This week at Interference Archive:
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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.
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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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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Radical Playdate Presents: Be the Change! NYC Launch
Saturday, February 9, 2018, 12pm-2pm
Imagine a world free of oppression, and built on social justice and community support instead. What would it look like?
Join Radix Media as they host the New York City release of Be The Change! A Justseeds Coloring Book. It is the first coloring book featuring the art of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. The illustrations envision radical social transformation and pathways toward a more just future. People of all ages will find inspiration here. In a world that is getting faster every day, slow down and celebrate art and resistance. Make the revolution bright, colorful, and irresistible! Together we can be the change we want to see!
This event is a collaboration with Interference Archive’s Radical Playdate, child-centered programming that aims to build a more family-inclusive social movement. Snacks and beverages will be available, in addition to large coloring sheets to encourage cooperation and collaboration!
Download sample pages and purchase the book at: radixmedia.org/bethechange
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Mark your calendars for our next exhibition:
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Hi-Viz: Australian Political Posters 1979–2019
February 8 – April 14, 2019
Opening reception: Friday, February 8, 6-9pm
From the collection of Alison Alder
HI-VIS: AUSTRALIAN POSTERS 1979–2019 is an exhibition of screen-printed posters that provide a visual commentary of politics and life in Australia over the last four decades. Renowned for their high visibility, particularly in the 1980s with their saturated fluorescent colors, these posters describe the times and events that have engaged socially active artists throughout recent periods of major change.
Many of the topics addressed in these posters remain relevant today including Indigenous rights, gender politics, unemployment, and the environment. Contemporary Australian artists are reinvigorating the screen printed poster as a form of protest and information sharing by pasting the work onto the wall and value adding to its potency by posting on social media.
These wonderful posters, with their ability to encapsulate ideas into a single image, continue to provoke debate, galvanize ideas into action, and invigorate those working toward an equitable and just society.
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