A lecture from the Catskills Folk Lyceum, presented by scientists Johanna and Bob Titus. At the Gilboa Museum and Juried History Center, 122 Stryker Road, Gilboa, NY 12076. Free Admission. Refreshments will be served. Catskills Folk Connection is sponsored by the Roxbury Arts Group and is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Art Program, by Gov. Cuomo and the NYS Legislature, by an Action Grant from Humanities NY, and by the O’Connor Foundation.
Women of Ganondagan
Join the women interpretive staff at Ganondagan for a guided tour offered at the top of the hour from 10AM- 4PM. Your guide will be one of the Women of Ganondagan who will give a personal view of the new exhibit “Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women: From the Time of Creation.” The tour will include a viewing of Katsitsionni Fox’s short film “Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women & Women Suffragists: A Hidden History.” Free with admission to the Seneca Art & Culture Center (Adults/$8; Seniors/$4; Students (12 yrs. – College)/$4; Children (5 – 11 yrs)/$2; Children (birth – 4yrs.)/Free The film was sponsored in part by a […]
Traditional Arts Weekend with Natasha Smoke Santiago
Meet and watch artist Natasha Smoke Santiago (Akwesasne Mohawk) who will demonstrate traditional pit-fired pottery making. Traditional hand built Iroquois pottery, also known as earthenware, is fired at very low heat. This event is part of Ganondagan’s Traditional Arts Weekend, and is free with admission to the Seneca Art & Culture Center, as follows: Adults – $8 Seniors – $4 Students (12 yrs. – College) – $4 Children (5 – 11 yrs.) – $2 Children (birth – 4yrs.) – Free
Women of Ganondagan
Join the women interpretive staff at Ganondagan for a guided tour offered at the top of the hour from 10AM- 4PM. Your guide will be one of the Women of Ganondagan who will give a personal view of the new exhibit “Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women: From the Time of Creation.” The tour will include a viewing of Katsitsionni Fox’s short film “Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women & Women Suffragists: A Hidden History.” Free with admission to the Seneca Art & Culture Center (Adults/$8; Seniors/$4; Students (12 yrs. – College)/$4; Children (5 – 11 yrs)/$2; Children (birth – 4yrs.)/Free The film was sponsored in part by a […]
Traditional Arts Weekend with Natasha Smoke Santiago
Meet and watch artist Natasha Smoke Santiago (Akwesasne Mohawk) who will demonstrate traditional pit-fired pottery making. Traditional hand built Iroquois pottery, also known as earthenware, is fired at very low heat. This event is part of Ganondagan’s Traditional Arts Weekend, and is free with admission to the Seneca Art & Culture Center, as follows: Adults – $8 Seniors – $4 Students (12 yrs. – College) – $4 Children (5 – 11 yrs.) – $2 Children (birth – 4yrs.) – Free
MURALS AND MESSAGING
Part of “COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS AND ARTISTS: PARTNERS IN THE LES,” a public dialogue series from ‘The People’s LES’, a project of FABnyc and Downtown Art Community Organizers and Artists: Partners in the LES looks at how organizers and cultural workers in the Lower East Side have collaborated creatively to address community needs, and how the community’s history of collaboration informs local organizing today. This program was sponsored in part by a Humanities New York Action Grant.
Excerpt: “Making Mass Incarceration”
The following is an excerpt from Elizabeth Hinton’s From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. Elizabeth is Assistant Professor in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Hinton’s research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th century United States. If you’d like to explore the broader historical context of mass incarceration, you may watch After Attica: Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration on our YouTube channel. In the century between the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865 and Johnson’s call for the War […]
Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
The following is an excerpt from Deva Woodly’s upcoming book, Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, on the role of social movements, up to and including The Movement for Black Lives. Deva is an Assistant Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research. Her work explores the ways that public meanings define the problems that the polity understands itself to share, as well as the range of choices that citizens perceive themselves as having. If you’d like to explore the broader historical context of today’s social movements, join us on November 28th when Woodly […]
