AEW wrestlers taking part in sports, art & culture event
AEW wrestlers Thekla and Lee Moriarty are part of the upcoming Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture event.
On March 19-20, 2026, during the opening weekend of Game: Sports, Art, Culture event, where PAMM (Perez Art Museum Miami) will be hosting GAME TIME: Session 1—Dialogues on Art, Sports, and Headlines, a public event that looks forward to unite artists, athletes, curators, poets, journalists, and cultural icons, where they will be encouraged to take part in “electrifying conversations, performances, live events, and screenings.”
The upcoming event will also include the US premiere of On The Line, which is a documentary based on the lives of three professional fighters. AEW Women’s Champion Thekla and Lee Moriarty will also be present amongst all the other prestigious attendees.
The official website of PAMM lists Thekla as “Thekla Kaischauri (Professional Wrestler; Artist, House Show, MFA St. Petersburg)” and Moriarty as “(Professional Wrestler; Artist, Get in the Game).”
The rest of the participant list looks as follows:
- Hanif Abduraqqib (Poet; Cultural Critic)
- Alexandre Arrechea (Artist, Get in the Game)
- Paul Farber (Director and Co-Founder, Monument Lab; Curator, Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments, Philadelphia Art Museum)
- Tom Farrey (Sports & Society Program Founder and Executive Director, Aspen Institute)
- Desmond Howard (Sportscaster; Former NFL Player)
- Nora Halpern (Executive Director, Cultural Olympiad, LA28)
- Carling Jackson (Artist)
- Andrew Kuo (Artist; Host, Cookies Hoops; Contributor, The New York Times)
- Najja Moon (Artist; General Manager and Co-founder, The Miami VIS)
- Cheryl Pope (Artist, Get in the Game)
- Vincent Piazza (Actor, Tulsa King; Producer, On The Line)
- Francesco Saviano (Director, On The Line)
- Kelefa Sanneh (Staff Writer, The New Yorker)
- Tabitha Soren (Artist, Get in the Game)
- Franklin Sirmans (Sandra and Tony Tamer Director, PAMM)
- Isaiah Smalls (Founder, The 44 Percent; Reporter, The Miami Herald)
- Felandus Thames (Artist, Get in the Game)
- Dr. Damion Thomas (Supervisory Museum Curator, Professional Sports, Amateur Sports, and Leisure Activities, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History)
- Jake Troyli (Artist, Get in the Game)
- Travis Vogan (Author, The Boxing Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History and LeRoy Neiman: The Life of America’s Most Beloved and Belittled Artist)
- Summer Wheat (Artist; Commissioned Artist, Kansas City Chiefs)
More participants and the full schedule are now set to be announced on March 2, 2026.
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