Ending Housing Precarity
NYC's Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz will discuss the current housing crisis with activists, scholars, and CUNY students.
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Ignea: An Exchange About Nesting Technologies
Kingsborough Art Museum 2001 Oriental Blvd., Brooklyn, NY, United StatesIgnea: An Exchange About Nesting Technologies gathers audiences around a built fire to talk about possible ways to inhabit the planet, taking into account its scale, interdependencies, and temporalities. It […]
‘Taking Care’ (Closing Reception)
Klapper Hall 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, New York, United StatesConnor Henderson's MFA Thesis Closing Reception.
Free
UNIT 25 Building Culture: When Land Becomes Water.
Rise Center 58-03 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Far Rockaway, NY, United StatesThe graduate students at the Spitzer School of Architecture (City College of New York, CUNY) and the Rise Center invite the community to a presentation and discussion of resistance, resilience, and the future of the Rockaway in light of climate change.
Free
Come Back Cities: A family event for the NY Deaf-Blind community
Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, United States‘Come Back Cities’ is a simultaneous in-person and virtual community gathering to unite and celebrate families of Deaf-Blind children.
Free
A Place To Lay My Head
SPCUNY Student Fellow Cristina Ferrigno's MFA thesis, April 26th-29th. Opening reception Tuesday April 26th, 7pm Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College.
Two Stories About the Same Miracle
A Black Mother and a Filipino Father's balanced interpretation of resiliency and hope in caring for their daughter PhoeniX. Indigo Hero presents "Two Stories About the Same Miracle", a multimedia theater experience where parents of a special needs child tell their respective stories about her birth and first few years of life. Each parent is dedicating one hour each, to their interpretation. Indigo Hero is comprised of Kilusan (SPCUNY Actionist 2021-22) and Lia Bautista. May 6 and 7: doors open at 6pm, show begins at 7pm.
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American Icons
University Heights Presbyterian Church 2167 University Avenue, Bronx, NY, United StatesAmerican Icons is a collaborative project centering music and stories by Americans who live in the shadows cast by our national myths and monuments. Whose stories are told, whose erased? Student and community residents from Bronx Community College (BCC), the home of the “Hall of Fame of Great Americans,” will share their own experiences learning and working among monuments that fail to reflect America’s diversity. Musicians from Juilliard will interweave these stories with poetic and musical context from America’s past and present.
Free
Fire Exit (MFA Thesis Show)
205 Hudson Gallery 205 Hudson Street, New York, NY, United StatesIncluding work from SPCUNY Actionists Quinlan Maggio and sgp, open daily from 10am-6pm. Events on May 19, 20, 27, and 30.
Parade of the Old New
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center presents ‘Parade of the Old New’, a solo presentation of works by Zoe Beloff including a large format mural on cardboard and a correlating publication. Dates: May 20th - June 12th. Opening Reception: May 27th 5-9pm.
Free
The Slow Drop: Musicians’ Village
Musicians' Village Bartholomew St. and N. Prieur St., New Orleans, LA, United StatesIn this one-time live event, New Orleans Musicians’ Village will be transformed into a shifting soundscape of intersecting performances.
A new work of sound art by Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere in collaboration with Danny Abel, Sam Albright, Denise Bonis, Tom Chute, Sula Janet Evans, Helen Gillet, Edward Lee Jr., Thomas McDonald, Margie Perez, Troy Sawyer, Gabriel Velasco, and Chip Wilson. Curated by Anna Mecugni.
With a participatory ancestral tribute to Musicians’ Village founding resident Council Chief Joseph Jenkins in the Black Indian tradition, featuring Big Chiefs Kevin Goodman and Kevin Turner who co-curated the production with Maroon Queen Reesie (Cherice Harrison-Nelson).
Free
Launch Party: Las hermanas de la milpa / The sisters of the milpa
Bruckner Mott Haven Garden 678 East 136th Street, Bronx, NY, United StatesOrganized by Faculty Lead of Archives in common and Social Practice CUNY fellow Ángeles Donoso Macaya, this event marks the launching of Las hermanas de la milpa: comienza con la calabaza / The sisters of the milpa: it begins with the squash, a bilingual and indigenous (Mixteco) cookbook by chef Natalia Mendez of La Morada restaurant. Like other initiatives devised by La Morada, this book seeks to disseminate indigenous knowledges and practices, and at the same time to conceptualize and expand the ways of doing mutual aid.
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