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  • 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

  • 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

  • Book Release and Show at 411 Kent

    411 Kent 411 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United States

    March 16th book release and show (organized by SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Matt Mottel): Cisco Bradley's "The Williamsburg Avant-Garde" / Andrea Wolper, Virg Dzurinko, Talibam! with Yuko Otomo (Recreate the Levitation of Vice Media into the East River 2015), Tamio Shiraishi, Marc Edwards' Slipstream Time Travel

  • MY PHONE LIES TO ME: Los Angeles Book Launch and Reading

    Get Lit 672 S. La Fayette PL #10, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    A reading of new poems by Get Lit poets in conversation with My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy, ed. Alexandra Juhasz with a foreword by Tara McPherson and afterword by Margaret Rhee (punctum books, 2022). Audience members are enthusiastically invited to read their own or another’s writing from the collection or new work engaging with the project’s themes.

    Free

  • LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL Book Launch

    The Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Book launch for SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Emily Raboteau's highly-anticipated collection of essays, LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL: Mothering Against "the Apocalypse" at the Center for Fiction.