This week at Interference Archive:
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Certain Days 2019 Calendar Release Party
Friday, November 30, 7:30-9:30pm
Join us for the Certain Days 2019 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar launch party! The calendar is in its 18th year and is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, Hamilton, New York and Baltimore, in partnership with a political prisoner being held in maximum-security prison in New York State, David Gilbert.
This year’s theme is “Health/Care.” Local contributors will be speaking about their art and articles printed in this year’s calendar. We will have copies of the calendar for sale, and holiday cards for political prisoners for you to sign.
This event is co-sponsored by NYC Jericho, Prolibertad, NYC Free Peltier & Samidoun. More info via certaindays.org
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K-12 Radical Education in NYC:
a collaborative investigation
Saturday, December 1, 3-5pm
Radical education on the K-12 level also has a rich history in New York City, dating back as early as 1901. This two-hour event will be split into two parts: the first hour will be a presentation covering the definition and a brief history of radical education in New York City (including a love affair and an attempted bombing) and a look at the current state of radical K-12 education in New York City. The second hour will be a collaborative workshop, discussing realistic ways in which to get involved in radical education and children’s rights in our city today. Visit our website for more information and potential advanced readings.
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Radical Education Wikipedia Editathon
Sunday, December 2, 2-5pm
Childcare available with RSVP by TODAY, November 28th
In recognition of our current exhibition, Free Education!, we are holding a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on the theme of radical education throughout history. We’ll use exhibition material and the Interference Archive collection to improve representation of the individuals and organizations involved in radical education movements worldwide.
Snacks will be provided. Childcare is available if requested by November 28, 2018. Please RSVP or request childcare through this form. No experience editing Wikipedia is required but please bring a laptop! Experienced Wikipedians will be around to help out, and we’ll be starting the edit-a-thon at 2pm with a brief tutorial to cover the basics.
Questions? Send us an email at info@interferencearchive.org.
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Holiday Openhouse 2018
Saturday, December 15, 2018, 12-5pm
Celebrate our second annual holiday open house on 7th Street! Stop by, sip on hot cocoa, and browse our last-minute-market of radical gifts from our friends at Justseeds Artists Cooperative Common Notions, and more who will be joining us to sell prints and books. Comics, zines, and posters, will be for sale from the Our Comics, Ourselves crew. And don’t forget to get your copy of Free Education!, Interference Archive’s most recent publication. Check our website for a full list of vendors.
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Help out our friends at Booklyn!
Our friends at Booklyn, Inc. are raising funds for radical arts & activist programming in 2019: Archival box sets for social justice organizations, zine workshops as tools for political engagement, a paid curators program, and a zine fest that celebrates WOC/QPOC number among the programs Booklyn is setting out to do. They’re aiming to raise $20K by December 12. Can you help them reach their goal? Check out the video here to learn more.
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Stop by to check out our current exhibition:
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Free Education! The Free University of New York, Alternate U., and Learning Liberation
October 11, 2018 – January 27, 2019
Opening reception: October 11, 2018, 6-9pm
Curated by Jakob Jakobsen and Interference Archive
Rooted in an examination of the history of the Free University of New York (FUNY), a 1960s experiment in radical education, this exhibition combines original archival documents from FUNY as well as from related projects, including Alternate U. and the Freedom Schools movement, to explore what it means to have a space for community at the intersection of learning, art and politics.
In our current moment, when the price of education amounts to crippling student debt and underemployment is a reality for even the most qualified post-secondary graduates, Free Education! aims to generate conversation about what it looks like to reimagine possibilities for education.
This exhibition includes an audio component featuring dialogue based on the transcripts of interviews with former participants of the Free University of New York and Alternate U recorded in 2017 and 2018. Interviewees include Susan Sherman, David McReynolds, Stanley Aronowitz, AB Spellman, Keith Brooks, Norman Fruchter, Robert Machover, Miriam Frank, Sue Simensky and Joe Berke. We are grateful to them for their generosity in sharing of their life stories. Additional material in the exhibition is made available through Susan Sherman, Keith Brooks, Perry Brass, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, and PETT archive. The exhibit curators hope that this exhibition will recognize and honor the legacy of David McReynolds, war resister and Free University lecturer, 1930 – 2018.
Read more information on our website.
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