Events

Cassils: The Struggle For/ The Struggle Against

In a time of lockdown and quarantines, of fascism and propaganda, we need reason and action to be supported by visions of change. Cassils discusses artistic and performative tactics uniquely […]

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Mark Sealy: Photography, Race, Rights, and Representation

The photographers discussed share a forensic dialogue with photography’s past and offer navigational tools for its future possibilities in the making of new identities and histories. We need to keep […]

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Hands to Hold

World premiere of our third digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Emilio Rojas and writer Pamela Sneed hosted by Dr. Sanjay Kumar (Central European University). Hands to Hold is […]

Dwala Lam’

World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Sethembile Msezane and writer Dr. Portia Malatjie, moderated by Panashe Chigumadzi and hosted by Wits School of Arts.  Praise singing and movement […]

Only God Can Make Tomato Sauce

World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Brian Lobel and writer Season Butler, moderated by Jack Ferver (Bard College). Two friends and food makers share […]

Tastes of Loss

World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Alexandre Paulikevitch and writer Romy Lynn Attieh, moderated by curator Amanda Abi Khalil and co-presented by CEC ArtsLink. […]

Hunt & Gather: Work in Progress by MA students

Bard College 30 Campus Road, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

The inaugural cohort of eleven MA students developed work-in-progress as a part of "Collaborations & Community," a course taught by the Center's director Dr. Tania El Khoury. The collaborative creative […]

Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession, Violence, and War in Colombia

Upstate Films: Starr Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, NY, United States

CHRA will be screening Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession, Violence, and War in Colombia, a program of three short films made in collaboration between the Colombian Truth Commission and […]

You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Activism and Freedom in Egypt

Weis Cinema, Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

CHRA is hosting the launch & discussion of Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s newly published book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated on Wednesday, April 27th, 5:00pm EDT at Weis Cinema, […]

UNDERCOOKED Works by MA in Human Rights & the Arts

Undercooked features works-in-progress by the current MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts. Developed as part of their practice-based core course with Tania El Khoury this […]

Putting the Cooker on Low

World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Ama Josephine Budge and writer Dr. Chelsea M. Frazier, moderated by Dr. J.T. Roane (Arizona State University). Putting […]

Out of Place: Three Writers on Fiction, Language, Exile, and Utopia

Weis Cinema, Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

This event on Tuesday, September 6 at 5:30pm ET at Weis Cinema, Bard College, brings together in person three esteemed writers—Nuruddin Farah, Ilija Trojanow, and Aleksandar Hemon—to read from and discuss […]

The Utopian Prerogative

RKC 103, Bard College Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States

This event will take place on Wednesday, 7 September, 5:30pm ET at Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation (RKC) 103 at Bard College. "Each day we are sold […]

Erased, ___Ascent of the Invisible

Upstate Films: Starr Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, NY, United States

CHRA will be screening Erased, ___Ascent of the Invisible (1976) by Lebanese filmmaker Ghassan Halwani at 4pm on Thursday, 29 September at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck. The event is free […]

Michael Rakowitz: (G)hosting

A talk about hosts, ghosts, hospitality, hostility, and the complicated nature of a good time. In this lecture, Rakowitz will discuss (g)hosting, a term he uses to explore the intersection […]

Jumana Manna: When A Goat Eats the Scene

In her talk, Jumana Manna will speak about her dual practice as a sculptor and a filmmaker, and her ongoing inquiries into the contradictions of preservation and ruination. Manna will […]

Nicholas Galanin: Unshadowed Land

Culture is rooted in connection to land; like land, culture cannot be contained. I am inspired by generations of Lingít & Unangax̂ creative production and knowledge connected to the land […]

Baha Hilo: The Olives of Palestine

Olive trees have been a major part of Baha's practice as an educator and community organizer. His talk will focus on the significance, history, and place of olive trees in […]

Our Red Book: Reading & Conversation

Fisher Center, Resnick Studio

CHRA is co-sponsoring a reading of Our Red Book, a collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, gathered by the New York Times […]