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Emergent Storytelling | 2023-2024 Theme
We are excited for the students in CEE Fellow Ernesto Pujols’ course “Crafting an Ethnography of Vulnerability”. The class will be taking a trip to Puerto Rico on March 3rd and staying at an eco-lodge perched on the Caguas Mountains outside the capital city of San Juan. They will visit the Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico, a queer farm community, and participate in discussions, workshops and lectures at the University of Puerto Rico. Upon their return, they will present and create an ephemeral listening station in Philadelphia. Stay tuned to this spring to learn about their immersive experience and for information about how to visit the listening station....
Dr. Kristina Lyons |
UPCOMING EVENTS
El Comité and
Ecuador’s prison crisis
A film-screening and conversation about a prison revolt against corruption and the institutional abuses experienced by people living behind bars...
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DISILLUSIONED // THIRD THURSDAY"The suburban lifestyle dream is a Ponzi scheme whose unraveling threatens us all. How do we come to terms with this troubled history? How do we build a future in which all children can thrive?"
Brooke O'Harra moderates an event with Benjamin Herold who is the author of Disillusioned, a book that explores the U.S.’s beautiful and busted public education system. Benjamin will be joined by mother and education organizer Bethany Smith, whose experience in the Penn Hills suburbs is one of the case studies he follows. The noon conversation will focus on collaboration and the relationship between journalism and ethnography.
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The Black Reproductive Working Group March Meeting
SHIPS : SPIRITING OUR SURVIVALA film project in progress that explores the conceptual parallels between ships and birth, specifically for Black birth givers, as both vessels of captivity and freedom.
On March 21 at the Public Trust building, the Black Reproductive Working Group of Philly will screen a short film in-progress, “Ships: Spiriting Our Survival” by Azsaneé Truss and Cienna Davis. The film explores the conceptual parallels between ships and birth, specifically for Black birth givers, as both vessels of captivity and freedom. It combines historical research in Philadelphia, interviews with doulas and professors, and footage from a ship-building class led by Dr. Grace Sanders Johnson. Conversation with filmmakers will follow, and lunch will be served.
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CREATOR:
Azsaneé Truss and Cienna Davis SITE 4017 Walnut St (The Public Trust) March 21 |
WATCH & LISTEN
BE HOLDING |
MEET THE FALL FELLOWS
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We are excited to share "Be Holding," the Philadelphia-based collaboration between Brooke O'Harra (CEE Affiliated Faculty), Ross Gay, Tyshawn Sorey, Yarn/Wire, and the students of Girard College. This original performance transforms Ross Gay's award-winning poem of the same name into a multidisciplinary, site-specific experience that combines poetry, music, choreography, and video.
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At the first virtual Third Thursday of the academic year, Dr. Jasmine Johnson conversed with incoming CEE Fellows Jennifer Harge and Sosena Solomon, who are teaching interdisciplinary master classes with students from across the schools.
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