Art to Think With

Free University NYC hosted over 25 radical, horizontal, public education pop-ups centered on the socio-political challenges of our time. Events were designed to promote accessibility, intersectionality, movement building, and cross fertilization. The inaugural May Day Free U in 2012, which was organized by the Education Working Group of Occupy Wall Street, included 142 classes. Subsequent themes included Decolonize Climate Justice (in the run up to the Climate March), Care Down the Walls, Cultures of Accountability, Building Power/Housing Justice.

Songlines was a project co-organized by the Orfeo Duo, that mapped a neighborhood in song through public song writing workshops and singing parades. Participants were invited to compose a song about their favorite block, whether in the past, present, or a desired future. Organizers helped participants notate these songs on index cards, and convened singing walking tours of the neighborhood, as seen and sung by its inhabitants. Over 75 blocks around Morningside Heights were been mapped this way. Songlines aimed to render the neighborhood more beloved, by eliciting and amplifying the perspectives and creativity of its inhabitants.

The Crown Heights Tenant Union is an autonomous, democratic union of tenants who live in Crown Heights and the surrounding neighborhoods. Founded in 2013 by a multiracial, multi-generational group of tenants who believed that long term and new tenants needed to come together to collectively fight gentrification, harassment, displacement, disrepair, and illegal rent overcharges. Membership is made up of individual tenants and building-wide tenant associations – no landlords or agents of landlords allowed. Member funded and member-run, we maintain financial and political independence from government officials, developers, and nonprofits. This enables us to remain accountable, first and foremost, to each other and fellow tenants in the neighborhood. Non-hierarchical, we make decisions democratically at our general membership meetings, in our committees, and in our buildings.

EVENTS ARCHIVE 2019

Sunday September 8th 7pm Spectrum Piano+ #16 featuring Teodora Stepančić, piano performing daylight, housing crisis, touch June 7th - 27th Gesundheit Institute, Hillsboro WV Desire & Design: Construct Your Humanism The School for Designing a Society Summer School Wednesday July 3rd 6-9 pm Unnameable Books OPERA Ensemble presents Th e- en.s em b le -of- - con.d uc t or s . Tuesday June 18th 6-8pm The People's Forum Democratize This! How We Make the World We Want Saturday June 15th 8 pm New York Professional Outreach Program Ghost Ensemble: Appophenia/Wolf performs let haze help you hear you hear us Saturday April 13th 12:30 pm Areté Venue & Gallery OPERA Ensemble On Climate Change Saturday April 6th 7:30 pm Tenri Cultural Institute Julie & Elizabeth's Anti-Capitalist Concert #7: Housing Is A Human Right! featuring Joseph Peterson, viola, Teodora Stepancek, piano, Lucie Vitkova, accordion, voice, & movement performing works by Julie Harting and Elizabeth Adams interspersed with perspectives and discussion on the fight for housing justice with special guest, Andrew Stark, from Met Council on Housing Sunday March 24th 7pm An Accordion Unfolding featuring Lucie Vítková, accordion, voice, movement performing In the market’s underbelly: we, the microbiome What A Neighborhood! Sunday March 10th 10:30-4:30 at University Settlement Building Power: A Housing Justice Free School Free University NYC

2018

Saturday October 27th 11:00-4:00 at University Settlement Cultures of Accountability/Culturas de Responsabilidad Free University NYC / Decolonize This Place June 3rd - 23rd The School for Designing a Society Summer Session II Gesundheit Institute, Hillsboro, WV Saturday April 28th at 7pm Erdman Common Room, Bryn Mawr College Julie & Elizabeth's Anti-Capitalist Concert #5: EcoSocialism Co-Sponsored by Bi-Co Anti-Capitalists and the Doolittle Fund Martha Cargo, flutes / Vita Wallace, violin / Rick Quanz, viola / Talia Dicker, cello Rafter Sass Ferguson on Liberation Ecology Saturday March 17th at 7pm at Opera America Julie & Elizabeth's Anti-Capitalist Concert #6: Wage Labor combines new music, political economy, & discussion Oran Fader, guitar / Christa Van Alstine, clarinets / Andy Kozar, trumpet / Jen Baker, trombone Friday January 19th at Spectrum Teodora Stepančić and Lucie Vítková premiered False Equivalence for piano & accordion on Teodora's series, Piano+ Saturday January 13th at Mayday Space, Free University hosts Radical Futures Free School

2017

Friday May 19th at The DiMenna Center Collide-O-Scope Music Music presents Fireflies, an evening-length mixed media collaboration between Chris Bailey, Chris Burns, Lou Bunk, Elizabeth Hoffman & Elizabeth Adams responding to readings by Dorota Czerner Richardson with video by Russell Craig Richardon Sunday April 16th at The DiMenna Center Collide-O-Scope Music performs Three Wealth Distributions, for flute, violin, cello, piano on a program with Roberto Sierra and Lou Bunk Thursday February 16th at Willow Place Auditorium S.E.M reads my quartet Three Wealth Distributions for flute, violin, cello, percussion Sunday February 5th at Spectrum Jen Baker and Will Lang, trombones, play my duo Alter Filter at the release party for Jen's fantastic book Hooked On Multiphonics

2016

December 15 Indexical and Ghost Ensemble Let haze help you hear you hear us for flute, oboe, viola, cello, bass, harp, accordion, and percussion The Invisible Dog 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 October 29 Julie and Elizabeth's Anti-Capitalist Concert #5: Ecology and Socialism Performances of Rasp Scours Gleam and Flute Song Tenri Cultural Institute 43a West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011