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Preservation Conversations: Breathing Lights

Announcement 1:00 PM
Breathing Lights is an art instillation that will illuminate the windows of hundreds of vacant buildings in  Albany, Schenectady, and Troy. Come Join in a conversation about the instillation! This event will take place on  Monday, April 3, from 11:00am to 1:00pm At the Alumni Reading Room, Pratt Library, Brooklyn Campus Read more about the instillation here.  Critical & Visual Studies .All Events...
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The Trump Agenda vs. Pluralism: Analysis and Resistance

Action 3:00 PM
This is a series taking place at Pratt's Manhattan campus. It will address the anxiety associated with the new administration, as well as analyze the first 100 days of its implementation.  Come join to further your personal understanding of the cards at hand, and what we can assume is the future of our country.  Mar 31 / Apr 07 Room 213, Pratt Manhattan Campus 144 West...
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Sam Feder: A Face For Queer and Trans Media

Action 12:13 PM
Image from DCTV Language and Film: Currents in Queer and Trans Media presents Sam Feder. Sam is the director of Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger, 2014. A talk will take place and we will be able to see the research for Feder's upcoming feature Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen.  Come join, refreshments will be provided!  Current in Queer & Trans...
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Unbanned: A day of Philosophy, Poetry, Politics & the Arts

Action 12:02 PM
New York based artists, philosophers, and writers from Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Syria are being invited to give presentations to showcase their stance and what occupies their minds. Monday, March 27 from 10:00am to 9:00pm The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 365 5th Ave, NY This event will be live streamed at www.thesegalcenter.org  click here for more information. Critical & Visual Studies All Events...
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Wallabout Film Festival: Support Student Work!

Critical & Visual Studies 11:53 AM
The 9th Annual Wallabout Film Festival: For Students, By Students Save the Date: Thursday, April 20 Kickstarter Campaign Deadline: Friday, March 31 Since 2009, students from Brooklyn, NY’s Pratt Institute have organized the annual Wallabout Film Festival, an event that showcases student short films from the Pratt community, other New York City area schools, and institutions from around the world. This year’s event, the 9th Annual...
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Higher Education Panel at Pratt

Action 12:49 AM
This Thursday, NYPIRG at Pratt Institute will be hosting a Higher Education Accessibility Panel.  Come join in to form and understanding of why affordable and accessible higher education is the base of social justice issues, whether it be from a racial, economic, gender, LGBTQ+ or any other perspective that should matter to any person.   The event starts at 7 PM and is taking place...
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Film Series at Pratt: Come Join!

Announcement 12:42 AM
Ann Holder will screen Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings. There will be refreshments and a discussion of the film to follow. The screening is at 5 pm in the Alumni Reading Room at Pratt Institute.  Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings Synopsis:       Between the 1870s and 1920s a number of U.S. towns purged a portion of their residents and seized their lands. Those driven out were African-Americans, and...
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Pratt Presents: Women of Influence in the Business of Film

Activism 2:00 PM
Join us on March 28 in Higgins Hall at Pratt Institute  at 7 Pmfor a discussion about the under representation of women in the film industry. We will come together in order to celebrate the achievements of those who are pushing the envelope of the industry. Speakers Will Include: Eliza Hittman: Pratt Film/Video faculty member and screenwriter, producer, and director of the Sundance award-winning film...
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Challening Perceptions: The Future Is Trans

Alumni/ae 11:00 AM
Graduate student Mx. JP Anne Giera (M.F.A. Performance and Performance Studies ’18) challenges perceptions in this short, powerful video performance about the trans body and identity.  "An emerging trans-femme, non-binary performance practitioner and academic, Giera seeks to use performance as a tool to dismantle the hegemonic powers that hold us to certain standards of belief regarding self, gender, and sexuality." Check it out...
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Another March For Women: Washington Square Park

Activism 4:49 PM
There will also be a Women's March at Washington Square Park: March 8 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Washington Square Park, Washington Square ParkNew York City, 10012 United States On March 8th, the International Women's Strike NYC - a coalition representing dozens of grassroots groups and labor organizations - is organizing a number of actions in support of labor campaigns, migrants' rights, Sanctuary Campus campaigns, and others. At 4 PM there will be a rally...
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International Women's Day of Action Event at Pratt

Activism 4:25 PM
Women's rights are labor rights, and they both have a long history. As with with any strikes these days, we know that not all are able to afford to refuse work or walk off their jobs, and yet we are aware of all of the ways in which women's wage labor of all kinds are undervalued, exploited, under paid or unpaid.   Please wear red and join us on March 8th outside...
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