Performances
Kinetic Presents
Kinetic Presents is our signature performance platform—centered on creatives of color, thoughtfully produced, and designed to move culture with depth, artistry, and care. Staged at respected Brooklyn venues like BRIC, each event is curated to showcase exceptional work across music, movement, film, spoken word, and multidisciplinary art.
These are not just performances—they are encounters where artistry, cultural reflection, and spiritual depth converge. Artists are given room to take creative risks, audiences are invited to lean in, and the moment often becomes something more.
In our broader program rhythm, Kinetic Presents anchors the cycle. It reflects the growth sparked in Creative Renewal Circles, the voices refined through Emerging Artist Cohorts, and the trust built across Kinetic’s creative ecosystem.
For artists, it’s a platform that elevates underrepresented voices, respects their work, seeds new collaborations, and centers creative truth in public. For supporters, it’s where excellence is resourced, impact is visible, and bold work meets a welcoming, world-class room.
Kinetic Sessions
Kinetic Sessions is our artist spotlight series—designed to bring audiences close to craft, process, and the cultural context shaping the work. Each Session centers one artist’s voice and vision. Whether it’s a set of songs, a cycle of poems, a short film, or an “unplugged” performance, the format gives artists uninterrupted time to share their work with integrity and intention.
Each Session includes a facilitated conversation and audience exchange that invites dialogue, reflection, and genuine curiosity. Artists don’t just present finished work—they name what formed it: the influences, tensions, questions, and lived realities that shape the art. In that sense, Sessions are both performance and cultural listening practice—an offering that honors process, not just product.
Within Kinetic’s broader program rhythm, Sessions function as a bridge: they grow out of the community trust built through Open Mics & Mixers, and they often feed into the bolder, higher-production work featured through Kinetic Presents. They are part of our commitment to artist development, cultural dialogue, and cultivating spaces where creativity can carry meaning without being reduced to content.
What to expect
A focused artist set, moderated dialogue, and live audience exchange (Q&A)
A consistent curatorial lens: artistry in service of personal, collective, and cultural flourishing