This week at Interference Archive:
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Please note that we'll be closed on Saturday, January 19th for our quarterly volunteer retreat; we hope you'll stop by another time during our regular open hours.
We have a terrific lineup of programming to celebrate the last two weeks of our Free Education! exhibition -- read below for more information!
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Interference in the Classroom: an archives orientation and discussion for educators
Thursday, January 17, 6-7:30pm
K-12 teachers (and beyond!) are invited to join members of the Education Working Group at Interference Archive for an archives orientation and discussion about how we can use archival material with students in the classroom. The Education Working Group will also share some curriculum developed for educators to use in the classroom, either in tandem with or in substitute for physical archive visits when traveling with a class is tricky, and will invite suggestions from educators on how archives can further support teachers and students. Questions? Send us an email!
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Gay Liberation Front, Come Out!, and Gay Dance Parties at Alternate U and Beyond
Thursday, January 24, 7pm
Come and join us for an evening of Gay Liberation at Interference Archive. Flavia Rando and Perry Brass will discuss their personal experiences during the early years of the struggle for gay rights in New York. Flavia and Perry were two of the gay activists who used the Alternate U as a meeting place for organizing as well as a liberated space hosting the world’s first public gay dances, including women’s dances. Alternate U became a meeting place for gay activists mobilizing after the Stonewall riots in 1969. The Gay Liberation Front published the first issue of Come Out! A Newspaper by and for the Gay Community from Alternate U in 1969.
Hear about how the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) emerged as a militant movement fighting for gay rights – and how the underground newspaper Come Out! was established as a voice of the GLF, promoting gay rights, lesbian feminism, and anti-sexism within the Movement and beyond. Come Out! was a part of a whole movement of underground, liberation newspapers published in this era. Flavia and Perry will also share their insights on the debates and conflicts that were an integrated part of establishing a front of very diverse LGBT people against the enforced sexual norms of mainstream society. Read more on our website.
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Free Education? Contemporary Struggles:
Roundtables & Film Screening
Sunday, January 27, 2pm-6pm
A closing event for Free Education! The Free University of New York, Alternate U, and Learning Liberation. Organized by Common Notions, Free University of New York City, and Interference Archive/Jakob Jakobsen.
PROGRAMMING INCLUDES:
2:00-2:45pm: Film Screening: Who Teaches Them?
Screening of the episode Who Teaches Them? (1966) from the WGBH series Radical Americans. This TV program presents interviews with the founding trio of the Free University of New York, Sharon Krebs, James Mellen and Allen Krebs.
2:45-3:45PM: Wages for Students Roundtable
With George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, and Wilson Sherwin. Moderated by Malav Kanuga and Jakob Jakobsen.
Wages for Students was a campaign against the neoliberalization of the university, at a time in the mid 1970s when this process was just beginning. Forty years later, the highly profitable business of education continues to exploit the unpaid labor of students, and now also makes them pay for it. This roundtable will discuss these and other critical issues.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be a study group reading of Wages for Students at Interference Archive on January 20th 2pm-4pm with one of the original authors, George Caffentzis. Those joining our study group will have a discount price of Wages for Students courtesy of Common Notions (RSVP & copies will be available in advance at the Interference Archive and you can write to info@commonnotions.org to reserve your copy).
4:00-5:30pm: To transform NYC, start with CUNY: Free University of New York City Roundtable
With Amelia Fortunato, Sarah Gee, Shayhan Lewis, and Sabrina Rich. Moderated by Conor Tomás Reed.
The City University of New York has long acted as a locus of broader struggles for working people’s right to thrive in New York City. This roundtable will look at how multiple present campaigns are co-emerging to transform the university and the city with a potential impact not seen in decades.
5:30-6:00: Closing Discussion
For more details on this day of programming, please visit our website.
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Save the date: Radical Archives Happy Hour
Location: Strong Rope Brewery, 574 President Street, Brooklyn NY
Date: Thursday, February 7, 6-8pm
There’s nothing we love more than hanging out with folks who love archiving and who want to celebrate the work of radical archives. Join us on Thursday, February 7th from 6-8pm at Strong Rope Brewery in Gowanus for Radical Archives Happy Hour! Not only do we get to support an amazing local family-owned brewery, but $1 of every drink will go to Interference Archive. And, you can stick around past 8pm for live folk music!
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On view until January 27th:
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Free Education! The Free University of New York, Alternate U., and Learning Liberation
October 11, 2018 – January 27, 2019
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. Read more information on our website.
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