RECESS

RECESS is a monthly public performance series where both works-in-progress and established pieces can be shared in an intimate setting. Innovation. Experimentation. Deep dives. Creative reviews. It’s all welcome here! RECESS is a safe space for exploration and forging new artistic connections. We offer a public program, performance series, network, platform, and ongoing opportunity to engage performers, patrons, artists, and audience members in a night of performance and creative dialogue. RECESS continues to promote and celebrate the work of diverse artists, in solidarity, throughout 2025 and onward.

ANNE GALVĀO

WHO WEAVES THE BLANKET OF THE WORLD:
an Autobiography Documentary by Anne Galvão

 


This film is a deeply personal and poetic journey that weaves themes of intergenerational memory of woman, migration, lesbian identity, childhood sexual abuse, and mental health — all anchored in a search for healing through ancestral reconnection. One of the main reasons I created this work is to confront the persistent taboo around child sexual abuse, which often occurs within the home and is silenced by families unable or unwilling to recognize a perpetrator in their midst. The physical and psychological consequences — including STIs in children — are devastating, yet rarely discussed. The film also explores how society often frames lesbian identity as a symptom of trauma, something to be corrected or cured, especially in the context of these abuses. (Run time: 75 Minutes, with talk back.)

Chez Bushwick branch of JBAF
304 Boerum Street #23
Brooklyn, NY 11206
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