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May 2015
Immigrant Youth Empowerment Conference
Registration Link: bit.ly/IYECon2015 Fundraising Link: bit.ly/IYEConDonate Volunteer Link: bit.ly/Volunteer4IYECon The annual Immigrant Youth Empowerment Conference(IYECon) is an all day conference which aims to empower all youths and their families, regardless of their immigration status, by providing access to concrete resources and tools to organize within their communities. Our theme for this year’s conference, Redefining Success, challenges conventional perceptions of success: what does it mean to be undocumented and successful? Can we reimagine success as a collective concept, to redefine success…
Find out more »Black Lives Matter Photography Exhibition Opening
MoAAC in cooperation with NYS OGS, ACP, Jr Art Gallery, Presents: Black Lives Matter Photography Exhibit (photo I.D. required for admission) Curator – Jewel Shears, Co-Curator’s – Jimbe’ Carroll & Azim Thomas Featuring Photographers: Douglas L. Adams, Jr., Kenneth Bazemore, Howard Cash, Ed Herman, Luftra, Melvin McCray, A.D. Minter, Ocean Morisset, Wali Muhmammad, Hakim Mutlaq, Kenya Smith, Princess Smith, Osaretin Ugiagbe The Art Gallery is open to the public from 3 to 9 PM. 3:30pm – Curator, Jewel Shears will speak on…
Find out more »In An Ideal World: Film Screening and Discussion
At the Soledad Prison in California, a warden, a white prisoner convicted of murder and a black former gang member struggle to move beyond the stark reality of America’s locked down racial order. Challenged for the first time by a U.S. Supreme Court desegregation ruling and a novel mixed-race program, their stories reveal the hope and the hidden risks of transformative change, and the institutional nature of racial hierarchies. Register here!
Find out more »NHSJ Symposium on Arts, Health and Narrative: Spoken Word as Artistry and Activism
Event: 7 – 9 pm FREE and open to all, must RSVP to attend Dinner: 6-7 pm (Optional, $25, payable only by check) The Narrative, Health and Social Justice Seminar is excited to announce its 2nd annual Symposium on Arts, Health and Narrative. This year we will bring artistic voices together with members of the healthcare and health humanities communities to engage in dialogue about how art and activism can work collaboratively with narrative, health and social justice. During our session we…
Find out more »YAC Ride for Rights Bike-A-Thon 2015
On Saturday May 16th – the Youth Action Council (our semester-long program for youth ages 15 to 18 who have an incarcerated parent) will host their third annual RIDE FOR RIGHTS bike-a-thon to raise awareness about the rights and experiences of children with incarcerated parents. Please come on out with your bike and ride around Prospect Park for a good cause and a good time! All those who donate $20 or more will receive a very cool YAC t-shirt. We will…
Find out more »Arts to End Violence Festival
The Crown Heights Community Mediation Center is gearing up for their annual Arts to End Violence festival! There is a block party (Kingston Ave Fest) on May 16th and gallery opening on May 21st. All are welcome at both events! For the gallery show, they are currently accepting 2-D art submissions on the themes of violence and community empowerment.There is a cash prize for the top youth (24 and under) submissions but we accept and encourage pieces from artists of all ages. If you are interested…
Find out more »Dr. Becky Pettit on “Civil Rights Legislation and Legalized Exclusion: Mass Incarceration and the Masking of Inequality”
Civil rights legislation in the 1960s promised greater racial equality in a variety of domains including education, economic opportunity, and voting. Yet those same laws were coupled with exclusions from surveys used to gauge their effects, thereby affecting both statistical portraits of inequality and our understanding of the impact of civil rights legislation. This project considers how growth in the American criminal justice system affects assessments of equal opportunity more than half a century after the enactment of historic legislation…
Find out more »Education on Both Sides of the Wall
May 21st – Education on Both Sides of the Wall The 2014-15 PRI Occasional Series on Reentry Research will highlight issues raised by the National Academy of Sciences’ groundbreaking report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Causes and Consequences. Please join us on Thursday, May 21st, 2015, for the seventh and final installment in this series, Education on Both Sides of the Wall. This special half-day event, co-sponsored by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, will include two panels of…
Find out more »New York Reentry Roundtable: Struggles of Reentry
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2015 1:00 – 3:00PM Guest Speakers: Barry Campbell Special Assistant to President and CEO Fortune Society Topic: Struggles of Reentry Hosted by The Community Service Society of New York (CSS) 105 East 22nd Street at the corner of Park Avenue South Conference Room 4A Take the 6 or N/R trains to 23rd Street Kindly RSVP to Gabriel Torres-Rivera at [email protected] or call 212.614.5306t
Find out more »June 2015
Free City Pop Up Schools
Saturday June 20th, 2015 Harlem Location: Marcus Garvey Park 18 Mt Morris Park W, New York, NY Brooklyn Location: Herbert Von King Park 670 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn, New York Check out the facebook event page for detailed information about the workshop schedules in each location https://www.facebook.com/events/610625445735416/ The cost of college education continues to steadily rise. Low income, undocumented and justice involved community members are shut out of privilege academic spaces of higher learning due to systemic barriers to education. The…
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