During this conversation Newark based artist Layqa Nuna Yawar will discuss how he sees murals as a socially engaged process as well as the inspiration for his mural series The Robeson Paean, a series commemorating the life and legacy of artist-activist Paul Robeson. RSVP required. Zoom details will be sent via email 24 hours before the program. RSVP here | https://bit.ly/3ceMFO4 Layqa Nuna
Join us Thursday, May 14th, at 5pm on the Express Newark Facebook Live for the Trailer Screening of, Black Lady Goddess followed by a Q&A with Creator & Director, Chelsea Odufu. Chelsea Odufu is a 2019 Express Newark 3rd Space Award Recipient and Express Newark Community Media Center Alumni. Black Lady Goddess is a satirical
Join us Friday, May 22nd, at 6pm on the Express Newark Instagram Live for an evening of live poetry with Newark Poets & Rutgers-Newark MFA Poets. This live poetry showcase will be hosted by Nora Luongo (@phigirl) with readings by Marie "Mia X" Johnson (@bestthingcreated), Malcolm Minor (@malcolm.minor), Mayowa Godsent(@realgodsent) Chris Caruso (@chris.inkspot), Susanna Velarde (@susanna_velarde), Antonio De Jesus Lopez
Artists Thaddeus Jeffries Rasaki Mannpaqq PRG is excited to be partnering with the Atlanta based event production company Go Deep to host a virtual dance party for our community! Go Deep is a platform used to educate on the inclusive roots of house music, but more specifically highlight its historical connections to Black and POC queer spaces. Put on your
Join us for a short film screening and Q&A with Newark based digital artist Ngu Asongwed. RSVP required. Zoom details will be sent via email 24 hours before the program. RSVP Here! Film Schedule Wetlands (dir. Ngu Asongwed, 2019, USA, 2 minutes)A collaboration between Sqad Nwk and Brujas, an NYC based feminist skate collective. A wetland is a distinct ecosystem that is
We're headed to the BIG EASY! Join us Friday, May 29th, at 6:30pm (ET) on the Express Newark Instagram Live for Third Space Talks with artist Virginia Hanusik. Hanusik is an artist and writer whose work explores the relationship between landscape, culture, and the built environment. Her projects on climate change and environmental justice have been exhibited
Two designers share their insights on letterpress collecting and creating Join Brenda and Ned as they reveal the long process of collecting, designing, and printing that resulted in a beautiful, limited-edition letterpress book, a true labor of love. RSVP Here | https://bit.ly/2AqdSQ1 After their son was born in 2013, Ned and Brenda began to conceive
The Humanities Action Lab, a national coalition led from Rutgers University-Newark, is hosting a series of conversations to reimagine public humanities and social justice in the context of the pandemic and anti-racist, Black Lives Matter protests. These conversations will feature HAL partners across the country, including stories from Newark and other community organizations on the
Join us for our fourth HAL Summer Storytelling Session of the summer. This session will focus on storytelling and media making, and will allow us to hear from frontline community partners about their work with Environmental Justice and how COVID has impacted the community and their efforts. This will also be an opportunity to collectively share experiences and
How to Survive the End of the World is a four-part program series exploring the ways in which artists and art workers express social, cultural and political philosophies through their art practice. Symphony of Survival is a creative writing workshop led by Newark based poet Jasmine Mans inspired by the multimedia project of the same
Stitching together an assemblage of videos, images, music, and prose, in this lecture Pleasure Activism and the Arts, Ifeanyi Awachie and Nydia A. Swaby will share how ‘pleasure activism’ informs their curatorial practice. The lecture will review programs Awachie and Swaby co-curated to explore pleasure through the work of Black feminist artists and thinkers. This
How does one cultivate an artistic practice growing up in a city such as Newark? How do grassroots organizations specifically centered around the LGBTQIA+ experience provide space for artistic expression? This will be the start of the conversation with multidisciplinary artist Kiyan Williams and curator/multidiscplinay artist Noelle Lorraine Williams. RSVP required. Zoom details will be sent via email
