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  • Screening: The Making of Corona Plaza, Queens

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    The New School

    “The Making of Corona Plaza, Queens” documents the process of making a unique public plaza in the predominantly immigrant neighborhood of Corona, Queens through the voices of some of the main protagonists, be it community members and organizers, activists, street vendors, artists and designers, NYC officials, as well as the Queens Museum leadership. This special screening is presented by the Parsons School of Design Strategies, the Public Space Lab and the MS Design and Urban Ecologies and co-organized by Social Practice CUNY.

  • OUR STUDIES SHOW Session 3

    Center for Performance Research

    OUR STUDIES SHOW stages philosophy of mind as experimental processes of social mapping and modal operations. Considering our inhabitation of our own body-minds as legitimate empirical study (e.g. “instances of human thinking”) and our intuitions and ideas as important philosophical contributions, we practice thinking together.

  • Mourning Machine

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

    Mourning Machine is a low-stakes participatory ritual designed to honor the history and resilience of the NYC theater community/ies during a time of uncertainty and reconfiguration. The event will feature Coffin Karaoke, open mic eulogies, lasagna, drinks, clown-tears, and more.

  • Tao Leigh Goffe presents Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis, with Natalie Diaz

    McNally Jackson Seaport 4 Fulton St., New York, NY, United States

    Join SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Tao Leigh Goffe as she presents her new book, a groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today.

    $5 – $35

  • Farsi Flows

    Rye Free Reading Room 1061 Boston Post Rd., Rye, NY, United States

    The Farsi Flows proposes a new framework for an alphabet. This alphabet bridges history, heritage, and the infinite possibilities of the future in a simple, comprehensible form.

  • Museums without Walls: the MTA and the Met Intersect

    New York Transit Museum 99 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    The current exhibition Flight Into Egypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features several artists whose works can be experienced throughout the MTA system. Join Akili Tommasino, curator of the Flight into Egypt exhibition, contemporary artists Damien Davis and (SPCUNY co-director) Chloë Bass who have artwork in system, and Yaling Chen, Deputy Director of MTA Arts & Design to discuss how artists have been commissioned to make meaningful connections to transit stations and to the neighborhoods, communities, and riders they serve.

    $10 – $15

  • What the Pandemic taught us about Technologies, and vice-versa: Viral Missives from Hong Kong and New Delhi

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

    Organized by SPCUNY Alum Alexandra Juhasz and featuring Nishant Shah, this talk draws from collaborative community workshops in Hong Kong and New Delhi to combine storytelling, contextualization, and re-mediation of the global experiences of the COVID19 pandemic.

    Free

  • 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?