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DISCUSSION ONE: SPEAKING TRUTH | MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY

 
Monday, May 20, 2019 at 7PM hosted by New Lab
Tega Brain & Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Amy Goodman

Gathered to discuss the current practices and concerns with regards to the manipulation and dissemination of public information, and increasing attacks on freedom of expression, speakers addressed the impetus to forge connections and solidarity structures using new media technologies and conceive challenges to conventional wisdom.
 
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DISCUSSION TWO: SPEAKING TRUTH | ECONOMICS & SOVEREIGNTY

 
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 7pm hosted by Abrons Arts Center
Andrea Carlson & Zina Saro-Wiwa moderated by Gregory Sholette
 
Gathered to discuss how their practices address daily and ongoing struggles against lasting colonial systems of power, speakers explored ways to re-imagine and claim a future based on principles of emancipatory politics, and critical reflections transcending dominant constructs of production, value, and knowledge exchange.
 

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DISCUSSION THREE: SPEAKING TRUTH | HEALTH & GENDER

 
Theodore (ted) Kerr, Malaya Mañacop and Dr. John Steever
Moderated by Tai Jacob

7PM on Monday, September 23 at the Center
 
Hosted by The Center and moderated by Tai Jacob, host of the podcast Gender Blender, the event features Theodore (ted) Kerr, writer and founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do? and Malaya Mañacop, social worker and community organizer currently working for Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, in conversation with Dr. John Steever, Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center.
 
They will explore how their work amplifies the daily realities and legacies of resistance and solidarity by those who exist outside the gender binary. The program will consider practical and theoretical strategies for survival, care that goes beyond the embodied self, and prosperity, as making strides towards queer and trans liberation.   
 
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Lead support for the 2019 Creative Time Summit has been generously provided by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, and the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.
 
Venue support for Speaking Truth | Summit X is provided by The Cooper Union.
 
In kind support generously provided by The Center, Abrons Arts Center and New Lab.
 
Major Creative Time programming support for 2019 has been provided by The Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Athena Art Finance Corp., the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and the Charina Endowment Fund.
 
The official hotel partner for the 2019 Creative Time Summit is Sister City, a new hotel in the Bowery for travelers in New York.