Events

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

Virtual Event Virtual Event

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

Virtual Event Virtual Event

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

Virtual Event Virtual Event

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

Virtual Event Virtual Event

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 […]

Sabine El Chamaa: “As if her song could have no ending”

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

A film script is an unfinished work, a ghost that seeks to inhabit a form. Where do the characters that are conceived for years, but that fail to find their […]

Guadalupe Maravilla: Health and Border Politics

Webinar

Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the […]

New Red Order: How to Commit Crimes Against Reality

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

New Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors, artists and filmmakers Jackson Polys, Adam Khalil ‘11, and Zack Khalil ‘14. Their work has appeared at […]

Juliana Steiner: Writing as Sowing, Reading as Eating

Bard Farm

Juliana Steiner is an independent curator and researcher from Bogotá interested in interdisciplinary practices in contemporary art that incorporate social sciences, pedagogy, architecture and long-term projects with communities. Her research […]

Robin Frohardt: Magic of the Mundane

Fisher Center, Resnick Studio

In Magic of the Mundane, artist Robin Frohardt traces the development of her multidisciplinary practices. From puppet shows to short films and immersive theater, Frohardt discusses how she uses mundane […]

Molemo Moiloa: Becoming Ungovernable

Webinar

Molemo Moiloa discusses the notion of becoming ungovernable in an effort to tap into our capacities to form new worlds in times of collapse. She shares her interdisciplinary contemporary practice, […]

Argyro Nicolaou: Unsettled

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

Unsettled is a lecture performance by scholar and filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou that explores the fast-changing landscapes of an island under occupation and her attempts to reconstruct her mother’s past. The […]

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Unlearning at the Threshold of the Museum

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

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay invites the audience to stay at the threshold of the museum in order to recognize the impossibility of decolonizing museums without decolonizing the world. Refusing to study […]