Out of the classroom, into the archive!
Out of the textbooks, into the flat files!
A Call to Teachers!
Bring Your Students to the Interference Archive.
Explore Social Movements Using the Materials
the Movements Make.
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Bring your Spring 2013 Classes to Interference Archive
Interference Archive invites university professors and secondary-school teachers to bring their classes to the archive. Learn about social movements through the cultural materials (posters, pamphlets, zines, buttons, books, T-shirts, movies, and more) that those movements produced! Interference is a community archive from below located in Brooklyn, with a collection of materials representing people's movements for social justice. An afternoon at the archive will enhance course material on a variety of topics, including urban social movements, political posters and design, feminist movements, people's history, social justice, and/or media studies. Professors requiring that their students do a research project involving primary source material can also direct their students to the archive as a resource. Or alternatively, we invite professors to connect directly with the archive about building research projects and/or course material using our collection.
Interference Archive is an all-volunteer project supported by a broad community of people who use the archive and recognize the necessity of an organized collection of materials from people's movements. For this reason, we ask that teachers bringing their classes to the archive contribute money to the project. Funds from class visits help us keep the doors open to this valuable resource. We work with teachers and professors on an individual basis to find an amount that works for you/r institution.
For inquiries about bringing your class for a visit, please contact David Spataro at dlspataro@gmail.com.
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Current Exhibition
Our Collection:
A Sampler
In honor of our one-year birthday, we’ve installed a sampler from our own open-stack, open-access collection of cultural ephemera from social movements around the globe. You’ll find everything from Chinese, Cuban, and Polish posters to posters made as part of queer, feminist, and housing movements; to pamphlets produced by striking students, anarchists, third-world liberation struggle supporters, and antiprison as well as social justice movements; to stickers from a host of contemporary events and campaigns, and just for fun; to LP records and songbooks of resistance; and dozens and dozens of political buttons capturing the history of Left political movements in New York City over the past forty years; a mix of T-shirts and other fabric-related creations; to leftie newspapers and comic books. Our in-house exhibit runs through mid-February.
The archive's open hours are every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday from noon to 5:00 p.m., and by appointment on weekdays.
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