A weblink to Zoom will be emailed to registrants in advance to the exchange.
As we endure the present crisis, we are gaining a glimpse of what an ongoing climate emergency looks like. What wisdom from elder generations and previous social movements can guide us through this uncertain future? How can movement history and culture help impart these lessons to a broad audience in our work for climate justice?
NOCD-NY's Peer Learning Exchange: Climate Justice will be moderated by independent curator, Raquel de Anda. The virtual gathering will explore social movement histories that have paved the way for our current conversations. 50+ years of climate justice beginning with the iconic I Am A Man poster used during the Memphis sanitation workers strike of 1968 will be discussed, along with historic printed matter from the Black liberation movement, Indigenous sovereignty movement, and posters from farmworkers, coal miners, antinuclear activists and more.
The conversation will include an introduction to the Interference Archive by Ryan Buckley and Sophie Glidden-Lyon, as well as knowledge sharing from cultural workers and activists Ceci Pineda and Nadine Bloch.
We look forward to discussing the following questions together:
- What arts and climate justice work are you inspired by and excited about?
- What work is happening in our communities?
- What can we do together?
BIOS
Interference Archive is a library and social space run entirely by volunteers in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Its mission is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open-stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, educational visits, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of how people have organized to transform and improve their lives.
Raquel de Anda is a curator, producer, and cultural organizer based in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised on the U.S. Mexico border, much of her work approaches themes of duality, connection, separation, inclusion and the intersections of migrant rights with other movements for social justice. She is a firm believer in the power of art and culture to ignite social change. Raquel began her career as Associate Curator at Galería de la Raza, a contemporary Latino arts organization in San Francisco, CA. Her work spans a variety of practices, including interactive installation at the Tribeca Film Festival, curating exhibitions at Project Row Houses (Houston, TX) and The Museum of the Americas (Washington DC), and overseeing creative production for the historic 2014 People’s Climate March (New York City).
Nadine Bloch is the Training Director for Beautiful Trouble. As an innovative artist, nonviolent action practitioner, political organizer, direct-action trainer, and puppetista, she combines the principles and strategies of people power with creative use of the arts in cultural resistance and public protest. She is a contributor to the books "Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution," "Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South" and "We Are Many, Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation." She is the author of a Special Report Education & Training in Nonviolent Resistance and the co-author of SNAP:An Action Guide to Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding.
Ryan Buckley is a freelance visual arts archivist who works with photojournalists and documentary photographers to preserve and manage their collections. He is interested in long-term cost-effective technologies to empower artists to personalize and preserve their legacies for future generations, so others can learn from the art of our time. Ryan has been a volunteer at Interference Archive since 2016 and has co-curated "The Poor People's Campaign: 1968 & Now", and "Like the Waters, We Rise: Climate Justice in Print". He lives between Brooklyn and Canada.
Sophie Glidden-Lyon is an archivist in her day job at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, in addition to acting as volunteer coordinator at Interference Archive. She has her masters in archives and public history from NYU and has a background in artists papers.
Ceci Pineda is learning how to live with the land with more harmony. While yearning to address deep climate inequities, they found hope in community practices that further land regeneration and reciprocally heal our communities. Ceci is the current Executive Director at BK ROT, a community centered, closed loop, bike powered waste hauling and composting service in Brooklyn. Most recently, Ceci pursued community driven agroecology/land regeneration work in Puerto Rico and Mexico under a climate adaptation framework. Upon returning to New York, they co-facilitated a Climate Resilient Farming workshop at Soul Fire Farm as part of their BIPOC FIRE 2.0 series. Ceci is a co-coordinator of Interlocking Roots, a network of (QT*BIPOC) farmers and land workers. Through apprenticing at Soul Fire Farm, volunteering at Hattie Carthan Herban Farm and home-growing, they deepened their relationships with plant friends. They have also worked with leaders of these organizations on initiatives to make them more inclusive of queer and trans* folks.
image: "Like the Waters We Rise: Climate Justice in Print", an exhibition at Interference Archive
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Thanks also to the National Endowment for the Arts and New York University's Art & Public Policy program for supporting this exchange.
Note that this online conversation will be recorded for our web archives.
NOCD-NY is a citywide alliance of artists, neighborhood leaders, activists, and policymakers that have joined together to revitalize New York City from the neighborhood up. NOCD-NY came together in 2010 in response to the vision, sustained needs, and creative resilience of our diverse communities. We facilitate peer learning, increase the visibility of community-based work, and advocate for it.
