2008 Programs
2008 Programs
Join us for our annual celebration of the life and legacy of the legendary Bob Marley. With his universal message, Bob spoke to all people and crossed barriers between genres creating a global appreciation for...
Left Interpretations of the Financial Crisis
Hector Figueroa, David Harvey, Doug Henwood, Leo Panitch & Maliha Safri
(or how to look good while talking about Palestine)
Facilitated by Ora Wise, Ryvka Bar Zohar, Carlos Nunez, Una Osato, Brian Pickett, Tej Nagaraja & Rania Jawad
This course aims to provide a solid understanding of the history and
current politics of Palestine. We will analyze the intersecting systems
of imperialism, capitalism, colonization, and racism...
Since 2006, Queer Black Cinema® (QBC) has produced a monthly film series at the Audre Lorde Project and The LGBT Community Center respectively for all to appreciate the intellectuality and fervency of Black...
with Ken Filiano, Roger Mancuso & Richard Tabnik
Quartets and Duets: original works, free improvisation and some favorite standards. Featuring Crothers on piano with Richard Tabnik on alto saxophone, Ken Filiano on bass and Roger Mancuso on drums.
...
<i>The Sea of Poppies Arrives</i> in the US
Amitav Ghosh in Conversation with Nicolas De Genova
Amitav Ghosh is today the most engaged, prolific and loved South Asian novelist. With six novels (including such landmarks as the The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide and Shadow Lines) and four...
12:30-2:30pm: Screening of "Head of State" with Chris Rock and Bernie Mac. Goleft.org wraps up their "Hollywood Take on Politics" series with the showing of Chris Rock's hilarious send-up of the democratic...
What's Marxism Got to Do With It?
Cliff Conner
Marxist historians, scientists, and scientists-turned-historians have made immense contributions to the study of the history of science, although their insights were often fiercely resisted by the discipline’s...
Artists in Spite of Retail
The Retail Action Project (RAP) presents a multi-media art exhibit displaying the creative visions of NYC retail workers. Common Threads draws community attention to the workplace injustices experienced...
A Program of Go to Health!--A Mobile Medical Clinic & Traveling Medicine Show in the Making
Kira-Laura Ferrand
Our inability to adapt to stress causes hypertension, ulcers, gastric disorders, sleep and sexual dysfunction, anxiety, and both endocrine and general central nervous system overload.
The Heal the...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
The Fight to Free Palestinian Activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti
Discussion with Konrad Aderer, Sharin Chiorazzo,Jane Guskin, Shane Kadidal, David Wilson,
Enemy Alien, a first-person documentary, offers a gripping inside view of the fight to free Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a gentle but indomitable Palestinian-born human rights activist whose...
Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate
Tom Angotti
Remarkably, grassroots-based community planning flourishes in New York City--the self-proclaimed "real estate capital of the world"--with at least seventy community plans for different neighborhoods throughout...
US Hegemony or Transnational Capital?
Jerry Harris
Is globalization a project of US imperialism or an emerging transnational capitalist class? Harris will argue that while nationalism still plays a strong role in world affairs, particularly in the form of the...
Ollin Imagination
Bruised MangOs: Rhythmic Ammunition por la Paz is a Latino response to the Iraq War. It is a performance combining poetry, spoken word, music, and theater to convey the horrific effects of war on communities...
Ollin Imagination
Ollin Imagination's Bruised MangOs: Rhythmic Ammunition por la Paz is a Latino response to the Iraq War. It is a performance combining poetry, spoken word, music, and theater to convey the horrific effects of...
Gina Athena Ulysse
Gina Athena Ulysse weaves spokenword with vodou chants in this one-woman performance to addresses issues of social (in)justice, her intersectional identities, spirituality and her rage at the dehumanization of...
Radical Urban Cinema
Urban guerilla films from Truth 2 Power, a progressive filmmakers collective based in NYC. Come see our latest work and find out how you can support or be involved in our upcoming Youth Cinema Project.
Building a Just Educational System
Sam Anderson (Moderator), Martha Foote, Edwin Mayorga & Perla Palacencia
A coalition of progressive education groups have been working on an alternative vision of how public education should be people-centered and not supportive of privatization of public education. This forum will...
Can the Campaign that Elected Barack Obama Become a Movement to Ensure that He Creates a Progressive Agenda?
Anthony Arnove, Laura Flanders, Brian Jones, Terry Marshall & Gary Younge
In the days following his election, there’s been intense speculation as to whether Barack Obama will run a centrist or left-leaning presidency. Lists of potential appointees are read like runes of tea leaves....
This documentary brings to the foreground the problem of widespread
sterilization among Puerto Rican women through the use of personal testimony, newsreels, and government propaganda excerpts. The...
Image Theater & the Aesthetics of the Oppressed: Sound and Movement
Facilitated by Members of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Saturday sign-in: 9:15 am
An overview of the theory and philosophy of popular education and Theater
of the Oppressed and an introduction for beginners to Theater of the Oppressed
...
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
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...
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
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...
Writings on War & Revolution
Jonah Raskin
A...
Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative is a community of artists who believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society. They are a decentralized and...
Written & Performed by Fawzia Afzal-Khan & Bina Sharif
This is a dramatically poignant, and at times hilarious play, written and performed by two leading Pakistani-American women writers, performers and cultural activists. It weaves together their memories and...
Capitalism, Class & the State
Vivek Chibber
This session will consist of three lectures on the basic structure of capitalism and its relation to political power. We will examine how the specific class structure of capitalism generates its laws of motion...
Neues Kabarett is delighted to present the premiere of new works by Shahzad Ismaily, with solo compositions for electric guitar, moog synthesizer, banjo, percussion and electric bass, and collaborative pieces...
In this workshop, Shahzad Ismaily will teach methods of scoring text, dance and painting that he has culminated through the past five years of collaborating with various artists across formal boundaries. He...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
Part 2
Richard D. Wolff
This evening will continue the discussion that began in October at the Brecht Forum in Part 1 of this series and examine how economic and political changes in the US and abroad since our first discussion may...
Jane Goldberg & Friends: Charley Borden, Claudia Rahardjanato & Sarah Safford
Join Jane Goldberg to celebrate her new book, Shoot Me While I'm Happy: Memories from the Tap Goddess of the Lower East Side (with foreword by the late Gregory Hines).
In addition to a short...
The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, who in previous years have brought you festivals of new plays inspired by Artaud and Brecht, is continuing this year with Confronting Chekov, the Collective's 4th...
The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, who in previous years have brought you festivals of new plays inspired by Artaud and Brecht, is continuing this year with Confronting Chekov, the Collective's 4th...
Image Theater & the Aesthetics of the Oppressed: The Written Word
Facilitated by Members of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Saturday sign-in: 9:15 am
An overview of the theory and philosophy of popular education and Theater of the Oppressed ( and an introduction for beginners to Theater of the Oppressed techniques,...
The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, who in previous years have brought you festivals of new plays inspired by Artaud and Brecht, is continuing this year with Confronting Chekov, the Collective's 4th...
The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, who in previous years have brought you festivals of new plays inspired by Artaud and Brecht, is continuing this year with Confronting Chekov, the Collective's 4th...
Caitlin Gianniny and Cathy Mooses, members of the Brecht Forum Artists in
Residence Collective (BF-ARC) will be curating a presentation of *Pedro
Almodóvar's *film *What Have I Done To Deserve This...
A Public Dialogue
Speakers TBA
The recent violence in Mumbai has claimed the lives of close to 200 people and injured over 300 others. Even as we join the entire South Asian community in condemning this violence and asking for peace and...
Mahina Movement, Reverend Billy & Other Artists TBA
[img_assist|nid=2204|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=100] come party with your favorite anti-capitalists here at the Brecht as we celebrate another great year together! The evening will...