Name: Labor is a Moving Image: Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Start: 2025-03-29T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-29T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Recess

Labor is a Moving Image: Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Recess partners with artists, youth, writers, and their chosen publics to create transformative cultural experiences.Recess isfree and open to the publicto serve as a meeting place to generate art, ideas and actions.

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films centered around workers’ unions and anti-capitalist movements throughout history

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In partnership with the New York chapter of <a href="https://againstapartheid.art/" title="https://againstapartheid.art/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Artists Against Apartheid </a>we will be screening Madeline Anderson’s documentary I AM SOMEBODY (1970). In 1969, black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina went on strike for union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves in a confrontation with the state government and the National Guard. Featuring Andrew Young, Charles Abernathy, and Coretta Scott King and produced by Local 1199, New York’s Drug and Hospital Union, I AM SOMEBODY is a crucial document in the struggle for labor rights.Schedule12 - 3PM: Open Gallery Hours3 - 3:30PM: I Am Somebody Screening3:30 - 4:30PM: Panel discussion with: Session artist<a href="https://cleoforshort.cargo.site/" title="https://cleoforshort.cargo.site/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Cleo Reed</a>; trans: Atlantic poet of the people <a href="https://www.reidjasmine.com/" title="https://www.reidjasmine.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jasmine Reid</a>; <a href="https://jaylentstrong" title="https://jaylentstrong" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jaylen Strong</a> from Artists Against Apartheid, and filmmaker and organizer <a href="https://studiomurdock.com/" title="https://studiomurdock.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Chad Murdock</a>.4:30 - 5:00PM: Performance by <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5QLSdUZ5GCO1v6HUTlKk0O?autoplay=true" title="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5QLSdUZ5GCO1v6HUTlKk0O?autoplay=true" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Yva Las Vegass</a> @yva_las_vegass5 - 6PM: Open Gallery______________________________________________________________________________________This program is a part of the current Recess Session project <a href="https://recessart.org/projects/290-cuntry-always-the-horse-never-the-jockey" title="https://recessart.org/projects/290-cuntry-always-the-horse-never-the-jockey" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CUNTRY: Always the Horse, Never the Jockey</a>—a set of musical works, sculptures, and performances presented by Cleo Reed and <a href="https://www.recessart.org/programs/3-assembly" title="https://www.recessart.org/programs/3-assembly" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Assembly</a>, working to protest against the demand of labor and productivity in the US. The never-before released studio album, performance piece, and installation synthesizes field songs, traditional American music genres such as blues, folk, and country, and the Black cultural canon of literature, film, music, and more in order to provoke conversations and create distinct changes in the way these canons are embraced. Exploring systems, labor and the body, we work with musical compositions, wooden sculpture, and fabric arts to deepen the context we hold as inhabitants of cities but descendants of country living.Check out the <a href="https://www.recessart.org/" title="https://www.recessart.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Recess website</a><a href="https://deliradio.nyc/" title="https://deliradio.nyc/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> </a>for updated programming!

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