Image is a Seed: Student Addition

Video Essays of Prof. Mottel's Brooklyn College, Digital Art Student's Final Projects, Broadcast Online & Archived via ESS.org. Image is a Seed: Student Addition is a group online broadcast of video artwork composed by the students of CUNY, utilizing the archived photography of Syeus Mottel. Mottel was a photojournalist who photographed 1960’s and 70’s political events, everyday people, ambient street scenes, and cultural events of music, theater, and art.

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BARCELONA/MEDELLIN COMMUNITY WALK SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL PRACTICE with SITESIZE (Barcelona), Tierra ESPACIO PARA HABITAR (Colombia) and URBAN RESILIENCE THINKING INITIATIVES (New York)

Barcelona and Medellin watersheds (contact for address)

Join us for the Barcelona and Medellin watersheds community walk included in the Nomad Resilience Thinking Social-ecological Practice Actions. This event will be held between Medellin and Barcelona using multimedia tools discussing how local vulnerable communities are linked and affected by their ecological systems.

Newburgh is a Broadcast

Newburgh is a Broadcast is a community project where together we create media in the format of "live radio" broadcast online via youtube. In a partnered storefront at 163 Broadway, a pop up ‘radio station’ will transform and activate the empty storefront. The radio programs will be a mix of interviews documenting the lives and day-to-day reality of living in Newburgh and showcasing local musicians by giving them a timeslot to play their own productions and/or their favorite records. Multi-lingual and intergenerational, educational and artistic Newburgh is a Broadcast aims to showcase the broad and diverse city that is Newburgh.

Brooklyn & Barcelona walk/dialogue: Nomad Indigenous Resilience Thinking Social-ecological Practice

Weeksville Heritage Center 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

It is a life conversation and walk between two art collectives in hybrid format (online/in-person in Brooklyn & Barcelona) between Brooklyn Vestigial traces of Lenapehoking Indigenous and Barcelona watershed memory of social struggles and hopes for the living conditions of its inhabitants with the construction of the new bourgeois city and linked to the trade of slaves taken from Africa to the coasts of the North American Caribbean.

NYC & Medellin walk/dialogue: Nomad Indigenous Resilience Thinking Social-ecological Practice

It is a life conversation and walk between two art collectives in a online format in New York (Urban Resilience Thinking Initiatives, Rafael de Balanzo, Christelle El Hage and Gerardo Santos) & Medellin (Espacio para Habitar, Alix Camacho and Clara Arroyave) discussing between Vestigial traces of Indigenous in Medellin watershed (the Cerro Nutibarra and Medellin river) and the Matinecock and Canarsie tribes, the first inhabitants of Flushing Bay and wetlands at Corona Meadows.

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EMAP Capacity Building Workshop “Webinar on media (arts) and politics” @ NeMe

EMAP member NeMe is happy to invite you to an open webinar on media (arts) and politics. The webinar will consist of talks by SPCUNY co-director Gregory Sholette, Rachel O’Dwyer, and !Mediengruppe Bitnik, and will span subjects that will discuss the relation of art and whistleblowing, the social obligation of the artists now, the blockchain based so called opportunities for artists, and how artistic practice can expand from the digital into the physical space.

Identity in Context: Building the American LGBTQ+ Museum

The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

In a time when students and museum professionals are questioning the structures and even the founding principles of older museums and cultural institutions, this program looks at the more recent creation of the American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City. Featuring Ben Garcia, the Museum’s Executive Director and Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, Director of Public Programs & Partnership.

LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL Book Launch

The Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Book launch for SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Emily Raboteau's highly-anticipated collection of essays, LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL: Mothering Against "the Apocalypse" at the Center for Fiction.

The Future of New York City: Who Decides?

Virtual See event for details

Discover insights on community activism and urban development in a virtual celebration of Associate Professor of Anthropology and former SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Naomi Schiller's latest co-authored book as she delves into discussions on the role individuals can undertake in shaping their neighborhoods and cities, exploring the challenges community organizers face in navigating New York City's intricate decision-making processes to advocate for housing and foster vibrant, sustainable communities.

Outlawing Homosexuality in Nazi Germany: Reflections on the film, “BENT”

The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

During the Holocaust, homosexual men imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear inverted pink triangle badges on their uniforms, a symbol that was later reclaimed as an emblem of Gay Pride. Join Dr. Jake Newsome, Scholar and Author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust, and Dr. Kerry Whigham, Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University and Co-Director of its Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, for a conversation about “BENT,” the 1979 play subsequently adapted for the big screen, which explores the persecution of Queer men in Nazi Germany, during and after the Night of Long Knives in 1934.

PERFORMANCE AS WITNESS: RECOGNIZING THE RHETORIC THAT LEADS TO VIOLENCE

The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

Join Dr. Alexander Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, for a discussion about how the rise of political extremism and hate speech contributes to a growing atmosphere of insecurity and dehumanization in our society. Dr. Hinton will also reflect upon how the plays, “Julio Ain’t Goin Down Like That” and “Letters from Anne and Martin,” as well as the film, “BENT,” use performance to come to terms with antisemitism, transphobia, and racism.

Online Info Session for Potential Actionists: Social Practice CUNY

Virtual See event for details

This open info session is for anyone interested in applying to be a 2024-2025 Social Practice CUNY Actionist. Actionists are CUNY graduate students with a serious art practice, usually from MFA programs, who are working to develop an independent project at the intersection of art and social justice. The info session will be recorded and made available for those who are unable to attend. RSVP required. You can also RSVP to receive the recording.