Propose an event
Trans artists of all kinds are welcome to propose an event to be presented within our gallery exhibitions, or at a venue of your own choosing!
Upcoming events
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Affordable Art Fair NYC
Starrett-Lehigh Building, 601 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001March 18, 6-9PM
Trans Art Fest will debut a selection of art at the fair to preview the festival and get the word out. Work will be on view the entire festival (March 18-22). Subscribe to our newsletter to get a free ticket to opening night!
Accessibility note from AAF: “The Starret-Lehigh Building is fully accessible for people with reduced mobility. We also have a wheelchair available on-site. If you have a specific accessibility query, please do get in contact with us at hello@affordableartfair.com.”
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Black Body Productions welcomes you to Body Talk 1, a 2-hour somatic healing workshop grounded in creativity, mindfulness, movement, and more. This iteration is open to all queer and trans folks.
Sunday April 12 from 10am - 12pm at Sloane Art Center, opening soon at 59 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11201.
Registration information coming soon.
These workshops invite queer and trans adults into spaces of deep intimacy that ground our liberation work in collective somatic healing.
Signature Body Talks support participants to:
Begin an intuitive dialogue between body and mind and their relationship with creativity and space.
Cultivate healing collaboration between the left-side brain (speech, abstract thinking) and right-side brain (image processing, spatial thinking).
Engage the spiritual and somatic aspects of healing trauma simultaneously.
Practice slow, progressive somatic engagement with the nervous system (titration) through several artistic mediums.
Reconnect with embodied, ancestral knowledge and wisdom.
Body Talks are educational spaces. We share ourselves, our creativity, and embodied wisdom as resources for collective mental and somatic liberation.
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Join us for two daytime opening receptions, taking place two blocks apart!
Saturday April 18, 1-4pm
These openings are free, open to all, and kid friendly.The Puffin Foundation - Title TBA
227 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215&
Textile Arts Center - Gender Mend
505 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215Plus
4th Ave Yarn Collective
Yarn Mural, location TBD -
Brooklyn Pride Center, 1561 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
April 23, 5:45-7:45PM
Brooklyn Community Pride Center hosts a monthly LGBTQ+ Nude Figure Drawing workshop on the fourth Thursday of the month, generously facilitated by Charrow of Sketchy Queers (@sketchyqueersdraw)
Sketchy Queers is a figure drawing event for and by the LGBTQ community. It is traditional figure drawing and most of the models are untrained.
Charrow is asking participants for a voluntary donation between $15 - $30. This is to pay the model, and to cover the cost of materials; however, no-one is turned away for lack of funds! Please email justcharrow@gmail.com to request accommodations.
Registration is required - link to register coming soon.
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Black Body Productions welcomes you to Body Talk 2, a 2-hour somatic healing workshop grounded in creativity, mindfulness, movement, and more. This iteration is open to all Black queer and trans folks.
Sunday April 26 from 7pm to 9pm at Sloane Art Center, opening soon at 59 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11201.
Registration information coming soon.
These workshops invite queer and trans adults into spaces of deep intimacy that ground our liberation work in collective somatic healing.
Signature Body Talks support participants to:
Begin an intuitive dialogue between body and mind and their relationship with creativity and space.
Cultivate healing collaboration between the left-side brain (speech, abstract thinking) and right-side brain (image processing, spatial thinking).
Engage the spiritual and somatic aspects of healing trauma simultaneously.
Practice slow, progressive somatic engagement with the nervous system (titration) through several artistic mediums.
Reconnect with embodied, ancestral knowledge and wisdom.
Body Talks are educational spaces. We share ourselves, our creativity, and embodied wisdom as resources for collective mental and somatic liberation.
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World Transsexual Form is a monthly open mic and refined intellectual symposium for trans artists, every fourth Monday of the month at
Franklin Park, 618 St Johns Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11238
April 27, 2026 7:30pm open mic sign-up | 8pm readings | 9pm panel
Featured writer to be announced!
Open to all to attend. No registration required.
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Friday, May 1, 6-8pm
UrbanGlass
647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217Hot Glass Hangout at UrbanGlass is a free monthly demo series starring a multi-talented team of studio technicians, administrators and teaching artists doing what they love to do.
On May 1, join Lucky Kernan and more trans glass artists for a live demo! See the skills and teamwork that go into shaping molten glass, meet friendly local artists and shop a pop-up Studio Sale featuring beautiful glassware and jewelry crafted by the UrbanGlass community. Soft drinks and snacks are on the house.
This month’s featured artist: Lucky Kernan & more trans glass artists, to be announced!
Cost: Free! Or, if you’d like to support free programs like this at UrbanGlass, please consider purchasing a $10 ticket.
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Wednesday, May 6, 6-10pm
Life World, 563 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn NY 11237 (2nd Floor)
As a part of Trans Art Fest 2026, Trans Film Collective and Baby Teeth Film Festival invite you to an evening of trans cinema. Cocktail hour from 6-7pm, screening and Q&A from 7-8:30pm and a mixer from 8:30-10pm!
RSVP & ticket link coming soon.
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Join us at Puffin Brooklyn for an evening of short films, made by young trans filmmakers. Curated and hosted by Trans Film Collective and Baby Teeth Film Festival. More info coming soon!
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Friday, May 8, from 6-8pm
UrbanGlass: 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Join glass artist Lucky Kernan and a group of trans artists of all mediums to discuss and explore “queer mediums.”
Topics may include:
What are or are not queer mediums?
Is glass a queer medium? Why?
What does it mean to work in a queer medium?
What other practices or artistic mediums can be queer, or queered?
And more.Queer and trans artists of all kinds are invited to join the roundtable, bring questions of their own, and contribute to the discussion. Registration required, RSVP coming soon.
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Join us Sunday, May 17 at Puffin Brooklyn for a reading night of young trans writers reading their work. Presented by Chrysalis Magazine.
More details TBA.
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Brooklyn Pride Center, 1561 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
May 21, 5:45 - 7:45PM
Brooklyn Community Pride Center hosts a monthly LGBTQ+ Nude Figure Drawing workshop on the fourth Thursday of the month, generously facilitated by Charrow of Sketchy Queers (@sketchyqueersdraw)
Sketchy Queers is a figure drawing event for and by the LGBTQ community. It is traditional figure drawing and most of the models are untrained.
Charrow is asking participants for a voluntary donation between $15 - $30. This is to pay the model, and to cover the cost of materials; however, no-one is turned away for lack of funds! Please email justcharrow@gmail.com to request accommodations.
Registration is required - link to register coming soon.
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World Transsexual Form is a monthly open mic and refined intellectual symposium for trans artists, every fourth Monday of the month at
Franklin Park, 618 St Johns Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11238
May 25, 2026 7:30pm open mic sign-up | 8pm readings | 9pm panel
Featured writer to be announced!
Open to all to attend. No registration required.
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Basketdolls- In Transition
A One Day Art ExhibitionMay 30th
Open at 3pm, games at 4pmThe Basketball Court at Thomas Boyland Park
27 Furman Ave
Brooklyn, NY, 11207