Choreographies of Survival: A Black Feminist Climate Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe and Emily Raboteau
2025-03-19 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | 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. Whether it is through countermapping history or narrating the lived experience of Black parenting in an age of racialized pollution and policing, these books bring forward the myriad ways humans and humanity are rearticulating their relationship to a sociopolitical and environmental climate in perpetual crisis. The conversation will be moderated by Kendra Sullivan (Director of the Center for the Humanities).
The event will be followed by a book signing with the authors. Registration required.

Freedom Zines
2025-03-21 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | CTHQ, 59 E 4th St, Floor 7, New York, NY, 10003, United States
This zine-making workshop 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. These writings will be collected in a zine which will be printed and displayed at a later date. Please register for the workshop here:

Art as Social Action
2025-03-27 16:15 - 18:15 UTC | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 4102, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, 10016, United States
Join us for a discussion with SPCUNY Co-Directors Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette about how to proceed with complex, creative, politically supportive projects both within and outside of the University during challenging and uncertain times.
Refreshments to follow.

Applications open through April 30 for the 2025-26 SPCUNY Student Fellowship
2025-04-03 - 2025-04-30 | NY

OUR STUDIES SHOW Session 8
2025-04-06 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | ONLINE (register to receive zoom link)
ONLINE session
FREE/NON-MONETARY

Lead by SPCUNY alumni Esther Neff of PPL, OUR STUDIES SHOW stages collective philosophy as a form of theatre. It is a play about/of/at thinking. Considering our inhabitation of our own body-minds as legitimate empirical study (e.g. “instances of human being/thinking”) and our intuitions, experiences, and ideas as important philosophical contributions, we practice complex thought together through a series of in-person gatherings. We (those assembled) dig deeply into metaphysical and conceptual problems. Everyone is welcome. No assumed “knowledge,” or intellectual “background” needed. The primary task here is simply to compose and perform complex inquiries together. This is not a reading group, it is (a) “play.”

Through the first three sessions in Fall of 2024, collective bodies composed the form of an inquiry:
1) how are “human beings” related to “nature”?
2) how does what actual embodied persons believe about this question “matter”?
3) How shall we evaluate “beliefs” on grounds other than whether or not they are “true” or “scientific”?

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.
Masks are required for the in-person session. The space and bathroom are accessible to those using wheelchairs or other mobility aids. ASL interpretation available on request. Please e-mail eneff@gradcenter.cuny.edu with any questions.

SPCUNY Student Fellowship applicant information session
2025-04-08 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | ONLINE (register to receive zoom link)

Transatlantic Urban Commonses
2025-04-08 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | The Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC, NY, United States

Cross Maker
2025-04-22 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Floor 4, Klapper Hall, Queens College, Queens College, entrance at the corner of Kissena Blvd and 65th Ave, Flushing, NY, 11367
SPCUNY Fellow E. Adamo’s MFA thesis exhibition at Queens College on the 4th Floor of Klapper Hall will be open to the public from 4/22 to 4/25, with the opening reception April 22 from 6pm to 8pm. There will be a group crit at 5:30pm, also open to the public, and refreshments all night long. The exhibition will be an immersive environment meant to be experienced firsthand and in-person, so your presence is greatly appreciated! The work is a culmination of Adamo’s ideas and projects since they began their program at Queens College in 2023, as well as their SPCUNY project surrounding community gambling and it’s potential to challenge market-based systems. Artworks at the exhibition could, hypothetically, be available via raffle.

Choosing to Remember: Climate Change through Embodied Witnessing and Co-Creating
2025-04-24 06:30 - 20:00 UTC | James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC, NYC, NY, United States
A participatory assembly led by SPCUNY Fellow and Artist Chloe Smolarski; Tasha Darbes, ethnographer; and Edge Effect Media Group.
Remember: the planet is an archive. On April 24th, join together with people of different experiences as we engage the climate crisis through art, embodiment, and conversation. Participants will interact with archival material as interlocutors, as they observe one another’s stories of climate change effects.
This assembly will contribute oral histories to an archive of collective grief, as we recover the past, acknowledge the present, and dream about the future of our climate. Embedded within and inspired by the exhibits “Holding Water” and “When Home Leaves You: Archiving Living Memories of Climate Change,” our space centers collective grief, as a way to transcend alienation and imagine responses.

DAING LAUGHING: Little Manila NYC Earth Week Comedy Night
2025-04-25 18:30 - 22:30 UTC | Amazing Grace (2F), 6902 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, Queens, (2F), 6902 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, Queens, NY, United States
6:30 PM – Happy Hour
7:30 PM – Comedy Show

Come join us for a night of community laughter and fun as we celebrate Earth Week with a lineup of comedians at the Little Manila NYC Earth Week Comedy event! Get ready to bust a fish gut and support a climate cause at the same time.
Featuring: Kyle Marian, Dominique Nisperos, Manolo Moreno and more!
If you’re brave enough, classic Filipino aphrodisiacs balut and Red Horse are available for purchase!
Register: bit.ly/daing-laughing
Presented with Inside The Greenhouse ( @everydayclimate )
🙏 Supported by Social Practice CUNY ( @SocialPracticeCUNY ), Radical Imagination for Racial Justice, and Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts ( @littlemanilaqueens )

Galerie Lelong: Dialogues | Panel Discussion with Martha Rosler
2025-04-26 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Galerie Lelong, 528 West 26th Street, New York, NY, 10001, United States

Corky Lee’s Asian America: 50 years of Photographic Justice
2025-05-01 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Flushing Library, 41-17 Main Street, Flushing, NY, 11355, United States
On Thursday, May 1st, 2025 from 5:30pm – 7:00pm, the Queens Public Library at Flushing will kick off Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a special paneled book talk on “Corky Lee’s Asian America: 50 years of Photographic Justice.” Moderated by the Jiefei Faye Yuan, Curator of the Queens Memory Project, this panel will include Chee Wang Ng (Co-Editor) and Virgo Lee (Member of the Estate of Corky Lee). We are honored to have opening remarks/reflections by New York Assembly Member Ron Kim and New York City Human Rights Commissioner Rocky Chin.
Join us for a dynamic community gathering to explore the concept of photographic justice through the late Corky Lee’s work. The panel has curated a slide show presentation, coupled with an opportunity for guest’s questions and answers. We will be welcoming our community co-sponsors to table and share resource information in the spirit of Corky Lee’s activist roots. Community Co-Sponsors include: Chinese American Planning Council, Nan Shan Older Adult Center of CPC, Lewis Latimer House, Rise Now Inc., the office of NY Assemblymember Ron Kim, New York City Commission on Human Rights, Forest Hills Asian Association; Social Practice CUNY, the Estate of Corky Lee & the QPL AANHPI Heritage Month Committee. This program is made possible by the Starr Grant. Young Corky Lee (1947– 2021) was a Chinese American activist, community organizer, photographer, journalist, and the self-proclaimed unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate. His work chronicled the diversity of Asian American culture.
Join us in-person at the Flushing Library, Lower-Level Conference Room. 41-17 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11355 or via the Zoom platform: https://queenslib.org/37cd
Meeting ID: 833 9180 7019
Passcode: [REDACTED]
For more information please contact Kilusan Bautista, QPL at Flushing – Cultural Arts Outreach Coordinator – Jeremy.t.bautista@queenslibrary.org or call 718-6611200 Ext: 294.

What Else? A Comedy Show about the Solidarity Economy
2025-05-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Maker’s Ensemble, 13 Grattan St. #408, Brooklyn, NY, 11206, United States

Now and Then (and Now): An Intergenerational Playlist
2025-05-03 03:00 - 20:00 UTC | The Tank, 312 W 36th St, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Faculty Fellow Ash Marinaccio and Docbloc’s Intergenerational Theatre Lab presents a lively, interactive cabaret where voices, stories, and songs across generations collide! Join us as we explore the bonds and divides between generations, diving into social justice and political issues that shape our world, all through this unique, collectively devised performance.

Give Light Labor Drawings, Posters, Art and Graphics from Movements Celebrating Labor History, People’s Art, and Popular Liberation
2025-05-07 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-08 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, 25 W 43rd St, New York, NY, 10036, United States

Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1
2025-05-10 18:45 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Center for Performance Research
@CPR DOUBLE FEATURE
Under the Hood: Fiducial Romance by geo blake
Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1 by Kerosene Jones
CPR – Center for Performance Research
Saturday, May 10 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $0-$25, pay what you can.
Join us Saturday, May 10 for a double feature of new performance works by geo blake and Kerosene Jones presented at CPR – Center for Performance Research, for the artists’ MFA thesis projects in the Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) Program at Brooklyn College. Proceeds go to Bluestockings Cooperative, who will be providing Fentanyl and Xylazine testing strips on-site to attendees.
Through an interplay of live performance and mediated fragments, Under the Hood: Fiducial Romance, by geo blake featuring Alanna Archibald, examines the intimacy embedded in economies of care, trust, and extraction. Merging movement, voice, transducers, and projected imagery, and drawing from the iconography of the automobile as both a site of fetishization and labor, Under the Hood engages with themes of objectification, autonomy, and the blurred lines between maintenance and possession.
Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1 by Kerosene Jones is the first phase of an experimental song, video, and performance cycle using archival materials to explore queer responses to harm reduction, particularly in regards to the ongoing opioid crisis, and drawing from Jones’s personal experiences with opioid addiction. The development of the Blue Lightning Ghost Train series has received support from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and a CUNY Social Practice Fellowship, and features mix engineering by Bassel Al-Rahim.
Tickets can be purchased here!

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2025-05-17 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-27 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-07 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-17 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | NY

Elevating Black Queer Ancestors: Embodying Black Queer Pasts, Envisioning Black Queer Futures
2025-05-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-06-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Lefferts Historic House, 452 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United States
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. Hosted monthly at Lefferts House—a site marked by legacies of enslavement and the erasure of Black historical presences—the series examines how material culture and spatial narratives shape our understanding of the past. Participants will engage critically and creatively with historic spaces and objects to explore embodied strategies for disrupting dominant historical narratives and reclaiming marginalized stories.
Sessions will take place from 7PM-9PM at 452 Flatbush Ave in Prospect Park, Brooklyn on the following dates:
May 29, 2025
June 26, 2025
July 31, 2025
To RSVP, please send an email to riah.kinsey@gmail.com expressing your interest.

Kensington Windsor Terrace Mutual Aid Community Potluck and Recipe Share
2025-05-31 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | Kensington backyard, RSVP for info
This event brings together neighbors participating in the long-running Neighborhood Cooperative Food Distribution Project of the Kensington-Windsor Terrace Mutual Aid network. The food project employs mutual aid principles to distribute local produce in a way that builds connections and relationships across our neighborhood’s immigrant communities, language differences, and economic situations.
The SPCUNY grant supports a community cookbook project that showcases neighbors’ recipes in English, Spanish, and Bangla – recipes for the seasonal produce we all share. The event is a community builder, with a potluck and a recipe share. It will take place in a neighborhood backyard.
Please email foodcoopproject@gmail.com to RSVP.

Memories: Souvenirs of Life Art Exhibition
2025-06-01 08:00 - 2025-06-30 20:00 UTC | Queens Public Library Flushing Branch, 41-17 Main St. Flushing, NY, New York, United States
A Senior Adult Art Exhibition in Queens Public Library, Flushing, organized by ChrisTina Andersen (SPCUNY Fellow) and Kilusan Bautista (SPCUNY Fellow Alumni) QPL Director of Cultural Outreach.
Memories: Souvenirs of Life showcases artwork by adults aged 65 to 90 created in oil painting classes taught by ChrisTina Andersen, a Social Practice CUNY Fellow, at senior centers in Queens.
Each artist has painted a meaningful memory, accompanied by a brief written reflection. Most are immigrants, primarily from China, Hong Kong as well as Puerto Rico, Greece, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Poland, Israel and Brazil. This exhibition celebrates a vibrant yet often overlooked community, challenging stereotypes around aging through creativity and storytelling.
Opening Reception:
Friday, June 6th
2:30 pm – 3:30pm
in the lower level gallery
Open through the month of June

Closing Reception and Artist Walkthrough for Give Light
2025-06-05 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, 25 W 43rd St, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Closing Reception and Artist Walkthrough for Give Light: Labor Drawings, Posters, Art and Graphics from Movements Celebrating Labor History, People’s Art, and Popular Liberation
Thursday, June 5 from 4:30-6pm
CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
25 West 43rd Street, 14th floor
Entrance is on the north side of 43rd Street (between 5th and 6th Aves)
NY, NY 10036
Give Light was organized as part of the conference “Labor and the Crisis of Democracy” held at CUNY SLU on May 8th and 9th.
Featuring current SPCUNY Fellows Ingrid Romero, Jaclyn Reyes, Annabelle Heckler, and SPCUNY alum Alicia Grullón!

wav.pool
2025-06-06 19:30 - 22:00 UTC | KGB Bar, 85 E 4th St, NY, United States
Wav.pool is a sound and performance art series celebrating experimental audio.
This June, we’ve gathered 3 artists making innovative work that blurs boundaries between sound, performance, and moving image: WARP DUO, ADRIENE LILLY, & KIA MIAKKA NATISSE all showcase and perform new audio artworks that promise to delight and challenge.
When: Friday, June 6th;
Doors at 6:30, show at 7:00pm
Where: KGB bar in the East Village

RSVP:

SDSS 2025 Community Forum #1 and SDSS 2024 Catalog Launch
2025-06-14 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Living Skin, 61 Wyckoff Ave, Brooklyn, 11237, United States
About Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS)
This flagship initiative of the Korea Art Forum proudly commissions artists to create a series of socially engaged, participatory art that culminates in public art installations in outdoor community hubs. The project focuses on serving (im)migrants, people with disabilities, and individuals facing economic hardship. Since its launch in 2020, SDSS has integrated art into daily city life, fostering dialogue between artists and the public while addressing various issues, such as anti-Asian sentiment, inequality, and climate justice. SDSS promotes collaboration, resilience, and social change, offering free, accessible, and immersive art events with live interpretation services. SDSS connects local communities to art, which enhances their overall quality of life and well-being.
About Korea Art Forum (KAF)
Founded in New York City in 2013, KAF is led by artists, scholars, and peacemakers committed to bridging the world through art. KAF supports artists’ social engagement, enhancing people’s quality of life and well-being. We produce commissions, exhibitions, forums, publications, and art workshops to bring people together across the art world and beyond, to share dialogues, build an interconnected world, and support inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA).
THANK YOU!
2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) in Flushing is supported, in part, with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding is provided by the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF). Media sponsorship is provided by the Korean Community Media Broadcasting (KCMB). We would like to extend our special thanks to our community partners, including South Bronx Unite, the Minkwon Center, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, the NYC Department of Transportation, and NYC Council Members Vickie Paladino, Sandra Ung, and Julie Won, for their support of KAF’s projects.

Community Forum #1 and SDSS 2024 Catalog Launch June 14, 2025
Saturday, 6 – 8 PM
Living Skin
61 Wyckoff Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Our Literacies Are Ambulatory: Freedom Zines as Pedagogical Backchannels
2025-06-18 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | The Word is Change Bookstore, 368 Tompkins Ave. (at Putnam), Brooklyn, NY, 11216
During this interactive panel, attendees will be presented with a brief history of the Sea Island Citizenship schools and the Mississippi Freedom Summer schools, as well as a description of the Freedom Zines workshop. Attendees will also be asked to think about and discuss their early writing experiences by the panel moderator. Then, 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.

UHURU DAYS LYCEUM
2025-06-19 - 2025-07-05 | Virtual, See event for details
Every night from June 19th through July 5th, there will be a Lyceum starting at 8:17pm EST.
A reader will read a passage from the writings of a formerly enslaved (trafficked) person, then the host will facilitate a discussion on the passage and the designated “Freedom of the Day” that is highlighted by the Uhuru Days Project.
Location: Zoom (Virtual)
RSVP at https://uhurudays2025.eventbrite.com
ALL TICKET HOLDERS WILL RECEIVE AN EMAILED LINK FOR THE EVENT PRIOR TO THE EVENT!
