August 2020
DEFAULT Livestream and Q&A
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” – Audre Lorde What difference does it make to students if their school’s curriculum reflects the history, experiences and knowledge of their communities and families? DEFAULT is a funny and moving original play created by the youth researchers/writers/artists of Epic that examines the impact that Ethnic Studies courses and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy have on students, teachers, administrators, and families. Commissioned by The Public Good at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Oral History LIVE! with Dindga McCannon
Our Oral History LIVE! event with McCannon will be a round table discussion and workshop on the oral history as memoir, and how to collect and present one’s own oral history. The series will be conducted in two 60-minute online sessions. McCannon will present excerpts from her BOMB Oral History, and teach participants the many methods for creating one’s own history through writing and art. Something as simple as keeping a journal, or using family photos to make a collage…
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Poet Laureate Presents: Women’s Right to Vote
Poet Laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas will lead an interactive afternoon of poetry celebrating Women’s Right to Vote featuring historic and contemporary works. Ms. Rivas’s work is driven by a passion to shed light on Staten Island authors and poets who have been forgotten, specifically women who have paved the way for modern poetry. Ms. Rivas will curate a selection of poems inspired by the content of Women of the Nation Arise! including works found in the museum archives and exhibition…
Find out more »Womanhood and Women Rights
Panel discussion led by an art historian, with Elia Alba, Artist and Author of the Supper Club, Lina Puerta and an invited gender scholar. The discussion will commemorate the 100th anniversary of woman suffrage and encourage especially Latinx communities to vote. Speakers will explore the theme of identity at the crossroads of the individual and the collective. What rights do we have as humans - how have such rights been suppressed on grounds of 'categories' of identity such as ethnicity…
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