SHELTER: Immigrants @ 315 Gallery

SHELTER: Immigrants

Come at 7pm,
talks begin at 7.30pm
::: THURSDAY 10/18 :::

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SHELTER is a speaker series,
bringing different ideas together under one roof.
At this SHELTER event, three speakers
will discuss how to support, ally with, and give shelter to immigrants.

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LAUREN MARKHAM
is a writer and educator based in Berkeley who writes fiction, essays, and literary journalism. Her book, The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, was published by Crown in 2017, and was the winner of the Ridenhour Prize, silver medal winner of the California Book Award, shortlisted for a Lukas Award and the LA Times Book Prize, and longlisted for a Pen America Award. Her essays and reportage have appeared in outlets such as Harper’s, Guernica, the New York Times, The Guardian, the New Republic, Orion, and Virginia Quarterly Review, where she is a contributing editor. In addition to writing, she works at a high school for immigrant youth in Oakland, California, and teaches at the MFA in Writing Programs at Ashland University and the University of San Francisco.

GENIA BLASER
is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Immigrant Defense Project, where she advises defense attorneys on the immigration consequences of criminal cases and provides trainings on the overlap of criminal-immigration systems as well as monitors ICE enforcement throughout New York. Genia came to IDP from the immigration practice at the Bronx Defenders, where she worked with attorneys on minimizing the immigration impact for non-citizens of contact with the criminal justice and child welfare systems and also represented non-citizens in affirmative and defensive proceedings. She received her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law (2011) and her undergraduate degree from Hampshire College (2005).

RAVI RAGBIR 
is a NYC immigrant rights activist who has helped thousands of people as an organizer and now as the Executive Director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York. He works directly with those facing deportation to empower them in their struggle to remain in the US. He has trained advocates from various immigrant and allied organizations and many faith-based organizations nationwide on the impact of our immigration policies, on creating sanctuary spaces, and on how to accompany immigrants through the challenging deportation process. Working with these groups Ravi has organized Beyond Your Rights and community forums to educate and train communities to advocate for the individual but more importantly to advocate for a fair and humane immigration policy. Ravi has first-hand knowledge of the deportation system because he is facing removal. He is fighting to remain here with his family, friends and supporters.

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Hosted at
315 GALLERY
312 Livingston Street / Nevins Street
between the stores TOP NAIL and PRETTY LADY.

(2)(3)(4)(5) Nevins
(B)(N)(Q)(R) DeKalb
(A)(C)(G) Hoyt-Schermerhorn

*PLEASE* note that this space is up one flight of stairs.

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Give Shelter

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SHELTER @ Unnameable Books

SHELTER
is a speaker series
bringing different ideas together under one roof.

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Hosted at
UNNAMEABLE BOOKS
600 Vanderbilt Avenue / St. Marks Avenue
(B)(Q) 7th Avenue Station
(C) Clinton-Washington

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Come at 7pm,
talks begin at 7.30pm
THURSDAY 6/1

ANNA DREZEN
is a comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live. She's the editor-at-large of Reductress and coauthor of the books How May We Hate You? and How To Win At Feminism. She performs regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, The PIT, and Union Hall. www.annadrezen.com

SALLY WEN MAO
is a poet and educator, the author of Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014) and the forthcoming Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019). Her poetry has appeared in The Pushcart Prize anthology, The Best American Poetry 2013, Poetry, Harvard Review Online, and A Public Space.  Currently she is a fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. 

NICOLE R. FLEETWOOD
is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.  She is the author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (University of Chicago Press 2011) and On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (Rutgers University Press, 2015).  Her research has been supported by  the Whiting Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Schomburg Center for Black Culture/ NYPL, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  She is the recipient of the 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association.  Currently, she is in residence at the NYPL Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, completing a book manuscript on art and visual culture in the era of mass incarceration.

The next SHELTER takes
place in the fall. Have a
grand summer!

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Give Shelter

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SHELTER @ Greenlight Books

SHELTER
is a speaker series
bringing different ideas together under one roof,
first Thursdays of every month.

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THURSDAY 3/2

Hosted at
the *new* location of
GREENLIGHT BOOKS
632 Flatbush Avenue / Fenimore Street
(B)(Q)(S) Prospect Park Station
(718) 246-0200

Come at 7pm,
talks begin *promptly* at 7.30pm.

 Followed by
>>>>> 9pm drinks at <<<<<
BLUEBIRD
504 Flatbush Avenue / Lefferts Avenue

SADY DOYLE
is a writer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She founded the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008, and her writing has been all over the Internet ever since. Her first book, Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock and Fear... and Why was published by Melville House in September. Her talk will focus on how the core meaning of Trainwreck has, necessarily, changed since the election.

PERRY BARON HUNTOON
is an online and IRL artist and activist. Her work addresses feminism, queerness, trauma, and body positivity through personal meditation and exploration.

PETER MOSKOWITZ
is the author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood. He is a freelance journalist who has written for the Guardian, New York Times, New Republic, Wired, Slate, Buzzfeed, and many others. A former staff writer at Al Jazeera America, he is a graduate of Hampshire College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.


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Give Shelter

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SHELTER in Bushwick @ Molasses Books

SHELTER
is a speaker series
bringing different ideas together under one roof,
first Thursdays of every month.

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Hosted at
MOLASSES BOOKS
770 Hart Street
(L) DeKalb
(M) Central

Doors open at 7pm,
talks begin at 7.30pm,
THURSDAY 2/2

NORA HIROZAWA
is a third-year student at CUNY School of Law. She has advocated for police accountability and/or alternatives to policing in as a civil legal advocate with The Bronx Defenders, as a volunteer with Queens Neighborhoods United, and as an intern with the DOJ Civil Rights Division and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem.

CLARE JOHNSON
has been working in early childhood special education in New York City for five years and is currently studying applied behavior analysis at Hunter College. She is a graduate of Bank Street College of Education.

LORELEI RAMIREZ
is an artist, comedian, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY and is part of the comedy collective DZComedy. She has appeared on IFC, Comedy Central, and has published her writing on Cracked.com. She is a writer for VICE's The Creators Project where she writes about art and comedy, and you can find her hosting various monthly show's throughout the city such as Not Dead Yet (A Variety Show), SLOOP JUMBLY (An Experimental Comedy Show), and This Comedy Show Has 10 Hosts.

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The next SHELTER takes
place on Thursday 3/2
at the new GREENLIGHT BOOKS
(in Prospect Lefferts Garden)
632 Flatbush Avenue
Prospect Park (B)(Q)(S).

Give Shelter

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New Year, New SHELTER @ Wendy's Subway

SHELTER
is a speaker series
bringing different ideas together under one roof,
first Thursdays of every month.

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Hosted at
WENDY'S SUBWAY
379 Bushwick Avenue
(L) Montrose
(J)(M) Flushing

Doors open at 7pm,
talks begin at 7.30pm,
THURSDAY 1/5/17

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MARIANA VALENCIA
makes dances art. Valencia has had residencies at New York Live Arts, Chez Bushwick, Pieter Pasd, Showbox LA, Issue Project room and BAX. Valencia has worked with Vanessa Anspaugh, Lauren Bakst, Kim Brandt, Kate Brandt, Elsa Brown, AK Burns, Tess Dworman, Daria Fain, Shoshana Funk, Jules Gimbrone, Juliana May, MPA, Lydia Okrent, Elizabeth Orr, Katy Pyle, Marya Wethers, No Total and Geo Wyeth. She holds a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. www.marianavalencia.work
 
JESSE MYERSON
is a writer and organizer from New York City. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, The Nation, and elsewhere.

PHILIP MARKLE
moved to NYC in 2013 to launch the theatre and training center of The Annoyance Theater NY, where he acted as its Executive Director until Fall 2016. Philip graduated Northwestern University and produced, performed and trained in Chicago at comedy theaters such as The Annoyance, iO, and Second City. He has taught and performed internationally, from Berlin to Bali, and currently teaches writing and improv classes at The Annoyance NY, as well as independent classes of his own. He regularly performs and writes comedy in NYC, primarily at The Annoyance and the PIT. Philip is a member of Baby Wants Candy and the creator of the musical improv show Happy Karaoke Fun Time, which ran for 6+ years in Chicago and Off-Broadway in NY. In Wilmette, IL, Philip launched and taught at The Actors Training Center, an acting studio where he also acted as Associate Director. He is a proud member of the children’s education theatre companies The Story Pirates and Barrel of Monkeys. He executive produced, wrote, and acted in the digital shorts series The Annoyance Presents on IFC's Comedy Crib. Philip has written two one-man shows - his first solo show, Sparkle Hour, was featured in the 2013 International NY Fringe Festival. He is represented commercially by Stewart Talent NY.

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Give Shelter

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Post-election SHELTER on Thursday 12/1 @ n+1

At the offices of
n+1
68 Jay Street
#405 (4th floor)
Brooklyn NY
11201
YORK STREET (F)

Doors open at 7pm,
talks begin at 7.30pm,
THURSDAY 12/1

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SHELTER
"how to pitch in"

This is no time for just talk.
Learn what concrete actions
you can take to protect
yourself and protect others.
With guests from:
 

Showing Up for Racial Justice
Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem
Make the Road New York
St. Lydia's Church
Drug Policy Alliance
The Doula Project
Immigrant Defense Project

Bring 3 friends. Come, listen,
and hear. Learn your role.
GIVE SHELTER.

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// SHELTER november //

Hosted at
WENDY'S SUBWAY
379 Bushwick Avenue
(L) Montrose
(J)(M) Flushing

Doors open at 7pm,
talks begin at 7.30pm,
THURSDAY 11/3

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JONAH ROSENBERG
is a pianist, composer, sound-designer, and video artist residing in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Jonah is striving to create intuitive music whether for chamber ensembles, dance, theater or noise deluge.  His hairdresser Lauren insists he visits far too infrequently. www.jonahrosenberg.com

EILEEN MARKEY
is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, National Catholic Reporter, America, Commonweal, and Killing the Buddha. She has worked as a producer for WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show and is a contributing editor for Housing and Homelessness at City Limits. Markey is a graduate of Fordham University’s urban studies program and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her book, A Radical Faith, is coming out later this month from Nation Books.
 
JOSIE DUFFY RICE
is a staff writer at Daily Kos, where she covers prosecutorial misconduct and other criminal justice reform issues. She's also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Seven Scribes. Her writing on race, gender, culture, and politics has been featured in Gawker, Ebony, Rewire, Interactive One, and Spook Mag, among others. She has also been featured in The Nation, New York Magazine, and Scalawag. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Josie previously worked as a voting rights and criminal justice attorney.

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Mark your calendars for next month's SHELTER
on Thursday 12/1
also at Wendy's Subway.

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Take Shelter

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// SHELTER October //

SHELTER returns on Thursday 10/6

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Hosted in a private home
in SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN
558 44th Street #1
(GROUND FLOOR)
btw Sixth and Fifth Avenues
45TH STREET (R)
36TH STREET (D)(N)(R)

Doors open at 7pm,
talks begin at 7.30pm,
THURSDAY 10/6

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GREER DWORMAN
is a Chicago-born now Brooklyn-based performer and maker. Her work has been presented in venues across Chicago and now emerging within the New York performance community. She has had the pleasure of working with artists such as Taisha Paggett, Kim Brandt, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, Joshua Kent, Erica Ricketts, Isabelle Collazo, and Tess Dworman among others. Dworman presently and passionately investigates comedy and pop culture in her work, grappling with larger ideas in the world located in personal narrative, concerning herself with the Right Now. She received her BFA in Dance Making from the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and is currently on staff at Movement Research. @_gweew
 
JAMES FOLTA
is a writer, comedian, and recent graduate of Columbia's GSAPP. Read his writing online at www.JamesFolta.com and his shortest writing at @JamesFolta.
 
SADY DOYLE
is a writer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She founded the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008, and her writing has been all over the Internet ever since. Her first book, Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock and Fear... and Why was published by Melville House in September. 

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// SHELTER September //

September 1st @ unnameable books

Doors open at 7pm,
talks begin at 7.30pm,
THURSDAY 9/1
UNNAMEABLE BOOKS

(backyard of store)
600 Vanderbilt Avenue
corner of St. Mark’s Avenue
CLINTON-WASHINGTON (C)
7TH AVENUE (B)(Q)

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AYA SATO
Aya Sato is a performer/dancer, restaurant worker and clinical volunteer living in Brooklyn. She has been working with the Doula Project (an organization that provides free emotional, physical, and informational support to people across the spectrum of pregnancy) since January 2015.
 
NICOLETTE LEUNG
is a civil engineer with Hazen and Sawyer. She helps to ensure that creatures like falcons and sturgeon and endangered sunflowers and people like you are not adversely impacted by the construction and long-term operation of large-scale infrastructure projects. Current projects include making sure that New York City has enough clean drinking water in 2022 and implementing coastal flood protection in lower Manhattan. 
 
INGRID BURRINGTON
writes, makes maps, and tells jokes about places, politics, and the weird feelings people have about both. Also, sometimes, magic. She's currently an artist in residence at the Data and Society Research Institute in New York. A revised edition of Networks of New York, her field guide to urban internet infrastructure, was released by Melville House this summer.

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Mark your calendars for next month's SHELTER
on Thursday 10/6.

// SHELTER returns this August //

august 4th @ unnameable books

Doors open at 7pm,
talks begin at 7.30pm,
THURSDAY 8/4

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THERESA BUCHHEISTER
is from KS.  She has worked graveyard shifts at gas stations on the highway, cleaned military and blind jazz musician homes, painted dorms and roofs, repaired furniture, made sandwiches at Subway, designed decor for weddings, and has worked at 4 bookstores in NY. She moved here in 2004 to work for Richard Foreman and currently is in her 10th year as Artistic Director of the theater company Title:Point.  Her money money job is directing and voicing cartoons and narrating audiobooks.
 
LEAH CAMPBELL
is the HR and Communications Director for Andrew Tarlow's restaurant group in Brooklyn. She, with chef Nick Perkins, is opening a restaurant on Franklin Avenue this fall.
 
KYLI KLEVEN
is an experimental dance artist and video maker based in Brooklyn.  She owes much of her point-of-view to her participation in the art-making practices of Kim Brandt, Ryan McNamara, Jillian Peña, Milka Djordjevich, Stephen West, Jen Monson, Jen Rosenblit, Jen Allen, Tere O’Connor, Kirstie Simson, and many others. "Triangle Study" is a dance-based study of the meaning of shape-making, specifically of what is made while making meaning with triangles in the 21st century -- the legacy and nature of shape-based dance. It is an excerpt of an hour-long Triangle Theory that will premier this fall at Roulette Intermedium November 28-30.

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UNNAMEABLE BOOKS
(backyard of store)
600 Vanderbilt Avenue
corner of St. Mark’s Avenue
CLINTON-WASHINGTON (C)
7TH AVENUE (B)(Q)

Mark your calendars for next month's SHELTER
on Thursday 9/1, also at UNNAMEABLE BOOKS.

june 2 @ wendy's subway

ANGELA SERRATORE
is the Web Editor at Lapham's Quarterly. Her writing on cities and spaces has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, and on the Awl, which will soon be home to her monthly column exploring New York's potential landmarks.

LINA KHAN
researches and writes about concentrated economic power. She is especially interested in the connection between market structures and democracy and the evolution of antirust law. Her writing has appeared in the American Prospect, New Republic, Quartz, Washington Monthly, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She is a fellow with the Open Markets Program at New America and a student at Yale Law School. She previously served as policy director for Zephyr Teachout's 2014 gubernatorial campaign in New York and as a policy analyst at New America.

ELIJAH HUTCHINSON
currently serves as the Assistant Vice President for Resiliency within the Development department at the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). He facilitates for NYCEDC the study and implementation of large-scale coastal infrastructure, planning and development projects. Current key projects include testing the feasibility of tidal barriers and wetlands to mitigate flooding from Coney Island Creek into southern Brooklyn, and also programming coastal flood mitigation interventions for Lower Manhattan. Hutchinson is a native of Brooklyn, New York.

WENDY'S SUBWAY
379 Bushwick Avenue
corner of Moore Street
MONTROSE (L)

 

may 5 @ unnameable books

LAUREL ATWELL
is a performance artist, a qi gong teacher, an agent at the Domestic Performance Agency, an interviewer at Mother Tongue, a beginner bassist, a sometimes dance dramaturg, and has a lot of day jobs. 
www.cargocollective.com/laurelatwell

LEO GOLDSMITH
is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. He is the co-editor of the Film section of the Brooklyn Rail, and his writing appears in Artforum, art-agenda, Cinema Scope, and Reverse Shot. He is also a Phd Candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, and the co-author (with Robert Stam and Richard Porton) of Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics (published by Wiley, 2015). With Rachael Rakes, he is working on a forthcoming book about the British filmmaker Peter Watkins.

LIZZY CRAWFORD
is from New York City. Her work has appeared on Bomb magazine’s website,Stonecutter Journal, Entropy Mag, Bearings Journal: Volume 1, and Big Big Wednesday. She is currently working towards an MFA at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.

UNNAMEABLE BOOKS
(in the backyard!)
600 Vanderbilt Avenue,
corner of St. Mark's Avenue
Clinton-Washington (C) // Seventh Avenue (B)(Q) // Grand Army (2)(3)