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SUMMARY:What Else? A Comedy Show about the Solidarity Economy (new date!)
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URL:https://www.eventcreate.com/e/whatelse#new_tab
LOCATION:Maker’s Ensemble\, 13 Grattan St. #408\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11206\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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SUMMARY:Film Premiere of Please Hold at The Parkside Lounge
DESCRIPTION:March 2\, 2025 \nDoors at 3pm / Screening 5-7pm \nTickets are pay-what-you-can: all funds will be split between MIX and helping the film travel for future installations \nActivist mediamaker\, scholar\, writer\, and Distinguished Professor of Film\, CUNY\, Alexandra Juhasz\, announces the premiere of her latest experimental documentary\, Please Hold (70 mins\, 2024). As part of a dynamic\, multisensory\, community-based experience\, before the screening (3–5 PM) attendees are invited to come early\, so as to bring and share among queer community objects that hold memories of HIV/AIDS\, the Lower East Side\, or the Parkside Lounge. Co-sponsored by the MIX Experimental Film Festival and Visual AIDS\, the event\, emceed by “High-Profile NYC Drag Queen!” Linda Simpson\, will conclude with a live performance by CHRISTEENE\, whose music is featured in the video. \n21+ \n  \n\n  \nAccessibility Information:\nThe bar is on the ground floor. The performance venue and accessible bathrooms are accessed via a portable ramp (1.5 steps). All tickets are general admission first come first serve\, but if you have accessibility needs and need a seat\, need to be close to the stage\, or will be coming in a wheelchair\, please let us know at checkout and we will have a spot reserved for you.  Strobe lighting and fog may be used in this performance.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/film-premiere-of-please-hold-at-the-parkside-lounge/
LOCATION:Parkside Lounge\, 317 E Houston St.\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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SUMMARY:Look Both Ways
DESCRIPTION:SPCUNY fellow Ali Motamedi is an Iranian-born artist and author whose work explores the intersections of language\, immigration\, and identity through text-based art\, photography\, and interdisciplinary storytelling. His practice challenges dominant narratives and engages with collective memory\, recontextualizing imagery to examine displacement\, belonging\, and cultural perception. \nJoin us for his Hunter MFA thesis show of 2025\, Look Both Ways. The work exhibited will feature artists Meredith Bakke\, Nava Derakshani\, Max Eisenberg\, Magdalen Pickering\, Rosalie Smith\, and Emily Wichtrich and ranges from sculptural installation to VR\, Photo\, and Painting. \n \nOpen March 6th through March 16th at 205 Hudson St \nOpening reception\nMarch 6th\n5pm -9pm \nDirections\nThe gallery entrance is located on the south side of Canal Street between Hudson Street and Greenwich Street. Closest subways are the 1 train at Canal Street or the A\, C\, E trains at Canal Street. \nAccessibility\nThe 205 Hudson Gallery is an accessible ground floor space. The mezzanine level of the gallery is accessible via a wheelchair lift and a wheelchair accessible restroom is located on the ground floor of the gallery. Closest accessible subway stations are Canal Street 6 train only and Chambers Street 1\, 2\, 3 trains.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/look-both-ways/
LOCATION:205 Hudson Gallery\, 205 Hudson St\, New York\, NY\, 11367\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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SUMMARY:Online Premier: Please Hold
DESCRIPTION:How do neighborhoods\, sweaters and scarves\, videotapes and queer bars hold ghosts? How do we let them go? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nFeaturing: Cecilia Aldarondo\, Pablo Alvarez\, Jih-Fei Cheng\, Pato Hebert\, Alexandra Juhasz\, Cait McKinney\, Nishant Shahani\, Quito Ziegler
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/online-premier-please-hold/
LOCATION:Virtual\, See event for details
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:OUR STUDIES SHOW Session 7
DESCRIPTION:FREE/NON-MONETARY \n\nLead 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.” \n\n\nThrough the first three sessions in Fall of 2024\, collective bodies composed the form of an inquiry: \n1) how are “human beings” related to “nature”?\n2) how does what actual embodied persons believe about this question “matter”?\n\n3) How shall we evaluate “beliefs” on grounds other than whether or not they are “true” or “scientific”? \nSpring 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. \nMasks 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.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/our-studies-show-session-7/
LOCATION:(Brooklyn NY\, register for address\, max 15 participants)
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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ORGANIZER;CN="Esther Neff":MAILTO:eneff@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:A Fake News Poetry Reading to Mark the 2nd 100 Days
DESCRIPTION: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. That became a website with 100 Hard Truths about Fake News:  For many years after\, Alex ran workshops with poets around the world together thinking about those hard truths and the words of other participants: fakenews-poetry.org. Those poems became a book\, My Phone Lies to Me\, published by @punctum_books (available to download for free). \n15-20 participants in that project (writers\, poets\, teachers\, friends)\, will read old poems from that book. You are invited to come hear poems and there will be time for discussion or the reading of more poems after the one-hour reading. \nIt is good to be together with poetry at this time. The reading will also be recorded as part of punctum’s\, Encounters at the End of the Book series.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/a-fake-news-poetry-reading-to-mark-the-2nd-100-days/
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Peaker film screening at Woodbine
DESCRIPTION:Public Power Observatory \nFilm screening and panel discussion of “Peaker” and “Who Pays for Power?” at Woodbine social center. SPCUNY Fellow Ashley Dawson will screen and discuss two films relating to NYC’s toxic energy infrastructure at Woodbine Social Center on Sunday\, March 16th at 4:30pm. Dawson will be joined for a discussion by the architect Andrea Johnson and sociologist Ankit Bhardwaj.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/peaker-film-screening-at-woodbine/
LOCATION:Woodbine Social Center\, 585 Woodward Ave Ridgewood\,\, New York\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jason Prechtel":MAILTO:hi@jasonprechtel.com
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SUMMARY:Choreographies of Survival: A Black Feminist Climate Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe and Emily Raboteau
DESCRIPTION: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). \nThe event will be followed by a book signing with the authors. Registration required.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/choreographies-of-survival-a-black-feminist-climate-conversation-with-tao-leigh-goffe-and-emily-raboteau/
LOCATION:The Skylight Room (9100)\, CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 5th Ave\, NYC\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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SUMMARY:Freedom Zines
DESCRIPTION: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:
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/freedom-zines/
LOCATION:CTHQ\, 59 E 4th St\, Floor 7\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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SUMMARY:Art as Social Action
DESCRIPTION: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. \nRefreshments to follow. \n  \n 
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/art-as-social-change-practice/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center\, Room 4102\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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