Join us for local screenings of the documentary TOGETHER, NOT ALONE, accompanied by Covid stories in the form of short films, oral history video projects, commissioned micro-docs and photo journalism from the front-lines of the five boroughs. With gratitude, we will serve food from local restaurants that fed the community during the worst of the Covid-19 lockdown. 

Details here.

Join us for local screenings of the documentary TOGETHER, NOT ALONE, accompanied by Covid stories in the form of short films, oral history video projects, commissioned micro-docs and photo journalism from the front-lines of the five boroughs. With gratitude, we will serve food from local restaurants that fed the community during the worst of the Covid-19 lockdown. 

Details here.

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.

This event is co-sponsored by the Society of Senior Scholars at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.

Details here.

This workshop explores Zip Code Memory Project’s current undertaking: creating an accessible, enduring website that collates, showcases, and sustains the highs and lows of the last three years.

More often than not, sharing public humanities projects with larger audiences depends on the distribution and preservation of information online. And yet, when looking to memorialize these projects for future cohorts and community members, how should publics imagine the design and role of the website itself? In the Zip Code Memory Project’s final active year, the objectives are not only to continue the larger, outstanding effort of remembering COVID-19, but to memorialize ZCMP itself.

Note: The event will be held over Zoom

Workshop Leader

Meg Jianing Zhang (PhD Student, Department of English and Comparative Literature)
Lex Taylor (Guest, ZCMP Web Design and Development)
Project: Zip Code Memory Project

The Zip Code Memory Project (ZCMP) seeks to find community-based ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upper New York City neighborhoods. Through a series of art-based workshops, public events, social media platforms, and a performance/exhibition at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, community members re-imagine zip codes not as zones of separation, but as interrelated spaces for connectivity and mutual care.

This workshop is presented as part of the Public Humanities Skills Workshops, a series of sessions that connect graduate fellows and the public with skills, methods, and strategies to engage in the interdisciplinary field of the Public Humanities. These workshops are hosted by the Public Humanities Initiative and open to all. Advanced registration is required.

Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.

Speakers: Judith Helfand, Marie Nazon, Sarah Senk
Moderated by Mikhal Dekel

The Covid pandemic is diminished, and we are back in classrooms, workplaces, restaurants and social places. But who is left behind? What is still owed to those who lost their lives?

Details here.

CHRONIC LIFE: CAN WE GO THE DISTANCE WITH  THE VIRUS?

A Roundtable Webinar with Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr, Lorie Novak, & Meghan O’Rourke
Moderated by Laura Wexler and Eilin Perez

Tuesday, September 27, 4:00 – 5:30 PM ET

The pandemic is far from over, vaccination is imperfect, long-covid is a significant threat, politics plays hardball with our lives, we are underprepared for the horizon of other viruses, consequences are vastly unequally distributed, and we are likely to be anxious, in denial, and puzzled about how best to respond. In this Roundtable, four prominent artists and scholars will present art and organizing strategies drawn from lived experience with chronic illness, community activism, and the personal and political demands long-hauling presents.

• Videomaker and scholar Alexandra Juhasz and writer Theodore Kerr, co-authors of a new book, We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production, will discuss the  necessarily multiple time frames of long-time HIV/AIDS activism.

• Artist Lorie Novak will share and discuss Migraine Register, her durational photographic commitment to making visible the significant impact of this chronic and pervasive but invisible condition.

• Writer Meghan O’Rourke, Editor of The Yale Review and author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness will consider the challenge of narrating auto-immune and other poorly understood illness when no coherent story readily appears.

Moderated by historian Laura Wexler, Charles H. Farnam Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Yale University and Co-chair of Yale Public Humanities, and Eilin Perez, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of History and Yale Public Humanities.

Sponsored by The Henry R. Luce Foundation, The ZipCode Memory Project , Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Society of Fellows/Heymann Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, and Yale Public Humanities.

Click here for the webinar recording.