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.

Starting in May 2026, Creative Time will launch Toward Sanctuary, a series of programs exploring the cultivation of sanctuary as a living history and ongoing aspiration inspired by Guadalupe Maravilla’s artistic practice and upcoming Creative Time public art commission. Events will take place at CTHQ and engage other spaces across the city, including a nightclub and an urban farm.