INTRO TO ASL | Winter 2026
Virtual Event with The People's ForumIn 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
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
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.
Português Intermediário 1 is an intermediate class 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 deepen the understanding of advanced verbs tenses,
This course will give you a solid base and allow you to start communicating with Portuguese native speakers. The program will introduce grammar structures in practical ways, and some writing exercises.
This is an 8-session seminar series that explores the hidden and often untold people’s rebellions that have shaped the history of the United States.
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.
An immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization.
"Now Is the Time" (1967) is a short documentary film that utilizes newsreel footage, literature, and archival materials to explore the history of Black resistance and anger in the United States. The film connects earlier African American writers, such as Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, with the Black Power movement. It was produced during the late 1960s to contextualize the rise of Black nationalism and address the American experience of slavery and inequality.
Akin Olla, Ben Case, Heba Gowayed, and Suchitra Vijayan come together for an urgent public conversation about resistance, repression, and what this moment in the United States is exposing about the possibilities of mass action.
Open studio is a drop-in space for print-makers to bring their work at any stage of development and receive feedback and guidance.
In 2026, we proudly celebrate Red Books Day alongside the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, bringing together two traditions of resistance and struggle. This year’s Black & Red Books Day centers Black revolutionaries and the radical writings that continue to shape global liberation movements.
In October 1972, nine Black men and one white woman were wrongfully convicted of arson and conspiracy and sentenced by the North Carolina state court to 282 collective years in prison. An international cause célèbre, the so-called Wilmington 10 languished for nearly a decade in separate jails, even as journalists and lawyers exposed criminal wrongdoing in the State’s case; religious leaders, politicians, and activists demanded their release and exoneration; and the Soviet Union brandished their photos as a symbol of American hypocrisy and racism.
