breath door show

....to admit air or light...

breath door is a quarterly stand up comedy show that directs humor, laughter, money, attention and energy toward cooperative economic formations in new york city such as worker coops, land trusts, mutual aid groups, and other organizations.

our current home is the Brooklyn Coop Federal Credit Union - a local, democratically run, community-accountable financial institution that prioritizes making capital available to neighbors and small businesses instead of faceless, brutal corporate profit.

'breath door' is an older meaning of the word window. in times as spiritually, emotionally, politically, and ecologically suffocating as the ones we are in, how do we usher air into our lungs, our bodies, our lives, our relationships, our communities? with breath doors. laughter is a physical breath door, humor is a spiritual/emotional/psychological breath door, cooperative economics are a relational, political, and ecological breath door. AS IN - laughing and the fundamental transformation of our economy are how I (we?) breathe easier.

this show has been going since the fall of 2024 but was seeded long before that and nurtured by many places and people across time. to see the archive of performers and organizations check out our instagram.