The Future is Present is a process and a practice,  it’s a model for building community in a very small and incredibly powerful way. Led by artists Charlotte Brathwaite, Justin Hicks, Janani Balasubramanian, Sunder Ganglani, June Cross, and Alyssa Simmons, The Future is Present built a small virtual community of Black and Indigenous young people and a small community of young artists from Bard College to spend seven weeks cultivating intimacy and discourse.

The youth cohort created demands on our collective future. The Bard community members listened, deeply.

The artists at Bard made a series of short films for the youth cohort, available to view here.