Exhibitions
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Finally Got The News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979
January 26, 2017 - May 15, 2017
Exhibition and event series, January 26 - May 14, 2017
Exhibition opening: January 26th, 2017 7-10pm
Finally Got the News uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements challenged racism, imperialism, patriarchy and capitalism itself. It uses original printed materials—from pamphlets to posters, flyers to record albums—to tell this politically rich and little-known story.
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Finally Got The News book
For the exhibition Finally Got The News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970–1979, we produced our most ambitious publication yet! This book provides 256 full-color pages of over 200 full-color reproductions accompanied by text, accompanied by essays from movement participants. About the Book: Finally Got the News uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical […]Events
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Talk and Screening with Robert Machover and Norman Fruchter
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, October 17, 7-9pm
Filmmaking played an active role at the Free University of New York in 1965-66, as evidenced by the work of Norman Fruchter and Robert Machover. Interference Archive is thrilled to host these two filmmakers for the world premiere of Dog Burning at Noon (5 min), a short film produced collectively at FUNY as commentary on the Vietnam War, alongside a screening of excerpts of Troublemakers, a direct cinema-style documentary about living conditions in Newark and the young SDS organizers working with people in Newark.
Finally Got the News and Take Back the Fight: Double Book Launch to Celebrate Radical Publishing at Interference Archive
Saturday, December 9, 2017 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, December 9, 5-7pm In the midst of our big move over the past few months, we've been keeping busy with a few other great projects -- including the release of two new publications! Join us for the launch of Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979, and Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up.
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Rediscovering the Radical Queer Past: a discussion of Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
Sunday, June 4, 2017 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Sunday, June 4th , 5 - 6:30pm Join Emily K. Hobson at Interference Archive for a discussion of Hobson's book Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left! The book explores the history of LGBT and queer radical movements in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Film screening: Finally Got the News
Saturday, May 6, 2017 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday, May 6, 7pm Produced in 1970 as a collaboration between Newsreel filmmakers and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Finally Got the News paints a picture of race, class, and labor issues in Detroit while exemplifying the ways cinema at the time was used by filmmakers as a means for liberation and a tool for worker struggles. This film screening accompanies Interference Archive's public exhibition of the same name. We will be joined by Stewart Bird, one of the Newsreel filmmakers involved in this production, as well as by Chris Robé, author of "Detroit Rising: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Newsreel, and the Making of Finally Got the News".
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Film Screening: EL PUEBLO SE LEVANTA and A LUTA CONTINUA
Sunday, May 14, 2017 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sunday, May 14, 7pm Celebrate the closing of our current exhibition with us as we watch these two amazing films! Produced in 1971, El Pueblo Se Levanta portrays the racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities faced by Puerto Rican communities in the United States. This film focuses on the community of East Harlem and is narrated by the people it portrays, capturing the compassion and militancy of the Young Lords as they implemented their own health, educational, and public assistance programs and fought back against social injustice. We will watch this film in conversation with A Luta Continua (1972), which records Mozambican guerillas fighting colonialism in the liberated areas of Mozambique. Filmed by African American lawyer Robert Van Lierop in solidarity with FRELIMO, A Luta Continua gives voice to similar demands for health care, education reform, and gender equality that we hear from the Young Lords in El Pueblo Se Levanta.
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Printing Protest Symbols: a hands-on workshop!
Saturday, April 8, 2017 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday, April 8, 2-4pm In the streets or in our archive, we see so many symbols in the world around us. How do social movements use symbols to convey their message? This hands-on workshop is for all ages! We'll spend a bit of time talking about the symbols we see on the exhibition walls right now at Interference Archive, as well as the symbols we see on signs at protests and marches. After that, we'll carve our own symbols into foam printing boards and make our own mini-zines by sharing the symbols we've carved and printing them together.
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Soapboxes, Amplifiers, and Making Headlines
Friday, April 14, 2017 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, April 14, 7pm Join us for this evening of reflection on our current exhibition, Finally Got The News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979. An ensemble of performers echo the impulses of the 1970's Radical Left Movement. Theatre and music will collage the diverse social movements defining a vibrant decade.
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Film screening: People’s Firehouse #1 and Voces de Fillmore
Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday, March 18, 7-9pm As part of our reflection on the power of community media making alongside the Finally Got the News exhibition, we are excited to partner with Third World Newsreel for a screening of People's Firehouse #1 (1979) and Voces de Fillmore (2016). Filmmaker Teresa Basilio will join us to introduce Voces de Fillmore, and to participate with the audience in a conversation about the power communities have to shape their neighborhoods, as well as the potential of community media making to tell the stories of current organizing work.
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Reading Finally Got the News: a reading and discussion group on the 1970s Radical Left
Sunday, February 4, 2018 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
This reading group, designed to accompany Interference Archives’ Finally Got The News exhibition, will explore some of the key liberation movements of the 1970s U.S. through the lens of written documents included in the exhibition, as well as excerpts from publications by the activists and intellectuals who led, chronicled and theorized about them. This is not a nostalgia trip, but an opportunity to critically examine some important and often-overlooked threads of our collective history in order to inform our own politics of liberation in the 21st century.
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