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Documenting Black Resilience at Vassar

Image of a smiling Black person wearing a red shirt and gold necklace looking straight into the camera

Resilience reconciles the past, sustains the present, and provides a roadmap for the future. Documenting stories about resilience is essential to strengthening community and building an archive, framework, or praxis around collective power. How is Black student resilience—both on campus and in the post-graduate world—being documented?
In this un-workshop, Matt Ford’17 will guide Black-identified Vassar alums and current students through a conversation and writing exercise reflecting on Black student storytelling and healing. Alums and current students will discuss their unique experiences on and off campus, write about the resources that helped them (at least begin to) thrive, and create a collective archive of their stories to share with generations of Black Vassar students to come.
These sessions are open to students, faculty, staff, and administration.
Food will be provided. 

Posters For Change

Find more information at the Trolley Barn’s website: https://trolleybarn.org/exstatus/current/ !

Virtual Public Meeting on Sojourner Truth State Park

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation and the Palisades Interstate Parks Commission (PIPC) invite you to a Zoom meeting to hear all about the design progress for Sojourner Truth State Park. This virtual gathering provides a unique for you to gain insight into the Sojourner Truth State Park project and provide feedback. RSVP here!

2024 State of the County Address

Please join us Thursday, March 14th as Dutchess County Executive Sue Serino presents her 2024 State of the County Address at 5:30pm at Red Hook High School in Red Hook.

If you haven’t already registered, don’t wait!

RSVP today online at www.dutchessny.gov/RSVP

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2024 State of the County invite

Memory, Resistance and Colonial Hierarchies of Belonging Across the Atlantic

This one-day hybrid symposium will explore how various groups have politically and historically advocated for justice by drawing parallels of remembrance against forgetting across different cultures, spaces, languages, bodies and times. By realizing parallels across multiple geopolitical histories of trans and cis migrant activists, feminists, workers, Europeans of color, Sinti and Roma populations and refugees we want to generate interdisciplinary discussions on the uses of memory as resistance. We invite various artistic, academic and activist perspectives to provide new perspectives that broaden the clusters of Memory, Resistance and Colonial Hierarchies of Belonging. While our focus is on Germany, we welcome contributions from other contexts that comparatively address how Western colonial, imperial, transnational, and transatlantic memories are tied and translated to other regions and contexts.

Black History Mens Wellness Panel

Black History Wellness Panel

In honor of Black History Month, The Brain and Body Coalition is holding a Men’s wellness panel at the Trolley Barn which is located at 489 Main Street in Poughkeepsie. This will take place from 4-7pm on February 24th. The Topic is : Black History, Our History and His Story. Come join this diverse panel of speakers as they shed light on how Black History has influenced them and helped shape the role they play in our community.

Made in Poughkeepsie: A History of Homegrown Stuff

A repeat of September’s program for those who could not attend. During the 19th and early 20th century, Poughkeepsie produced everything from indestructible pants, to steam automobiles. Join historian Shannon Butler as she discusses the various and interesting products that were once made in the Queen City on the Hudson. Please note that this is not a continuation of the program previously held in August.