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Community Convening: We’re Not Softening Our Resistance

The Bronx Museum 1040 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, NY, United States

Video festival and panel sponsored in part by SPCUNY, showcasing short films/videos by visual artists on issues around climate change, indigenous land rights, Black liberation and migration. Participate in a critical intercultural exchange and platform to discuss climate breakdown and what resistance looks like. After the festival, audience members are invited to join in activities led by local and international environmental justice activists taking a deeper dive into the films’ theme. Curated and organized by Alicia Grullon.

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.

Free

Charting the Archive of Ancestral Histories and Place with artist Kamau Ware

James Gallery 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

How do we build an inclusive archive? What are some archival practices and tools for affecting repair, especially from the point of place? Join the conversation with Kamau Ware and Jennifer Jones, as they consider archival research methodologies, how they manifest in art practice, and how these expanded histories may be used to create futures.

Free

Citation Needed Book Launch

14 Street Y 344 E 14th Street, New York, NY, United States

Artist Ari Wolff and The 14th Street Y are thrilled to announce the debut of Citation Needed, an experimental publishing initiative designed to support and distribute artist books made by young people. Joined by the authors and open to the public, the book launch will be May 25th, 5:00–6:30 pm, on the rooftop of the 14th Street Y. The evening will feature 10+ original titles created by 3rd–5th graders, authors meet-and-greet, and interactive games.

Free

(In)Visible Guides: Convening

Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand St., New York, NY, United States

Join Perfect City, The Catcalling Project, and SPCUNY Student Actionist Tiffany Zorrilla for a day-long convening of (In)Visible Guides. Programming includes a panel discussion, mapping workshop, zine release, and a neighborhood tour of the Lower East Side.

Apply to be a 2023-24 SPCUNY Faculty Fellow

Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY), an initiative based at The CUNY Graduate Center that seeks to amplify the collective power of social practice artists, scholars, and advocates across the CUNY system, is currently seeking the third cohort of SPCUNY Faculty Fellows. Applications are due June 30, 2023.

Shared Dialogue, Shared Space: An Alternative Manhattan Project (SDSS: AMP)

The Peninsula W 218th St and Indian Road, New York, NY, United States

The Shared Dialogue, Shared Space: An Alternative Manhattan Project (SDSS: AMP) invites nine artists/teams to present their community-oriented and thought-provoking participatory art, engaging the community in conversations on peace-building. The participating artists/teams include Stephanie Alvarado with Nancy Paredes, Eugenie Chao, Yeon Jin Kim, brandon king, Moses Ros, Minshik Shin, The Square Theater, and V Tineo. This outdoor participatory art project will be held at the peninsula and front side of Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, on October 21st (PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE, due to rain) from 12–4 p.m.

Free

Picturing the Constitution: Penumbra

Old Stone House 336 3rd St., Brooklyn, NY, United States

Penumbra is a conceptual art installation at the Old Stone House in Park Slope Brooklyn that draws attention to the millennia-long legacy of women using herbs for abortion and contraception, a ‘birthright’ that is part of a deeply hidden, repressed, and often destroyed global practice. As part of Picturing the Constitution Exhibit, Penumbra will be on view October 20, 2023-January 14, 2024. The opening reception is October 22, 4-6pm.

Penumbra Kit: A Workshop on Reproductive Rights and the Constitution

Old Stone House 336 3rd St., Brooklyn, NY, United States

In this workshop, participants will be introduced to a women’s history of abortion; confront unexamined assumptions about rights, justice, and privacy; and engage in dialogue around what we want our constitution to mean. This workshop and related Penumbra kit and installation is a part of the exhibition Picturing the Constitution. Picturing the Constitution features artists’ responses to the origins, contents, and interpretations of the United States Constitution.

A ProtoScore

National Museum of Kenya Kipande Road, Nairobi, Kenya

A ProtoScore is a durational gathering of artists, scientists and members of the public in Nairobi. This is a mutually generative and creative process that fosters curiosity and connection. It is an experiment for scientists and artists to explore collaborations. It builds relational connections between artists and scientists through a non-hierarchical form of conversation, where each person in the conversation has an equal voice. The conversation format was created together in Kenya between artists and scientists.