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Flushing Town Hall Professional Development Workshop: Artists in the Community with SPCUNY alumnae!

Free professional development workshop presented in partnership with Flushing Town Hall. During this Zoom conversation, we will speak with artists from the Social Practice CUNY program, Naomi Kuo and Cristina Ferrigno, whose practices are based in working with the community and discuss best practices when connecting with people to create art and tell their stories. This will be a moderated conversation with space for Q&A.

Free

AntiBlackness in the Academy

Organized by Center for Ethnic Racial & Religious Understanding and co-sponsored by SPCUNY, this online conference will feature keynote Nikole Hannah-Jones and offer 8 workshops to examine what antiblackness is and provide participants tools to engage with it. This year's Innovation Exchange (2-day mini conference) will explore anti-Blackness within the academy. This conference stands on the shoulders of the work of scholars, artists and activists who graduated or worked at CUNY like Audre Lorde, Faith Ringgold, Toni Cade Bambara, Shirley Chisolm, and A. Phillip Randolph who came and demanded justice and dignity for Black people. During the Summer uprisings of 2020 students, faculty and staff saw messages of support from many universities, however much of the landscape of antiBlackness within the university often continued uninterrupted. This conference center Black people and is welcome to everyone and offers tools to address systemic antiBlackness in the academy and the necessary joy rituals that allow Black people to exist in the future.

Free

Launch Party: Las hermanas de la milpa / The sisters of the milpa

Bruckner Mott Haven Garden 678 East 136th Street, Bronx, NY, United States

Organized by Faculty Lead of Archives in common and Social Practice CUNY fellow Ángeles Donoso Macaya, this event marks the launching of Las hermanas de la milpa: comienza con la calabaza / The sisters of the milpa: it begins with the squash, a bilingual and indigenous (Mixteco) cookbook by chef Natalia Mendez of La Morada restaurant. Like other initiatives devised by La Morada, this book seeks to disseminate indigenous knowledges and practices, and at the same time to conceptualize and expand the ways of doing mutual aid.

Free

The Art of Un-War: Screening & Discussion with Krzysztof Wodiczko

The Segal Theatre The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

A special screening of the 60-minute award-winning documentary The Art of Un-War directed by Maria Niro. The film chronicles the life and work of artist and educator, Krzysztof Wodiczko, focusing on major themes in Wodiczko’s oeuvre such as war, trauma, and displacement. The event is hosted by Art Science Connect and supported by Social Practice Queens, Galerie Lelong, Polish Cultural Institute, New York, and the CUNY Central Office of Veteran Affairs. RSVP requested.

Free

Alexandra Juhasz and Nishant Shah: 5 Ways to Look at Misinformation

The Skylight Room Room 9100, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Digital media scholars Alexandra Juhasz (2022-23 SPCUNY Faculty Fellow) and Nishant Shah, authors of Really Fake (University of Minnesota and meson presses, 2021), discuss story, poetry, and other human logics of care, intelligence, and dignity, to explore socio-technological and politico-aesthetic emergences in a world where information overload has become a new ontology of not-knowing. Co-sponsored with Art & Science Connect.

Free

Mapping & Photography Workshop presented by The Catcalling Project

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

Mapping and photography workshop asking participants to think about their relation to space in ways that are both familiar and unfamiliar, exploring themes of safety, community, and place making.

Free

Image is a Seed: Student Addition

Video Essays of Prof. Mottel's Brooklyn College, Digital Art Student's Final Projects, Broadcast Online & Archived via ESS.org. Image is a Seed: Student Addition is a group online broadcast of video artwork composed by the students of CUNY, utilizing the archived photography of Syeus Mottel. Mottel was a photojournalist who photographed 1960’s and 70’s political events, everyday people, ambient street scenes, and cultural events of music, theater, and art.

Free

BARCELONA/MEDELLIN COMMUNITY WALK SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL PRACTICE with SITESIZE (Barcelona), Tierra ESPACIO PARA HABITAR (Colombia) and URBAN RESILIENCE THINKING INITIATIVES (New York)

Barcelona and Medellin watersheds (contact for address)

Join us for the Barcelona and Medellin watersheds community walk included in the Nomad Resilience Thinking Social-ecological Practice Actions. This event will be held between Medellin and Barcelona using multimedia tools discussing how local vulnerable communities are linked and affected by their ecological systems.

A Conversation with Chloë Bass

Skirball Cultural Center 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United States

Hear SPCUNY co-director Chloë Bass, the artist behind two concurrent projects in Los Angeles, in conversation with curators Cate Thurston, of the Skirball Cultural Center, and Taylor Renee Aldridge, of the California African American Museum (CAAM), about the roles of institutions and artists with respect to the creation and stewardship of memory, memorials, and the presentation of private feelings in public spaces.

$10

The ABC of the Projectariat

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

Gather in the James Gallery for a performative talk by Kuba Szreder concerning the precarious conditions of artistic labour followed by an open discussion about cultural resistance created and practiced by gig-economy workers, “the projectariat,” in Szreder’s words. The artistic projectariat--people who do projects to make a living--roam the global art world, where enthusiasm is paired with exclusion, mobility with poverty, self-entrepreneurialism with anxiety. The evening's discussion will be opened by SPCUNY Co-Director Greg Sholette.

Free

Placeholder Poetry Readings #6

Hope & Ruin 11 Queens Road, Brighton, United Kingdom

Sam Solomon, Savannah Sevenzo, Claudia Treacher, Violet Marchenkova, Nehaal Bajwa respond to SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Alexandra Juhasz (My Phone Lies to Me).

£3

Aesthetics, Resistance, and Memory: a double book launch and conversation with Andreas Huyssen and Gregory Sholette

Printed Matter 231 11th Ave, New York, NY, United States

Join us for a double book launch and conversation with Andreas Huyssen and Gregory Sholette, presented and co-sponsored by Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY). Approaching the politics of memory from two overlapping perspectives, Huyssen and Sholette will discuss their recent books, Memory Art in the Contemporary World and The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art.

Free