THRIVE NYC 2026: MANY ROOTS, ONE BREATH in partnership with Jahajee

Thrive in NYC returns with MANY ROOTS, ONE BREATH — a multidisciplinary art experience exploring identity across the diaspora.

Across oceans, borders, languages, and generations, we carry identity in fragments and in fullness.

This year’s exhibition invites artists and community members to reflect on identity as movement:
inherited and chosen, fractured and whole, personal and collective.

At its core, Thrive centers how diasporic Indo-Caribbean communities continue to thrive — through resilience, ritual, memory, resistance, softness, and imagination.

Jahajee: Indo-Caribbeans for Gender Justice

We’re honored to partner with Jahajee, a New York–based gender justice organization supporting Indo-Caribbean communities through arts activism, healing, and grassroots organizing to end gender-based violence.

Spend the afternoon immersed in art, storytelling, and community in the Lower East Side.

-Curated visual art exhibition
-Independent short films + filmmaker Q&A
-Bharatanatyam dance performance
-Live music
-Poets & writers
-Food & drinks included with admission
-Local vendors + community offerings

• One Day (@yazmeenkanji / @oneday.shortfilm)
• Doubles with Slight Pepper (@harnarine)
• Back to One (@sarah_desouza / @backtoonetheseries)

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

155 Suffolk St, 155 Suffolk Street, New York, United States

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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