Upcoming Events

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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