This week at Interference Archive:
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Film Screening: Citizen Provocateur
Friday, September 13, 7pm
Ex-con and gay activist Ray Hill founded “The Prison Show” radio program on Houston’s KPFT 90.1 FM station in 1980. Every Friday until his retirement in 2011, the show connected Texas prison inmates with their loved-ones and friends on the outside who could not easily call or visit. The show propagated a message of hope, positive thinking and news relevant to the Texas State Department of Justice. This 2007 documentary follows some of the individuals whose lives were touched by “The Prison Show,” and follows the long journey Ray Hill made from surviving prison himself as a gay, white collar criminal to becoming an ACLU award-winning activist.
We will be joined by Brian Huberman, filmmaker and director of Citizen Provocateur; Renée Feltz, independent journalist with nearly two decades of reporting on mass incarceration, immigration and environmental justice; and Sylvia Ryerson, independent radio producer, sound artist, and current PhD student in American Studies at Yale University.
This screening and conversation are presented as part of our current exhibition Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves.
Read more here.
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Tor: What is it Good For?
Saturday, September 14, 3:30-5:30pm
Join the Tech Learning Collective in a two-hour mini-intensive digital safety workshop focused on the Tor Project. Tor is a free, state-of-the-art, privacy-enhancing Web browser, SOCKS proxy, and anonymizing overlay mixnet. Don’t worry if you don’t know what these terms mean, that’s what the workshop is for!
We are asking for a suggested donation to attend the workshop, but no one will be turned away for a lack of funds. Please reserve a ticket here. If the suggested rate is cost-prohibitive, we encourage attendees to pay whatever is comfortable for them. For accommodations, please email info@interferencearchive.org.
Read more here.
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Opening this week, an offsite exhibition:
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Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 12, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: September 10 through November 2, 2019
Location: The James Gallery in the CUNY Grad Center
Exploring a chapter of the anti-colonial struggles that unfolded after World War Two, Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print considers the role played by printed materials in the practice of Tricontinentalism. A political project born of the mid-1960s, Tricontinentalism aimed to unite liberation movements across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Inquiring into the relation of print culture to political feeling, this exhibition looks at how Tricontinentalism and its solidarity discourse inspired a vibrant graphic production by self-determination movements from Havana to Hanoi during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The exhibition is curated by Debra Lennard, Curatorial Fellow at the James Gallery and doctoral candidate in the PhD Program in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY. It is presented in cooperation with Interference Archive.
Read more here.
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Coming up at Interference Archive:
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A Quest for Home Zine Launch & Party
September 28th, 2019, 5–8pm
Join us for the launch of a new zine filled with writing, personal pictures, and artwork from participants of A Quest for Home—a series of writing workshops presented by Arts & Democracy for the South Asian diaspora and led by Pakistani writer, Roohi Chowdhury. For six weeks, the participants joined together to write away their mythic journey towards home and identity.
From stories about being queer, relationships with their brown mom, magical kingdoms to bad dates, join us for a magical night and celebrate the launch of this new zine.
All attendees will also get a copy of the zine. Read more here.
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Stop by to visit our current exhibition:
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Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves
Exhibition dates: July 11 - September, 2019
Interference Archive is pleased to show, Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves, which looks at the history of radio as a medium for grassroots movements and their organizing work. Radio has remained a consistently popular form of communication over the past decade, in part because of certain unique features: it is relatively cheap and accessible, it is a form of media that is inherently tied to its location and its local community, and it reaches populations not served by online media, including those for whom language or literacy is a barrier. Radio, both past and present, has been attractive to those who wish to embrace a DIY ethos and a spirit of resistance, and to others as a platform for community building and the development of a political consciousness. This exhibition focuses on radio endeavors created to reach communities not served by mainstream outlets. We’re interested in the people, stations, and organizations that have battled to bring their defiant programming onto the airwaves, and particularly in cases where these actions were in service of grassroots movements and/or community organizing. Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves tells some of the stories of these rebellious broadcasters.
Read more on our website. Poster design by Peter Kaplan.
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Dig Deeper into Resistance Radio!
Please enjoy this online complement to the upcoming Resistance Radio: The People's Airwaves (July 11th – September 29th) showcasing the power of radio in the service of social movements and underrepresented communities. We’re sharing stories of the people, stations and organizations from around the world who have battled the system to bring their diverse programming onto the airwaves.
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