Images of Resistance and Liberation // Imágenes de Resistencia y Liberación (with Mobile Print Power, UnLocal, and NYSYLC )

Saturday, June 18th, 12-3pm (at Interference Archive)

This community conversation and hands-on workshop will explore a variety of topics affecting the lives of undocumented students, artists, and families, including Advanced Parole, which grants permission for certain immigrants without a valid visa to re-enter the United States after traveling abroad.  Participants will be introduced to UnLocal’s Know Your Rights Campaign and MPP’s involvement in the Know Your Rights poster production. We will also recap the collaborative workshop that Interference Archive, MPP, and NYSYLC led at IYECon 2016, Drawing From the Archives: Liberation & Collaborative Design, and we will print images created during the IYECon workshop based on the conference theme, “Rooted in Liberation.”

Esta conversación comunitaria y taller explorará una variedad de temas afectando las vidas de estudiantes, artistas, y familias indocumentad@s, incluyendo “Advanced Parole,” que da permiso a algunos migrantes sin visas válidas a volver a los Estados Unidos después de viajar al exterior. L@s participantes recibirán información sobre la campaña de Conozca Sus Derechos de UnLocal, y sobre la participación de MPP en la producción del cartel sobre el mismo tema. También haremos un reporte sobre el taller colaborativo que hicieron Interference Archive, MPP, y NYSLC en el IYECon 2016, Drawing from the Archives: Liberation & Collaborative Design – Sacando del Archivo: Liberación y Diseño Colaborativo, e imprimiremos imágenes creadas durante el taller de IYECon inspirados por el tema de la conferencia, “Rooted in Liberation – Enraizad@s en Liberación.”

Our Comics, Ourselves heads to the University of Connecticut

The Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut will host the first traveling installment of the exhibition Our Comics, Ourselves co-curated by Jan Descartes and Monica McKelvey Johnson. The exhibition premiered at Interference Archive in January, and we're really excited to see it move on to new locations. Our Comics, Ourselves features comics from the Interference Archive collection as well as private collections on loan. The exhibition includes comic books, graphic novels, DIY comics, and various comics paraphernalia primarily from the United States, 1945 to present. The works range from autobiographical to sheer fantasy, and explore feminism, abortion, racism, cultural identity, social activism, veterans of war, sexual abuse, immigration, public health, civil rights, gender and sexual identity, and more.