On Sunday, Nov 21st, 2021 from 6-8:30pm, at Judson Memorial Church in New York City: Interdisciplinary performance artists Kilusan Tagle Bautista & Lia Bautista will share a staged reading of their respective stories raising a daughter with special needs.
UnHomeless NYC is an exhibition of 16 socially engaging artists dealing with the issues of housing insecurities. It serves as a forum to connect community groups, activists, artists, students, and scholars to explore the topic of homelessness and seeks for its solution. In-person opening March 9th, 3-7pm.
This online lecture traces the development of Bill Beirne’s activist art and performance practice in relation to some precedents in modern art history.
Three Facilitated Workshops focus on the impact of food and housing precarity on the well-being of students at Kingsborough Community College. The first two workshops use Intergroup Dialogue, a deep listening practice that highlights similarities and fosters understanding among different groups. The third workshop will be open to the public.
In this talk, critical urbanist Manon Vergerio will give a brief background on the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), a web-based interactive mapping project that personalizes eviction data through the evictees’ stories of struggle and resistance.
How to Begin Again is a 4-step initiation to a new awareness about alternatives for the future of urban design. It centers on the concept of unitary urbanism, which CohStra redefines as “an anti-capitalist and transdisciplinary practice that attempts to bridge popular and scientific knowledge to co-produce social and environmental justice in cities.”
In the early 1990s, conceptual artist Hope Sandrow founded the Artist & Homeless Collaborative, an innovative New York City public art project. Sandrow will discuss her project with Nina Felshin, the editor of But Is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism (Seattle, WA; Bay Press, 1995).
NYC's Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz will discuss the current housing crisis with activists, scholars, and CUNY students.
Three Facilitated Workshops focus on the impact of food and housing precarity on the well-being of students at Kingsborough Community College. The first two workshops use Intergroup Dialogue—a deep listening practice that aims to highlight similarities and foster understanding among different groups. This final WORKSHOP #3 will be a public event on Zoom and will create a dialogue with other projects included in the UnHomeless NYC exhibition.
‘Come Back Cities’ is a simultaneous in-person and virtual community gathering to unite and celebrate families of Deaf-Blind children.
Actionists are Master’s students with a serious art practice, usually from MFA programs, who are committed to developing as socially-engaged art practitioners. Eligible students are currently enrolled in a CUNY master’s degree program and will have completed at least one year of study by the end of the Spring 2022 semester. Applications are due by April 25, 2022 (deadline extended!) for the 2022-23 academic year.
Four of the worker films belonging to 2021-22 Faculty Fellow Zoe Beloff's SPCUNY project (in collaboration with Eric Muzzy), "The Song of the Essential Worker," are part of the Workers Unite Film Festival May Day Salute. May screenings become available on-demand starting Thursday May 5th at 10AM EST through Monday May 9th at 10PM EST.
