The program
Three days at The Sixth Floor Loft, 873 Broadway, New York, September 17–19, 2026. This is the program of FLARE: Illuminating Endometriosis as it was presented.
Three days
The weekend
Thursday, September 17
7–11 PMCollector’s Preview & Artist Dinner
A private first look at the exhibition, and a seated dinner with the artists.
Friday, September 18
10 AM–1 PM · 5–9 PMExhibition opening
A daytime viewing, then the evening Opening Reception, with live music and the Self-Care Lounge.
Saturday, September 19
12–6 PMFlourish
The Artist Lunch, then an afternoon of keynote, panels and performance.
Saturday, September 19
FLARE Conversations
Artists, clinicians and advocates in the same room, speaking to each other in public.
Moderators: Priscilla Smith, Chelsea Hardesty · MC: Racheli Aye
3:00 PM
Joint Keynote
A surgeon and a clinical nutritionist opened the afternoon together, on the same stage.
Savannah Regensburger, MS, MBA, CNS
Clinical nutritionist, researcher and women’s health educator
Panel
Art as Advocacy
How art can share lived experience, teach others, build community and move people to act.
Panel
Life Beyond Diagnosis
Support, recovery, referrals and quality of life after diagnosis, treatment or surgery.
Through the afternoon
Performance
Two performances ran through the conversations.
To close
A closing word
The founder closed the weekend.
Priscilla Smith
Founder & Creative Director, FLARE
Live music
Four performers
Ariel Bridges, Carrie Wallace and Debra Stark on Friday evening; Ann-Marie Iacoviello on Saturday.
Food
Chef Guará Pimenta
Chef Guará Pimenta of Jazz Urbane Cafe cooked the weekend around a single idea: food that loves you back. His menus were built course by course for bodies living with inflammation.
Thursday was a four-course dinner among the artwork. Friday was passed hors d’oeuvres through the reception, and Saturday a luncheon before the panels.
From the kitchen
Relive the moment
Six photographers documented the three days.