No Images? Click here CSSJ Monthly Newsletter Coming Up in April: CSSJ Lunch Talks Thursday, April 13, 2017 Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Thursday, April 20, 2017 CSSJ Events Film Screening: Uncovering the Institution Presents: "A Dream Deferred" "A Dream Deferred" Exhibition Open Now During the the first week of August 2016, eleven students from Youth In Action moved on to Brown’s campus for a week of Uncovering the Institution, a program at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. We engaged in discussions on "the American Dream" using four guiding pillars: Optimism, Individual Liberty, Freedom from Fear and Economic Opportunity. The ongoing discussions begun in the summer have led to the exhibition "A Dream Deferred." We hope this youth curated exhibition serves a space for reflection about the issues that continue to challenge the American education system and the freedoms it promises. Learn more about Uncovering the Institution on the CSSJ website. Exhibition open through May 12, 2017 In the News "From the Seeds of Original Sin" CSSJ exhibition Liquid Knowledges is featured in Biscayne Times. The exhibition includes work by Haitian artist Eduoard Duval-Carrié, who will be participating in a workshop with the CSSJ later in April. Beyond the Center Film Screening: "Major!" directed by Annalise Ophelian, explores the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years. View the trailer here. Pizza will be served. Premiere: Working the Boats: Masters of the Craft SPIA MEDIA PRODUCTIONS, INC. is pleased to announce the P.E.G., TV-RI statewide cablecast premiere of Working the Boats: Masters of the Craft, a six part documentary webisode by filmmaker Claire Andrade-Watkins. The webisode captures the golden years of Local 1329 of the International Longshoremen’s Association, the first predominantly Cape Verdean labor union in New England founded in Providence, Rhode Island in 1933 by Manuel Q. Ledo, a Cape Verdean community leader. The webisode is presented in three segments of two episodes each. Producer/Director Claire Andrade-Watkins is a second generation Cape Verdean born and raised in the Fox Point section of Providence, RI. She is a Professor at Emerson College, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and Fellow at the Swearer Center for Public Service, Brown University. She is the President of SPIA Media Productions, Inc., and Director of the Fox Point Cape Verdean Project, a community based research initiative founded in 2007 dedicated to creating sustainable record of history, culture and traditions of the Fox Point Cape Verdean community. This program made possible in part by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and community based direct and online donations. Working the Boats premiere Saturday, April 8 at 10:30AM. Works on Memory: Memory-WorksThe architect practices an art of ethical and purposeful transformation, creating spaces that frame human experience and contribute to a better future. While we imagine projects that leave traces over the skin of the earth, our process often lies in unveiling, unearthing, uncovering as well as anchoring histories and memories in and onto territories, cities and sites. It is in the face of catastrophes, historic traumas, and human injustices that the architect’s (and the artist’s) roles become increasingly complex, problematic and, hopefully, necessary. This talk presents concepts and design projects dealing with memory, history and trauma, including the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery, Nantes and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Lunch served at 11:50am. Julian Bonder is a teacher and architect born in New York and raised in Argentina. His award-winning design work includes the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Clark U) and the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery (NANTES); he is a Professor of Architecture at Roger Williams University and a principal at Wodiczko + Bonder & Julian Bonder + Associates, Cambridge. This event is sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University. Tuesday, April 11, 2017 *Not all Women's History Series 2017 events are included in the poster above. For the complete schedule please visit the Women's History Series webpage. *If you would like to submit a poster for advertisement in a future CSSJ newsletter please email slaveryjustice@brown.edu, using “Ad for the next newsletter” in the subject line. All flyers must be submitted as a PDF or JPEG. Postings in the newsletter will be made at the Center’s discretion. |