For the last two years the Zip Code Memory Project found ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upper New York City neighborhoods. Please join us as we wrap up and reflect on our project and meet related New York City Pandemic Initiatives.
Program
4:30 – 5:45: RECEPTION
Enter our time capsule and Talk to the Future with Maria José Contreras
5:45 – 7:30: The launch of our new ZCMP website.
A showing of our short film Together, Not Alone directed by Gabriella Canal and Judith Helfand
Short presentations of related Pandemic initiatives A/P/A Voices – A COVID-19 Public Memory Project, Black America and Covid, NYC Pandemic Response Institute and more.
7:30 – 8: A closing performance by Sing Harlem Choir.
Thanks to the Henry Luce Foundation for its sustained support of the Zip Code Memory Project. Thanks to the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University for offering us our initial grant and to the The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University for their support and funding.
Additional funding from Columbia School of the Arts; Institute for Religion and Public Life; Yale University Public Humanities; City College of New York Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts; Public Humanities Initiative of GSAS, NYU; Institute of Performing Arts, and Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
This event is co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Society of Senior Scholars, The Forum, Columbia Global, Center for the Study of Social Difference and University Seminar on Cultural Memory.