Transatlantic Urban Commonses

The Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, NYC, NY, United States

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.

Cross Maker

Floor 4, Klapper Hall, Queens College Queens College, entrance at the corner of Kissena Blvd and 65th Ave, Flushing, NY

E. Adamo's MFA thesis exhibition at Queens College, Tuesday, April 22nd from 6PM - 8PM.

Free

DAING LAUGHING: Little Manila NYC Earth Week Comedy Night

Amazing Grace (2F), 6902 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, Queens (2F), 6902 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, Queens, NY, United States

Come join us for a night of community laughter and fun as we celebrate Earth Week  with a lineup of comedians at the Little Manila NYC Earth Week Comedy event!
Featuring: Kyle Marian, Dominique Nisperos, Manolo Moreno and more!

FREE

Galerie Lelong: Dialogues | Panel Discussion with Martha Rosler

Galerie Lelong 528 West 26th Street, New York, NY, United States

Galerie Lelong, New York, is pleased to present a conversation held in conjunction with Martha Rosler's solo exhibition Truth is/is not, on view in the gallery through May 10, 2025. The artist will be joined in conversation by fellow artists, writers, curators, and activists Coco Fusco, SPCUNY Co-Director Gregory Sholette, former SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Sherry Millner, and Ernie Larsen.

Free

Corky Lee’s Asian America: 50 years of Photographic Justice

Flushing Library 41-17 Main Street, Flushing, NY, United States

Join us for a dynamic community gathering to explore the concept of photographic justice through the late Corky Lee’s work, co-sponsored by SPCUNY alongside other community organizations.

What Else? A Comedy Show about the Solidarity Economy

Maker's Ensemble 13 Grattan St. #408, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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?

Give Light Labor Drawings, Posters, Art and Graphics from Movements Celebrating Labor History, People’s Art, and Popular Liberation

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W 43rd St, New York, NY, United States

Give Light: Labor Drawings, Posters, Art and Graphics from Movements Celebrating Labor History, People’s Art, and Popular Liberation, a 2-day event organized by SPCUNY current and former fellows Alicia Grullon (CUNY Queens College, PSC-CUNY), Ingrid Romero (Mi Casa Resiste, CUNY - Hunter, UFT), Jaclyn Reyes (CUNY Graduate Center, Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts), and Annabelle Heckler (CUNY Graduate Center), with several other CUNY collaborators.

Give Light Labor Drawings, Posters, Art and Graphics from Movements Celebrating Labor History, People’s Art, and Popular Liberation

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W 43rd St, New York, NY, United States

Give Light: Labor Drawings, Posters, Art and Graphics from Movements Celebrating Labor History, People’s Art, and Popular Liberation, a 2-day event organized by SPCUNY current and former fellows Alicia Grullon (CUNY Queens College, PSC-CUNY), Ingrid Romero (Mi Casa Resiste, CUNY - Hunter, UFT), Jaclyn Reyes (CUNY Graduate Center, Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts), and Annabelle Heckler (CUNY Graduate Center), with several other CUNY collaborators.

Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1

Center for Performance Research

Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1 by Kerosene Jones is the first phase of an experimental song, video, and performance cycle using archival materials to explore queer responses to harm reduction, particularly in regards to the ongoing opioid crisis.

Free – $25