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  • The Technological Pandemic: The Present and Future of Coming Together

    CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

    A day-long workshop facilitated by Nishant Shah and SPCUNY Alum Alexandra Juhasz in partnership with the Digital Narratives Studio at the School of Journalism & Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This workshop explores the technological shifts experienced during the management of the COVID19 pandemic, profoundly altering how we come together as groups, collectives, communities, and people. Registration required.

    Free

  • Climate Museum Pop-Up Exhibit

    LaGuardia Community College 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY, New York, United States

    Screening of "Peaker" film by SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Ashley Dawson, at the Climate Museum Pop-Up Exhibit at LaGuardia Community College.
    The exhibition will be formally introduced with a program and reception, from 4 to 6 p.m., February 27 in the M-Lobby, where the exhibition is displayed.

    FREE

  • What Else? A Comedy Show about the Solidarity Economy (new date!)

    Maker's Ensemble 13 Grattan St. #408, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    *NOTE: Postponed from original Feb. 1 date!* What Else? is a series of co-created solidarity economy themed comedy shows. the shows will hold a practice of shared laughter as we answer the questions: what can the solidarity economy offer us, after and instead of capitalism, humorously, breathfully? how can humor make the solidarity economy compelling, inviting, appealing? what's funny and beautiful about it?

  • Film Premiere of Please Hold at The Parkside Lounge

    Parkside Lounge 317 E Houston St., New York, NY, United States

    Activist mediamaker, scholar, writer, and Distinguished Professor of Film, CUNY, Alexandra Juhasz, announces the premiere of her latest experimental documentary, Please Hold (70 mins, 2024). Co-sponsored by the MIX Experimental Film Festival and Visual AIDS, emceed by “High-Profile NYC Drag Queen!” Linda Simpson, with a live performance by CHRISTEENE.

    Pay-what-you-can

  • Look Both Ways

    205 Hudson Gallery 205 Hudson St, New York, NY, United States

    Join our SPCUNY Fellow Ali Motamedi for his Hunter MFA thesis show of 2025, Look Both Ways. The work exhibited will range from sculptural installation to VR, Photo, and Painting. Open March 6th through March 16th at 205 Hudson St. Featuring artists Meredith Bakke, Nava Derakshani, Max Eisenberg, Ali Motamedi, Magdalen Pickering, Rosalie Smith, and Emily Wichtrich. 

    free

  • Online Premier: Please Hold

    Virtual See event for details

    How do neighborhoods, sweaters and scarves, videotapes and queer bars hold ghosts? How do we let them go? In this 2-hour webinar, we will introduce the panel and the video, screen it together (70 mins), and then the panel of "AIDS workers" who are authors or editors from the collection "AIDS and the Distribution of Crises" (Duke University Press, 2020) will discuss their reaction, feelings and questions.

  • OUR STUDIES SHOW Session 7

    (Brooklyn NY, register for address, max 15 participants)

    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

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

    zoom

    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