Upcoming Programs

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Upcoming Programs

Thursday, May 23
7:30 pm
Film Screening/Discussion
She Who Struggles for the People and is Thankful
Assata Shakur and Us
Casey Butcher, Sophia Dawson, Casey Johanna, Lehna Huie, Dequi Kioni-Sadik & John Potash
People's Video Network | 55 minutes | 1998 | Cuba

Forty years ago Assata Olugbala Shakur, long a subject of the FBI's infamous Counter Intelligence Program due to her elevated political consciousness and formidable organizing skill, was targeted for...

Friday, May 24
7:30 pm
Idle No More!
A Presentation on Indigeous Rights
Sylvia McAdam (cofounder of Idle No More) & Kerry Coast

Coming out of the echo of the Occupy Movement, Idle No More is an indigeous movement that has rocked the foundations of the Canadian settler state.. As a movement of First People's it has challenged the...

Saturday, May 25
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
CANCELLED
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Image Theater
Looking at Aging—Its Effects on Families, Caregivers & the Aging Person
Facilitated by Elia Gurna & Marie-Claire Picher

In our society, the process of growing old is at once beautiful and awe-inspiring, and, for families and people close to an aging person, can be an ongoing, celebratory relationship. But for the aging person...

Sunday, May 26
6:00 pm
Earthdriver.org Presents
A Sunday Salon New Music: Alex Alexander

This Memorial Day weekend we are giving the drummer some! Alex Alexander is a multi dimesional percussionist who has performed with the likes of Chaka Khan, Eminen and Bernie Worell. Stepped in Latin,...

Monday, May 27
7:00 pm
Special Forum on Indigenous Rights
Stories on Rights and Resistance:
Indigenous Maya Activists in Central America

Join us for a panel discussing featuring indigenous activists from Guatemala and Belize speaking on freedom of expression, land rights, and the movement against extractive industries. 

...

Friday, May 31
8:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Saturday, June 1
8:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Sunday, June 2
7:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Monday, June 3
7:30 pm
Co-Sponsored by The Revolutions Group At The Brecht Forum
Through the Prism of México

 

 

The legacy of the Mexican Revolution has continued to inspire...

Thursday, June 6
7:30 pm
The New Africa:
Underdevelopment or Liberation?
Samar Al Bulushi, Glen Ford, Wazir Mohamed
Africa is portrayed as a tragedy in the mainstream media, the victim of bad leaders and bad luck. Yet if we scratch the surface, what we perceive as tragic is the result of years of underdevelopment. The...
Friday, June 7
8:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Saturday, June 8
8:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Sunday, June 9
8:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Tuesday, June 11
7:30 pm
Global Capitalism
Monthly Update
Rick Wolff

These Tuesday evenings begin with updates and analyses of major economic events during the last month. We focus especially on the ongoing global capitalist economic crisis, government responses, and how they...

Friday, June 14
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
12-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790)
Russell Dale

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy in spite of the fact that he explicitly defended the most outrageous views about people of color. Kant...

Friday, June 14
8:00 pm
CD Release
SoCorpo Tour of Inelement
Sasha Bogdanowitsch & Sabrina Lastman

SoCorpo is a vocal duo comprised of Sasha Bogdanowitsch & Sabrina Lastman, whose music stretches the possibilities of the human voice and bridges gaps between contemporary new music, jazz, folk &...

Saturday, June 15
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Rainbow of Desire
Facilitated by Marie Claire Picher

Rainbow of Desire, an Image Theater technique, is a technique similar to Cop-in-the-Head. Where Cop uses games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, Rainbow of Desire...

Thursday, June 27
7:30 pm
Film Screening/Discussion
Greek American Radicals:
The Untold Story
Dan Georgakas,Kostis Karpozilos,Eric Poulos

The historical documentary  Greek American Radicals - the untold story  presents  a forgotten page of Greek immigrant experience in America: the role of immigrants in the radical labor...

Friday, July 5
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
3-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Looking at the Politics of the Theater of the Oppressed through Forum Theater
facilitated by Julian Boal & Marie-Claire Picher

This three-day workshop is an outgrowth of a collaboration and some conversations that took place over the years between Julian Boal, TOPLAB facilitator Marie-Claire Picher and other members of TOPLAB. When...

Wednesday, July 10
7:30 pm
Tales of the 1% Film Series
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Discussion with Peter Schulman
Dir. Jean Renoir | 1936 | 80 min | comedy crime drama

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend...

Thursday, May 23
7:30 pm
Film Screening/Discussion
She Who Struggles for the People and is Thankful
Assata Shakur and Us
Casey Butcher, Sophia Dawson, Casey Johanna, Lehna Huie, Dequi Kioni-Sadik & John Potash
People's Video Network | 55 minutes | 1998 | Cuba

Forty years ago Assata Olugbala Shakur, long a subject of the FBI's infamous Counter Intelligence Program due to her elevated political consciousness and formidable organizing skill, was targeted for...

Friday, May 24
7:30 pm
Idle No More!
A Presentation on Indigeous Rights
Sylvia McAdam (cofounder of Idle No More) & Kerry Coast

Coming out of the echo of the Occupy Movement, Idle No More is an indigeous movement that has rocked the foundations of the Canadian settler state.. As a movement of First People's it has challenged the...

Monday, May 27
7:00 pm
Special Forum on Indigenous Rights
Stories on Rights and Resistance:
Indigenous Maya Activists in Central America

Join us for a panel discussing featuring indigenous activists from Guatemala and Belize speaking on freedom of expression, land rights, and the movement against extractive industries. 

...

Monday, June 3
7:30 pm
Co-Sponsored by The Revolutions Group At The Brecht Forum
Through the Prism of México

 

 

The legacy of the Mexican Revolution has continued to inspire...

Thursday, June 6
7:30 pm
The New Africa:
Underdevelopment or Liberation?
Samar Al Bulushi, Glen Ford, Wazir Mohamed
Africa is portrayed as a tragedy in the mainstream media, the victim of bad leaders and bad luck. Yet if we scratch the surface, what we perceive as tragic is the result of years of underdevelopment. The...
Tuesday, June 11
7:30 pm
Global Capitalism
Monthly Update
Rick Wolff

These Tuesday evenings begin with updates and analyses of major economic events during the last month. We focus especially on the ongoing global capitalist economic crisis, government responses, and how they...

Thursday, June 27
7:30 pm
Film Screening/Discussion
Greek American Radicals:
The Untold Story
Dan Georgakas,Kostis Karpozilos,Eric Poulos

The historical documentary  Greek American Radicals - the untold story  presents  a forgotten page of Greek immigrant experience in America: the role of immigrants in the radical labor...

Monday, February 4
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
10-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Revolutions
Mexico: 1910-1920 – Part 2
Michael Lardner with Gerardo Renique

This reading group will take up Alan Knight’s in-depth two-volume study, The Mexican Revolution, as our main text along with other readings to be provided during the sessions.

This is...

Friday, February 8
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
12-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
POSTPONED DUE TO STORM-- Will begin Feb 15
Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Russell Dale

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy. Kant's works are the starting point of “classical German philosophy” which culminates...

Friday, February 8
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
POSTPONED DUE TO STORM - Class will begin Feb 15
The Invention of the White Race
Jeffrey B. Perry

Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century’s major contributions to historical...

Monday, February 11
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
10-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Co-sponsors: New York Review of Books & Haymarket Books
Victor Serge & the Novel of 20th Century Revolution
Part I: The Cycle of Revolution
Richard Greeman

On Monday, February 11, Richard Greeman will deliver thei lecture originally sceduled for Saturday, February 9, that was postponed due to the storm. The event is open to the general public as well as those...

Friday, February 15
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
12-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Russell Dale

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy. Kant's works are the starting point of “classical German philosophy” which culminates...

Friday, February 15
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
The Invention of the White Race
Jeffrey B. Perry

Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century’s major contributions to historical...

Tuesday, February 19
5:30 pm
14-WEEK CLASS/READING GROUP BEGINS
Black Reconstruction in America
By W.E.B. DuBois
Tim Schermerhorn

Black Reconstruction is an essential and primary building block in understanding the culture and politics of the United States.  It is also an excellent (arguably the best) place to start...

Saturday, February 23
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
4-SESSION CLASS OR STAND-ALONE SEMINARS
The Housing Question
Housing & Displacement after Sandy
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

Government policies to address climate change after Sandy are geared towards protecting private property and reproduce deep social and environmental inequalities. How can our communities advance alternative...

Saturday, February 23
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
6-SESSION READING BROUP BEGINS
Critique of Everyday Life
Lisa Maya Knauer & Friends

Are you tired of capitalism (and its good buddies like racism, patriarchy, homophobia and militarism)? Are you tired of the life you find yourself living, a life you're seemingly forced to live? Are you...

Monday, March 4
5:30 pm
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Beginning Spanish Class
Marisol Ruiz

A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills...

Wednesday, March 6
7:30 pm
8 SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Intermediate Spanish
Jose Rosa

Jose Rosa, an immigrant from El Salvador, with 15 years experience teaching Spanish to teenagers and adults, will conduct classes to develop conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical...

Friday, March 8
7:30 pm
Class Series
Co-sponsor: the thedore allen-hubert harrison society
The Invention of the White Race

“The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America,” the second volume of “The Invention of the White Race” (Verso Books, 2012) by Theodore W. Allen will be discussed this Friday night...

Saturday, March 9
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
SEMINAR SERIES
The Housing Question
The Creeping Privatization of Public Housing
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

In the last three decades federal, state and local housing agencies have drastically reduced public housing subsidies, demolished many projects, and entered into public-private partnerships that give banks...

Sunday, March 17
4:00 pm
6-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Co-sponsor: South Asia Solidarity Initative
South Asia
Beyond Boundaries, Building Solidarities

The course will serve as a ‘primer’ for progressives and leftists on contemporary South Asian politics in the region, while also providing a historical context for current events.  The...

Saturday, March 23
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
SEMINAR SERIES
POSTPONED TO APRIL 6
The Housing Question
Mortgage Foreclosures: Socially Just Solutions
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

NOTE: Due to illness, this session is POSTPONED to APRIL 6.

How can residents in homes being foreclosed best be helped to stay in their homes? Should only those who can afford them...

Saturday, April 6
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
SEMINAR SERIES
The Housing Question
Mortgage Foreclosures: Socially Just Solutions
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

How can residents in homes being foreclosed best be helped to stay in their homes? Should only those who can afford them be helped to stay? Should banks or lenders be made whole by government help if there...

Saturday, April 20
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
POSTPONED TO APRIL 27
The Housing Question
Rent Control: Economics & Social Justice
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

What are the net economic effects of rent controls? Do they restrict private development, keep the middle class in the city, slow gentrification, help the poor, endanger good housing maintenance, or punish...

Saturday, April 27
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
SEMINAR
The Housing Question
Rent Control: Economics & Social Justice
Tom Angotti & Peter Marcuse with Special Guests

What are the net economic effects of rent controls? Do they restrict private development, keep the middle class in the city, slow gentrification, help the poor, endanger good housing maintenance, or punish...

Friday, June 14
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
12-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790)
Russell Dale

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy in spite of the fact that he explicitly defended the most outrageous views about people of color. Kant...

Sunday, May 26
6:00 pm
Earthdriver.org Presents
A Sunday Salon New Music: Alex Alexander

This Memorial Day weekend we are giving the drummer some! Alex Alexander is a multi dimesional percussionist who has performed with the likes of Chaka Khan, Eminen and Bernie Worell. Stepped in Latin,...

Friday, May 31
8:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Saturday, June 1
8:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Sunday, June 2
7:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Friday, June 7
8:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Saturday, June 8
8:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Sunday, June 9
8:00 pm
On Wheels Productions presents
A Doll House

In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its...

Friday, June 14
8:00 pm
CD Release
SoCorpo Tour of Inelement
Sasha Bogdanowitsch & Sabrina Lastman

SoCorpo is a vocal duo comprised of Sasha Bogdanowitsch & Sabrina Lastman, whose music stretches the possibilities of the human voice and bridges gaps between contemporary new music, jazz, folk &...

Wednesday, July 10
7:30 pm
Tales of the 1% Film Series
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Discussion with Peter Schulman
Dir. Jean Renoir | 1936 | 80 min | comedy crime drama

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend...

Saturday, May 25
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
CANCELLED
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Image Theater
Looking at Aging—Its Effects on Families, Caregivers & the Aging Person
Facilitated by Elia Gurna & Marie-Claire Picher

In our society, the process of growing old is at once beautiful and awe-inspiring, and, for families and people close to an aging person, can be an ongoing, celebratory relationship. But for the aging person...

Saturday, June 15
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Rainbow of Desire
Facilitated by Marie Claire Picher

Rainbow of Desire, an Image Theater technique, is a technique similar to Cop-in-the-Head. Where Cop uses games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, Rainbow of Desire...

Friday, July 5
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
3-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Looking at the Politics of the Theater of the Oppressed through Forum Theater
facilitated by Julian Boal & Marie-Claire Picher

This three-day workshop is an outgrowth of a collaboration and some conversations that took place over the years between Julian Boal, TOPLAB facilitator Marie-Claire Picher and other members of TOPLAB. When...

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