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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join us at the Graduate Center for a talk about Art as Social Practice with SPCUNY Co-Directors Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette.
Student Fellows are graduate students with a serious art practice, matriculated at any CUNY campus (often but not always from MFA programs), who are working to develop an independent project at the intersection of art and social justice. Eligible students are currently enrolled in a CUNY graduate degree program and will have completed at least one year of study by the end of the Spring semester before their fellowship year. The SPCUNY Student Fellow position is not a certificate or degree program. Overlap between thesis projects and SPCUNY student projects is welcome, though not required.
