Please join the ZCMP to mark the third anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic at a special event at the Museum of the City of New York, featuring a screening, roundtable, and day-long performance centered around the uptown New York City premiere of the Zip Code Memory Project film, Together, Not Alone.
Register Here to reserve a spot. Please use the main Fifth Avenue entrance for "Talk to the Future," followed by the film. If you are only attending the film and discussion, use the 104th St entrance between Fifth and Madison. You can enter for free with our pre-registration.
3:00 PM — 4:30 PM
Uptown New York City premiere of Together, Not Alone, panel discussion and refreshments
Together, Not Alone, 2022, a short film directed by Gabriella Canal and Judith Helfand, shows how a group of strangers from across three New York City neighborhoods—different ages, races, socio-economic backgrounds, work, and life experiences – come together after months of Covid-19 isolation to explore, map, paint, shape, recall and bear witness to each other’s zip code-determined struggles and imagine justice and repair.
Panel discussion What Have We Learned and Can We Do Better? with Judith Helfand and Gabriela Canal, filmmakers; Nancy Ko, Columbia student; Marie Nazon, social worker, CCNY; and Marianne Hirsch, Project Co-Director.
11:30 AM — 3:00 PM
Talk to the future – A durational participatory performance with Maria José Contreras
The artist invites visitors to step into an imagined time capsule and respond to the question: “What should future generations know about Covid?” Contreras listens carefully to participants and then inscribes their words verbatim on the time capsule.
Talk to the Future, photo by Diana Taylor
This event is co-sponsored by the Society of Senior Scholars at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.