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Who We Are
Kinetic is a Brooklyn-based arts collective cultivating a creative ecosystem where artists of color grow, gather, and make work that matters. We bridge live performance, artist development, and restorative creative practice to build spaces that are both creatively rigorous and deeply supportive.
Our collective stands in the lineage of arts movements that turned neighborhoods into cultural hubs—where stages, salons, and everyday gathering spaces became infrastructure for Black and Brown creativity, shared spirit, and self-determined storytelling. In that spirit, Kinetic is building a contemporary arts platform in Brooklyn where creative work contributes to repair, shared dignity, and a more equitable future.
Our mission is to foster a vibrant ecosystem in NYC where artists, innovators, and culture-shapers come to deepen their practice and grow in community. Through cohorts, incubators, workshops, and curated performances, we nurture bold artistic expression, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the kind of public creative life where creativity and spirit can still shift culture.
Our Lineage
Kinetic is part of a long story of Black and Brown communities building our own arts infrastructure—creating spaces where creatives can tell the truth, recover breath, and make beauty in the midst of broken systems. Today, in a moment marked by cultural fragmentation, institutional fatigue, and rising spiritual hunger, we see our work as both creative and cultural.
We stand in the artistic lineage of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) and neighborhood creative hubs such as Leimert Park in Los Angeles. Those movements built theaters, workshops, open mics, galleries, and neighborhood businesses into living ecosystems of craft, mentorship, and resistance. Kinetic carries that legacy forward, committed to employing the power of the creative arts to build a living expression of what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the Beloved Community. For King, the Beloved Community was not a sentimental ideal. It was a concrete moral and social vision: a world in which racism, poverty, and militarism are dismantled; where conflict is addressed through nonviolence and repair; and where the flourishing of the most vulnerable is the measure of success. That vision is grounded in the biblical conception of shalom—a picture of wholeness and right relationship with God, self, others, systems, and the land. Shalom is more than the absence of harm; it is the presence of justice, repair, and mutual thriving.
Together, the legacy of arts-focused movements like BAM and Leimert Park and our vision of Beloved Community grounded in shalom function as our operating framework: they shape the kind of work we platform, the partnerships we pursue, and the ecosystems we are committed to cultivating around artists. When you connect with Kinetic, you’re not just attending an event—you’re collaborating in the ongoing work of building an arts ecosystem where creative excellence, organizational practice, spiritual depth, and justice are held together with intention and purpose.