Join Arts Mid-Hudson as Poet Gold talks with artivist Vince Ballentine, a multi-disciplined visual artist. Ballentine has traveled internationally and been commissioned to create work for the likes of the NCAA, MTV, BET, and festivals such as Wall Therapy, O-positive and Meeting of Styles in Germany. His work never stops evolving, as demonstrated by his 2020 US State Department residency in Ethiopia as an ambassador for hip hop. Register here!
Leading With Artivism – Voice of Love & Liberation
Join Arts Mid-Hudson for a virtual discussion with New York based Puerto Rican singer, filmmaker, and activist, Taína Asili. Asili’s powerful vocals carry themes of social justice with an energetic fusion of Afro-Latin, reggae, and rock. Her music exudes strength of spirit and inspires audiences to dance to the rhythm of rebellion.
Journeys Toward Justice – Climate Change in Boston: Social Determinants, Equity, and Action
Journeys Toward Justice is a multi-college collaboration spotlighting changemakers across the country who are driving justice and equity forward. The goal is to connect students, partners, and communities with one another and help us all understand the local and historical contexts of universal social justice issues and the work communities are doing.
Climate Change in Boston: Social Determinants, Equity, and Action
Join us for a Climate Interactive Simulation that considers the social determinants of climate change, equity, and action options. Following the simulation, we’ll meet with Climate Ready Boston to consider who is most vulnerable to Climate Change in Boston, as well as learn about local organizations working toward equity and effective community preparation. We’ll also brainstorm personal methods of making a difference and point to efforts across MIT and beyond.
Hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
Journeys Toward Justice – Beyond the Dream
Journeys Toward Justice is a multi-college collaboration spotlighting changemakers across the country who are driving justice and equity forward. The goal is to connect students, partners, and communities with one another and help us all understand the local and historical contexts of universal social justice issues and the work communities are doing.
Beyond the Dream
In this session, we will explore how activists of the past and conscientious rappers of today used their words to encourage action. Dr. King talked about his dream, Langston Hughes wrote about a dream deferred. What does that mean today? How do the lyrics of Chance the Rapper and Kendrick Lamar unite, encourage or motivate? Participants will consider how poetry and music can bring us together in conversations and help develop an action plan to address challenges in community.
Speakers:Sheryl Davis, Executive Director of the SF Human Rights Commission
Hosted by the University of San Francisco’s McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good
Journeys Toward Justice – Public Art as a Form of Activism and Untold Narratives of BIPOC Voices
Journeys Toward Justice is a multi-college collaboration spotlighting changemakers across the country who are driving justice and equity forward. The goal is to connect students, partners, and communities with one another and help us all understand the local and historical contexts of universal social justice issues and the work communities are doing.
Public Art as a Form of Activism and Untold Narratives of BIPOC Voices
Brandan “BMike” Odums is a New Orleans-based visual artist who, through exhibitions, public programs, and public art works, is engaged in a transnational dialogue about the intersection of art and resistance. From film to murals to installations, Odums’ work encapsulates the political fervor of a generation of Black American activists who came of age amidst the tenure of the nation’s first Black president, the resurgence of popular interest in law enforcement violence, and the emergence of the self-care movement. Most often working with spray paint, Odums paints brightly-colored, wall-sized murals that depict historical figures, contemporary creatives, and everyday people. In his otherwise figurative work, Odums departs from realism to play with color – blending lavender to paint the skin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and robin’s egg blue for Harriet Tubman, for instance – suggesting an ethos of boldness that unites the subjects of his work and surpasses race, time, or any other aspect of physical reality. Join us for conversation with BMike and Fredrick “Wood” Delahoussaye, the Artistic Director at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center of New Orleans, as we explore the use of Public Art in all spaces.
Speakers: Brandan “BMike” Odums, Lead Artist & Curator and Studio BE, and Frederick “Wood” Delahoussaye, Artistic Director at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center
Journeys Toward Justice – Mapping Social Justice Movements in Durham
Journeys Toward Justice is a multi-college collaboration spotlighting changemakers across the country who are driving justice and equity forward. The goal is to connect students, partners, and communities with one another and help us all understand the local and historical contexts of universal social justice issues and the work communities are doing.
Mapping Social Justice Movements in Durham
This virtual tour is about what protests and social justice activism have looked like in Durham, NC. This tour will reflect on how power structures related to race, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, class, and ability have oppressed groups in the past and present. Together, we’ll get a chance to examine what effective activists have done, such as using their political power, providing financial resources, or raising awareness, to aid the activism efforts against structural discrimination. Everyone will be invited to reflect on their personal experience with activism and how we might deconstruct these harmful power structures.
Speakers: Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice
Hosted by Duke Civic Engagement