In-Person

The current exhibition Flight Into Egypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features several artists whose works can be experienced throughout the MTA system. Join Akili Tommasino, curator of the Flight into Egypt exhibition, contemporary artists Damien Davis and (SPCUNY co-director) Chloë Bass who have artwork in system, and Yaling Chen, Deputy Director of MTA Arts & Design to discuss how artists have been commissioned to make meaningful connections to transit stations and to the neighborhoods, communities, and riders they serve.

A day-long workshop facilitated by Nishant Shah and SPCUNY Alum Alexandra Juhasz in partnership with the Digital Narratives Studio at the School of Journalism & Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This workshop explores the technological shifts experienced during the management of the COVID19 pandemic, profoundly altering how we come together as groups, collectives, communities, and people. Registration required.

*NOTE: Postponed from original Feb. 1 date!* What Else? is a series of co-created solidarity economy themed comedy shows. the shows will hold a practice of shared laughter as we answer the questions: what can the solidarity economy offer us, after and instead of capitalism, humorously, breathfully? how can humor make the solidarity economy compelling, inviting, appealing? what's funny and beautiful about it?

Activist mediamaker, scholar, writer, and Distinguished Professor of Film, CUNY, Alexandra Juhasz, announces the premiere of her latest experimental documentary, Please Hold (70 mins, 2024). Co-sponsored by the MIX Experimental Film Festival and Visual AIDS, emceed by “High-Profile NYC Drag Queen!” Linda Simpson, with a live performance by CHRISTEENE.

Join our SPCUNY Fellow Ali Motamedi for his Hunter MFA thesis show of 2025, Look Both Ways. The work exhibited will range from sculptural installation to VR, Photo, and Painting. Open March 6th through March 16th at 205 Hudson St. Featuring artists Meredith Bakke, Nava Derakshani, Max Eisenberg, Ali Motamedi, Magdalen Pickering, Rosalie Smith, and Emily Wichtrich. 

Please join us for “Choreographies of Survival” a Black feminist climate conversation between two SPCUNY alumni and authors Tao Leigh Goffe and Emily Raboteau who, although starting from different frameworks, both shine a light on the intersections of race and the ever-changing contours of climate risk in their new books.

The event will be followed by a book signing with the authors. Registration required.

This zine-making workshop (organized by SPCUNY Fellow Chy Sprauve) introduces participants to the pedagogical and political legacies of freedom schools in the Sea Islands and in rural Mississippi in the mid-20th century and asks them to craft writing that speaks to that legacy.

Join us at the Graduate Center for a talk about Art as Social Practice with SPCUNY Co-Directors Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette.

The persistence of the idea of the commons is expressed as action in the transnational urban squatting movement, and the many occupations impulsed by social movements. Alan W. Moore joins SPCUNY Co-Director Greg Sholette and current SPCUNY Fellow Ashley Dawson for a discussion of Moore's work on “occupation culture.” This conversation is on the occasion of the “ABC No Rio at 45 Years” exhibition at Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC, April 2025.