WHERE:
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
Washington Square South
New York, NY , USA
WHEN:
Thursday, March 2, 3:00pm — 4:30pm
Urban Democracy Lab will host Rebel Diaz for a multimedia workshop focuses on the parallel histories of Hip-Hop culture, Neoliberalism, and the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Through personal stories and surveying of historical data that places Hip-Hop history in conversation with economic trends, they examine Neoliberalism’s effect on Hip-Hop culture and the communities that gave it birth.
Rebel Diaz are brothers and political refugees from Chile who fled a CIA-funded dictatorship in the 1970s. The brothers are rebel-rappers, whose bilingual sound is shaped by pieces of South American folk, house and latin percussion with boom-bap breaks and 808s. Through rebel rap, they share their story and those of their people.
They will be joined by Chilean youth organizers, Victor Chanfreau and Amanda Ceas. Victor Chanfreau and Amanda Ceas were the high school student leaders of the October 18th, 2019 student protests in Chile that grew into a nationwide movement.
Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023
Time: 3:00- 4:30PM
Place: *In-person* KJCC Auditorium 53 Washington Square South
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WHERE:
Frances Goldin Senior Housing
4th Floor Enter at GrandLo Cafe, 168 Broome Street
WHEN:
Saturday, November 3, 2:00pm — 5:00pm
A day of activities to celebrate the past,
present, and future of the SPURA community
Music! Food!
Performances! Painting!
The Red Silk Dancers!
Oral histories!
Co-sponsored by
Seward Park Area Redevelopment Coalition & Below the Grid Lab
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This workshop will help participants understand how to effectively identify project needs and successfully develop collaborations with community-based partners. The Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, and Hester Street Collaborative will share case studies from their own work using the “resource ally” model in which their work — developing research, policy, popular education tools, community planning and design support — is driven by the needs of community partners. We will explore what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to partnering with grassroots organizations; help participants to identify authentic, community-driven need for social impact projects; understand how to analyze the landscape of an issue you are interested in; and explore what effective partnerships looks like.
Workshop Leaders:
Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy, Community Development Project, Urban Justice Center
Christine Gaspar, Executive Director, Center for Urban Pedagogy
Dylan House, Community Design Director, Hester Street Collaborative
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WHEN:
Monday, February 23, 6:30pm — 8:30pm
Housing, land use, and the rights of renters have become increasingly contested political terrains in an age of rapid gentrification. In this workshop, students from Studio 20, an innovative Master’s program at NYU’s Arthur L. Journalism Institute, and Chris Henrick, a cartographer pursuing an MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons, The New School for Design, share technological tools they have developed to aid tenants and tenant advocates in their fight to end displacement and protect affordable housing in New York. Studio 20’s web documentary, New York Tenants Project, uses video, audio, photography, and interactive storytelling to investigate the loss of approximately 300,000 rent regulated apartments in New York City. Chris Henrick’s projects explore how rent stabilization data can be used to help create awareness of rent regulation and tenants’ rights, most notably in his recent web site titled, Am I Rent Stabilized?
The Studio 20 Team is Jasmine Lee, Dmitry Melamed, Jacqui Devaney, Travis Mannon, Kasia Pilat, Madeline Welsh, Eric French, and Project Producer Clàudia Prat (@webDOCC) under the supervision of Multimedia Reporting Professor Jason Maloney.
Chris Henrick (@chrislhenrick), a Cartographer pursuing an MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons, The New School for Design. Chris was also part of a team that redesigned the North West Bushwick Community Map, a mapping project that seeks to provide local residents and community organizers with housing and urban planning data to help track the changes happening in Bushwick and to protect residents.
RSVP to urbandemos@nyu.edu
Please note: Seating is limited to 30 people, first come, first served.
Co-Sponsored by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study through the Gallatin Student Resource Fund, the Urban Democracy Lab, and the NYU Leadership Initiative
We understand that networks of trust, diverse skills and mindsets, and high-levels of participation are critical to creating effective change; and that many issues are determined by similar causes and often have shared solutions. This day-long workshop will bring together active student leaders to master key lessons in alliance-building between groups working for social, environmental, and economic justice. Drawing from experts in the field and recent histories of alliance-building in New York and other cities, it will provide a collaborative space in which to build connections on campus and the city at large. By questioning the ‘typical’ definition of an activist and identifying intersections between groups, the workshop seeks to equip leaders to unite and amplify collective actions for change.
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