 festival introduces the theme Re–Mapping, which gestures toward experiences of re-telling, re-seeing, and re-learning. Re–Mapping engages modes of mapping as a creative process that resists maps as stable products of universal knowledge.
Re–Fest 2026 features workshops, conversations, and performances that initiate a two-year exploration of the theme Re–Mapping, offering participants ways to unlearn dominant narratives and understand their place in history anew.
Artists include: Chia Amisola, Isabel Beavers, Charlotte Brathwaite, adrienne maree brown, Cyd Cipolla, doplgenger, eho animato, Lou Fauroux, Yu Lee (ITP '24), Helen Lin (ITP '26), Yolanda Markopoulou, Wendell Marsh, Blair Simmons (ITP Faculty), Malick Welli
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Performances:
Hippolytus (in the arms of Aphrodite)
An immersive augmented reality theatre experience, rooted in Euripides’ mythic tale, the performance explores the tragic fate of Hippolytus—a devout follower of Artemis who shuns Aphrodite, goddess of love. As divine vengeance unfolds, the natural world descends into chaos: trees ignite, landscapes crumble, and catastrophe looms.
Directed by Yolanda Markopoulou
Produced by Athens and Epidaurus Festival
Performed by Paris Alexandropoulos and Vivi Fotopoulou
Friday, March 20th
Performances in 30 minute intervals from 5-9pm
Saturday, March 21st and Sunday, March 22nd
Performances in 30 minute intervals from 1-6pm with a break between 3-4pm
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Workshops:
Dismantling
A workshop led by Blair Simmons and Cyd Cipolla, considers the acts of dismantling and co-creating as political, social, and/or meditative acts.
Tuesday, March 24th
6:30pm - 9pm ET
$15
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lineage in loops
A craft × code workshop led by Helen Lin and Yu Lee that traces language, technology, and cultural memory through textile and computation.
Wednesday, March 25th
6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
$15
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Flowering a Computer
A workshop-performance led by Chia Amisola that plays with networks, ecologies, and computers as instruments.
Thursday, March 26th
6:30pm - 8:00pm ET
$15
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Conversations:
Deviant Play
Isabel Beavers and Lou Fauroux discuss charting queer histories and technologic fluidity.
Monday, March 23rd
1pm ET / 10am PT
Livestreamed & Archived
Anticolonial Gestures
Art politically and the Politics of Memory with eho animato and doplgenger.
Wednesday, March 25th
1pm ET / 10am PT
Livestreamed & Archived
Re–Mapping as Memory, Power, and Transformation
Charlotte Brathwaite in conversation with adrienne maree brown, Malick Welli, and Wendell Marsh
Friday, March 27th
1pm ET / 10am PT
Livestreamed & Archived