Latest Past Events
The Ethics of Now with adrienne maree brown
Durham County Main Library 300 N Roxboro St, DurhamJoin the Kenan Institute for Ethics and host Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with adrienne maree brown on justice and imagination. adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music, and her podcasts. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E. Butler scholarship, and her work as a […]
Interwoven Bodies: The Art of Assembly XXV
Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Dr, DurhamHow do we deliberate before and beyond language? How do we create relations without words? How are our bodies determined by the spaces we are in? The Art of Assembly is a nomadic series of talks and conversations exploring the potential of assembly in activism, art, and politics. This 25th edition of The Art of Assembly […]
Parliament
Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Dr, Durham“Parliament is a psychedelic thunderbolt. It draws everyone out of their day-to-day functional perception and plunges them into a lived world of communal wealth, mystery, beauty and potential.” Parliament is a pioneering work of situational choreography and exploration of ecological aesthetics. The work offers participants a critically needed withdrawal from normal modes of social action […]