Special Event Series
Shaping the Past: Memory Month
Innovative Forms of Memory Culture
We are proud to present Shaping the Past: Memory Month - a month-long virtual and in-person program series highlighting and discussing ongoing critical memory interventions in sites and spaces, and in particular, monuments, in North America and Germany. The program features Monument Lab transnational Fellows, as well as prominent international voices in the field.
Shaping the Past is a partnership between Monument Lab, the Goethe-Institut, and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung / bpb (German Federal Agency for Civic Education). The project connects to the activist and artistic work of local, national, and transnational movements as a reflection of memory culture, and discusses new perspectives on forms of memory.
Virtual Events
October 8-9 | Shaping the Past Town Hall (with Spanish and German interpretation)October 13 | Instagram Live with Thalia Fernández Bustamante (Spanish)
October 14 | Unmonumenting, Science and Strategy
October 19-20 | Marking Absences - Shifting Narratives
October 20 | Discussion: Commemoration of public conflict in public space (Spanish)
October 24 | Digital Conference: Commemoration of public conflict in public space (Spanish)
October 27 | Instagram Live with Sergio Beltrán-García (Spanish)
October 28 | Film: What Remains / Re-Visited
October 29 | Future Memory
October 31 | Reflections on Dreaming and Black Indigenous Futures
November 25 | Film: Becoming Black
Local EvenTs
September 5 - December 12 | Kansas CityThere are Black People in the Future
October 12 | Los Angeles
Future Ancestral Monuments
October 13 | Los Angeles
Civic Displace
October 17 | Montréal
Missing Black Technofossil Here
October 17 | Washington, DC
Empty Pedestals
October 23 | Toronto
Black Digital Futures
October 31 - December 31 | Seattle
Exhibition: Story Porch
December 3 - May 1 | Chicago
Exhibition: There is Black Housing in the Future,
Equitable Public Housing as Memorial
Details
Online
USA
Language: English (some events in Spanish or with simultaneous interpretation)
Price: free