First Friday January 2026: The Year Ahead
Friday, January 9
6:00 – 9:00 PM
For All Ages
Free! Optional RSVP*
On the first Friday of the month, The Bronx Museum throws a free after-hours party that is fun for all ages!
Since the first Friday of January 2026 coincides with the New Year, we are hosting the event the following week on January 9th. All are invited to come and…
- Enjoy music from the Afro-Boricua diaspora spun by DJ Curly Nez!
- Participate in artist tasha dougé‘s project (Re)Vision Board Party: The New, Unfinished & the Becoming
- Collage vision boards for your New Year’s intentions using our free art supplies and your own materials (we encourage you to recycle your old magazines for this project and/or bring images you would like to include).
- Stay refreshed with complimentary light bites and beverages, including beer sponsored by Harlem Hops.
- Check out the powerful sculptures on view in Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald—which art critic Jerry Saltz named as his number one exhibition of 2025 in New York Magazine!
You are welcome to drop in for this event, but if you are planning on coming, please consider letting us know in advance with a free RSVP.
*Groups of any size organized privately and through a school, community center, or other entity must register through our Group Tours form at least one week in advance of their visit. Due to capacity limitations, groups are not engaged through this program. Thank you for understanding.
'(Re)Vision Board Party'
Artist tasha dougé describes this participatory project as follows:
“Yes, to the ushering of new visions, but what happens to the visions we didn’t complete last year? The ones that linger, evolve, or quietly ask for more time?”
“This (Re)Vision Board Party invites you to bring in the new and return to what was left unfinished, not as failure, but as information. Together, we’ll reflect on the visions that didn’t fully land, sift through what still feels alive, and reimagine them anew through a more embodied, intentional lens. This is a space to honor what shifted, what stalled, and what’s ready to be reactivated rather than discarded.”
“The Twist: this isn’t passive visioning. Instead of merely imagining, we’ll bring our visions to life through an interactive, bingo-style framework that invites ingenuity, choice, play, and real-time action. Each square offers a prompt, challenge, or practice designed to help you do your vision while you’re naming it, thus turning intention into momentum.”
“Expect reflection, creativity, connection, gentle accountability, and a good time. You’ll leave with a vision board that reflects not just what you want, but how you’re already stepping into it, new horizons, unfinished edges and all.”
“Come ready to revise, reclaim, and re-engage your vision… differently.”
Featured Artists Bios
DJ Curly Nez
CURLY NEZ is a proud Bronx native whose soundscape bridges the pulse of House, the soul of R&B, and the grooves of Latin rhythms infused with the spirit of her Afro-Puerto Rican roots. Her global approach to music has led her to share stages and spaces with Grammy Award-winning creatives such as Robert Glasper, bringing her dynamic energy to every crowd she touches. From spinning at the US Open, Gabriela's and House of Yes to electrifying nights at Deluxx Fluxx and venues throughout Puerto Rico, CURLY NEZ curates immersive musical journeys that move both body and soul. Every set is a celebration, a musical journey designed to uplift your spirit. LEARN MORE>>
tasha dougé
tasha dougé (she/her) is a Bronx-bred and based, Haitian-infused conceptual visual and performance artist, activist, and cultural vigilante whose work lives at the intersection of art, intention, and community care. Her multidisciplinary practice challenges ideas of identity, history, and iconography and explores memory, time, and nature through the lens of Black womanhood. She uses her art as a tool for reflection, connection, transformation, as well as collective imagining. LEARN MORE>>
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