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Friday, May 09
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY / FORUM
Nowtopia
How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists & Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today
Chris Carlsson
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Saturday, May 10
6:00 pm
A WOMEN AND TRANS FOLK ONLY EVENT
Resistance in Brooklyn & the Brecht Forum Present
Roses & Bread: Day in Celebration of Women
13th Annual Open Poetry & Performance Benefit
Featuring The Mahina Movement
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Monday, May 12
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
3-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS
REGISTRATION FOR THIS WORKSHOP IS CLOSED AT THIS TIME AND NO APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED. Please contact the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory at toplab@toplab.org for waiting list information.
Rainbow of Desire Into Forum Theater
Facilitated by Augusto Boal, Julian Boal & Members of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
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Tuesday, May 13
7:00 pm
AT RIVERSIDE CHURCH
Co-sponsors: The Center for the Theatre of the Oppressed at The Riverside
Church, The Education Ministry of The Riverside Church, The Social Justice
Ministry of The Riverside Church & The Theater of the Oppressed
Laboratory
An Evening with Augusto Boal
With a Performance/Demonstration of Rainbow of Desire
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Tuesday, May 13
7:30 pm
1968 REVISTED
Liberation, Imagination & the Black Panther Party
George Katsiaficas, Ashanti Alston Omowali & James Ponce
Continuing our year-long events series on the 40th anniversary of 1968, we will look at the impact of the Black Panther Party, which inspired thousands to join their movement...
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Wednesday, May 14
7:30 pm
Milton Friedman's Latin American Legacy
Markets, Crises, Torture, and Terror
Greg Grandin, Doug Henwood, Forrest Hylton & Gregory Wilpert
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Thursday, May 15
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
3-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS
REGISTRATION FOR THIS WORKSHOP IS CLOSED AT THIS TIME AND NO APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED. Please contact the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory at toplab@toplab.org for waiting list information.
The Aesthetics of the Oppressed
Games, Techniques & Dialogues
Facilitated by Augusto Boal, Julian Boal & Members of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
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Thursday, May 15
7:30 pm
3rd Thursdays at the Brecht Forum
Speakers TBA
Join us on the Third Thursday of each month to dig beneath the headlines and late breaking news. We'll have analysts on hand to help guide a lively discussion. Check back for updates on topics and speakers.
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Thursday, May 15
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
4-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Toward a Politics of Caring & Community
Lisa Maya Knauer & Others TBA
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Wednesday, May 21
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY / FORUM
How to Rule the World
The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy
Mark Engler with Frida Berrigan & Greg Grandin
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Thursday, May 22
7:30 pm
FILM & DISCUSSION
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
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Friday, May 23
7:30 pm
FILM & DISCUSSION
The Society of the Spectacle
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Saturday, May 31
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
2-DAY WORKSHOP
Education for Liberation
Carmelina Cartei, Kate Cavanagh,Sally Hyppolite,Esperanza Martell & Julie Novas
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Monday, June 02
7:30 pm
Co-sponsor: Monthly Review
On the Global Waterfront
The Fight to Free the Charleston 5
E. Paul Durrenberger & Suzan Erem
On the Global Waterfront tells the story of how longshoremen in South Carolina confronted attempts to wipe out the state’s most powerful black organization...
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Wednesday, June 04
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
4-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Enter the Intergalactic!
Zapatismo in the US & the World
RJ Maccani
Since their January 1st, 1994 armed uprising in Southeastern Mexico, the
Zapatistas have consistently reached out to people from around the world
to join them in building a global network “for humanity and against
neoliberalism”...
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Wednesday, June 04
7:30 pm
1968 REVISITED
All Power to the Workers Councils! All Power to the Imagination!
The Situationist International & the French Revolution of May/June 1968
Steve Duncombe, Marie-Claire Picher & Others TBA
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Friday, June 06
6:30 pm
EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
Lesbians of Color Art Exhibit
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Wednesday, June 11
7:30 pm
1968 REVISITED
Anti-War GIs
Phil Aliff, Tod Ensign, Michael Smith & Others TBA
In the broad movement against the Vietnam war, the protests of anti-war GIs were pivotal to the movement’s successes. Today, there are echoes of the Vietnam experience in the protracted Iraq war -- including a growing protest movement in the military...
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Thursday, June 12
6:30 pm
Co-sponsor: The National Writers Union
Censorship & Piracy in the Digital Age
Loretta Campbell, Louis Reyes Rivera & Others TBA
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Thursday, June 19
7:30 pm
3rd Thursdays at the Brecht Forum
Speakers TBA
Join us on the Third Thursday of each month to dig beneath the headlines and late breaking news. We'll have analysts on hand to help guide a lively discussion. Check back for updates on topics and speakers.
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Friday, June 20
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY / FORUM
Telling Stories to Change the World
Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community & Make Social Justice Claims
Madeline Fox, Kayhan Irani & Rickie Solinger
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Saturday, June 21
8:00 pm
PERFORMANCE
3 by Dario Fo
1. The Birth of the Jongleur, 2. The Birth of the Worker, & 3. The Fool at the Foot of the Cross with a Prologue by Machiavelli
Adapted & Performed by Tony Palmieri
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Friday, June 27
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY & DISCUSSION
We Will Return in the Whirlwind
Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975
Muhammad Ahmad