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April 10 to May 10, 2023

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Members’ Event

Member Shopping Days

Friday, March 24–Monday, April 10, 2023
Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea

From March 24 through April 10, members will receive a 30% discount on all Dia publications and a 20% discount on other items purchased online or at any Dia bookshop location. Gift memberships will be 10% off and include a complimentary Dia tote. Exclusions apply. Please note: Gift memberships must be purchased either over the phone at 212 293 5520 or in person at Dia Beacon or Dia Chelsea to receive this special rate. This promotion is not valid online. Please contact 212 293 5520 or membership@diaart.org if you have any questions. More information on our memberships, is available here.

Members’ Event

Membership Promotion & Member Raffle

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

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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

Marina Rosenfeld with Jessika Kenney on Marian Zazeela

Thursday, April 13, 2023, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsThursday, April 13, 2023, 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Marina Rosenfeld’s lecture will focus on the drawings that Marian Zazeela realized over extended periods between 1962 and 1991. In the context of her research, Rosenfeld has created a small edition of engraved dub plates and made a composition from them. The incomparable vocalist Jessika Kenney will interpret the composition as part of the evening. Marina Rosenfeld is a composer and artist living in Brooklyn, New York. Operating across the disciplinary boundaries of music and visual art, her practice spans sound, music, performance, sculpture, and works on paper. Rosenfeld has created commissioned works for the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Park Avenue Armory, New York; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. She has participated in group exhibitions including the Whitney, AURORA, Montreal, and Liverpool biennials. Her work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at institutions including Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland; The Artist’s Institute, New York; Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany; and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. As a turntablist, Rosenfeld has performed and recorded improvised music for almost three decades, including for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Her recordings are on Room40, Shelter Press, and 901Editions and will soon be accessible on INFO Unltd. Jessika Kenney was born on Sp'q'n'i?/Spokane lands. She is a sound and voice artist, composer, teacher, and writer. Her vocalizations offer a unique intersection of haptic and aural sensibilities in the realms of the ordinary, the uncanny, and the resonant. Kenney has composed for solo voices, ensembles, choirs, orchestras, and sound/video installations. She lives in Los Angeles.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio on the Farm

Saturday, April 22, 2023, 10:30 am–12 pm
Common Ground Farm

Saturday Studio

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Event DetailsSaturday, April 22, 2023, 10:30 am–12 pm Common Ground Farm79 Farmstead LaneWappingers Falls, New York Join a practicing artist for a free outdoor workshop of art making and exploration offered in partnership with Common Ground Farm. Designed for all ages, Saturday Studio is a family friendly program that is most suitable for children ages 5 and up. Saturday Studio begins promptly at 10:30 am at Common Ground Farm. In the case of inclement weather, the program will take place on Sunday, April 23, from 10:30 am–12 pm. Space is limited and reservations are required . Reservations open on Friday, April 14, at 9 am. Program Guidelines: Families attending Saturday Studio must include at least one adult caretaker; groups should be no larger than six people Wearing a mask is optional Advanced reservations are required; walk-ins will not be accepted An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present; by attending Saturday Studio at Common Ground Farm, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 For more information, email learning@diaart.org. Common Ground is a nonprofit community farm that works hard to ensure food and educational access to everyone in our community. To learn more about their work, visit commongroundfarm.org. Common Ground runs on the generous support of its community. If you are able, please consider making a donation.

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

Poetry &

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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.

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