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SUMMARY:Book Launch: All This Safety Is Killing Us
DESCRIPTION:A virtual book launch with Ronica Mukerjee\, Onyinye Alheri\, Leroy Moore & Pato Hebert \nThursday\, Apr 24\, 2025 |12:30pm to 1:45pm \n\n\nAbout All This Safety Is Killing Us\n\n\nA multi-discipline\, multimedia guide to abolition through the lens of healthcare and medicine – featuring writings and artwork from 10+ incarcerated and post-detention activists \nExposing how marginalized communities are vilified by “carceral safety” systems\, educators and health justice advocates Carlos Martinez and Ronica Mukerjee call for a radical break with reformist strategies in favor of ones grounded in grassroots organizing and abolition. \n\n\nThis panel brings together author and contributors\, Ronica Mukerjee\, Onyinye Alheri\, Leroy Moore\, moderated by Pato Hebert. \n\nSpeaker Bios: \nOnyịnye Alheri (Ọ or she/her) is an artist\, curator and scholar engaging with international movements that promote peace\, harm-reduction and collective healing. Born in Èkó (so-called Lagos\, Nigeria)\, Onyịnye is blessed to have lived in many lands and currently splits time between Mozambique and Mexico. Ọ is engaged in research and knowledge sharing exploring topics including mental health\, abolition\, harm reduction and more. Ọ earned a bachelor’s of arts (BA) in International Studies & Philosophy from Macalester College and a master’s in social work (MSW) from the University of Maryland\, Baltimore. \nFrom Harvard to The Whitney Museum to Media Engagement for Disability in Johannesburg South Africa\, Leroy Moore has more than twenty years of activism\, journalism\, writing\, lecturing on race and disability. Black disabled poet\, activist and author of six books on Black Disabled issues from poetry to children books to his recent graphic novel\, Krip-HopVol. 1 that was published in 2019 by Poor Press. Black Disabled Art History 101 in 2017 published by Xochitl Justice Press. Leroy F. Moore Jr. is the Founder of the international collective called\, Krip-Hop Nation. Since the 1990s\, he has written the column “Illin-N-Chillin” for POOR Magazine and then as a founding member of the magazine’s school\, the Homefulness and Decolonize Academy. Moore was one of the founding members of National Black Disability Coalition and activist around police brutality against people with disabilities. Leroy has started and helped start organizations like Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization to Sins Invalid and was an early  thinker of Disability Justice to Krip-Hop Nation. His cultural work includes film documentary\, Where Is Hope\, Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities\, spoken-word CDs\, poetry books. \nRonica Mukerjee DNP\, MsA is a family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner as well as an acupuncturist. Dr. Mukerjee is currently an assistant professor at Columbia University and provides both hormonal care and psychiatric care for trans and gender diverse patients. Previously they livede and worked in Tijuana\, Mexico co-directing a refugee health organization she co-founded. Dr Mukerjee is passionate about border-police-prison abolition as well as racial\, economic and health care justice in LGBTQIA+\, refugees and migrant communities\, for people with substance use disorders\, and for people living with HIV. \nPato Hebert is a visual artist\, educator and cultural worker. He splits time between New York City\, and his creative studio in Los Angeles. Born in Idaho Falls\, Idaho\, Hebert spent his childhood there and in Eugene\, Oregon. He also lived in Panamá\, where is mother is from. He joined the Art & Public Policy Department at NYU in 2012. Prior to NYU\, he was a visiting assistant professor at Reed College and Scripps College. He also taught at Art Center College of Design and the University of California Irvine. \n\n 
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SUMMARY:Intimacy Violation: a film screening and performance
DESCRIPTION:Intimacy Violation: screening of a work-in-progress film by Yining Chi\, followed by a participatory performance around audio description led by the artist and a discussion moderated by Meesh Sara Fradkin. \nThursday\, April 24\, 7-9pm @ Come Forever + Zoom \n“Intimacy Violation is a video essay that explores the intersections of disability\, kinship\, trust\, and authority through my mom\, Ning’s experience with a rare genetic disease in China. The film unfolds through different forms of intimacy: societal infrastructure violates my mom’s access intimacy; our opposing views on medicine and sexuality violate our political intimacy; my mom perceives her illness as violating our familial intimacy; technology violates our body intimacy; and\, by filming her vulnerability\, I may be violating our emotional intimacy…” — Yining Chi \n \nLight refreshments will be served after the discussion\, with mingling encouraged! \nEvent is free and open to the public but requires registration (either to attend on zoom or in person). Film and performance include open captions (Chinese-English bilingual) and audio description. Live captions will be provided for Zoom. Venue is wheelchair accessible with an accessible bathroom. Masks are required and provided as part of collective care–refreshments will be served outside in open air. \nCome Forever is located at 342 Hewes St\, Brooklyn\, off the Hewes JM and Broadway G trains. \n\n\n\n\n \nYining Chi (she/they) is an art-maker\, mover\, and researcher from Beijing\, China\, currently based in New York City. Chi’s medium shifts between exhibition\, movement\, moving image\, and accessibility. Her research focuses on the material body and its visual rhetorics within collective emotional states\, while their practice enacts how social structures inscribe mobilities and memories onto bodies. Chi is an MA candidate in Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. Recent projects include the public performance art series Urban Stage (Guangzhou\, 2023) and the curatorial project The Intimate Revolt (Goethe-Institut China\, Beijing\, 2022). \n \nMeesh Sara Fradkin is a writer and artist working with sound\, text and media. She is a doctoral candidate in music in the interdisciplinary music technology track at McGill University and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for Disability Studies. \nThis event is sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies and supported by A Blade of Grass. \n\n 
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LOCATION:Come Forever + Zoom\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Anna RG: Air Change Per Hour
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 24th at 8pm\, at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater\, ISSUE is proud to present AIR CHANGE PER HOUR\, the first commission from 2025 Artist-In-Residence Anna RG that interrogates relationships between sound\, space\, and accessibility in the context of airborne safety. Rooted in the ongoing realities of the pandemic\, this work challenges expectations of silence in performance spaces by embracing the presence of air purifiers—not just as functional access objects\, but as sonic\, conceptual and political agents within the room. \nthey said purifiers were loud\, meant audible sound. held silence over safety\, one sense above another. but here in the corner the purifier is humming furniture music in Bb. it is holding duets between the loud of the ache in my head and the song through the fog. it is setting a room\, shared resonant lung\, and in we move the air we borrow\, and here it filters what our bodies cannot. accompanist to a row of stories; like held their breath and wait for help\, like letters from a fever. lean in\, a rumble\, lean in\, what kind of future breeze\, out of the corner of your eye? \nRG\, who lives with long covid\, creates AIR CHANGE PER HOUR with support from access dramaturg Alison Kopit\, composer Alexa Dexa\, and engineer Daniel Neumann; and features guest performers Dave Ruder and Slic\, and writing by Jenna Bitar. They will be joined by a group of disabled/chronically ill artists performing “Scores for Sick Music.” The bed performers may or may not be present. \nACCESS INFORMATION: All access will be open\, meaning that the full audience experiences the access-rich environment of the show. Audio descriptions will be featured throughout\, and the full production will be open-captioned\, including sonic descriptions. The audience will also be asked to mask\, which is a part of the access infrastructure. The show contains themes of pandemics\, chronic illness\, isolation\, genocide\, and collective care\, and so we ask the audience to protect each other\, as well as the performers\, with this material act of solidarity.** The space is wheelchair accessible\, and has two gender-neutral accessible bathrooms. The show is seated\, and has a series of short rests/breaks. Guests are welcome to move and make sounds as needed\, throughout the evening. Air purifiers are present ensuring at least 6 air changes per hour in the space. Please contact us if you have further questions about access\, at sylver@issueprojectroom.org. We look forward to speaking with you! \nThe artist would like to thank: Molly Joyce\, Jay Afrisando\, and Andy Slater for guidance. Thank you to the members and borrowers of AIRNYC and who facilitate this community air purifier library that allowed this performance to be possible. \n**Thank you to Alison Kopit\, for the use of this access text\, created for “Dan Fishback is Alive and Unwell and Living in his Apartment” at the Public Theater. \nAnna RG works in composition\, sculpture and community organizing\, towards possibilities of Sick Music making and listening. For a decade\, she toured with her research-based ballad project\, Anna & Elizabeth\, their Smithsonian Folkways album called a “radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do” by The New Yorker. They performed at Carnegie Hall\, Big Ears Festival (where she was guest curator of traditional music)\, NPR’s Tiny Desk and many other venues not currently accessible to high risk artists. Anna has collaborated widely\, including with the Aizuri Quartet\, Lonnie Holley\, Glen Hansard\, Paul Wiancko\, Jim White\, and the dearly departed Susan Alcorn\, and has won blue ribbons in fiddle contests across Appalachia. They hold an MFA in sculpture from Bard College\, is a MacDowell Fellow\, and recently exhibited at Tulca Festival (Galway). She is a member of the collective Artists In Resistance NYC (AIRNYC) which operates a lending library of the community-owned air purifiers used in the show\, which are available for anyone to borrow\, for free. \nRespect your RSVP \nISSUE encourages a culture of respect around free arts programming–by honoring your RSVP\, you recognize ISSUE’s ongoing efforts to cultivate new work by emerging artists. If you can no longer attend this free event\, please contact sylver@issueprojectroom.org to let us know. Thank you for respecting the reservation. \n\n\n\n\nFounded in 2003\, ISSUE Project Room is a pioneering nonprofit performance center\, presenting projects by interdisciplinary artists that expand the boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community. ISSUE serves as a leading cultural incubator\, facilitating the commission and premiere of innovative new works. \nAnna RG activates AIR CHANGE PER HOUR at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater\, where ongoing challenges with airflow persist due to the delay in Government of New York City managed renovations. \nFor visitors requiring accessible access for the performance\, ISSUE Project Room’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater is ADA accessible by lift and a ramp funded through the Accessibility Project of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative Placemaking Fund. \nISSUE Project Room’s Artist-In-Residence program is made possible\, in part\, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts\, TD Charitable Foundation\, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council\, and with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. \nAdditional support for ISSUE Project Room’s 2025 season is provided by Metabolic Studio. \nAnna RG’s residency is also supported by NYU’s Center for Disability Studies.
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LOCATION:Come Forever + Zoom\, Brooklyn
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