131 8th Street, #4
Brooklyn, NY 11215

It’s been one year since Interference Archive opened its doors, and with your help, we’ve already come a long way toward developing an autonomous space unlike any other in New York City. Collectively, we’ve built an impressive archive of social movement history from below. We’ve created a social center within which to study, process, debate, use, and produce work that reflects people’s struggles around the globe, past and present. And we’ve grown faster than we could have imagined!

Let’s celebrate together!

Join us for a festive one-year birthday party along with an exhibition of selected materials from the archive, the launch of our new Web site, and more. Details to come. Save the date and invite your friends:
http://www.facebook.com/events/238037216329066/

And because we’re mighty proud of all we’ve done so far — with the participation and support of so many of you — here are some highlights from our first year:

• An open-access, open-stack archive of cultural ephemera produced by and for social movements worldwide

• Five exhibitions, including the Persistence of Dreams, a retrospective of work by Sublevarte Collectivo from Mexico City; Radioactivity! Antinuclear Movements from Three Mile Island to Fukushima, co-curated with Todos Somos Japon; and Àvenir (“Future”), an installation by the Montreal-based design collective Ècole de la Montagne Rouge, active in the Quebec student strike of this past year

• Our first two publications, a booklet/map for RadioActivity! and a catalog for the Persistence of Dreams exhibit

• Talks and workshops, including the history of antiwar posters and graphics by archivist Carol Wells; a May Day poster critique and design charrette with Occuprint; and a look at a punk- and anarchist-inspired UK football club by Bristol Radical History Group’s Roger Wilson

• Film screenings in conjunction with our exhibits as well as movies such as Maggots and Men, Land of Destiny, and the premiere of The Days of the Commune

• A number of significant donations to the collection, including over 300 political protest buttons from Eleanor Bader, hundreds of posters from African and Latin American movements and solidarity organizations from Alexis De Veaux, and a large selection of antinuclear and peace posters from John Miller