[Cwgrad-announcements] Surviving Activism

[Gabriela Jauregui]

Somthing interesting ging on in LA this weekend... in case you have time...
Gaby

SURVIVIVING ACTIVISM.
Alexandra Juhasz and Benjamin Shepard

Reading and Presentations
"The Failure of Flesh and the Revival of Aids Activism"
"Toward a Ludic Counter-public"

Saturday 24 March at 7pm
Park Projects 4755 York Boulevard Los Angeles California 90042

Alex Juhasz is a professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College, teaches video
production and film and video theory. She has taught courses on women and
film,
feminist film, and women's documentary. Dr. Juhasz has written multiple
articles
on feminist and AIDS documentary.

Ben Shepard has done organizing work with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash
Power
(ACT UP), SexPanic!, Reclaim the Streets New York, Times UP, the Clandestine
Rebel Clown Army, the Absurd Response Team, CitiWide Harm Reduction, Housing
Works, the More Gardens Coalition, and the Times UP Bike Lane Liberation
Front
and Garden Working Groups. He is the author/editor of four books including
From
ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of
Globalization (Verso, 2002).  and Queer Political Performance and Protest
(Upcoming, Routledge), and Play, Creativity and Social Movements.

This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition "Failure Ridiculous
Terrible Wonderful," on view from 10-31 March 2007. For more information
visit:
http://www.myparkprojects.org



Lara Bank & Julia Alexander
Co-Directors
Park Projects
4755 York Blvd.
LA, CA 90042
http://www.myparkprojects.org
email: myparkprojects at yahoo.com