CTHQ sits within Creative Time’s historic and ongoing work to gather artists to share tactics for creative political action. These engagements provide insight into what resources look like (to scheme), how we can share them (to act), and how we organize our community in building towards mutual labor and creative care (to dream). CTHQ programs bring together a broad range of practices that intersect to nourish, to play, to move, to be still, to document, to make, to be a neighbor, and more.

In 2025, gatherings explore the Sonic Commons—the auditory environment we all exist within—and examine how sound can be used as a tool for understanding community, power, and care.