A Fake News Poetry Reading to Mark the 2nd 100 Days

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In 2016-17, SPCUNY alumni Alexandra Juhasz engaged in a daily practice for the first 100 days of a presidency, blogging about fake news and matters of civic decency, and as often as not sharing the page with friends and colleagues.

15-20 participants in that project (writers, poets, teachers, friends), will read old poems from "My Phone Lies to Me" @punctum_books 2022 (download for free!) or new poems on theme.

You are invited to come hear poems.
There will be time for discussion or the reading of more poems after the one-hour reading.

FREE

Peaker film screening at Woodbine

Woodbine Social Center 585 Woodward Ave Ridgewood,, New York, NY, United States

Screening of two short documentary films by Ashley Dawson, followed by panel discussion about NYC's toxic energy infrastructure with Dawson and two public power activists.

FREE

Choreographies of Survival: A Black Feminist Climate Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe and Emily Raboteau

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

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.

FREE

Freedom Zines

CTHQ 59 E 4th St, Floor 7, New York, NY, United States

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.

Art as Social Action

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 4102 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States

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

FREE

OUR STUDIES SHOW Session 8

ONLINE (register to receive zoom link)

ONLINE Session
Lead by SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Esther Neff, OUR STUDIES SHOW stages collective philosophy as a form of theatre. Spring 2025 sessions will involve "theoretical dramaturgies" (scores for thinking and theorizing together) which re-phrase, re-frame, and re-iterate such inquiries, particularly in relation to "biological" vs. "cultural" senses of sex and gender, de-alienation and "settler surrender," and the role of doxastic logics (belief systems) in collective self-recognition. All welcome; registration required.

FREE

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.

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