How to navigate the need for housing versus the destructive practice of construction? Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (RIOT/ EPFL) will discuss one of the most contentious parts of the groundbreaking book ‘A Moratorium on New Construction’ at the People’s Forum.
Open studio is a space to develop a print-making project in community with other organizers, artists, and cultural workers.
FOR VENIDA, FOR KALIEF (95 minutes) delves into the profound legacy of Kalief Browder, who at age 16 was sent to New York’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex for allegedly stealing a backpack.
Join us for Collage Making For Liberation, a one-day course w/ Queens-based therapist and artist Ashley Lagrange.
In Cyanotype 201, students will dive deeper into their print-making practice. With teaching artist Praise Fuller.
Based on a true story, Pride follows a group of lesbian and gay activists in London who raise money to support striking coal miners during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
In PHARMA MONOPOLY, Tahir Amin and co-author Rohit Malpani pull back the curtain on a system that prioritizes power and profit over human well-being. This isn't just about the pharmaceutical industry—it’s about how access to medical care has been remade by private interests both in the U.S. and abroad, how governments have ceded control to monopolies, and how global health initiatives often maintain a status quo that leaves the most vulnerable behind while cementing existing power structures.
In this one-day session, participants will practice figure drawing from life, working independently with guidance from Nick Skoug.
We bring back this film in a time when mass workers mobilizations and mass strikes are sorely necessary in the United States. It will be followed by a discussion* on labor unions, people's power and organized political movement, with invited co-discussants from the Party for Socialism & Liberation, Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee, local unions, and upper intermediate students from the Portuguese for Social Transformation classes taught by Natalia de Campos/ Syncretic Pleasures at The People's Forum
Students will spend this workshop on June 13, 2026 learning the cyanotype process from beginning to end, with Praise Fuller.
With special feature: Mohamed Araki a touring Sudanese musician, producer, keyboardist, and Sudan’s first Grammy-nominated artist through his work with Bombino.
Join us for a community roundtable as part of the Protest Testimony Project—an effort to make sure the people most impacted by protest policing have a direct line into how reforms are evaluated and enforced.
