This event is in the past.It took place on February 22, 2024 at The Africa Center.
Language Class
Language ClassLearn to craft covert languages using gestures, codes, and symbols that subvert surveillance and preserve culture under siege. There's no digital trace—what's created here lives only in ephemera and memory.
Interactive workshop
Experimental writing
Afro-Caribbean focus
Cultural resistance
Tips
🤫practice "shush poetics" — a maroonage method
📝bring paper — nothing digital allowed
📚explores Fred Moten, Charles Gaines, Cecil Taylor
Coded Language
East Harlem
Language ClassLanguage ClassLearn to craft covert languages using gestures, codes, and symbols that subvert surveillance and preserve culture under siege. There's no digital trace—what's created here lives only in ephemera and memory.
Interactive workshop
Experimental writing
Afro-Caribbean focus
Cultural resistance
Tips
🤫practice "shush poetics" — a maroonage method
📝bring paper — nothing digital allowed
📚explores Fred Moten, Charles Gaines, Cecil Taylor
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