Our Literacies Are Ambulatory: Freedom Zines as Pedagogical Backchannels
Freedom Zines participants will discuss and share their zine-making process, followed by a Q&A. Zines will also be distributed to all event attendees.
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The Word is Change Bookstore 368 Tompkins Ave. (at Putnam), Brooklyn, NY
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UHURU DAYS LYCEUM
Virtual See event for detailsUHURU DAYS LYCEUM: a brief 17-evening virtual conversation on a written excerpt from a formerly enslaved person and the freedom of the day. Part of the larger SPCUNY project Reclaiming Lyceums: New York City’s Forgotten Rhetorical Legacy (Mudiwa Pettus/Greylin Jones).
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Elevating Black Queer Ancestors: Embodying Black Queer Pasts, Envisioning Black Queer Futures
Lefferts Historic House 452 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United StatesPart of the larger Reclaiming Lyceums project (coordinated by SPCUNY Fellow Mudiwa Pettus with collaborator Greylin Jones), Elevating Black Queer Ancestors: Embodying Black Queer Pasts, Envisioning Black Queer Futures is a workshop series that explores the role of embodied experience in recovering, interpreting, and reimagining the uses of Black queer histories.
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*77*
*77* is a community open-mic based in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood, in varying locations. It takes place on the 7th, 17th, and 27th of every month, and features 7 presenters on the mic for 7 minutes each. An ongoing event organized by Miles McAfee and Louis Miller, it is also being supported by Mudiwa Pettus and Greylin Jones during their SPCUNY Fellowship.
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Kensington Windsor Terrace Mutual Aid Community Potluck and Recipe Share
Kensington backyard RSVP for infoNEW DATE! The event is a community builder, with a potluck and a recipe share, bringing together neighbors in Kensington, Brooklyn. RSVP for exact location.
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*77*
*77* is a community open-mic based in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood, in varying locations. It takes place on the 7th, 17th, and 27th of every month, and features 7 presenters on the mic for 7 minutes each. An ongoing event organized by Miles McAfee and Louis Miller, it is also being supported by Mudiwa Pettus and Greylin Jones during their SPCUNY Fellowship.
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Elevating Black Queer Ancestors: Embodying Black Queer Pasts, Envisioning Black Queer Futures
Lefferts Historic House 452 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United StatesPart of the larger Reclaiming Lyceums project (coordinated by SPCUNY Fellow Mudiwa Pettus with collaborator Greylin Jones), Elevating Black Queer Ancestors: Embodying Black Queer Pasts, Envisioning Black Queer Futures is a workshop series that explores the role of embodied experience in recovering, interpreting, and reimagining the uses of Black queer histories.
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What Else? A Comedy Show about the Solidarity Economy
Maker's Ensemble 13 Grattan St. #408, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesWhat 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?
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Banned Books Brunch with The UltraViolet Archive
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, United StatesPlease join us on the 4th FL of The Clemente for coffee and donuts while we test out a new an AR experience of the UltraViolet Archive, a nomadic collection of endangered creative works—including films, music, literature, and visual arts—that were banned, challenged, or physically attacked. Organized by 2024–25 Faculty Fellow Christina Freeman with additional support from the National Coalition Against Censorship, this event is limited to 15 people: please RSVP.
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The Relationship Assessment Test
City Reliquary 370 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesThe Relationship Assessment Test (RAT) is an original text and series of proctored “test-takings,” inspired by the format and limitations of the U.S. college entrance exam, the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT). April Wen (2024-25 SPCUNY Fellow) will host a series of proctored, in-person exams, where the general public can take the multilingual RAT. Each proctored exam begins with time for participants to take the test individually, then opens up into a collaborative space, where people can answer the test questions together, as well as meet the question-authors themselves. NOTAFLOF: No one turned away for lack of funds.
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