This week at Interference Archive:
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Discussion and Screening: Mad Worlds by subMedia
Saturday, December 22, 7pm
In a world where everything seems upside down, what does it mean to be sane?
Join Sascha DuBrul (co-founder of The Icarus Project and IDHA) for a screening of the new SubMedia video Mad Worlds (33min) and a facilitated discussion about how we can take better care of ourselves and each other in a crazy world. If we don’t trust the society we live in to dictate what “mental health” means, how do we decide, individually and collectively, what it means to be mentally healthy? What support strategies are out there for those of us who struggle? How do we talk to our friends about our needs, and make space for evolving the conversation around madness. Come escape the holiday blues, meet some strangers, and learn about Transformative Mutual Aid Practices (T-MAPs) – a tool for building radical community support. Read more info on our website.
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Social Justice Book Club: The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn
Tuesday, December 18, 7 PM – 9 PM
Join us for a meeting before the holidays! For our December book club, we’re reading The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn. Highlighting not just the usual terms of presidential administrations and congressional activities, this book provides a “bottom-to-top” perspective, giving voice to our nation’s minorities and letting the stories of such groups as African Americans, women, Native Americans, and the laborers of all nationalities be told in their own words. RSVP by email or on facebook.
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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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