Public Impact Programs
Impact programs power curated partnerships for corporate brands and institutions leveraging social responsibility to drive change.
With institutional and corporate support, NK Labs has partnered with the Harlem Cultural Festival and the HCF Foundation to develop its inaugural exhibitions and artist-devlopment lab programs via the (Un) Invisible Project.
Inaugural Development Labs
MuXical PoetiX
Excerpts from this inaugural Audio-Book launch a series of Art-House films and multi-form immersive stories that use poetry, music, and movement to deconstruct themes of memory, migration, and survival.
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Experimental Micro-Shorts
Dark Musical Comedy.
“Day Oh” interweaves the multi-generational curse of British Caribbean Identity and migration through chronicles of a Jamaican Preacher, his Prodigal Rasta Son, and the estranged Gay Grandson they’ve never met. -
Experimental Micro-Shorts.
Dark Musical Comedy.
Popular folk music and dance from Colonial Jamaica unravel the deaths of three deaths in the present while Una Marson’s breakdown confronts the poetic legacy of being silenced in the past. -
Experimental Micro-Short.
Dark Musical Comedy.
Inspired by “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay, six contemporary Afro-Diasporic Identities unfold stories of surviving life itself in a series of cinematic vignettes set in Harlem.
The Turning Points Theatre Lab
This groundbreaking multi-media lab is committed to empowering emerging and underrepresented playwrights and redefining contemporary and site-specific theatre by transforming how stories are told and experienced.
The lab will introduce its inaugural 3-Act play and present a collection of 4 short plays by Black & Caribbean playwrights that challenge the possibilities of new-era location-based theatre and our world of story.
Story-Lab Programs
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The Future Past
Immersive theatrical showcases push the boundaries of realism with sensory performing arts, right at our fingertips. The inaugural program introduces the Heritage Theatre Lab Spotlight and the Turning Points Multi-Media Development Lab.
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Think Bri(Bridge)+Ink(Stories): this development lab brings diverse stories to life through collaboration, community, and partnerships and introduces The Bridge Film Development Workshop and The +Ink Writer’s Room.