 | Tonight is our FIRST CLASS of The Artist Must Take Sides: Culture & The Movement Past, Present & Future - it’s not too late to sign up! Join now at peoplesforum.org/takesides
Our first class of the series with Claudia De La Cruz will dive into understanding art and culture within the context of society and the economy. It will examine how culture functions as a site of struggle — shaping consciousness, reinforcing or subverting dominant power, and offering possibilities for resistance. Drawing from historical and recent cultural production, we will explore how art and culture is not an isolated or purely individual pursuit, but rather it is a collective practice tied to material conditions. Together, we will build a shared language to understand culture not as separate from politics, but as one of its most contested battlegrounds. The question at the center: in whose interest, and for what purpose, do we produce art?
Join us!
🗓️ Tuesday April 21
💻 📍 HYBRID! Everyone from all locations, backgrounds, and identities are welcome to register! Participate in-person in New York at The People’s Forum, or virtually from anywhere in the world.
✅ Register now at peoplesforum.org/takesides
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 | Join us on May 1 to say NO WAR, NO ICE, NO BILLIONAIRES!
On International Workers’ Day, millions around the world will take the streets. In New York, we’re joining cities and towns across the U.S. to stand together — against war, against deportations, and against Trump’s billionaire agenda stealing our future.
🚫 No School. No Work. No Shopping.
🕑 2PM
🗓️ May 1
📍 Union Square
We will march to join more demonstrators at 4pm in Washington Square Park!
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 | Join us for An Evening of Nueva Canción ft. Alida & the Nightshades + guests
📆 Thursday, April 23 | Doors 7PM | Show 7:30PM 📍 Violeta Parra Stage @ The People's Forum 💲 Tickets
Join us for a special concert exploring the music and history of the Nueva Canción movement, the Latin American folk tradition that uses song as resistance to repression, centering social justice, collective struggle, and the deep ties between people, land, and memory.
Brooklyn-based trio Alida & the Nightshades will perform interpretations of key songs from the Nueva Canción repertoire alongside original music inspired by its political, cultural, and poetic roots - featuring guest artists Luis McDougal, Miriam Elhajli, and Kim Barzola.
Join us for an intimate night of music and history, reflecting on how song carries resistance, hope, and collective voice across generations. | |
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| SPRING 2026 • ART COURSESThere are still slots available for select ongoing workshops in the Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio. Click each graphic to register now. |
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 |  | Double Feature: Don't Let Me Be Long Little Bird & LA Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement ft. Reem Jubran 6:00PM Thursday, April 23
Don't Be Long, Little Bird (2025, 23m) follows a story of the daughter of a displaced Palestinian family, who accidentally finds herself time traveling to 1930s Palestine, where she spends a few days with her great-grandmother when she was her age.
LA Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement (2025, 56m) Following the Watts Uprising, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television enacted affirmative action policies to increase enrollment of students of color in its film program — a group historically underrepresented in the student population. The “ethno-communications” initiative to recruit students from Black, Asian, Chicano and Native American communities became a movement known as "LA Rebellion." | |
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 | Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 5:00PM Saturday, April 25
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is an acclaimed documentary tracing the life and legacy of beloved poet Nikki Giovanni — firebrand, radical, healer, and sage. Through intimate vérité, archival footage, live readings, and visually inventive interpretations of her poetry, the film journeys across the revolutionary eras Giovanni lived through, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, revealing her enduring impact on American culture and political life. | |
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UPCOMING EVENTS AT A GLANCE |
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| HELP US BUILD THE FUTURE! |
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After 7 years of building a home for the people, we are taking a bold next step to secure our future: we bought a building in NYC. Now we need your help to raise $2mil to make it a permanent home for the movement. Read more donate: peoplesforum.org/future | |
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