At great personal and physical risk, between 2010 and 2020, artist and scholar Rehab Nazzal traveled throughout Palestine to create a body of work in photography and video so expansive that it may be one of the most consequential artistic productions of our time.
Português 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.
This is a fast-paced course designed for people who learned the Basic structure of Portuguese and present, past and future of verbs tenses and are ready for subjunctive and more complex writing, who are fluent or native Spanish speakers and started to learn Portuguese formally, or people who grew up/spent time around Portuguese but need to perfect their grammar. It is a continuation of the course: Português Básico 2.
Algarabía 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.
In 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.
This 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.
Level 3 will continue to develop and strengthen students’ storytelling and conversational skills! Participants will continue to become more comfortable in utilizing their visual space and expressing their own thoughts and ideas through American Sign Language. This course will also feature more in depth explorations of Deaf culture and how this current administration is affecting Deaf lives across the world.
Algarabía 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.
This course delves into the history and lessons of the labor movement, and examines why the power of the organized working class has always been central to every progressive transformation in the United States. Together, we will explore how we can take these lessons and build a bold, fighting labor movement today - one that not only defends our rights but goes on the offensive to win a world organized to meet the needs of the many, not just the few.
Join us for Collage Making For Liberation, a one-day course w/ Queens-based therapist and artist Ashley Lagrange. In these sessions you'll learn how to create collage art as a medium for political agitation and propaganda and as a tool for self-reflection and expression.
Come join us for a public screening of Palestine 101, where you'll learn about the history, resistance, and national culture of Palestine.
Shy sandwich-maker Mahoma Lopez unites his undocumented immigrant coworkers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain. The epic power struggle that ensues turns a single city block into a battlefield in America's new wage wars.
