The Tomorrow Archive Volume 4 - New York Launch, 10.09.25, 7:00 pm

The Tomorrow Archive is a bimonthly publication featuring new or previously unseen art and writing available for sale in print. Future special digital editions are coming soon. Sales of the publications go directly to families evacuating Gaza. The inaugural print issue raised over $3,500 for six families.

The Tomorrow Archive organizers work with Gaza Champions to find families who need aid. Gaza Champions is solidarity collective of volunteers who are linked to families in Gaza as pen pals and champions to raise evacuation funds. This collective was founded by Anam Raheem, a writer and organizer who spent years living and working in Gaza. The Tomorrow Archive also works with their sister project, Gaza Memory Map, to ensure the stories of Palestinians are centered in all aspects of the publication.

Issue 4 NYC launch includes performances by Dahlia Bloomstone, Umber Majeed, Maureen Catbagan.

salakot sweat power: family tour and workshop

Huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined us on Sunday, June 22 at @queensmuseum for a Family Day full of art, culture, and creativity! From the powerful performative tour of the Makibaka exhibit to crafting colorful, one-of-a-kind salakots, you brought the stories to life with heart, imagination, and community spirit. Your creations and presence made this day unforgettable. Let’s keep telling stories, making art, and building together.

Special thanks to @arellanopandesal for the pop-up of delicious Filipino baked goods and to @nyfacurrent and @nyculture for supporting our work and helping to bring the arts to neighborhoods across Queens! #QAF2025

Handle with Care Performance at 601Artspace

On the final weekend of Invisible Hands, Abang-guard (Jevijoe Vitug+Maureen Catbagan) will be performing Handle with Care with special guests Louisa Lam and AIW home care workers.  The performance will be happening on Friday, Sept 15th, 6pm at 601Artspace, 88 Eldridge Street, NYC

The artists will discuss their works featured in the exhibition, No More 24! May Day Tapestry (2023) and Care Guardian (2023), followed by a meditative participatory performance including poetry by Louisa Lam and stories from AIW home care workers. 

Louisa Lam holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Queens and works as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her writing and poems have been published in New York Magazine, The Greensboro Review, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Perspective web series.

Ain’t I a Woman!? (AIW) is a campaign led by immigrant women home care workers organizing against 24-hour workdays in New York City. 

Invisible Hands is an exhibition curated by Emireth Herrera Valdés and highlights works by Abang-guard (Jevijoe Vitug+Maureen Catbagan), Margarita Cabrera, Brendan Fernandes, Jay Lynn Gomez, Zac Hacmon, Jamie Martinez, Patrick Martinez, Dulce Pinzón, Hernando Restrepo, Luis Alvaro Sahagun, and Betty Yu. Curated by Emireth Herrera Valdés. The show will be on view from July 22 - Sept 17, 2023 at 601Artspace on 88 Eldridge Street.

Featured in The Met Museum's Perspectives

An edited transcript of Abang-guard’s performative talk on Asian American Modernism accompanied by recordings of Louisa Lam’s poems is featured in The Met Museum’s Perspectives.