Our Streets! Our City! explores various struggles over public space in New York City since the 1960s, and engages with past and contemporary strategies used by activists to reclaim or reimagine urban infrastructures. This exhibit and event series is a tribute to those who have resisted top-down city-planning processes; its purpose is to honor collective fights against displacement, privatization, and municipal overreach in NYC.
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Our Streets! Our City! Self-determination and Public Space in NYC
May 21, 2022 - September 5, 2022
Our Streets! Our City! explores various struggles over public space in New York City since the 1960s, and engages with past and contemporary strategies used by activists to reclaim or reimagine urban infrastructures. This exhibit is a tribute to those who have resisted top-down city-planning processes; its purpose is to honor collective fights against displacement, privatization, […]
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Film + Discussion: 1970s Fiscal Crisis
Monday, August 15, 2022 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
This is an in-person event — masks and RSVP required. The 1970s fiscal crisis — when NYC nearly declared bankruptcy — was a defining moment for the city and the country, marking a fundamental shift towards austerity and neoliberalism. As Kim Phillips-Fein writes, “with unions and ordinary citizens refusing to accept retrenchment, the budget crunch […]
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Film night! “Feminist Occupations” from the 1970s to Today
Wednesday, August 3, 2022 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us for an in-person film night at the Archive coinciding with the current exhibit, Our Streets! Our City! Co-sponsored by the Third World Newsreel. This is an in-person event — masks and rsvps are required. Assembling together a variety of short documentary films under the theme of “Feminist Occupations,” this screening event will highlight […]
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Brooklyn Eviction Defense Propaganda Party at Interference Archive
Sunday, July 24, 2022 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Come meet, discuss, and create with comrades and neighbors. Materials for screen printing will be provided. In such a time as this, of violent reaction and heinous maneuvering by the ruling classes, the slimy slumlords, the clownish political class, and their running dogs the cops, creating propaganda and spreading the word of the struggle is of […]
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Weed and Seed Walk
Sunday, August 14, 2022 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
SUNDAY, August 14th 11am-12:30pmMeet at Interference Archive Join Interference Archive and the Next Epoch Seed Library for a weed and seed walk in Gowanus. We’ll identify and interact with the weedy, urban-adapted plant species that have made a home in the cracks and fissures of this rapidly changing industrial landscape. Along the way we’ll collect […]
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Exhibit Tour with the Planners network
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us for a tour of the exhibit Our Streets! Our City! Self-determination and Public Space in NYC. Hosted by Planners Network and Interference Archive and led by one of the exhibit curators, this tour and meet up is an opportunity to check out the space, learn more about the exhibit and meet others interested […]
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2-part workshop: Plant Dyes and Propaganda
Sunday, July 10, 2022 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
July 10 and 17, 2-3:30pm Registration Required: Register on eventbrite Location: Painting Space 122 Associates 150 1st Avenue New York, NY 10009 In this two-part workshop taking place on July 10th and 17th, offered as part of Summer School programming with ABC No Rio, participants will learn how to use natural dyes to create vibrant […]
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Gowanus Walking Tour
Saturday, July 30, 2022 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join Daniel Pecoraro, NYC tour guide, history educator, and longtime Interference Archive volunteer, for a walking tour of Gowanus. How did a natural creek become a canal; how did it become one of the most polluted sites in New York City; and how is it, in spite of the pollution, becoming one of the hottest […]
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(Beyond) Swimming
Monday, June 20, 2022 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Join us on Monday, June 20th for an equinox “swimability” assessment and (optional) group open water swim at Brighton Beach. After two ReCreational encounters along the upper bay at Valentino Park and the lower bay at Brighton beach, we’ve created a community generated assessment emerging from relational signs, ecological observations, stories and memories, and the […]
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No Pipelines Propaganda Party
Sunday, June 12, 2022 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
No Pipelines on Stolen Land / No Pride in Pipelines: Climate Action and Public Power Propaganda Party! Join us for a Propaganda Party in support of Brownsville Green, Frack Outta BK, No North Brooklyn Pipeline +++ organizers and in collaboration with Mayday Space and the North Bronx Collective. We’ll create posters, t-shirts, buttons, and more […]
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Would I Swim Here? Workshop #2
Sunday, June 5, 2022 2:15 PM - 4:30 AM
Sunday, June 5 2:30-4:30pm (gather at 2:15) Brighton Beach (Lower Bay) Meet at waters edge adjacent to Ocean Parkway and look for the orange umbrella Subway to W 8th (or walk down the boardwalk from Stillwell)–see map below RSVP: https://forms.gle/Sarj3yAjfrH47o31A Join us for our second workshop to create a swimability assessment incorporating speculative relational “signs” that […]
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Would I Swim Here? A Speculative ReCreation Assessment
Sunday, May 29, 2022 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Join us for a workshop to create a swimability assessment incorporating speculative relational “signs” that emerge from an encounter at Valentino Beach and the knowledge and experiences we carry with us. We will begin with a facilitated dryland movement practice to attune and listen to our own cellular body water histories in relation to the […]
More Exhibition Opening: Our Streets! Our City!
Saturday, May 21, 2022 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Come check out the exhibition, make art, and chat with activists involved in these movements today. All are welcome.
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Tracking East Village Green Infrastructure & Waterlines
Sunday, May 8, 2022 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Want to know more about the impact of water on a frontline community over time? Join this Jane’s Walk with Green Map, MoRUS & LES Breathe! About this event Meet at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) before tracking the subterranean streams that crossed the historical salt marsh around Avenue C and visiting nearby […]
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