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Responses needed at this link by October 14, 2025 11:59pm.

This is a special invitation for the Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) network!

For one evening on Thursday, October 23, the King Manor Museum on Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, will host a sound installation from the project Sounding Data Justice, a collaborative effort between Eastern Queens Alliance, Inc., York College CUNY, and SUNY Buffalo. The installation will transform the rooms of the house-museum into spaces for listening to invite reflection on the long history of today’s environmental justice issues.

For more information and to RSVP, please complete the form at this link.

Visitors will hear aircraft noise recorded in Springfield Gardens, a Southeast Queens neighborhood where residents live with day-to-day noise and pollution burden under flight paths from JFK Airport. Members of the Sounding Data Justice research team will facilitate conversation in the rooms of the museum, a historic home significant in the early 19th century anti-slavery movement in the United States, just over a mile from the location of The Green (present-day Bricktown), a 19th century community of African American freepersons and formerly enslaved people that contributed to efforts organizing a Black press, advocating for equity in education, and building thriving neighborhoods for the self-determination of people of color on Long Island.

‘Sounding Data Justice’ is funded by the American Council of Learned Societies Digital Justice Seed Grant and is supported by the Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) faculty fellowship project, the Jamaica Forum for Public Art Otherwise.

Light fare and refreshments will be served. Admission and snacks are free!

King Manor Museum is a 6 minute walk from the Parsons/Archer subway stop (E/J/Z). Parking at the museum is available for those with accessibility needs (contact ebovino@york.cuny.edu). There is metered parking on surrounding streets and visitors can also use the reasonably-priced, attended, indoor parking garage at the corner of 90th Avenue and Parsons Boulevard, within easy walking distance of the museum.