THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT + LEGENDARY
Not sure if you have happened to stroll by the Laundromat Project’s HQ in Bed-Stuy. Well, if you did, you may have noticed some new nifty work by the collective adorning the window.
We are so thrilled to share that this piece was created for the 2025 Create & Reflect – Window Commission. This window vinyl is an iteration of our piece Sonics of the Ancestors from our Diaphanous series, reimagined specifically for the Bed-Stuy site. At its center is a futuristic portrait layered with sonic and ancestral references, symbolizing a portal where memory, sound, and speculation converge. To ground the piece in Brooklyn, we’ve overlaid an architectural land use map of Bed-Stuy, subtly altered to read “legendary” and “and us,” creating a playful, poetic intervention that bends time and reframes the future as community-centered. Select areas behind the map lines are transparent, allowing natural light to shine through and animate the work throughout the day. This piece acts as both a visual archive and a roadmap toward liberatory possibility.
GATHER: Bending Time, Building Futures November 19, 2025-
6 pm – 9 pm
On November 19, join us for an unforgettable evening of joyous connection at The Laundromat Project’s annual, community-centered celebration, GATHER.
Rooted in loving care and collective power, this year’s GATHER: Bending Time, Building Futures, becomes a site of reclamation where we honor the past, inhabit the present, and co-create the future simultaneously!
With sound, spirit, and storytelling guiding us, we’ll convene at the Crown Hill Theatre in Brooklyn for an evening that pulses with rhythm and reflection and invites us to bend time—honoring where we’ve been while imagining what’s yet to come. Visit our Spin Cycle to learn more about Crown Hill Theatre.
Our 2025 Create Change Artists-in-Residence will anchor the night, sharing their projects and insights that illuminate art’s role in community-led change and the many ways creativity becomes a force for collective healing. While the incomparable Big Freedia, the Queen of New Orleans Bounce! will bring her signature energy to GATHER, reminding us that celebration itself is a form of resistance and love—a living testament to our resilience and creativity.
Together, we’ll honor and relish in the extraordinary work of our Artists-in-Residence, neighbors, friends, and every person who brings The Laundromat Project’s vision to life and helps us dream of what’s possible. Come ready to dance, connect, and celebrate. Because when we GATHER, we not only witness transformation—we become the transformation we seek.
ABOUT DIAPHANOUS
Diaphanous: In it’s full iteration Diaphanous is a multi room experience. An immersive collection of art telling stories and guiding guests through a whimsical imaginative collection of experiences and material objects. This collection blends art, technology, and history to re-imagine and re-tell stories of the African Diaspora that have been excluded or marginalized due to racial and gender biases. Each offering embodies a theme of something or someone that could only exist now but reframed as if it did exist in a prior time, space, or dimension. we have proken d down this projects into a thematic catagories, Going Places, Ile Omi: House of Water, Soft Spaces and The Bottom End. This group of work is an extension of our Diaphanous series. You can learn more Diaphanous here.