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April 23 to May 23, 2023

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Members’ Event

Membership Promotion & Member Raffle

Friday, May 5–Monday, May 15, 2023
Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea

Friday, May 5th–Monday, May 15th As a thank you to our members for their 20+ years of support, we will be holding a member raffle to gift members with an opportunity to win a complimentary upgrade to their Dia membership, Dia merchandise, and potentially other experiences with Dia! All active members receive one (1) entry automatically and have a chance to receive more entries through checking in at our membership desk during the 20th Anniversary Community Day, purchasing a gift membership, etc. Winners will be contacted directly by the end of May. We also have a membership promotion in honor of Dia Beacon’s 20th Anniversary. From Friday, May 5th until Monday, May 15th members will receive: - 20% discount on ALL membership purchases- 20% discount on Dia publications- 20% discount on all other Dia merchandise *This promotion will be able to be fulfilled online, on site and over the phone, unlike our other membership promotions in the past. Artist/Student/Senior members will still have to call or purchase/renew their membership on site with valid documentation. Please use the code DBMEM20 to redeem online. We hope you will join us for this special day to celebrate Dia Beacon! If you have any questions, please contact Kaija Mendez-Bryan at kmendez-bryan@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

Lisa Cohen and Tiona Nekkia McClodden in Conversation on Chryssa

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsThursday, April 27, 2023, 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Lisa Cohen and Tiona Nekkia McClodden, contributors to the exhibition catalogue Chryssa & New York, will reflect on Chryssa’s practice in relation to their own work and the challenges of the archive. The discussion will be moderated by exhibition curator Megan Holly Witko. Lisa Cohen’s writing brings together queer poetics and archival research to explore ephemeral, undervalued forms of knowledge and feeling. The author of All We Know: Three Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle award, she is completing a book about friendship, grief, HIV/AIDS, and long Enlightenment legacies, as well as a collection of poems. Tiona Nekkia McClodden is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary. McClodden’s interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations. Chryssa & New York is co-organized by Dia Art Foundation and the Menil Collection, Houston, in collaboration with Alphawood Foundation at Wrightwood 659, Chicago. The exhibition is co-curated by Megan Holly Witko, external curator, Dia Art Foundation, and Michelle White, senior curator, the Menil Collection, Houston. Public programs are made possible by support from the Consulate General of Greece in New York.

Tour

Public Tour of Chryssa & New York

Saturday, April 29, 2023, 12:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsSaturday, April 29, 2023, 12:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd Street, New York, New York Free. Reservations suggested but not required. Join a free, artist-led tour of the exhibition Chryssa & New York. Exhibition tours are approximately 30 minutes long. ** Advance reservations are required for all adult and student groups visiting Dia Chelsea. For more information, please contact grouptours@diaart.org.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, April 30, 2023, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event DetailsSunday, April 30, 2023, 10 am–5 pm Dia Beacon3 BeekmanBeacon, New York Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. The Hudson Valley encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. To get tickets for Hudson Valley Free Day please fill out our Free Admission Request. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Worker Writers School

Monday, May 1, 2023, 8 pm
Offsite

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Event DetailsMonday, May 1, 8 pm Brooklyn Bridge ParkEmily Warren Roebling PlazaBrooklyn, NY 11201 Free. Regsiter for the event here. In celebration of May Day, join us in Brooklyn Bridge Park for an evening of readings and projections with the Worker Writers School and the Illuminator. An organization that promotes poetry by unionized, working-class poets, the Worker Writers School has long been interested in light as an ephemeral publishing medium, a poignant form of public engagement that aligns with the strategies of the art-activist collective the Illuminator. For this event, new cinquain poems, filmed by Betye Arrastia Nowak, will be projected onto the bridge, and poets from Domestic Workers United, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Street Vendor Project, and more will read their work. Now a source of civic pride and an icon of the city, the Brooklyn Bridge has a more complicated history as a deadly workplace for low-wage, immigrant workers. The site provides an opportunity on International Workers Day to reflect on how labor struggles have changed today. Here, the projected light poems can be a beacon to passersby, a call to unite, and a guerrilla-like action to inspire connection and change. Harkening back to many artworks, commissions, and special projects in Dia’s nearly fifty-year history, the medium of light itself—in this case, industrially generated and deployed with the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline after sunset—invites a meditation on time. Combined with a chance to hear from and speak with the poets themselves, this one-night-only event offers a space to assess the impact of our words and actions on the built environment, in dialogue with site workers of the past. This partnership with two worker-run artist collectives—the Worker Writers School and the Illuminator—spotlights the expansiveness and creativity of solidarity. In case of inclement weather, the reading will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2 pm, in the Dia Chelsea Program Space. About the artists Shanika Anderson is a preschool teacher, wife, and mother to a sweet three-year-old boy. An activist, singer, and new participant in the Worker Writers School, she lives in the Bronx. Thomas Barzey was born and raised in the Bronx and holds a BS in criminal justice from Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York. He has worked as an office assistant, stage manager, and home health aide and is an actor with the Public Theater, New York. He has performed his poems at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop; Parachute Literary Arts’ Walt Whitman bicentennial celebration, Brooklyn; and the People’s Forum, New York. Kerl Brooks is a member of Domestic Workers United. She has worked as a code enforcement officer, meter reader, nursery-school teacher, nanny, and home health aide. Originally from San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, she resides in Castroville, Texas. Her poems recently appeared in Coronavirus Haiku (2021). Nelson Estabon Chimilio was born and raised in the South Bronx and has experience in nonprofits, community arts projects, workshop facilitation, and professional development. He has a BA in theater and communications and has performed at Carnegie Hall, HERE Arts Center, Lincoln Center, the National Black Theatre, and Nuyorican Poets Cafe, all New York. His poems have been published in Coronavirus Haiku (2021). Lorraine Garnett is from Jamaica and lives and works in Brooklyn as a nanny. She has worked as a preschool teacher, afterschool supervisor, and summer camp activities director. Her poems are featured in Coronavirus Haiku (2021), Good Cop/Bad Cop (2021), and I Can’t Breathe: Poetic Anthology of Fresh Air (forthcoming). She has read at venues including the Crush Reading Series at Woodbine, New York; Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York; PEN World Voices Festival, New York; Wizard’s Wardrobe, Albany, New York; and Workers United Film Festival, New York. Davidson Garrett is a poet, actor, and retired yellow cab driver. A native of Louisiana and resident of Manhattan for half a century, he is the author of two poetry collections and four chapbooks, including his latest book, Cabaletta: Poems of a New York City Taxi Driver (2022). Garrett has been a member of the Worker Writers School for ten years. Seth Goldman was born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and has a bachelor’s degree from City College of New York. He worked as a junior high school English teacher but has spent most of the past four decades as a taxi driver and is a member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. Goldman has read his poems at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, PEN World Voices Festival, and Union Square Farmers Market, all New York. Leslie Kaup is a farmer, activist, writer, hospital cook, and executive board member of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa. Based in Minnesota, she works a small farm that grows hazelnuts, apples, berries, and mushrooms. In her free time, Kaup works for human rights and environmental justice, plants trees, and writes poems, which she has been doing since childhood. Christine Yvette Lewis is a leader and organizer with Domestic Workers United (DWU). As a worker-leader and multidisciplinary performance artist, Lewis has pulled from her Calypsonian roots and from skills as a steel-drum player, spoken word artist, author, and poet to share her message and build power. She has spoken out on initiatives like the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights and has helped organize a partnership between DWU members and the Public Theater’s Public Works productions of Shakespeare in the Park. Alando McIntyre was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and resides in Brooklyn. He joined the Worker Writers School when he was a cashier at a Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery. He earned his BA in accounting from Baruch College, City University of New York. McIntyre has read his poems at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and PEN World Voices Festival, both New York. His poems were recently published in Coronavirus Haiku (2021). Olivia Murphy was born and raised in New York. An actress, musician, and ever a student, she has recently delved into teaching artistry, working with organizations like People’s Theatre Project and Public Works at the Public Theater, both New York. Kelebohile (Kele) Nkhereanye is a street-food vendor, food-justice activist, community chef, and community leader in Brooklyn. An immigrant from Lesotho, she is a retired New York City Transit Authority station agent, member of Brooklyn Community Board 5, and founder of Soil Afrika Global. She has read at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, PEN World Voices Festival, and Union Square Farmers Market, all New York. The Worker Writers School, founded and directed by Mark Nowak, organizes and facilitates poetry workshops with global trade unions, workers’ centers, and other progressive labor organizations. These workshops create a space for participants to reimagine their working lives, nurture new literary voices directly from the global working class, and produce new tactics and imagine new futures for working-class social change. The Worker Writers School has run workshops with Domestic Workers United (DWU) in New York, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) in Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, Voice of Domestic Workers (VoDW) in London, Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (IMWU-NL) in Amsterdam and The Hague, and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). The Illuminator is an art-activist collective comprised of visual artists, educators, filmmakers, and technologists living and working in New York. The collective has staged hundreds of projection-interventions in public spaces, transforming the street from a space of passive consumption and transit into a site of engagement, conflict, and dialogue. Its work calls attention to the many urgent crises that confront us, in support of the ongoing struggle for a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world.

Dia Talks

Tiffany Sia on An-My Lê

Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsWednesday, May 10, 2023, 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who was born in Hong Kong. She earned a BA in film studies and Asian studies from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2010. Sia has directed several experimental short films, including Never Rest/Unrest (2020), Do Not Circulate (2021), and What Rules the Invisible (2022). Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Artists Space, New York, and FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna. Her work has also been presented in international group exhibitions at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Seoul Museum of Art; and Kunstverein Düsseldorf. Sia is the author of the chapbook Salty Wet (2019) and the artist book Too Salty, Too Wet (2021), and her essays have appeared in the journals Film Quarterly and October. She lives in New York.

Special Event

20th Anniversary Community Day

Saturday, May 13, 2023, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event DetailsSaturday, May 13, 2023, 10 am–5 pm Dia BeaconRiggio Galleries3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Admission to the museum and all activities is free. Visit here to reserve tickets. Join us to celebrate Dia Beacon’s 20th Anniversary with a variety of programming in the gallery spaces, outdoors, and in the Learning Lab. View the full program below. All DayFood trucksPicnic areaBeacon Historical Society presentation Learning Lab* 10:30–11:15 am Family tourStarts outside in the forecourt 11 am–12 pm Art-making workshop with Common Ground FarmFront lawn 11:30 am–12:30 pm Museum tour 12–12:30 pmDirector’s remarks with Jessica Morgan, Nathalie de Gunzburg Director; Leonard Riggio, Chair Emeritus; City of Beacon Mayor Lee Kyriacou; and Assemblymember Jonathan JacobsonKnoebel gallery 1–2 pm Museum tour led in Spanish with Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of ProgramStarts outside in the forecourt 1–2:30 pm Zine-making workshopSerra mezzanine 2–3 pmMuseum tour 2–3 pm Film screening and conversation with Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras, moderated by Donna De SalvoLearning Lab* 3–4:30 pm Happy hour with Newburgh Brewing Company, Two Way Brewery, and Homespun FoodsFront lawn *The Learning Lab is on the lower level. Stairs are located between the Palermo and Ryman galleries. For elevator access, please ask a staff member for assistance.

Dia Talks

Film and Conversation with Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras

Saturday, May 13, 2023, 2 pm
Dia Beacon

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This program is part of Dia Beacon's 20th Anniversary Community Day. Admission to the museum and all activities is free. Visit here to reserve tickets. Artist Linda Goode Bryant and filmmaker Laura Poitras will present footage of their 2003 trip to Beacon, New York, to explore an empty Nabisco box printing factory that would later become Dia Beacon. After the screening, they will discuss their collaborations over the years in a conversation moderated by Donna De Salvo, senior adjunct curator. The event will be held in the Learning Lab on the museum’s lower level. Linda Goode Bryant is an artist and filmmaker, and the founder and president of Project EATS, a living installation transforming vacant lots and rooftops into neighborhood-based farms, with the goals of catalyzing creativity and cultivating greater food sovereignty across New York City. She also founded Just Above Midtown gallery, a laboratory that, from 1974 to 1986, foregrounded the work of African-American artists. She won a Peabody Award for the film Flag Wars (2003) and, in 2020, received an Anonymous Was a Woman Award and a United States Artists Berresford Prize. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In 2021, Bryant collaborated with architect Liz Diller to create the installation Are We Really That Different for the exhibition Social Works at Gagosian Gallery, New York. In 2022, she was lead faculty for the RAW Académie Session 9 and related exhibition, in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia. She collaborated with curator Thomas J. Lax and curatorial assistant Lilia Rocio Taboada in organizing the exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces (2022–23) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Laura Poitras is a filmmaker and journalist. Her most recent film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion for best film, only the second documentary to win the top prize. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award. Her film CITIZENFOUR (2014) won an Academy Award for best documentary and her journalism exposing the U.S. National Security Agency’s global mass surveillance programs was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, commissioned her first solo exhibition, Astro Noise (2016), which consisted of film and other elements that created an immersive environment. The exhibition was curated by Jay Sanders and commissioned under the leadership of Donna De Salvo, then chief curator and deputy director for programs at the Whitney. In response to Poitras’s post-9/11 reporting, the U.S. government placed her on a terrorist watchlist and interrogated her dozens of times at the U.S. border. In 2015, she successfully sued the government and obtained her classified FBI files. The hundreds of heavily redacted documents reveal that the FBI conducted physical and digital surveillance of her, sent FBI agents to her film screenings, subpoenaed her private communications, and conducted a classified counterintelligence investigation. Despite her watchlist status, Poitras has received recognition for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship.

Special Event

Rashida Bumbray

Sunday, May 14, 2023, 12 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsSunday, May 14, 2023, 12 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. In conjunction with Leslie Hewitt at Dia Bridgehampton, Rashida Bumbray will present a solo interpretation of a score realized collaboratively by Hewitt and Jamal Cyrus titled For Solo Piano, Alto Saxophone, or Tambourine (This Score May Be Realized in Any Imaginative Way, or in conjunction with or in response to the recording of the song Evidence (Justice) 00:07:55 on the album Monk in Tokyo, Columbia Records (1963) with Thelonious Monk on piano, Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Butch Warren on bass, and Frankie Dunlap on drums or Evidence 00:04:41 on the album Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, Blue Note Records (1957) with Thelonious Monk on piano, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Ahamed Abdul-Malik on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums or Evidence 00:05:00 on the album Evidence, New Jazz (1962) with Steve Lacy on soprano saxophone, Don Cherry on trumpet; Carl Brown on bass, and Billie Higgins (Abdul Kareem) on drums) (2022). This special performance by Bumbray culminates a series of three matinees that punctuated the run of Hewitt’s exhibition. The event follows pianist Jason Moran in November 2022 and saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins in March 2023. Building upon traditions of indeterminate musical notation and the fractal logic of the jazz standard, Hewitt and Cyrus’s score is comprised of an arrangement of objects overlaid with metadata and sound that can be imagined in relation to Thelonious Monk’s song Evidence (first recorded in 1948). Just as the score calls attention to relationality, its interpretation occurs in the register of practice. Shifting attention away from linear notation and finished performance, the focus on practice emphasizes interpretation as an exercise in discovery and an opportunity to critically add to the score. Rashida Bumbray is a performance artist and curator. A graduate of Oberlin College, Ohio, Bumbray received an MA in Africana Studies from New York University. Her work has been presented by the Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Project Row Houses, Houston; Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York, among other venues. She received the Harlem Stage Fund for New Work. She publishes essays on contemporary art, performance, cultural studies, and comparative literature. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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