Monthly improvised music series

Opening party for the exhibit by Jim Costanzo, the founding director of the Aaron Burr Society, featuring music by James Ilgenfritz. More info TBA.

the free jazz/improv wing of ABC NO RIO — Experimental and improvisational music. Electric Acoustic Free Jazz and Free Form.

A gathering of support for incarcerated comrade Alex Stokes through poetry, music and letter-writing.

Solidarity Forever!!

Also: visual art, clothing and skincare products for sale; produced in collaboration with TitusOneofOne

On Friendship and Fighting with George Orwell and Ourselves

Benjamin Heim Shepard and Eric Laursen talk about Orwell and his friends, the fights he had, the fights we have and the ways to learn from them. 

Eric Laursen is the author of The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort and 

Benjamin Shepard is author of  On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting: Oral Histories, Strategies, and Conflicts

Benefit Show to raise post-detention support funds for ICE victims

Rescheduled from Wed 10/29

The P.I.T. Care Collective will be presenting - Building Autonomous Trans Healthcare Systems: Beyond the Medical Industrial Complex.

In this interactive workshop we will learn about setting up community infrastructures of trans medical mutual aid.

Please bring food to share if able. Masks provided. For security purposes, we will not be providing streaming/ digital access.

PIT Care Collective are health workers building a vision toward a Healing Commons beyond institutional logic and boundaries

On tour from Philadelphia, folk musician Elizabeth LaPrelle (Doran, Anna & Elizabeth) and visual artist Erik Ruin (Justseeds) combine forces for an evening of ballads and crankies. From the mountains of Appalachia to the isolation wing of a German prison, the duo will explore haunting songs of love and loss, playful lullabies, passionate protests of the world as it is- and dreams of how it could be. 

Join the Woodbine Research Group on Sunday the 16th at PIT for a conversation with Susan Buck-Morss on the vanguard and the avant-garde, commonist practice and ethics, and the role of visual studies in the global imagination. This is part of Woodbine's roving fall events series in partnership with different venues around the city. 2pm at 411 South 5th Street. 

Our discussion will focus on some key questions from a survey of Buck-Morss’ work: How are we to conceive of a commonist ethics? To what degree is intellectual, avant-garde, and vanguard production affecting the outside world and working against class and other forms of exploitation? What kind of community can we hope for from a global dissemination of images, and how can we create it? 

Susan Buck-Morss is a multi-disciplinary scholar whose political theory emerges out of a constellation of historical material, visual images, and contemporary events. She is a core faculty member of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Committee on Globalization and Social Change. Her focus on sensory experience as the source of philosophical revelation is the topic of her most recent experimental book, Seeing/Making Room for Thought (2023), co-authored with Kevin McCaughey (designer of Woodbine’s journal The Reservoir), and Inventory Press' Adam Michaels. Her early studies on the Frankfurt School are Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1989) and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School (Free Press, 1979).

READINGS: https://tinyurl.com/4t9mec9w
"Revolutionary Time: The Vanguard and the Avant-Garde" (2002)
"A Commonist Ethics" (2011): https://field-journal.com/issue-5/a-commonist-ethics/
"Visual Studies and Global Imagination" (2004)

William Parker’s First Show at PIT!

Dig Up The Sun- Congolese Uranium and the Manhattan Project

The first atomic bombs were made with uranium from a single Congolese mine called Shinkolobwe, and the workers that made those weapons possible have been removed from history. Join artist and printmaker Roger Peet for a presentation on the legacy of that labor in the USA and beyond, through a linoleum blockprint map which traces the usage of Shinkolobwe ore through the Cold War into the present day.

celebrating A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF ANTI-FASCIST RESISTANCE edited by Raymond Tyler and Paul Bugle

Rad Halloween Show!

Benefit show for Tom’s film!