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Directory of Collectives – April 2017 BashBackNYC
BashBack is a group of Queer, and Queer people of color aiming to fight back against, and end Cis-White Heteronormative assimilation. Based in: Brooklyn, Manhattan https://m.facebook.com/queerbashback/ Contact: Connor Hicks bashtfback@gmail.com
BRIC
BRIC is the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, and one of the largest in New York City. We present and incubate work by artists and media-makers who reflect the diversity that surrounds us. BRIC programs reach hundreds of thousands of people each year. Based in: Brooklyn bricartsmedia.org Contact: Jessica Sucher jsucher@bricartsmedia.org
Bridging Kingsbridge
Bridging Kingsbridge - multidisciplinary project being carried-out in the Kingsbridge neighborhood of The Bronx. It consists of public actions and documentation of residents through interviews, photography and video. Its main goal is to use art as a tool of discussion and political subversion to fight impeding gentrification in the neighbors and to unify residents. Based in: Bronx www.francheskaalcantara.com Contact: Francheska Alcantara falcantaraart@gmail.com
Chinatown Art Brigade
The Chinatown Art Brigade is a cultural collective that recognizes the power of art to advance social justice. We are Asian American artists, media makers, organizers, activists, and tenants with roots in NYC Chinatown. Our work is driven by a deep love for our community and the fundamental belief that fighting against racial and economic inequity is central to our cultural and art making process. Our creative process is women-led and community driven, with self-determination as a leading principle in our work. In 2015, Chinatown Art Brigade began collaborating with the Chinatown Tenants Union of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (www.caaav.org), a grassroots community group that organizes low-income pan-Asian communities around tenant rights, fighting evictions and displacement. Chinatown Art Brigade has launched a series of public projections to highlight the impact of gentrification and displacement with tenants of the Chinatown Tenants Union, and with technical support from The Illuminator, a political art collective that stages public projection interventions throughout the U.S. Our next projection will take place in Spring 2017. Current Projects: Lights On, Speak Out Action! An evening of projections with the Chinatown Art Brigade -- May 12, 2017 from 7-9pm, Manhattan Chinatown, NYC Based in: Manhattan www.chinatownartbrigade.com Contact: ManSee chinatownartbrigade@gmail.com
The Creative Resistance
The Creative Resistance is a group of organizers, activists, media makers, and friends who share the following goals: ● Electing progressive candidates at the federal, state and municipal levels ● Resisting and counteracting the Trump administration’s most egregious policies and appointments ● Protecting communities most at risk in the current political climate. The Creative Resistance creates media and other content based on best practices to pursue its goals. It also shares useful information with its network of networks, and joins and augments campaigns and direct actions. The majority of the members of the group are based in New York City. Several have known one another for years through the film world and collaborated in support of GOTV efforts in prior election cycles, including, most recently, the 2016 election. Current Projects: Video projects: A series exposing the IDC (Independent Democratic Conference) Work with groups including Make The Road, Immigrant Defense Project, NY Health Act Organizing: Sending folks to help GOTV for Jon Ossoff Based in: Manhattan Contact: Eric Rockey info@thecreativeresistance.us
Diverse Filmmakers Alliance
DFA is a group of documentary, narrative, experimental, and transmedia filmmakers from diverse backgrounds who meet weekly to workshop our media projects. Our goal is to provide and receive feedback designed to make our media projects more fundable, more watchable, more entertaining, more educational, and ready to meet their audience. We meet once every two weeks at the Women Make Movies office in Chelsea. We are dedicated to making and collaborating on works that depict communities with an awareness and acknowledgment of the politics and power dynamics inherent in the relationship between a filmmaker and their subject(s). We strive to actively change the current climate in media production wherein creators outside and with no ties to our community get to make and are funded to make films about us. Current Projects: Yemeni Bodega Strike, Orchestrating the Resistance Based in: Manhattan https://www.diversefilmmakersalliance.com Contact: Carrie Hawks diversefilmmakers@gmail.com
For Freedoms
As the first artist-run super PAC, For Freedoms uses art to inspire deeper political engagement for citizens who want to have a greater impact on the American political landscape. Contact: Michelle Woo / michelle@forfreedoms.org
Get Organized Brooklyn
Based in: Brooklyn https://apmfilm.com/
Contact: Rachel Elizabeth Seed / racheleseed@gmail.com
The Illuminator
To Shine a Light on the Urgent Issues of Our Time Current Projects: Workshop with BUFU at New Museum (April 17), Collaboration with A/P/A (April 21) Based in: Brooklyn, Manhattan theilluminator.org Contact: Mark Read info@theilluminator.org
Hands Off Our Revolution
We are a global coalition affirming the radical nature of art. We believe that art can help counter the rising rhetoric of right-wing populism, fascism and the increasingly stark expressions of xenophobia, racism, sexism, homophobia and unapologetic intolerance. We know that freedom is never granted – it is won. Justice is never given – it is exacted. Both must be fought for and protected, yet their promise has seldom been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp, as at this moment. As artists, it is our job and our duty to reimagine and reinvent social relations threatened by right-wing populist rule. It is our responsibility to stand together in solidarity. We will not go quietly. It is our role and our opportunity, using our own particular forms, private and public spaces, to engage people in thinking together and debating ideas, with clarity, openness and resilience. Based in: Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Berlin London New York Chicago www.handsoffourrevolution.com Contact: Thomas Barry info@handsoffourrevolution.com
Love City Arts Collective
Love City Arts Collective (LCAC) is an Arts Service Organization of NYC-Based Artists from Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Queer, Gender Non-Conforming, People of Color (LGBTQIA QGNCPOC) communities and upstanding comrades. This rotation of Collaborative Artists gathers monthly to hold space and build community through music, art, and the spoken word. Our Mission: The mission of Love City Arts Collective is to create artistic, contemplative and healing community in digital and shared physical space. We believe in lifting up all marginalized communities and devoted allies through the musical/visual arts. This collective is being formed as a direct responsive action to the negative rhetoric and oppression so many face in our current times. We believe that when we gather, we allow community participants of all backgrounds to be present, replenish their heart energy, and re-emerge back into the greater parts of society fueled to uplift all of humanity. “We are the Ones We Have Been Looking For.” - June Jordan Current Projects: Our Healing Gathingings Introductory Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzcFjqvuOqw Based in: Manhattan http://www.lovecityarts.org Contact: Andre Stith info@lovecityarts.org
Resistance Media Collective
Resistance Media Collective brings together media professionals who want to use their expertise in video, photography, graphics, animation, music, social media and more, to amplify the efforts of resistance groups across the country. To date, RMC has created multiple projects for activist movements and our work has impacted millions of viewers from all over the world. Current Projects: Immigrants: Make A Family Plan! A Shareable comic in Spanish and English, Tax March Video and App, Immigrant Voices Video Series, May Day Action Creative Hackathon, Upcoming leaders summit for creative collectives Based in: Manhattan http://resistancemedia.net Contact: Kathryn Jones kathryn@resistancemedia.net
The Visual Resistance
The Visual Resistance is a superforce of creative activists united to resist oppression and imagine a liberated future. Current Projects: Community Action Forums, Core Collective, TVR-News, Imagine Liberation Based in: Brooklyn, Manhattan http://thevisualresistance.org/ Contact: Quito Ziegler, thevisualresistance@gmail.com
Wendy’s Subway
Wendy’s Subway is a non-profit library and writing space located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It provides an open, versatile space where cultural production flourishes through reading, research, and collaborative practice, and is manifested in performance, publication, and education. Wendy’s Subway hosts a range of public programs, including readings and screenings, interdisciplinary talks and lectures, discussion and reading groups, and writing workshops. The non-circulating library holds a collection of books and documents with a special focus on poetry, art, theory, and philosophy, as well as the Laurin Raiken Archive, an extensive resource for the study of art history and criticism. Wendy’s Subway is operated by its membership of poets, curators, novelists, artists, and critics with an interest in hybrid forms and cross-disciplinary discourse. Based in: Brooklyn wendyssubway.com Contact: Rachel Valinsky or Gabriel Kruis, info@wendyssubway.com
WRRQ
WRRQ is a community of artists and activists united in queerness who wrrq to transform our culture through community-building, creative media collaborations, frequent family dinners, intergenerational summer arts retreats, and leadership development workshops. Based in: ​Brooklyn wrrq.nyc Contact:​ Quito Ziegler, aqziegler@gmail.com
SAVE THE DATES! April 12 Imagine Liberation dinner at Open Society Foundations (The Visual Resistance) April 15 Creative Hackathon for May Day Actions (Resistance Media Collective) April 18 The Role of Art and Activism Today at ICP (Hands Off Our Revolution) April 20
Queer Resistance dinner at Iris House (WRRQ)
April 22
Earth Day Healing Gathering (Love City Arts Collective)
April 29
People's Climate March in Washington, DC
May 1
MayDay Queer Bloc! (BashBackNYC)
May 12 CAB projection evening (Chinatown Art Brigade with The Illuminator and the Chinatown Tenants Union of CAAAV) May 20
CAAAV Karaoke Battle (community fundraiser)
May 21
May Healing Gathering (Love City Arts Collective)
June 11
June Healing Gathering (Love City Arts Collective)
June 13
Visual Resistance Community Action Forum at BRIC