“The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble merges music, theater, improvisation, and structured composition into a total multi-media experience – a ‘happening’ in which art leaps off the wall and into the...

 Many of us on the left have let our health priorities fade as we're forced to deal with the unfair mental and spiritual burdens placed upon us as we strive for social justice.

Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...

The current crisis within the global capitalist system highlights the importance of the question of which kind of labor counts as productive. On this Marx was unequivocal: productive labor is the labor that...

Many Marxists take Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit to be a crucial text for understanding Hegel’s dialectical method and much more that was quite important to Marx and Engels. Reading and understanding...

Join us for the launch of Socialism & Democracy Issue #51. The issue addresses the impact of the capitalist crisis in Latin America, focusing on the progressive governments and popular movements...

In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble is using its monthly !!FreEpLaY!! performance series to riff on the exquisite...

The latest burst in the financial bubble left our neighborhoods with abandoned construction sites, bankrupt slumlords, struggling tenants, foreclosed homeowners, and more homeless people. The Housing Question...

Friday: 7:00-9:30 pm

"Successful Fundraising Strategies: Charting a course for 2010"
[Opening plenary with Marjorie Fine, Priscilla Hung, Mario Lugay & Kevin Ryan]...

Join us for a night of art and expressions from the anti-war movement.

In a society increasingly apathetic to the wars that are being waged in our name, artists Vanissa Chan and Kenneth Chan-Cruz bring...

 As China and Google dominate the headlines in their battle...

The concert, Ñañakuna K’uychimanta (sisters of the rainbow), is a musical, literary and dance performance that will explore the artistic expressions of women from the African Diaspora. The evening employs a...

"I believe that all the truly revolutionary theatrical groups should transfer to the people the means of production in the theater so that the people themselves may utilize them. The theater is a weapon,...

Join New York CISPES to hear from the members of an important fact-finding delegation to Cabañas, El Salvador that went to investigate the recent assassinations of local civil society leaders. Since June 2009...

Join Left Turn, US Social Forum national staff from Detroit &
Philadelphia, NYC community-based and social justice...

Catherine Sikora Trio. Sikora on tenor & soprano saxophones, Bob Hubbard on drums, and Kevin Ray on bass.

Marco Eneidi Trio. Eneidi on alto saxophone, Albey...

Ever wonder when activists began making decisions by consensus and organizing “horizontally”? When living collectively and rooting out internalized sexism, racism, and/or homophobia came to be seen as...

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Future Forward: A Vision of Socialism is a talk and short baritone sax performance by revolutionary matriarchal luddite socialist Fred Ho and a book signing for his most recent book, Wicked Theory, Naked...

This two-day workshop will examine sexism, and seek ways to effectively confront it, by using exercises, games, and improvised scene work from the Theater of the Oppressed repertory, developed by the late...

Have you ever felt an inner poet is lurking, somewhere? The assumption of this workshop is that every human being has one. Come and explore. Discussion topics include: “What is poetry?” “What is political...

This one-day seminar uses Marx's Capital as a basis for understanding our present circumstances. We'll focus on some key passages that illuminate the underlying social relations between labor and...

President Obama is moving full-speed ahead with Africom, the new US military command for Africa, claiming that it will be instrumental in bringing peace, security, and development to the continent. Meanwhile,...

"To describe the Earth Driver sound? Imagine the Situationists meeting the Fat Albert Gang"-

Kazembe Balagun

"Information Music" is a project development by Jeremiah...

Artists
Antonio Frasconi Uruguayan artist Antonio Frasconi is considered one of the foremost graphic artists living and working in the United States, mostly known for...

Neues Kabarett is pleased to present tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin in a trio with Erik Deutsch on organ and Allison Miller on drums.

Eskelin will perform a set of completely improvised music with...

This Weimar Germany film classic uses an avant-garde, fragmented narrative to tell the story of a working-class family in Berlin in 1931. Survival is difficult, with massive unemployment in the wake of the...

One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career...

School has always been and will always be contested space—What should be taught?  In what way?  Toward what end?  By and for whom?—and at bottom the struggle is over the...

Based on the noted play by Bertolt Brecht this tragic drama is set in 17th-century Europe and tells of Mutter Courage (Helene Weigel), who follows a variety of armies in the many...

In a celebration of their 15th anniversary, Latin jazz ensemble Los Mas Valientes plays a program of original and traditional Cuban works, including composer Rick Faulkner's new 4-movement work, "Hope Suite...

Training teaches harmony necessary for personal and community development. A fitness lifestyle will make you feel better while increasing your ability to perform at a higher level, helping yourself and helping...

In the spirit of The Brecht Forum's current exhibition, "On Brecht," EXILKABARETT presents a new version of their work-in-progress, The Hollywood Songbook, as a combination of art songs (lieder) and...

The artist trio of Odinga, Kai Lumumba Barrow, and Malcolm Goff has significant threads stitching their work into a cohesive collection. Using oil and acrylic paints, wood and fabric along with everyday...

A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...

What is the relationship between Hip Hop aesthetics and Black cultural resistance to oppression?  Doe...

Today, millions of Vietnamese suffer the effects of chemical defoliants used by the United States during the Vietnam War.  More than thirty years after the war, Agent Orange remains in areas of the land and...

In her new book, Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chavez's Venezuela, Sujatha Fernandes weaves barrio residents’ life stories into her account of movements for social and economic...

Join us for a "Unnatural Disasters" a poetry reading sponsored by New York Activist Poet Roundtable.

This panel is part of Esther Armah's New Monthly Live Interactive Emotional Justice Conversation Series -Afrolicious
Black men are in...

This is an introductory hands-on workshop in the use of popular education concepts and techniques based on the complementary approaches to Education for Liberation developed by two Brazilian Marxist educators...

Monday, May 24 - Falconworks
Wednesday, May 26  - members of Julian Boal's workshop
Thursday, May 27 - Falconworks
Saturday, May 29 - members of Julian Boal's workshop

In conjunction...

This second of two 3-day intensive workshops will teach exercises, games, and improvised scene work from the Theater of the Oppressed (TO) repertory, developed by the late Brazilian director, popular educator...

In conjunction with the Forum Theater workshops being facilitated by Julian Boal during the week of May 24-29, 2010 the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory will present performance/demonstrations of Forum...

Inspired by Greek Mythology and the play of the same name by Sophocles, Anouilh's contemporary Antigone puts her life on the line for what she knows is right, and in so doing, discovers that...

Inspired by Greek Mythology and the play of the same name by Sophocles, Anouilh's contemporary Antigone puts her life on the line for what she knows is right, and in so doing, discovers that...

Join The Indypendent for an evening of forensic fisticuffs and verbal violence as Dave Zirin defends sports against...

Performed by: Bob Weick
Directed by: John Doyle
Produced by: Iron Age Theatre (PA)

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its...

Broadway, film and television actor Michael Graves stars as the departed Samuel L. Clemens in One Armed Man’s production of The Report of My Death.

Mark Twain said that only the dead have free...

The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble improvises by weaving jazz, modern dance and theater together in a style called “3D Jazz.”  This night they set their sights on the ancient Sophoclean drama, Antigone,...

This night combines the talents of the multi-genre improvisation artists Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble and the...

Hegel's philosophy has had a great influence to much that has happened in the world since his time. Hegel is crucial to understanding much of modern philosophy as well as to understanding Marxism and the...

Oracle Theatre, Inc. presents an intriguing development in military technology designed to fight America’s enemies.

America is preparing for entry into the first World War. In the fields of Omaha,...

New World Waking!, inspired by John Lennon’s Piano, was first presented by San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, and will be presented for the first time in New York at "The 9.13 Project...

Join Rev. Lucius Walker, the Mahina Movement and others as we send of IFCO-Pastors for Peace to challenge the Cuban embargo.
Food and Drinks on sale. Cuban food, mojitos, etc.
Food and Drink...

The arrival of the Dutch in the Cape in 1652 signaled the beginning of a violent and destructive process, which placed their greed for land...

Join us for  the 21st annual Cuba Caravan send off. Featuring performances by the Mahina Movement and others

Join us for a conversation on the confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan, and how her position may influence the direction of the Supreme Court.

Walter Baier of the Transform Network will present an overview of the European Left: its strengths and weaknesses, problems and prospects in and out of electoral...

A round table discussion regarding the World Urban Forum and the US Social
Forum. What is the purpose of these events? Do they really bridge the urban divide?
Is another world possible?

A discussion with...

The World Cup might be over, but Game Nights at the Brecht are just beginning! Join fellow socialists & socialites, game players and organizers who are changing the game...

Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone is resurrected by Brooklyn-based queer, gender-queer and transgender performance collective Theater Transgression. 

"She's clearly the fierce daughter of a fierce...

This striking documentary charting the post-civil rights return of James Baldwin to cities of struggle in the South begins with a central question posed by the author: “What has happened to those people? What...

Portraying C. L. R. James as a leading figure in the independence movement in the West Indies and in the black and working-class movements in both Britain and the United States, this volume provides an...

In Celebration of PM Press' publication of Two Notions: Two Works by C.L.R. James and The Paul Goodman Reader, tonight's program features rare interview between CLR James and E.P. Thompson ...

"The Terror and the Time is a breathtaking film, one that is so complex in its imagery — so poetic in fact — that I find it difficult to conjure up in words. Images appear first as simple denotation...

Join us for the opening of the first annual Black August Arts Show, co-sponsored by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM). This year's art show and auction will benefit political prisoners and prisoners of...

Days before the fifth anniversary of Katrina, a discussion with activists and organizers from New Orleans and others who have worked for social justice in the Gulf. Featuring short films, images, and first-...

It was a milestone of film activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members...

Kluge"s News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx - Eisenstein - Das Kapital focuses on a plan envisaged by the great Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, that never got off the ground. In 1927, he had the...

Mayday (Black Panther) | Newsreel, 15 min | 1969
New Haven | Abbie Hoffman and the National Guard | Videofreex | 1970 | 23 min
Mayday Realtime | Videofreex | 1971 | 60 min
TOTAL RUNNING TIME...

By the end of the millennium, thousands of homeless people roamed the streets of Manhattan. A small group of them went underground. Invisible to society, they managed to start a new life in the tunnel...

Image Theater, part of the repertory of Theater of the Oppressed, was created by the late Brazilian director and cultural activist Augusto Boal (1931-2009). Drawing on the theories of popular education...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping...

A coalition of Spanish activists have been working to bring an end to impunity for the crimes of President Kagame of Rwanda, and successfully pushed for a lawsuit against members of Rwandan...

Join us in a panel discussion featuring family members of police brutality victims including:Bobby Johnson, (uncle of Oscar Grant),Jack Bryson,( father of Oscar Grant's friends)family members of Briana...

Join us for a rare chance to hear two of Venezuela's leading intellectuals who represent the young face of the Bolivarian Revolution.

In light of the upcoming Parliamentary elections in The Bolivarian...

Cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall has produced the book he always wanted to write: a new manifesto for an America heading toward economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage to the postmodern...

Join as we celebrate the closing of the Black August Arts show, with a live performance by  Music Now.

Many Marxists take Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit to be a crucial text for understanding Hegel’s dialectical method and much more that was quite important to Marx and Engels. Reading and understanding...

A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and...

Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...

A series of lectures/screenings with filmmaker Kevin Keating. An opportunity to analyse and discuss American documentary long-form films, their production, potential audiences, social change impulses and...

Around the world, consciousness of the threat to our environment is growing. The majority of solutions on offer, from using efficient light bulbs to biking to work, focus on individual lifestyle changes, yet...

This course will focus on Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927) and Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005), two autodidactic, anti-white supremacist working class intellectuals and two of the twentieth centuries most...

SEED by Radha Blank questions the current state of child welfare in America and how our children survive when they are neglected and abused. Come join us for...

Lindsay Anderson's film "IF..." is set in an English boarding school. HIs "everyman" character, Mick Travis, is played by Malcolm Mcdowell in his first screen role. Travis, in his junior year, rebels against...

Ecology and Socialism examines the science of climate change, the issue of population, structural constraints on capitalism preventing a systemic and co-ordinated response to...

Question: what do all these things have in common?
- Fighting SB1070 and all anti-immigrant laws in Arizona
- Fighting for justice for Oscar Grant and all victims of police violence in Oakland...

This course will examine what is perhaps the greatest anti-war literary work ever written. The story of the Trojan War, as told by Home, makes horrifyingly clear the absurdities and tragic waste of war - the...

Thirty-five visionary educators were asked: What was your schooling like?; When did youealize that there is a need for an alternative approach?; What have you done since to help realize
that vision?;...

Dario Fo was born in 1926 in Lombardy, Italy. He began his career as a comic and mime and became a highly successful actor, director and writer of satirical comedies. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature...

"Tout va bien" is set in 1972, i.e. four years after the events of 1968 in Paris. President De Gaulle and his successor president Pompidou had rolled back the would-be revolution and the political right wing...

Join Professors Joel Kovel and Norton Mezvinsky as each presents his respective argument for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Kovel will argue that a two-state solution cannot solve...

Wadada Leo Smith (Trumpet), Angelica Sanchez (Piano), John Lindberg, (Bass), James Kamal Jones (Drums)

The Brecht Forum is delighted to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library to present Wadada Leo...

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
Some well-known "humanitarians" are soft on corporations to fatten their own funding. Are they saving lives, or facilitating genocide? Keith Harmon Snow will talk and show...

At the Tea Party: The Wing Nuts , Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right  … and Why We Should Take It Seriously is published next week. Join the editor and a number of the book’s...

Now, in the midst of right-wing fear-mongering and teabag hysteria, progressive artists speak out for social justice. The Dissident Arts Festival, now in its fifth year, is a...

1. The housing problem from a Marxist perspective: Engels and after   
2. Subprime foreclosures, rent control, land speculation:...

The end of the first decade of the new millennium seems to have been marked by some of the worst natural disasters that has displaced and killed millions of people. Beginning with the earthquake in Gujarat...

A novel that addresses the experience of United States Trotskyism, Lillian Pollack’s The Sweetest Dream is set in momentous struggles, in the United States and around the world, associated with...

There will be a limited open mike. Sign-up from 7:00 to 7:30 pm...

This talk will focus on the current state of Haiti as well as the collaborative work accomplished by Dominicans in the Dominican Republic and the Dominican and Haitian diaspora in the US. The panelist will...

Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary follows the evolution of the radical social movement that followed the April 24, 1974, military coup in...

2 hours, 2 Film Excerpts; 1 Power Panel; 1 Q&A; Books available for signing

What's Eating Us? We're dying as we eat. Literally. We are stuffed & starved. What hunger are we feeding? What...

Join us for a three-way conversation about U.S. politics before, during, and since the Second Reconstruction: which way to go from here?

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This combination workshop-and-book-party invites participants to experience a set of teaching/training tools and to go behind them to explore their values and applications.  The tools are in use in a variety...

It's that time of year again! Come celebrate another amazing year here at the Brecht Forum as we invite all of our fellow students, teachers, artists and community members over for our annual Holiday Party....

A one-day workshop in Image Theater.

No prior theater experience is necessary to participate in this workshop.

Two legendary theater practitioners, Peter Schumann, founder of the Bread and Puppet Theater, and Judith Malina, co-founder of The Living Theatre, will have a freewheeling conversation about theater, art,...

Game night returns to the Brecht Forum on December 16th for the final showdown of 2010. We will have a poker tournament, official sized table tennis table, a live DJ and lot's of good wine!;

So come...

The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was possible to think that the radical idealism of the youth protests would finally take form in the world. In this...