Farsi Flows
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.
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Climate Museum Pop-Up Exhibit
Climate Museum Pop-Up Exhibit
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.
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What Else? A Comedy Show about the Solidarity Economy (new date!)
What Else? A Comedy Show about the Solidarity Economy (new date!)
*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?
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Film Premiere of Please Hold at The Parkside Lounge
Film Premiere of Please Hold at The Parkside Lounge
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.
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Look Both Ways
Look Both Ways
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.
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Online Premier: Please Hold
Online Premier: Please Hold
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.
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OUR STUDIES SHOW Session 7
OUR STUDIES SHOW Session 7
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.
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A Fake News Poetry Reading to Mark the 2nd 100 Days
A Fake News Poetry Reading to Mark the 2nd 100 Days
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.
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Peaker film screening at Woodbine
Peaker film screening at Woodbine
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.
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Choreographies of Survival: A Black Feminist Climate Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe and Emily Raboteau
Choreographies of Survival: A Black Feminist Climate Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe and Emily Raboteau
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.
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Freedom Zines
Freedom Zines
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.
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Art as Social Action
Art as Social Action
Join us at the Graduate Center for a talk about Art as Social Practice with SPCUNY Co-Directors Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette.
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OUR STUDIES SHOW Session 8
OUR STUDIES SHOW Session 8
ONLINE Session
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.
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