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Mirror/Echo/Tilt is a project created by three artists (Melanie Crean, Sable E. Smith, Shaun Leonardo) in collaboration with people who are court-involved, formerly incarcerated, or otherwise affected by the criminal justice system. Through a curriculum based on visual storytelling, participants translate personal narratives into performance in order to replace a culturally embedded conception of black criminality with new language so that the mind and body may think, feel, and move in a way not defined by their previous experience with incarceration. Our goal is to facilitate participants’ agency to tell their own stories and ultimately, reframe existing narratives defining the “criminal.”

In this public participatory workshop the artist will ask members of the public to participate in physical reenactments that locate a series of current events within their bodies through gesture, voice, and proximity. Utilizing their own memory, participants will recreate intensely contested moments of police violence through shifting perspective. This performance, marked by voice and movement, poses the questions: What does it mean to enact and to activate? How do we measure our collective complicity in both systemic violence, trauma, and the legacy of constructed racial representations?

The piece will be conducted in memory of Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Jamar Clark, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, Ramarley Graham, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin… and countless others.
Image:
I Can't Breathe
Performance still - VOLTA NYC, New York, NY, 3/4/16.
Image courtesy David Willems Photography
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Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

A conversation with Northern Cheyenne Elder Raymond L Kingfisher, activist and journalist August White, and artist and photographer Pete Deevakul - 3 people and perspectives reaching out from the first chapter of Standing Rock to the next.

I met Augie in early February. It was just after sundown at “South Camp” - Prairie Knights Casino. I was feeling pretty good because Tess and I managed to find a ride back to the Casino that night from Oceti. After pulling stakes from ice and gathering garbage all day, the simple scenario of not having to hike 11 miles back in darkness felt like a victory in itself.

Augie had just returned to Oceti that evening - we reminisced about the ‘utopian era’ at camp just a few months prior. Visions of another America - a selfless, female-led communal work culture. Now the threat of militarized eviction loomed large, with all sorts of different intel on dates, times, and severity floating around. BIA had a command post at the edge of the casino lot; people were getting ‘snatched’; the Last Child raid was still raw on everyone’s minds.

We spent long nights talking about anything and everything, while Tess and I took turns bringing folks up to our room so they could shower. Between discussions on

how to reach people,

asking where mainstream media went,

the implications of colonization,

the discomfort required to make real change -

it came up that Augie had just spent the past few days driving Raymond Kingfisher back to Oceti from Seattle.

Seeing Raymond Kingfisher around Oceti and South Camp gave us continued motivation to keep doing our work, despite the dark cloud of military encroachment surrounding. On February 22nd - as I was glued to live feeds of the Eviction back in Brooklyn - Raymond quieted the torment in everyone’s minds, and led the closing prayer and ceremonial walk with a grace and dignity that assured me there was no defeat, that this fight was just beginning.

About beginnings - in a haze of surveillance paranoia, I wrote an odd email to Clara and Andrew - trying to describe the situation on the ground without mentioning “Standing Rock”, “DAPL”, or anything related. It wouldn’t have mattered if I did, though - they read everything, and I’m too low level to be of interest. Clara offered this chance to speak at Hunter through Educate & Act; who knew it’d turn into this? Not me. We just kept the fire alive; kept dreaming of it til it was real. “Wouldnt it be cool if…?” Well - let’s make it happen then.

To Eddie, Takya, Lakasha, Christine, Dan - Nimi’ipuu, Ojibwe, Little Creek Camp, 7th Generation, Veterans for Peace - we will find the schools, we will find the funding - we will bring you out. We want to learn. We want change.

— pd, 03/22/2017

Raymond L. Kingfisher is an Elder of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, and was a continual guiding presence at the camps of Standing Rock. He peacefully led the closing prayer at the February 22nd eviction of Oceti Sakowin, in the face of an overpowered US military force. It is a privilege and honor to have him in New York with us, to hear and learn from his perspective.

August White is an activist and journalist, who recently met former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley at the Native Nations Rise March in Washington DC. In February 2017, he travelled to the Bakken extraction zone to interview Native American resident Kandi Mossett on the greater - and everyday - impacts of these energy sources. Upcoming in April, he will be a keynote speaker at the Earth Day conference in Berkeley. He's done work for Indigenous Rising Media, TYT, Fusion, and GRIST, among many other independent news outlets.

Pete Deevakul received a BA in Studio Art from UCLA, and MFA from Yale University. On his first trip to Oceti Sakowin, he volunteered primarily in waste-stream diversion - sorting the trash from re-usables at his local dumpster. On a subsequent trip to Oceti, waste-stream diversion was one of the only jobs left to do. He’s immensely thankful that Clara and Andrew responded to his odd email from Standing Rock and set off a chain of events leading to this. He hopes to continue to bring friends and allies from Standing Rock out to New York and New England to speak and share knowledge.

205 Hudson Street
2nd floor - HAAG Room

Newly active?
Want to speak up and be heard?

Learn how to speak with conviction and confidence in this interactive, on-your-feet workshop. Whether you're calling your reps or running for office, we'll practice tools to help you be powerfully present and harness with nerves when speaking. There's no need to have anything prepared -- you'll learn how to think on your feet, articulate your ideas and leave a lasting impression.

This will be a small workshop to allow for indivudal feedback. Participants are invited to come prepared with an opportunity in mind where you would like to speak up - a protest, calling a rep, a speaking opportunity, a community meeting, etc.

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Leah Bonvissuto is a Communication Coach and Co-Founder of Bespoken (www.bespokenpartners.com), where she helps individuals and groups be powerfully present when speaking. An award-winning theater director, she spent over a decade helping hundreds of performers tell stories on stages of all shapes and sizes. At Bespoken, she is passionate about helping people speak with conviction and without apology. She pulls from the worlds of theater, mindfulness and movement to help people feel confident and in control of their communication.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor

A hang out/discussion with Rebekah Schiller (professor of Physics Education and Anarchist educator) designed to answer questions you have about anarchy in practice.

Where is anarchy alive and well in Brooklyn? What are the different branches of anarchy? We'll put a special emphasis on eco-anarchy and talk about direction actions eco-anarchists are taking around the country to halt pipelines and interrupt other environmentally damaging infrastructures. Tea will served and the day will end with a letter writing activity to folks who are incarcerated for environmental direct actions.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause NY will talk with us about the peculiar way in which our elections are administered in the US- no uniformity with various different ways to oversee elections on the state level (partisan to non-partisan/professional and various permutations in between) and a patchwork for different technologies in thousands of counties across the country; why NY has particularly badly run elections; the strange story behind the concept of voter registration and other attempts to restrict access to the ballot; the fight for the ballot and the role the Voting Rights Act plays; and finally, bringing America's elections into the 21st century and where we stand in NYS, ending with our strategy to move election reform in 2017.

This seminar will be preceded by the Rally to Resist Voter Suppression in Battery Park on Sunday, March 19 2 PM

Participants will be given the opportunity to get and stay involved in continuing actions to push through voter reform.

Susan joined Common Cause in December, 2007. She is responsible for setting priorities, strategizing, lobbying, serving as a spokesperson, fund-raising and leading the team for the New York organization. Before joining Common Cause, Susan served from 2003-07 as executive director of the California Clean Money Campaign. As a member of the New York and California bars, she was a litigator for almost 20 years. Susan has a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Chicago and a law degree from the New York University School of Law.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St.
2nd Floor, HAAG Room

With Cinthia Pimentel

Feeling Stressed out?
Overwhelmed?
Let's build a self-care plan with positive thinking, mindfulness and relaxation

A self-care plan can help you enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain calmness at hectic moments. Having a health care plan will help you achieve more balance, manage general challenges, honor emotional and spiritual needs, foster and maintain relationships, and achieve an equilibrium across all faces of life.

This is a time where we need get ourselves emotional healthy. This workshop will help you identify activities and practices that will support your wellbeing and help you to sustain positive self-care in the long-term.

Hunter College
205 Hudson Street
2nd Floor

We demand EARLY VOTING & AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION for New York voters.

We’re taking action to demand Governor Cuomo make New York a leader in election reform, not an example of voter suppression. This year's state budget must include essential voter reforms – early voting and automatic voter registration. Join us to take a stand!

WHAT: Rally to Resist Voter Suppression
WHEN: Sunday, March 19, 2 PM
WHERE: Battery Park, NYC

Join Common Cause/NY, SEIU 32bj, NY Immigration Coalition, TWU 100, 2 Hours A Week, Make the Road New York, Hispanic Federation, Public Citizen, Citizen Action New York, New York Working Families, DuBois Bunche Center For Public Policy, Hugh L. Carey Institute, NYPIRG, NYC Votes, and invited Members of Congress Hakeem Jeffries, Yvette Clark, Nydia Velazquez, and NY Assemblymember Latrice Walker, NYC Councilmember Ben Kallos, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and others to demand election reform now!

We reject the false assertion that voter fraud is widespread. The real problem with America’s elections is extensive voter suppression. New Yorkers believe that voting is the lifeblood of democracy and demand that Governor Cuomo include essential voter reforms – early voting and automatic voter registration – in the state budget that will be adopted by April 1st.

We need you at this event, bring your family, friends & neighbors! It’s time for New York’s elections to join the 21st century and to end our state’s shameful record of low voter turnout.

We’ll see you on March 19th.

Thanks for standing up for voting rights!

Battery Park, NYC

Black people and people of color have been burdened by the lie of our inferiority for far too long. It is well past time for us to free ourselves.

EE Circles℠ are evidence-informed, psychologically sound and culturally grounded support groups designed to help Black people - and all people of color with common experiences of systemic racism - heal from and overturn the root causes of the devaluing of our lives. We will focus on the underlying principles of emotional emancipation aimed at improving conditions in Black communities, as well how EE Circles can be used to help promote personal and community healing and transformation.

Emotional Emancipation is what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called “psychological freedom” for Black people. It is about “emancipating ourselves from mental slavery,” as Marcus Garvey described it. It includes: complete freedom from the lie of Black inferiority; freedom from any and all toxic ideas about the inferiority of Black lives, Black intellect, Black culture, Black values, Black hair, Black skin and other Black physical features, and Black people, in general; freedom to see ourselves as the beautiful, lovable, intelligent, capable, and worthy people we are; freedom to see ourselves beyond the negative stereotypes that have burdened and limited us for centuries; freedom from the poisonous idea that Black people are less than human; freedom to see ourselves in a whole new, positive, light. Emotional emancipation is about reclaiming our human dignity as people of African ancestry.

Emotional Emancipation Circles℠ were originated by Community Healing Network, Inc., (CHN), and are the product of a collaboration between CHN and the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi), and part of the larger global grassroots movement for emotional emancipation being spearheaded by CHN.

EE Circle℠ workshops and trainings are “within-group” gatherings designed to equip members of the Black community to establish and maintain Emotional Emancipation Circles. The workshops and trainings focus on the underlying principles of emotional emancipation that should inform any effort aimed at improving conditions in Black communities and the specifics of Emotional Emancipation Circles, and how they can be used to help promote personal and community healing and transformation.

*PLEASE NOTE: Emotional Emancipation Circles, EE Circles, EECs and related copyrights, marks and logos are copyrights and service marks owned exclusively by Community Healing Network, Inc., and are used with its permission. Local EEC trainers, facilitators, hosts, organizers, and others in similar roles are independent and are not employees, agents, partners, or corporate af iliates of Community Healing Network or The Association of Black Psychologists. Emotional Emancipation Circles are psycho­educational and are not intended to be­­nor should they be treated as­­a substitute for professional counseling, advice, or therapy. Participants are urged to seek the help of qualified mental health professionals, if and when it should become necessary.

Please email cpeecircle@gmail.com for more information. Donations suggestion! Not required!

205 Hudson St
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013

Calling all activists, civic leaders, and newly energized citizens: this is for you!

Angry about the IDC? Frustrated with rising housing prices? Afraid you'll lose your health care? This program introduces activists to ways to make change within our communities, and impact federal change through local political action.

Citizen Action is a National Organization with decades of experience, and is offering to train us in tried and true methods and reveal years or hard-earned knowledge. Please invite your friends, your sister-organizations, your neighborhood activist group; the more the merrier!

Citizen Action NYC will speak with us and answer questions about:

1. Changes at the federal level that impact NYS.
2. The current state of the state government, Senate majority, IDC
3. Taking back the Senate in 2018, 2020.
4. Midwest Academy training.
5. Lobbying training.
6. Citizen Action committees and campaigns:
   Demand Democracy
   NY Renews
   Raise the Age NY
   Right to Know

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

The landscape of digital privacy and security is complex, uncertain, and always changing. In this event, we'll learn about cryptography and encryption, password security, web tracking, and the tools available to protect your privacy online.

We'll touch on TOR, Signal, Proxies, password managers, and PGP among other things. The event will strive to provide a broad overview of the subject, and some specific privacy and security measures you can take to protect your own communications.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

Civil disobedience is a time-honored, effective method of bringing fierce nonviolent pressure to bear on an unjust system. This training covers to the philosophy and techniques of nonviolence and direct action; planning effective civil disobedience; how affinity groups and consensus-based decision-making works; arrest, support and day-of protest tips.

Alexis Danzig, Jamie Bauer, and BC Craig are experienced activist-trainers who met during the 1980s in ACT UP and who since that time have been working together to build community resistance and effective responses to injustice.

Here's what we say about Marshal training -

Q. Hey! What's marshaling?
A. Marshaling is a form of resistance.

Marshals help build community by supporting organized actions.

As marshals, we know the scenario for an action because we've been involved in the action's planning, and we work together to support protesters do what they need to do while keeping the action as safe as possible.

We don't ask for permission to demonstrate, we don't ask for the NYPD to "help" us demonstrate. We protect our First Amendment rights to free speech and freedom of assembly by using these rights.

We set up our own pickets, we decide whether or not we want to go into a "pen", we ourselves stop traffic for our marches. We communicate with demonstrators, and we provide a buffer between our group and the NYPD or hecklers. We de-escalate conflicts between protestors, counter-protestors, and the NYPD.

If you're an experienced demonstrator or new to protesting, we encourage you to come and get trained. Marshaling is a great skill to have and a most excellent way to participate in actions.

205 Hudson Street
2nd floor - HAAG Room

Unfortunately we have to cancel this talk due to Stella the blizzard. We will update with a new date soon.

This will be a facilitated group discussion on how to create change, person-to-person, and specifically how to engage pro-Trump family and friends. Our facilitator, Paul, works in nonprofit communications.

Those of us living in progressive bubbles like NYC or SF may despair about our ability to make change. But many of us have pro-Administration friends and family whom we might be able to move a little bit (or at least neutralize). Or we have progressive friends and family in conservative states whom we might be able to move to action. Is this possible? What are the pitfalls?

Trying to persuade family members is tricky: it's great because they're the people we're most closely connected to, who can make a difference. But it can also complicate family relationships if they think that they are your "project" or that you are evangelizing. These are questions we'll discuss at this event.

Participants will be encouraged to compose a short personal mission statement (or statement of principles) to use when contacting family or friends they disagree with politically, and to write up a personal list of folks they might focus on in the coming year or two.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

The Feminist Tea Party is a symposium series in which invited speakers discuss what 'practical feminism' means to them, attendees join in the discussion, and everyone has cake. Previous hosts include Trestle Gallery and Abrons Art Center.

Artist Megan Piontkowski employs the term “Practical Feminism” to address her frustration with the sexism that she, and many women she knows, put up with on a daily basis both from strangers they encounters on the street and at the workplace, and even sometimes from our otherwise liberal friends and family. She wanted to create a space where both women and men could meet to share personal experiences and discuss practical strategies that they could use to address the problem of everyday sexism.

Megan Piontkowski is an artist and illustrator living and working in Brooklyn. Since November 9th, 2016, she has become much more politically involved than ever before.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

Feeling Stressed out?
Overwhelmed?
Let's build a self-care plan with positive thinking, mindfulness and relaxation.

A self-care plan can help you enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain calmness at hectic moments. Having a health care plan will help you achieve more balance, manage general challenges, honor emotional and spiritual needs, foster and maintain relationships, and achieve an equilibrium across all faces of life.

This is a time where we need get ourselves emotional healthy. This workshop will help you identify activities and practices that will support your wellbeing and help you to sustain positive self-care in the long-term.

With Cinthia Pimentel

Hunter College
205 Hudson Street
2nd Floor

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd Floor

Tax Resistance 101 — for all who want to protest war, violence, and the Trump agenda with their money. Covering the background and how-tos of refusing to pay some or all of federal income taxes including: which taxes go to war and violence; brief historic overview of war tax resistance; reasons to resist; how to resist; risks and consequences; redirection of taxes; dealing with IRS collection efforts; and joys of resistance. Presenters will also tell personal stories of their tax resistance. Q & A will follow the presentation.

Presenters will include Ruth Benn, who began war tax resistance in 1980. She is a former staff member of War Resisters League and currently is a freelance worker and part-time Coordinator of National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. There will be other New York City war tax resisters joining the program for stories and discussion.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

The Trump administration is generating a huge volume of news. Feel like you're drowning in Trump headlines? Need guidance on how to identify credible news sources? Want to stay informed without losing your mind? Join us for a talk and panel on Navigating the Press Under the Trump Administration.

During her presentation, recovering journalist Kahliah Laney will provide tips on how to be an empowered and savvy news consumer, how to hold the media accountable (yes, you can!), and the lowdown on how the news is made.

This will be followed by a panel discussion with experts in the industry about the critical role of journalism in democracy and what if any responsibilities the media has to the public particularly given that so many platforms are beholden to shareholders of the companies they're owned by. This will include a Q & A.

Alberto Riva, Milanese transplanted to New York, began his career in journalism as a news agency reporter in Italy, later moving to Atlanta to work for CNN. He also worked for Bloomberg News, and helped lead America24, the US-based digital operation of Italy's biggest business newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore. He was most recently the managing editor of Vice News in Brooklyn, where he lives.

Judith Watson had been associate dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism from its inception in 2006 until 2015 and now is on faculty at the school. She started at CUNY as special assistant to former Chancellor Matthew Goldstein overseeing new projects for the University. Prior to that, she spent 15 years at United Press International, serving as New York bureau chief, New York State editor and Albany capitol bureau chief. In a 25-year journalism career, Watson has worked as a columnist, reporter, and print and broadcast editor.

Dara Sharif is an experienced news editor and reporter, having edited or written for news agencies including The Associated Press, the New York Daily News and New York Post, as well as for digital media including TheRoot.com. For almost a decade, she also headed a weekly newsmagazine targeted to the education market, and has also taught copy editing and issues involving strong, objective writing and avoiding the pitfalls of libel at New York University. Since earning her master's degree in journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, she has been running her own editorial services company, DNS Media Group Inc., which offers everything from media consulting services to book editing to copy editing via a variety of content management system platforms. Follow her on Twitter @dnsmediagroup.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

We Make America is a group of makers who feel the urgent need to come together to address the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump. We are a diverse group of people who want to contribute to civil society, to advocate for social justice, human rights, and the rights of the disenfranchised. We believe there is a vital need to address the erosion of democracy. We are united by our desire to make powerful visual statements that will be an integral part of our political actions.

In order to do this we need graphic designers, painters, architects, filmmakers, artists, writers, technology experts, makers of all kinds. We are self-starters who are pooling our skills, working together, to ensure that our voices are heard in this challenging and uncertain time. We encourage growth and change within our operating vision, and we foresee that different committees will take on specific tasks and projects. As makers, we have the ability to invent powerful statements that will challenge the new administration and raise awareness about the many issues and rights at stake.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

Artist and designer Wilson Kello who has been doing creative direction, branding, and marketing for apparel for 10+ years, will share different ways of making inexpensive, durable, NYPD-compliant protest signs that get your message across. From basics like using hollow cardboard tubes instead of wooden stakes to hold up your sign, to graphic considerations like working with a limited color palette and creating legible lettering, we'll get you outfitted and ready to march in the WOMEN'S STRIKE on March 8. All ages, all skill levels welcome.

We will have tables and chairs, walls and some materials will be supplied.
If you have it please bring:

• poster board
• hollow cardboard tubes
• markers
• paint
• packing tape
  and whatever else you might want to personalize your creation
  (avoid sharp edges or anything that could be construed as a weapon)

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

Join XFR Collective for an engaging program of materials from our collections related to the theme of resistance. Screening program forthcoming, but expect to see archival footage of direct actions, poetry readings & other forms of radical expression challenging the status quo!

Learn more about XFR (pronounced 'transfer') Collective at our website
Watch material that we have digitized on the Internet Archive

XFR Collective is a non-profit organization that partners with artists, activists, individuals and groups to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media – especially unseen, unheard or marginalized works – by providing low-cost digitization services and fostering a community of support for archiving and access through education, research and cultural engagement.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203

New York City -- Atomic Culture as curatorial artists in residence at Loisaida Center and in conjunction with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Hunter Artist Action Group, and EyeSpeak presents a two-part keynote address on artivist strategies and interventions. The evening will start with "The Future as Sanctuary" by Alex Rivera, followed by a performative talk by Guillermo Gómez-Peña aka El Mad Mex and Balitronica aka The Phantom Mariachi.

In “The Future as Sanctuary,” Alex Rivera will discuss different approaches to the terrain of ‘the future’ through his science fictions, virtual realities, and drone interventions. The discussion will include clips of Rivera’s work, from the mid 1990s to the present, work that migrates from present-day crises into post-colonial imaginaries.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Balitronica from international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra present a performative talk on their artivist strategies for fighting xenophobia, sexism, homophobia and racism both in the art world and larger society. Alongside their candid conversation, they will invoke performance texts, sound art and a photo slide show of recent work.

This presentation is part of an ongoing exhibition and r​ esidency Future Now, Futura Ahora curated by Atomic Culture at the Loisaida Center. Atomic Culture’s dynamic residency Future Now encourages active participation by creating art-focused social and cultural programs accessible to everyone. The exhibit and correlating programming aim to map examples of cultural practices from the Southwest that integrate historical events and traditions to examine how futurism can be used as a decolonizing tool to reclaim land, natural resources, and ways of living that occupying forces have sought to wipe out. Atomic Culture asks how are art practices used as a tool to confront neo-colonialism?

Guillermo Gómez-Peña​ is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978. His performance work and 11 books have contributed to the debates on cultural & gender diversity, border culture and US-Mexico relations. His art work has been presented at over nine hundred venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, Bessie and American Book Award winner, he is a regular contributor for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT). Gómez-Peña is a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency and in 2012 he was named Samuel Hoi Fellow by USA Artists.

Balitronica​ is a performance artist, cyborg poet, and queer sex radical raised on the Tijuana/San Diego border. She studied Literature at San Diego State University under the guidance of Harold Jaffe, Edith Frampton, and Sydney Brown. She then relocated to Paris to study American Expat Literature and lived in a 17th century convent with Dominican nuns. Currently living in San Francisco, she recently earned her MFA in Poetry and Queer Theory at Mills College. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with Guillermo Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra and has developed photo-performance projects with Manuel Vason, Herani Hache, RJ Muna, and Marcos Raya. She is currently working on a book titled, “A Brief Conversation With My Psychotherapist” and touring with Gomez-Pena/La Pocha Nostra.

Alex Rivera ​is a New York based digital media artist and filmmaker. He was born in 1973 to a native of Peru and a native of New Jersey. Growing up in a bi-cultural channel surfing tract home led him to rethink some assumptions about race, immigration, identity, and the global economy. Over the past fifteen years he’s been making work that illuminates two massive and parallel realities: the globalization of information through the internet, and the globalization of families, and communities, through mass migration.

Hunter College
205 Hudson St
2nd floor room 203