WE STILL HERE: FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION

WHERE:
1 Washington Place
New York NY, USA

WHEN:
Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm — 8:00pm

“We Still Here” introduces the incredible youth of Comerío, Puerto Rico navigating the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, a disaster that brought an unprecedented level of devastation to an island already in economic and political crisis. In the lush mountains in the center of Puerto Rico, 24-year-old Mariangelie Ortiz leads a group of young residents who never thought they would become the leaders of their community, nonetheless find themselves traveling to Washington D.C. to protest in the halls of Congress. Follow them in this coming of age story to find their power and begin creating a sustainable future for themselves and their community.

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About the Producer/ Director:

Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi is an internationally-recognized and award-winning filmmaker. He is the founder of FistUp.TV, a media platform uplifting and telling stories from underrepresented communities across the world. His work has circulated through National Broadcast: Free Speech TV, Teaching Channel, and PBS. Online he has created content for remezcla, okayafrica, TIDAL, and VIBE. Spike Lee is one of the reasons Eli became a filmmaker, and in 2019 he hired Eli to work on set with him as a photographer for “She’s Gotta Have It Too.” Eli is the co-founder of Defend Puerto Rico, a multimedia project designed to document and celebrate Puerto Rican creativity, resilience, and resistance. He is currently touring the world with his new film Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba and curating his 12th Annual Fist Up Film Festival. His dedication to his craft is deeply connected to his commitment to social justice and the belief in the transformative power of film.

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Sponsors

Sponsors

Inequality and the Law The Latinx Project NYU Gallatin Urban Democracy Lab

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Art & the Politics of Space: One Day Symposium: Visual/Scholarly/Activist Responses to Spatial Precarity

WHERE:
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012 , USA

WHEN:
Thursday, March 14, 9:00am — 4:00pm

The Latinization of U.S. cities has been accompanied by the rapid displacement of Latinx from their historically stronghold communities. Art and culture have been central to these processes, both to expediting gentrification and to strategies of resistance and Latinx place making. This is evident in the role art galleries and culture-based developments have played in the gentrification of urban cities as well as in the rise of Latinx artistic interventions that place culture and place-making at the forefront of their practice. This one day symposium will gather participating artists from PELEA Exhibit along with scholars who have been theorizing and acting through these processes in their work and practice. We will be welcoming the following speakers to speak at this symposium:

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Panel I: Thinking Through Capital and the Politics of Space

Amanda Boston is the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow and an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Marron Institute of Urban Management.

Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores is an Associate Professor in Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Sociology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her research focuses on understanding how urban space mediates community life and race, class, and social inequality.

Johana Londoño is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is largely interested in the intersection between cultural studies, urban studies, and Latina/o studies.

Miguel Robles-Durán Associate Professor of Urbanism and member of the Parsons School of Design Graduate Urban Council in New York.

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Lunch and Break

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Panel 2: Into Action

Shellyne Rodriguez from Take Back the Bronx

Rigoberto Lara from Sunset Park for a Liberated Future

Lena Melendez from the Northern Manhattan Not for Sale

Sam Stein is a geography PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and an Urban Studies instructor at Hunter College.

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Symposium organized by The Latinx Project Co-Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) , the Institute for African American Affairs/ Center for Black Visual Culture IAAA/CBVC, (CLACS) Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Urban Democracy Lab, NYU Urban Initiative, and the King Juan Carlos Center

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Topics

New York City Immigration & Migration Latin America Public Space Race Decolonizing Gentrification Arts Activism Urban Social Movements Politics

Sponsors

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies NYU Urban Initiative Institute for African American Affairs/ Center for Black Visual Culture IAAA/CBVC Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD)King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center

Sponsors

The Latinx Project