Show Don’t Tell Symposium

Experiment, Play, and Observe at Culture Push’s Show Don’t Tell Symposium
BROOKLYN, NY — October 15 – 17, 2026
During their annual Show Don’t Tell Symposium, New York-based arts organization Culture Push will bring together artists, activists, neighbors, dreamers for critical conversations and experimental experiences at the Library for Arts & Culture branch of the Brooklyn Public Library from October 15 to 17, 6 to 9 PM ET.
For three days through workshops, presentations, performances, and panels, this year’s cohort of Fellows and Associated Artists from the Fellowship for Utopian Practice will engage the public with speculative engagements and restorative practices to grapple with social and civic challenges.
On Thursday, October 15, SENSORIUM attendees to play with their senses – namely sound, taste, and touch – with a place-based soundscape, a living, tactile dressing room, and a lovingly crafted food experience rooted in traditional practices. Led by Alexis Harrison (Jazz:Community), Haileigh Nelson (Taking New Shapes), and Mai’yah Kau (Gursha: Communal Eating Lovers).
During Friday’s session on October 16, around us // inside us uses multisensory experiences to invite attendees to examine our relationship with the natural world: that which exists within and outside of us; those we can and cannot impact or control. Led by ​Chloe Smolarski (Waterfront Patchwork), ​gil lopez (Kin Between / Kin Within), and ​Shenghan Gao (Invasive Kin).