Recurring

INTRODUCTION TO KRÉYOL

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

The Creole language was the first step for enslaved people in the French plantation colonies to emancipate themselves from the oppression of slavery. Join us for an introductory course on the basics of the Creole language!

Film Screening: Llévate Mis Amores

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Montados sobre La Bestia, cientos de migrantes cruzan diariamente México con la esperanza de traspasar la frontera y encontrar una mejor vida. En ese vertiginoso trayecto, un grupo de mujeres intercede para regalarles un poco de aliento.

PEOPLE’S MARKET

The People’s Market features local artists, creatives and makers from the 5 boroughs, and beyond. Come learn, share experiences and build community while supporting our local.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Book Launch: Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor  narrates this dramatic transformation in housing policy, its financial ramifications, and its influence on African Americans. She reveals that federal policy transformed the urban core into a new frontier of cynical extraction disguised as investment.

Film Screening: Lamma Shoftak / When I Saw You

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine.

Film Screening: Showdown in Seattle: 5 Days That Shook the WTO

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

This unprecedented media collaboration makes public the voices and concerns of tens of thousands from all over the world who gathered in Seattle, Washington to protests the World Trade Organization’s Millennium meeting in December 1999.

Film Screening: Trópico de Sangre

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

La Republica Dominicana está agitado bajo la brutal dictadura de Rafael Trujillo. Esta es la historia de cómo Minerva y sus hermanas desafiaron al dictador.

Film Screening: Stuart Hall Project

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Combining archival imagery with specially filmed material and a Miles Davis soundtrack,  Akomfrah carefully constructs sequences of rare forgotten and long since seen historical material together with Hall’s extensive broadcasts and personal archives, taking the audience on a kaleidoscopic journey through the ideas and personal story of Stuart Hall. 

alQaws Benefit Show x NYC

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Come join us for a night of performances to raise funds to help bring together and support Palestinian Queers across borders. With special guest Alsarah from Alsarah and the Nubatones!

FILM SCREENING: Red November Black November

Sally Alvarez and Carolyn Jung produced a film, "Red November, Black November," documenting the Greensboro tragedy. The film premiered in March of 1981, less than 2 years after the murders, and stands as a raw record of the truth of the massacre and its immediate aftermath.

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