All events are free to the public. Some require registration or reservations.
July
July 9Exorcism = Liberation website launchJuly 13
12:00—5:00pmPrototypes of banners, stickers, and pins on display as part of LMCC/Open Studios at LMCC’s Governors Island Art Center. A collective listening of What is your first memory of dirt? at 4:00pm
August
Project launches in Chicago
Aug 12—Sept 3Exorcism = Liberation will be part of Public Media Institute’s Democrazy: DNC Counter-Programming at Co-Prosperity. The DNC is returning to Chicago and Public Media Institute and Lumpen Magazine are inviting artists, writers, and community organizers to confront the legacy of the 1968 DNC protests, when artists and activists came together to protest the Vietnam War and were met with police violence and state repression. Democrazy will revisit these histories while engaging with the urgent political movements of today.
Exorcism = Liberation will participate with a window exhibition at Co-Prosperity and three slogan posters published in Lumpen Magazine 142: Democrazy.
September
Project launches in New York and Massachusetts with installation of posters, lawn signs and banners at all participating hubs
Sept 6
6:00pm
Activation of I came here to weep followed by a movement score performed by Martita Abril with ice pops, limbers de coco y limon, at Abrons Arts Center (Manahatta)
Sept 6—Nov 6I came here to weep on view on the window of Abrons Art Center (Manahatta)
Sept 7
6:00pmActivation of What is your first memory of dirt? followed by a movement score performed by devynn emory with ice pops, limbers de coco y limón, at The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn, NY)
Sept 7—Nov 6
What is your first memory of dirt? on view on the window of The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn, NY)
Sept 12
6:00pm
Codemakers event: Activation of Exorcism = Liberation and communal meal centering a dialogue on self-determination with Professor Joseph Krupczynski, Director of Civic Engagement & Service-Learning, poet María José Giménez and Stephanie Fetta, Associate Professor of Latinx Literature & Culture, presented by UMass Fine Arts Center at the Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts lobby (Amherst, MA)
Sept 14
7:00pm
Activation of Exorcism = Liberation followed by a movement score performed by Martita Abril at CATCH 76! with ice pops, limbers de coco y limon, at The Chocolate Factory Theater (Queens, NY)
Sept 14—Nov 6Exorcism = Liberation on view on the gate of The Chocolate Factory Theater (Queens, NY)
Sept 15—Oct 15Pioneer Valley Transit Authority interior bus signs in Western MA installed
Sept 15—Nov 6I came here to weep on view on the gate of A.P.E. Ltd (Northampton, MA)
Sept 17—Nov 6Exorcism = Liberation, I came here to weep, and What is your first memory of dirt? banners on view in the windows of CENTRO - Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College at The Silberman School of Social Work (Manahatta)
Sept 21
2:00pmActivation of I came here to weep and Long Table discussion with invited guests Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Sami Hopkins and Theodore (ted) Kerr at ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn, NY)
Sept (TBA)A street activation of Exorcism = Liberation at UrbanTheater Company (Chicago, IL)
Sept 25—Nov 6
Exorcism = Liberation, I came here to weep, and What is your first memory of dirt? banners on view in the windows of CPR – Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn, NY)
Sept 28
2:00pm—4:00pmActivation of What is your first memory of dirt? with tea and dialogue at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (Manahatta)
Sep 28—Nov 6What is your first memory of dirt? on view on the walls of The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (Manahatta)
October
Installation of posters, lawn signs and banners at Chicago participating hubs
Oct 5—Nov 6Installation of lawn signs along Chicago boulevards, marking the migration of Puerto Ricans in Chicago from Lincoln Park, Logan Square, Humboldt Park to Aurora.
Oct 5
6:00pm
Activation of I came here to weep in a salon on grieving as an act of healing in partnership with Honeycomb Network (Chicago, IL).
Oct 6
12:00pmActivation of What is your first memory of dirt? with neighbors centering land and remembrance as a collective tool towards liberation at La Huerta Community Garden with NeighborSpace (Chicago, IL)
Oct 10
6:00pm
Activation of Exorcism = Liberation and Long Table discussion, Art as Civic Ritual, with invited guests Tonika Johnson, Faheem Majeed, Bindu Poroori, and Gibran Villalobos at 21c Museum Hotel Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Oct 16
5:00pm
Storytelling and Aural Archive - What is your first memory of dirt?, centering family, land, and remembrance as a collective tool towards liberation. Local teens interview their families and neighbors about their first memories of land at Holyoke Public Library with Holyoke Media. (Holyoke, MA)
Oct 17
4:30pm
Activation and dialogue - I came here to weep with Professor Paul Schroeder Rodriguez and La Causa students at Amherst College Frost Library. (Amherst, MA)
Oct 17
7:00pm
Community meal and activation of Exorcism = Liberation with La Causa students and faculty following library activation and dialogue. (Amherst, MA)
Oct 25
1:00pm—10:00pm
Aural archive installation of What is your first memory of dirt? gathers participants’ first memories of dirt in an intimate, analog recording session at CPR – Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn, NY)
NovemberNov 1
6:00pm
Community meal and activation of What is your first memory of dirt? centering a Puerto Rican meal prepared by Castro using local ingredients from Nuestras Raíces, a grassroots urban agriculture organization based in Holyoke founded by migrating farmers from Puerto Rico. The meal will center land and remembrance as a collective tool towards liberation. Presented by A.P.E. Ltd at The Workroom @ 33 Hawley (Northampton, MA)
Nov 5
For CPR’s “OPEN HOUSE: Election Night” all three project banners will be on display, and free pins and stickers will be distributed at an election watch party at CPR – Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn, NY)