CultureHub's Pool Party

  EVENTS COMMUNITY CultureHub's Pool Party CultureHub NYC 47 Great Jones Street 3rd Floor New York, NY 10012 June 3, 2026 6–8pm ET Sliding Scale Tickets $25-$150 TICKETS Get your tickets for CultureHub’s annual fundraiser! This year, we’re throwing a Pool Party in our NYC studio on Wednesday, June 3rd. Come celebrate the start of summer (but indoors, with zero actual swimming). The party will include cocktails, light fare, water-themed artworks by Jackie Liu, Dahlia Bloomstone, and Rachel Stein and a poolside amuse-bouche menu by Rashida Kamal. Pool Party Committee: Maxwell Neely-Cohen & Jessie Char, Blair Simmons, Kim Ima If you can’t join us in person but still wish to contribute, you can do so here. If you have any questions, please email info@culturehub.org. Artworks on view: Fishin' for Average Caucasian Boyfriends (2024) by Jackie Liu is a semi-autobiographical Game Boy game (playable on a real Game Boy device!) about expectations, queerness, and the possibility of dreaming bigger.Based on a true conversation the artist had with her mom at a seafood restaurant, the game allows players to make the choice to fish–or not...What if we refuse to play the game? In Exit Sign<3 (2024) by Dahlia Bloomstone, the player walks through a long, damask and gold chandeliered hallway based on the one at the The Ritz-Carlton (a client favorite) and a text-fable unfolds as gold fishes clone and duplicate around her, follow her, and sometimes clone too much, causing her to fly into the starry sky and get stuck hanging there, but other times they enclose her in a hug, leading to a red 70% opacity sign filling the screen that reads “THE END, GOOD WORK AND LOVE HARD!,” which kills the player and puts her back at the beginning of the game again. Inspired by the internet phenomenon of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response), Water Portals ASMR (2025) by Rachel Stein is part of a series uncovers strangely satisfying moments through hypnotic sounds, textures, and visuals. Using visual effects, viewers are placed in a space between the real and imagined. The work encourages playful connections to our senses while blurring the line between the natural and synthetic. Graphic by Tee Topor