This week at Interference Archive:
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Climate Justice Wikipedia Editathon
Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 6-9pm
Join us to increase representation of environmental issues on Wikipedia! Surrounded by material from our exhibition, A Visual History of Climate Justice, we’ll kick off this event at 6pm with some snacks, followed by a presentation at 6:30 on anti-nuclear organizing. Yuko Tonohira will share about her experience with the post-Fukushima antinuclear movement and anti-uranium struggles with indigenous peoples, and the relationship between this work and the climate movement.
Stick around to join local Wikipedians and Interference Archive volunteers to improve coverage of these issues and other climate justice themes. Participants will have the opportunity to work directly with archival materials in the Interference collection as source material for editing.
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 around 7pm with a brief tutorial to cover the basics. Check out our Wikipedia meetup page for more info. Refreshments will be provided. Contact us with questions at info@interferencearchive.org.
Read more here.
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Listen Up, Brooklyn!
A night of podcasting, presented by the Brooklyn Public Library
Saturday, March 14, 7:00-9:30pm (Interference Archive speaking from 9:00-9:30pm)
Location: Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
Interference Archive, and our podcast Audio Interference, is excited to participate in Listen Up, Brooklyn!, a night of podcasting presented by the Brooklyn Public Library. Join us at the library for a series of workshops and talks to learn about podcasting and audio resources available at the library and beyond. To end the night, Interference Archive will speak on a panel that is a live recording of the BPL's podcast Borrowed about alternative libraries, and what traditional libraries often leave out. Interference Archive will speak alongside OlaRonke Akinmowo, Creator and Director of the Free Black Women’s Library, and artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed. |
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Coming up at Interference Archive:
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Climate Activism 101
Saturday, March 21, 3-5pm
Ari (350 Brooklyn) and Liat (Indivisible Nation BK) are co-creating a new initiative to provide people with easy, concrete actions that they can take (mostly from home) in order to support climate candidates, advocate for transformative climate policy, and support local organizations building climate solutions. During this workshop, Ari and Liat will share strategies for getting involved (in a sustainable way!) in Climate Activism.
Read more here.
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Thursday, March 26, 7pm
How does neighborhood rezoning affect housing, racial, and environmental justice? Join Interference Archive for a conversation with residents and activists for a discussion about the past, present, and future of Gowanus.
This community conversation will be led by members of the Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition for Justice (GNCJ), author and historian Joseph Alexiou, and architect and sustainability advocate Thomas Kosbau. Members from GNCJ will kick off the event with a presentation of their demands and priorities created in response to the recent NYC Department of City Planning rezoning proposal for Gowanus. A panel discussion following will touch upon the historic roots of current environmental and housing issues in Gowanus as well as sustainable and just alternatives to top-down urban planning approaches.
Read more here.
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Water, Power, We: Modeling Environmental Justice in Movement
Saturday, March 28th, 2-4pm
Please RSVP on Eventbrite
This experiential workshop hosted by Artichoke Dance, coinciding with our current exhibition Like the Waters We Rise: A Visual History of Climate Justice, will use individual movement and collective activities to model how water gains force and momentum. These activities mirror the creative process utilized to create the performance work Overflow, which investigates the nature and impacts of Hurricane Sandy. They also engage in Artichoke Dance’s unique approach to contemporary dance partnering, requiring a balance of strength and sensitivity. These experiences, both in doing and viewing, serve as content for examining interconnected systems, effective collaborative action, and environmental justice principles.
Read more here.
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Advertising Shits In Your Head
Friday, April 17, 7pm
Co-authors of Advertising Shits in Your Head – Matt Bonner and Vyvian Raoul – are joined by Jordan Seiler (Public Ad Campaign), Abe Lincoln Jnr. (Keep Fighting NYC), and RJ Rushmore, Caroline Caldwell and Katherine ‘Luna Park’ Lorimer (Art in Ad Places) for a round table discussion on subvertising – the subversion of advertising.
Advertising Shits in Your Head is part theory, part DIY-manual for accessing and altering advertising spaces; this evening will aim to equip attendees with the knowledge they need to carry out their own subvertising campaigns in New York City.
Read more here.
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Gowanus Weed and Seed Walk
Sunday, April 19th 2pm-4:30pm
Meet at Interference Archive
Join Interference Archive and the Next Epoch Seed Library for a weed and seed walk in Gowanus. We’ll identify and interact with the weedy, urban-adapted plant species that have made a home in the cracks and fissures of this rapidly changing industrial landscape. Along the way we’ll collect and re-distribute the seeds of evening primrose (Oenothera biennis), a medicinal, pollinator-friendly species whose insect companions benefit from gene flow between isolated primrose populations. As we interact with these urban-adapted species we’ll consider the connections between climate justice and human-plant reciprocity.
Following the walk, we’ll return to the archive and consider intersections between the Gowanus Seed and Weed Walk and our current exhibition, Like the Waters We Rise: Climate Justice in Print. We’ll have the opportunity to map our walk and discuss the legacy of urban environmentalism, reclaimed industrial landscapes, and the community gardens movement.
Read more here.
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On view at Interference Archive:
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A Visual History of Climate Justice
Exhibition Dates: February 20 – May 24, 2020
Come see Like the Waters We Rise: Climate Justice in Print, a two-part exhibition that tells a story of our contemporary climate justice movement through printed works, both past and present.
A Visual History of Climate Justice, hosted at the Interference Archive, includes a collection of archival prints documenting the historical struggles that gave birth to the current climate justice movement. These materials—from the anti-nuclear movement, Indigenous sovereignty movement, Black liberation struggles, the farmworker justice movement, and more—illustrate that the climate movement is made of many movements and one that encompasses many terrains of struggle.
Read more about the exhibition—including the first part of the show, Climate Justice in Print: Katrina to Now, which opened at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in November—here.
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Check out our publications!
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See what's new and what's good at interferencearchive.org and justseeds.org.
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