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SUMMARY:ARABIC LANGUAGE CLASSES | FALL 2026
DESCRIPTION:Arabic for Social Justice\nAPPLY HERE: Registration Form \nAlgarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses at The People’s Forum to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice\, cinema\, media\, and culture. Through weekly social justice themes\, and using a communicative and popular education approach\, participants will improve their Arabic skills and critically engage with various cultural productions in Arabic\, including films\, TV series\, newsreels\, short stories\, and songs. \nThese courses are designed for folks at different levels of fluency in their productive (speaking\, writing) and receptive (listening and reading) skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology relevant to contemporary social movements in the U.S. and the Arab world. \nCourse Offerings\nAll courses run for 10 weeks. Total tuition for each complete 10-week course is $300–$400 on a sliding scale\, or $500 when paid through a work or professional-development stipend. \nBeginner I (in-person and virtual options)\nThis course introduces students with no prior experience to the Arabic alphabet and the basics of reading\, writing\, pronunciation\, and sentence structure. Participants learn foundational vocabulary and simple grammatical forms while being introduced to spoken Arabic alongside Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT/EST\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT/EST\nIn-Person: Saturdays\, starting Oct 10 | 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT/EST\n\n\nBeginner II (in-person and virtual options)\nDesigned for students with one semester of Arabic\, this course reviews core structures and expands vocabulary\, verb conjugation\, and sentence formation. Participants continue developing reading\, listening\, and speaking skills while gaining more exposure to spoken Arabic and its relationship to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT/EST\n\nIn case of high enrollment\, we might open another virtual session at 12:30 PM EDT/EST. You can specify your preference in the application form\, and we will do our best to accommodate. \n\nIn-Person: Thursdays\, starting Oct 15 | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT/EST\n\n\nBeginner III (in-person and virtual options)\nThis course is designed for students who have completed two semesters of Arabic and are ready to work more consistently with cultural materials. Participants strengthen conversational skills\, expand vocabulary\, and develop greater comfort moving between spoken Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) through short texts\, songs\, film clips\, and guided viewing activities. Watch a short course preview here. \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT/EST\n\n  \nIntermediate I (virtual only)\nThis Intermediate course builds on foundational Arabic skills to develop participants’ ability to communicate across everyday\, cultural\, and social topics using both colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Students work with short video clips\, songs\, dialogues\, and written texts to expand vocabulary\, practice key grammatical structures\, and build confidence in comprehension\, conversation\, and short writing. Watch a short course preview here. \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT/EST\n\n\nIntermediate Music Club (virtual only)\nThis discussion- and music-based Arabic course uses songs from across the Arab world to develop listening comprehension\, vocabulary\, pronunciation\, and conversational skills in both colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Participants work with song lyrics\, audio and video recordings\, short contextual readings\, translation activities\, and guided discussions to explore the relationships between music\, culture\, history\, politics\, and everyday life. Watch a short course preview here. \n\nVirtual: Mondays\, starting Oct 19 | 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM EDT/EST\n\n\nAdvanced and Heritage Speakers Film Club (virtual only)\nThis discussion- and media-based Arabic course uses a film club format to develop advanced comprehension\, vocabulary\, and expressive skills across colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Designed for high-intermediate learners\, advanced students\, and heritage speakers\, participants work with subtitled and unsubtitled films/clips\, dialogue transcripts\, and short texts through translation\, brief writing\, and guided discussion. Watch a selection of trailers from this semester’s films here. \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Oct 4 | 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT/EST\n\nAPPLY HERE: Registration Form \nContact & Follow Us: \n\nEmail: algarabia.arabic@gmail.com\nWebsite: www.algarabialanguage.com\nInstagram: @algarabia.language
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/arabic-fall-2026/
LOCATION:Virtual Event with The People’s Forum
CATEGORIES:Arabic,Language courses
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SUMMARY:SPANISH FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:¡Bienvenides! Welcome to Spanish for Social Justice! \n  \nAlgarabía Language Co-op is excited to announce that we are offering virtual Spanish classes this fall! \n  \nAlgarabía Language Co-op offers Spanish for Social Justice courses in partnership with The People’s Forum. We offer classes at the beginner\, intermediate\, and advanced levels of fluency for those interested in topics related to social justice\, politics\, and culture. Through weekly social justice themes and using a communicative and popular education approach\, participants will improve their Spanish skills and critically engage with various cultural productions centered around the lived experiences of working-class people of Indigenous and African descent on the continent. These courses are designed for folks at different levels of fluency in their productive (speaking\, writing) and receptive (listening and reading) skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology relevant to contemporary social movements in New York City (Lenapehoking)\, one of the largest and most diverse Spanish-speaking cities in the world\, as well as the rest of Turtle Island and Abya Yala.  \n  \nTo apply\, click HERE \n  \nFALL 2026 COURSE SCHEDULE: \n  \nClick HERE to view the full list of classes\, schedules and descriptions. \n*Times are in Eastern Time (ET) / New York\, New York \nVirtual Courses (10 Weeks)  \nStart: Week of October 5–11\, 2026  \nEnd: Week of December 7–13\, 2026 \nClasses meet Monday–Thursday and Saturday–Sunday \n  \nIMPORTANT: \n▪ This virtual program is Open-to-All. However\, we prioritize access to folks identified as BIPOC. \n▪ Please only apply if you can attend most of the classes.  \n▪ Each session can hold up to 15 participants. \n▪ Cost of class is $200–$400 on a sliding scale\, or $500 if your tuition is paid by an employer or institutional funding source. This includes 25 hours of instruction over 10 weeks and all course materials. \n  \nCOURSE DESCRIPTION \nAll courses focus on the use of inclusive\, gender-neutral\, and anti-racist language. There is an emphasis on validating U.S. Spanish and other varieties of Spanish that are often considered “non-standard.” We actively include the use of “vos” as used in Central America.  \n  \nAs part of Algarabía’s mission to make our courses accessible\, we offer sliding-scale rates and flexible payment plans. You’ll be able to select your payment tier and plan directly within the application form\, based on your financial circumstances. \nABOUT OUR LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION: At Algarabía Language Co-op\, we see language learning as a meaningful\, collaborative\, and transformative process reflected in our training in hands-on communicative and task-based language teaching approaches and our use of popular education in the language classroom. We seek to support the holistic development of all language learners as they become competent multilingual speakers. We design classroom activities and utilize textbooks and other original didactic materials that cater to our participants’ needs and reflect the linguistic and racial/ethnic diversity of the Spanish-speaking worlds. \nAlgarabía will contact selected participants on a rolling basis and provide them with a link to complete their payment and secure their spot in the class. \n  \nTake a look at our FAQ!  \n  \nFor more information about our language services\, go to www.algarabialanguage.com or email us at algarabialanguage@gmail.com
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/spanish-for-social-justice-fall-2026/
LOCATION:Virtual Event with The People’s Forum
CATEGORIES:Education,Language courses,Spanish
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SUMMARY:BASIC PORTUGUESE 1 | FALL 2026
DESCRIPTION:Basic Portuguese 1 / Português Básico 1 \nFor true beginners\, students who know very basic Portuguese\, or speak Spanish.  \nIf you studied an introduction via apps before\, but did not have formal training\, this course is also highly recommended for you. \nFill out an application form\, and the instructor will send you a link to register: https://forms.gle/Niy8GHAsJJKcwyJ96  \nAn assessment is not needed for this class \n  \nDETAILS \n\nCourse runs on Zoom for 8 weeks \nNovember 2 – December 21 \nMondays\, 6-8pm (U.S. Eastern Time)\n$180 – $360 sliding scale cost for students*\nPlan for a weekly hour of required individual practice exercises\n\nFill out an application** form at: https://forms.gle/Niy8GHAsJJKcwyJ96     \nAfter you complete the application\, you will be invited via email to register for Basic 1. Check your email often. This class fills up quickly! \n  \nPortuguês Básico 1 is a beginner’s class\, designed by Natalia de Campos for The People’s Forum\, with a focus on listening\, speaking and developing communication skills in Portuguese from the first day\, without resorting to translating into one’s native language.  \nThis course will give you a solid base and allow you to start communicating with Portuguese native speakers.  \nThe instructor will use visual materials\, music\, and conversation between participants during the learning process\, focusing on her native Brazilian Portuguese. It is the first part of a program of Basic and Intermediate modules that also examine some differences between Brazilian\, African\, South Asian and Continental (European) Portuguese in future modules.  \nThe program will introduce grammar structures in practical ways\, and some writing exercises. The course runs weekly on Zoom\, and an extra hour of required individual practice exercises. \nAs you develop your language skills\, we will also engage with the history of Brazilian people\, its revolutionary struggles\, and other means of resistance in modules 2 and beyond.  \nJoin us for an introductory course on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil\, and other Portuguese-speaking countries. \n  Returning students\, contact your instructor: portugueseny@gmail.com  to get the registration link to skip the application form. \n*Please pay what you are comfortable with\, allowing for students who need the first tiers to register\, if possible. \n  \n**For Basic 2\, 3 or Intermediate and Advanced levels\, also fill out an assessment form. \n\nAs part of Portuguese for Social Transformation\nLearn Portuguese from people’s movements\nvirtual\nClasses designed and taught by Natalia de Campos / Syncretic Pleasures\n\nMore information:  \nPortuguese is a language with roots in Portugal and also the official language spoken today in 10 countries: Brazil\, Mozambique\, Angola\, Portugal\, Guinea-Bissau\, East Timor\, Equatorial Guinea\, Macau\, Cape Verde\, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Portuguese is arguably among the 9 or 10 most spoken languages in the world\, but only 5 percent of its speakers live in its original home Portugal. It is estimated that 270 million people speak Portuguese today\, amongst which nearly 254 million are native speakers. It is the second most spoken Romance language\, after Spanish. Brazil’s 211 million people is the largest Portuguese-speaking population in the world. \nAs a colonial language\, it suffered many transformations\, particular to each locale. It is nowadays also a result of cultural resistance of the indigenous and enslaved people during colonialism. It is spoken in the U.S particularly in the Northeast\, in California and in Florida\, where native Portuguese speakers\, who are immigrants from Africa\, South Asia\, Europe and Brazil have concentrated historically. In nearby regions\, it is more widely spoken in areas of Newark\, New Jersey; Astoria\, Queens; in the coastal regions of Connecticut\, and Massachusetts.  \nIf you have any questions\, you can contact the instructor at: portugueseny@gmail.com
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/basic-portuguese-1-fall-2026/2026-11-02/
LOCATION:Virtual Event with The People’s Forum
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education,Language courses,Portuguese
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SUMMARY:INTERMEDIATE PORTUGUESE 2 | FALL 2026
DESCRIPTION:Intermediate Portuguese 2 / Português Intermediário 2 \nFor continuing students who completed Intermediate Portuguese 1 \nFor NEW students who know the basic structure of Portuguese including all present/past tenses\, Presente e Futuro do Subjuntivo (upon filling out an application and taking an assessment): https://forms.gle/Niy8GHAsJJKcwyJ96 \nDETAILS \n\nCourse runs on Zoom for 8 weeks\nNovember 3 – December 22\nTuesdays\, 6pm – 8pm (U.S. Eastern Time)\n$180 – $360 sliding scale cost for students*\n\nClick here to apply** and fill out an assessment form: https://forms.gle/Niy8GHAsJJKcwyJ96 \n\nAs part of Portuguese for Social Transformation\nLearn Portuguese from people’s movements\nClasses designed and taught by Natalia de Campos / Syncretic Pleasures\n\nContinuing students: contact your instructor to get the registration link and skip\nthe application form \nNew Students: New students are welcome to apply. The link to the Assessment is at the end of the application form. It should take about 15-20 minutes to be completed. \nBe sure to submit both the application and the assessment to get feedback and a\nregistration link via email \n*Please pay what you are comfortable with\, allowing for students who need the first tiers to\nregister\, if possible. \n**For Basic 2\, 3 or Intermediate and Advanced levels also fill out an assessment form. \nPortuguês Intermediário 2 is an upper intermediate class\, designed by Natalia de Campos for The People’s Forum\, with a focus on deepening listening\, speaking and developing communication skills in Portuguese in a conversational style\, without translating into one’s native language\, to allow you to have more vocabulary\, composed verbal structures\, and more elaborate conversations with Portuguese native speakers.\nWe read texts from Brazilian and other Portuguese-speaking revolutionary thinkers and writers\, such as Paulo Freire\, Carolina Maria de Jesus\, Conceição Evaristo\, and others. We look at both historic and contemporary political practices to deepen your understanding of Portuguese while learning about Portuguese-speaking people’s movements\, the history of Brazilian people\, its revolutionary struggles\, and other means of resistance. This course has an advanced approach for people who already speak basic Portuguese\nWe will use visual materials\, music\, literature\, and conversation\, focusing on Brazilian Portuguese\, and also examine a few differences between Brazilian\, African\, South Asian and European Portuguese. The program will deepen grammar structures in practical ways\, and include writing and speaking exercises about historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil\, and other Portuguese-speaking countries. \nMore information:\nPortuguese is a language with roots in Portugal and also the official language spoken today in 10 countries or regions: Brazil\, Mozambique\, Angola\, Portugal\, Guine-Bissau\, East Timor\, Equatorial Guinea\, Macau\, Cape Verde\, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Portuguese is arguably among the 9 or 10 most spoken languages in the world\, but only 5 percent of its speakers live in its original home Portugal. It is estimated that 270 million people speak Portuguese today\, amongst which nearly 254 million are native speakers. It is the second most spoken Romance language\, after Spanish. Brazil’s 213 million people is the\nlargest Portuguese-speaking population in the world. As a colonial language\, it suffered many transformations\, particular to each locale. It is nowadays also a result of cultural resistance of the indigenous and enslaved people during colonialism. It is spoken in the U.S particularly in the Northeast\, in California and in Florida\, where native Portuguese speakers\, who are immigrants from Africa\, South Asia\, Europe and Brazil have concentrated historically. In nearby regions\, it is more widely spoken in areas of Newark\, New Jersey; Astoria\, Queens; in the coastal regions of Connecticut\, and Massachusetts. \nBackground:\nSince the 16th century Brazilians started to incorporate dialects\, words and sounds into Portuguese\, particularly from the Tupi and Guarani indigenous linguistic branches that make up the majority of the pre-Columbian indigenous languages of Brazil’s current territory. With enslaved workers brought from Africa\, more heavily during the 17th\, 18th and 19th centuries\, many different languages and backgrounds were also influential. Brazilian Portuguese continued to evolve as the common language amongst all living in Brazil\, and the one permitted to be spoken by the colonizers. However\, new words referring to foods\, materials and relationships with no correlations in Europe\, started to influence Continental Portuguese\, even though the grammar and syntax structures remained the same. Revolutionary literacy methods created for adults\, by the influential educator Paulo Freire in the 1960s\, author of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed\, finally started to prioritize local people’s needs and generate wider political consciousness about the role of language in political emancipation to the elite oppressors. It is still used to combat illiteracy and poverty\, and to help achieve freedom\, much beyond Brazil’s borders.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/intermediate-portuguese-2-fall-2026/2026-11-03/
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education,Portuguese
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SUMMARY:ASL FALL – WINTER 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Fall through Winter 2026 for a new set of ASL Classes. These are virtual classes\, facilitated by Kristen Suiter for people of all levels in their language study journey. \n  \nINTRO TO ASL – Apply Here  \nIn this class\, we will build your vocabulary in American Sign Language (get ready to be able to sign entire conversations!) and explore Deaf American culture and history. From learning the ABCs and how to introduce yourself to studying Deaf representation in media\, this offering will cover the basics of American Sign Language and American Deaf culture. \n\nTuesdays 6pm – 7:30pm EST\nNovember 17th –  December 22th (6 weeks)\nSliding Scale ($150 – $300)\n\n  \nASL LEVEL 2 – Apply Here \nThis ASL Level 2 course is designed to continue your skill development in expressive signing. The focus of this course is to prepare students for non-verbal interaction and communication with members of the deaf community. You’ll learn useful vocabulary and you’ll be able to hold meaningful conversations about various topics. But it’s not all serious – you’ll also learn how to tell jokes\, use common expressions and sayings\, and relay anecdotes to your audience. We’ll also focus on teaching you more about the deaf community\, so you gain a better appreciation for deaf culture\, activism\, and learn how you can get involved. \n\nWednesdays 6pm – 730pm EST\nNovember 18th – December 23rd (6 weeks)\nSliding Scale ($150 – $300)
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/asl-winter-2026/
LOCATION:Virtual Event with The People’s Forum
CATEGORIES:ASL,Education,Language courses
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SUMMARY:REVERENT PORTRAITS w/ S. YEMISI ADEYEMO
DESCRIPTION:REVERENT PORTRAITS: DRAWING\, PAINTING\, AND ASSEMBLAGE w/ S. YEMISI ADEYEMO \nOne-day  |  Thursday\, November 19  |  5:30-8:30PM  |  Sliding scale\, $30-50 \nIn this three-hour workshop\, participants will learn the fundamentals of portrait drawing and create a small\, embellished frame honoring someone they wish to remember\, celebrate\, or hold close. Through guided technical instruction in facial proportions\, observation\, and shading\, participants will draw a portrait from a photograph of their choosing\, with opportunities to incorporate painting based on their experience and comfort level. \nWe will draw inspiration from devotional practices across cultures\, including memory jugs\, Afro-diasporic altar traditions\, and the assemblages of Betye Saar. While informed by these traditions\, embellishments will be intuitive and personal to each maker. We will also explore how acts of remembrance and reverence may preserve overlooked histories and connect personal experiences of grief to broader social and political consciousness. No prior art experience is required. Participants should bring a photograph of their chosen subject and are welcome to bring small\, meaningful objects to incorporate into their frames. \n__ \nS. Yemisi Adeyemo (she/they) is a politically engaged interdisciplinary artist working across assemblage\, painting\, and sculpture. Using found materials recovered from urban public space\, she creates layered devotional objects that move between altarpiece and artifact. Her work examines material conditions across global and domestic contexts\, tracing the implications of (neo)imperialism through instances of tragedy\, survival\, and rebellion. Positioning grief as a site of personal and ideological revelation\, her work hopes to shift individualized mourning toward collective critical resistance.\nYemisi received a BFA in Painting from RISD and an MFA in Visual Art from Mason Gross School of the Arts\, Rutgers University. She was a 2025-2026 NXTHVN Studio Art Fellow and a 2021 BRIClab Contemporary Arts Resident. She has taught visual art in an array contexts and communities\, including Rutgers University\, and The Bronx Museum of The Arts. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic\, New American Paintings\, Liverpool University Press’ Sculpture Journal\, Art Cube\, and Forbes\, where she was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Art & Style list in 2025.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/reverent-portraits-nov/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio\, 320 W. 37th\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:art,Art Courses,Culture,Education
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SUMMARY:Community Conversations: Zionism\, US Empire\, and the Racial State
DESCRIPTION:Join scholar and activist Emmaia Gelman for a conversation about Zionism as a “movement from above” — an elite project of racial state-making in alignment with U.S. imperialism. Through the lens of her deep research into the Anti-Defamation League\, she will show how race\, class\, and state power flow through the brokerage of elite institutions that weaponize civil rights discourse and tradition. The conversation will sharpen our analysis and inform our organizing as we resist these forms of elite capture and the violences they protect. \nEmmaia Gelman is the author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State and co-editor of The Anti-Defamation League: A Critical Reader. She is the founding director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism\, co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism\, the co-host of the podcast Unpacking Zionism\, and a longtime activist in New York City. Her writing has appeared in Boston Review\, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal\, Jadaliyya\, Journal for the Critical Study of Zionism\, Jewish Currents\, Truthout\, Mondoweiss\, and others. \nEmmaia will be in conversation with Conor Q. Foley\, Director of Community Engagement at the Community Church and author of The Bible and Police Violence in the United States\, published by Routledge in May 2026. \n\nRSVP: ccny.org/conversations
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/community-conversations-zionism-us-empire-and-the-racial-state/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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