FUTURE COLOR
On a night when two diasporas mark their own histories of refusal, we gather…
Accented Projects present
FUTURE COLOR
A Black x Asian Futurists Gathering
June 20, 2026 · Box of Moonlight · Bed-Stuy/Bushwick
Future Color is a one-night gathering that holds two diasporas in the same room. Inside a 4,300 sq ft warehouse in Bed-Stuy, we’re building an evening that moves between performance film, conversation, dance battle, and rap. All in honor of the long, often-forgotten lineage of Black and Asian solidarity.
The night includes:
A performance film screening: Smuggling Back Through Play: Nostalgia, Capital, and the Postcolonial Stage
A Q&A with the artists
A 7 to smoke dance battle open cypher, judged rounds, full-room energy.
A live rap performance to close the night
Programming co-hosted with Accent & JMacDonough, in collaboration with Still Moving Co. and other community partners.
Why this date
June 20, 2026, holds two histories of refusal on the same day.
It’s Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had legally declared it. Freedom delayed, then claimed, then carried forward through red foods, family gatherings, and over a century and a half of Black memory.
It’s also Duanwu (端午节), the ancient Chinese holiday remembering the poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in 278 BCE in protest of a corrupt state. Villagers raced boats out to find his body and dropped zongzi into the water so the fish would not eat him. Two thousand years later, the dragon boats still row.
Both holidays insist that grief and joy can sit on the same day. Both keep history alive through food, gathering, and the body’s memory. Future Color doesn’t collapse them-it lets them share a room.
The lineage
The political and cultural conversation between Black and Asian communities is older and deeper than the news cycle suggests. From the 1955 Bandung Conference, where newly independent African and Asian nations first organized around shared liberation, to Yuri Kochiyama holding Malcolm X in the Audubon Ballroom, to Fred Ho’s Afro-Asian jazz, to the everyday solidarities lived out across Brooklyn blocks. There’s a tradition here. Future Color is one night inside that tradition.
Solidarity is a room. Come build it with us.
The room
Box of Moonlight is a 4,300 sq ft warehouse space at the edge of Bed-Stuy and Bushwick. A space the night gets to take over.
Dress code: Ancestral Futurism. Wear your lineage. Bring your tomorrow.
Details
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2026
Time: 8-11:30pm
Location: Box of Moonlight, Bed-Stuy / Bushwick, Brooklyn
Tickets:https://posh.vip/e/accented-projects-presents-future-color
Stay close
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Contact: accentedprojects@gmail.com
Artists
Hongru
Hongru (Pen name: Xiao Yan 林小颜）is a bilingual poet and interdisciplinary artist exploring language, sound, and visual media. Educated at UC Davis, Columbia University, and the University of Ljubljana, she co-founded AccentSisters, a vibrant New York art and literary hub. She has published several Chinese poetry books, including A Record of Chanting Dreams, Invisible Tel Aviv, and My Poems Won’t Wake You Up, and one English poetry book Café after Dawn. Her works weave culturally diverse aesthetics through meditations on memory and transformation. Eleanor Goodman commented that her Chinese poems carry “classic aesthetic values.” Michelle Yeh commented her poems as having “the beauty of purity.”
Poet
MotherDaughter (Jacqueline Coston)
MotherDaughter (Jacqueline Coston) is a violinist and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. A proud descendant of Bedford-Stuyvesant natives and raised in Hempstead, Long Island, she began studying piano and violin in childhood and has remained deeply connected to music ever since.
MotherDaughter has performed with the Harlem Symphony Orchestra, Litha Symphony Orchestra, Protestra, and the New Conductors Orchestra, appearing at renowned venues including Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theater. Currently, Jacqueline works as a freelance performer and composer, exploring the intersection of sound, healing, and storytelling. Her practice includes intuitive improvisation, sound frequency healing, and film scoring—an evolving journey through which she continues to expand the role of music in community and personal transformation.
As a conduit for space for reflection and healing. MotherDaughter invites you to receive each sound offering as a restorative force that speaks to the soul and moves the spirit.
Sound Artist
Visual ArtistJingyi Zhang
Jingyi Zhang is a New York-based artist working at the intersection of art, technology, AI, and visual culture. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the United States, China, Korea, Japan, and Brazil, at venues including Nguyen Wahed Gallery, Flohaus Gallery, Accent Sister, Brooklyn Art Cave, Yachang Art Center, CICA Museum, Moon Gallery/studio etc.
Zhang has received multiple honors, including the Young Talent Award at the 5th International Photo Festival Olten (IPFO), Photoville4600, Award Winner in YPF PHOTO AWARD 2025(YAKUSHIMA Photo Festival 屋久島国際写真祭), shortlisted for the Visual Art Open 2025 (VAO), the Silver Prize at Exposure One Award, and the Third Place in the All About Photo Contest and AAP Magazine, etc.
Bgirl Doghan (Yuehan)
Bgirl Doghan is a Chinese b-girl based in New York City area and a lifelong practitioner of hip-hop culture.
Breaking has been part of her life since childhood, taking her through dance communities across China, the UK, and the United States. Active in both underground scenes and battle communities, she is deeply drawn to cypher culture, freestyle exchange, and musical expression.
Influenced by break beat, funk, and hip-hop music, Doghan's style emphasizes musicality, individuality, and authentic self-expression. She believes the beauty of hip-hop lies in every dancer finding and embodying their own unique voice.
Beyond battling, she regularly organizes community breaking sessions across New York City, creating spaces for connection, exchange, and growth through street culture.
DancerJUBILEE
Alicia “Jubilee” Moore is a street styles dancer with a focus in the FlexN technique. She was raised in Hula dance, beginning her journey as a child at Halau Pa’akea Wai Lehua. In high school, she was introduced to Ballet and concert dance forms through her school’s dance program, eventually auditioning and graduating with the Junior Dance Company. She graduated from the University of Washington in 2022 with a BA in Dance and Mathematics.
While attending school in Seattle, she began studying traditional West African and Afro-diasporic dance techniques, along with other forms including vertical dance and post-modern contemporary. Since 2023, she has been training in the NYC street styles scene, and is currently active in the FlexN battle scene, debuting in the fall of 2023. In the commercial world, she has performed at NYFW and dance festivals with the Rose Up dance community. Since 2024, she has been active in The Den, a freestyle dance collective focused on healing through movement and honest exchange.