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 12 | Social Media Takeover: Joel Garcia
October 12 | Counter Memories: Joel Garcia
October 13 | Mexico City: Instagram Live with Thalia Fernández Bustamante (Spanish)
October 14 | Los Angeles: Unmonumenting, Science and Strategy
October 17 | Montreal: Missing Black Technofossil Here: Virtual Walking Tour & Website Launch
October 18 | Kansas City: Artist Talk with Alisha Wormsley "There are Black People in the Future"
October 19-20 | New York: Marking Absences - Shifting Narratives
October 20 | Mexico City: Discussion on Commemoration of public conflict in public space (Spanish)
October 22 | Boston: Listening to History: Sound, Space, and Remembrance
October 23 | Toronto: Black Digital Futures - Virtual Walking Tour and AR Launch
October 24 | Mexico City: Digital Conference on Commemoration of public conflict in public space (Spanish)
October 26 - December 31 | Counter Memories: Ada Pinkston
October 27 | Mexico City: Instagram Live with Sergio Beltrán-García (Spanish)
October 28 | Boston: Listening to History: Revisiting Memory through Narrative Soundscape Compositions
October 29 | Chicago: Future Memory
October 31 | Montreal: Reflections on Dreaming and Black Indigenous Futures
November 16-21| Houston: Virtual Artist Residence: There are Black People in the Future
Until December 15 | Toronto: Benita Bailey: #YellIt - Conversations with Black Artists
Local EvenTs
September 5 - December 12 | Kansas CityInstallation: There are Black People in the Future
Through October 31 | New York
A People's Manifesto
October 12 | Los Angeles
Future Ancestral Monuments
October 13 | Los Angeles
Civic Displace
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
STP-on-Demand: Cinematic Perspectives on Shaping the Past
October 28 | Was Bleibt / Šta Ostaje (What Remains / Revisited) (2020), dir. Clarissa Thieme*Presented by Goethe Pop Up Seattle in partnership with the Northwest Film Forum Seattle for the program German Cinema Now!.
November 5 - November 8 | We Almost Lost Bochum (2019), dir. Julian Brimmers & Benjamin Westermann
*Presented by Goethe-Institut Toronto with Wavelength Music
November 12 - November 15 | Muttererde (2017), dir. Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor
*Presented by Goethe Pop Up Seattle
November 13-16 | Mother I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You. (2019), dir. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
*Presented by Goethe Pop Up Houston in partnership with Houston Cinema Arts Society for Houston Cinema Arts Festival.
November 20 - November 22 | Black Deutschland (2006), dir. Oliver Hardt
*Presented by Goethe Pop Up Houston & Goethe Pop Up Kansas City
November 20 - November 22 | The Black Museum (2018), dir. Oliver Hardt
*Presented by Goethe Pop Up Houston & Goethe Pop Up Kansas City
November 25 | Becoming Black (2020), dir. Ines Johnson-Spain
*Presented by Goethe Pop Up Seattle in partnership with the Northwest Film Forum Seattle for the program German Cinema Now!.
November 27 - November 29 | The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2005), dir. Keith A. Beauchamp
*Presented by Goethe Pop Up Kansas City
November 30 - December 4 | The Bicycle (1982), dir. Evelyn Schmidt
*Presented by Goethe-Institut Washington for Films Across Borders: Stories of Resilience and Hope
November 30 - December 4 | Jacob the Liar (1974), dir. Frank Beyer
*Presented by Goethe-Institut Washington for Films Across Borders: Stories of Resilience and Hope
December 4 - December 6 | From Here (2020), dir. Christina Antonakos-Wallace
*Presented by Goethe Pop Up Houston & Goethe Pop Up Kansas City
Details
Online
USA
Language: English (some events in Spanish or with simultaneous interpretation)
Price: Free
program-washington@goethe.de
Part of series Shaping the Past: Memory Month Washington