Gathering and Giving Thanks
Welcome to the PORCH! A room with a view. A threshold. A beginning. A place of comfort and discovery. A place of exchange. Sweet hellos and melancholic farewells. Since May 2025, the PORCH has been ours – yours and mine – to embrace our past, celebrate our present, and prepare for our future. Here on the PORCH, we gather, reflect and give thanks as we sing, dance, laugh, learn, play and remember, for a farewell salute to this place of welcoming, discovery and transformation, together!
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Friday, November 21
10 am - Porch Life
Hands-on Building by Somewhere Studio
Words on Water: Venice by Akima Brackeen, 2026 American Academy in Rome Fellow (FAAR)
Site Unscreened by Tameka Baba, 2026 American Academy in Rome Fellow (FAAR)
Music with Kalyn Fay & Olivia McGraw
10 am - 12 pm - Leopold Benches: A P(o)or(t)ch Theater
11 am - 1 pm - Porch Moves Screening in Rotunda
12 pm - Music with Kalyn Fay & Olivia McGraw
1 pm - 1:30 pm - Design Dialogues with Stephen Burks and Malika Leiper, Stephen Burks - Man Made
1:30 pm - 3 pm - Conversation with Akima Brackeen and Tameka Baba, 2026 FAAR
3 pm - Design Dialogues with Lee Quill, Cunningham | Quill Architects
4 pm - Design Dialogues with Eddie Jones, Jones Studio
