VISIBILIZE-ING
Care Festival

Information Session will be held on Wednesday, April 30th at 10am - 11am EDT. See RSVP and Zoom link below.

About

Join us for our first Care Festival this Fall 2025

The Visibilize-ing Care Festival will be a multimedia, multidisciplinary festival that will kick-off in Fall 2025. Students, faculty, alumni and staff will be invited to showcase projects that creatively and critically explore all forms of care - between individuals; within communities, families and organizations, in cities, across the world, in relationship to our environment, and with ourselves.

What does "care" mean to us?

In times of upheaval and uncertainty, it is essential to prioritize care. We understand care as something deeply human and collective. Here are a few perspectives that resonate with us:

“Care is a specific activity that includes everything that we do to maintain, continue, and repair our ‘world’ so that we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment.”
— Joan C. Tronto and Berenice Fisher, 1990

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
— Audre Lorde, 1988

“We believe care should be seen as a social capacity and activity involving the nurturing of all that is necessary for the welfare and flourishing of life… recognizing and embracing our interdependencies.”
— Cherrypye and Nina Paim, 2021

Information Session

RSVP

Zoom Link

Application Details

Timeline

Applications Open: Fall 2025 / Festival: Late Fall 2025 into early Spring 2026

Who can apply?

We invite individuals or groups from any discipline or background within The New School to submit proposals.

Type of projects

Possibilities include: Workshop / Presentation / Panel / Showcase / Community Activation / Performance. Do you have something else in mind? We’re open to forms that don’t fit neatly into the categories above.

Selection

Submissions will be reviewed by a committee made up of students, faculty, and staff.

The Visibilize-ing Care Festival is sponsored by the Parsons CareLab and the Office of Equity and Belonging, and funded by The New School’s Provost Office.

Contact Us

Get Involved

CareLab is an ever emergent initiative offering diverse opportunities for engagement: Take a course, propose a partnership, attend a workshop, join our community of practice, feature your work, communicate about related events and initiatives, or donate.
There are opportunities to engage as a student, faculty, or organizational partner.

To learn more, contact us at carelab@newschool.edu.