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Our next teach-in “We The People”, is happening Tuesday June 16. The third and final panelist joining us for this discus...
06/01/2026

Our next teach-in “We The People”, is happening Tuesday June 16. The third and final panelist joining us for this discussion is interdisciplinary artist and organizer, Claire Maracle!

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Claire Maracle is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, raised as a guest on Muscogee, Osage, and Cherokee land. This experience directly informs their work in rematriation and their conviction that language is the key to transcending displacement. As Executive Director of Words of the People, their leadership is driven by the belief that fluent futures are built not through preservation alone, but through unyielding visibility and the active, creative celebration of living languages.

An interdisciplinary artist and organizer, their leadership spans over a decade of arts activism. Claire’s work bridges storytelling, liberation, and collective care. They co-founded Poetic Justice, bringing literacy and poetry workshops to carceral settings, (now in every prison in Oklahoma) that provided a framework for education as liberation. They served as Creative Director & Lead Educator for Louder Than a Bomb Oklahoma, instrumental in helping Tulsa launch the first regional offshoot of the Chicago program. Claire dedicated their time to mentoring youth in spoken word as a tool for self-determination and collective healing. Their poetry has appeared in This Land Press, Emerge Magazine, New Words Press, Frontier Poetry, Wayfarer Magazine and elsewhere.

05/28/2026

We’re just ONE day away from the launch of Historias in Motion: Dome Cartographies by artist Natalia Nakazawa, presented by Kinfolk Tech and The Clemente Center ( ). Listen to Natalia talk about her work and the importance of public art in Queens and especially the Jackson Heights neighborhood.

Join us at The World’s Borough Bookshop from 5-7 PM and experience the monument and neighborhood history for yourself. We will also have featured performances by DJ Maria Liebana ( ) and Poet Ananda Lima ( ) as well as an Aguas Frescas cart and collectible ‘zines!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP for FREE

Kinfolk will be at this year to celebrate their Quince year with community, joy, and the richness & diversity of Latin...
05/27/2026

Kinfolk will be at this year to celebrate their Quince year with community, joy, and the richness & diversity of Latino culture and stories 🎉

Join us on Saturday May 30 at 11 AM at the Ice Box Project Space for a conversation with Philadelphia based artist Betsy Casañas () for a conversation and Q&A on turning their mural practice into the digital monument “Grupos Motivos” and the transformative power of reimagining public spaces in Philadelphia.

🎙️ Artist Talk with Betsy Casañas
🗓️ Saturday May 30
🕡 11 – 11:45 AM
📍 Ice Box Project Space, 1400 N American St, Philadelphia

Betsy has been working on a beautiful new mural as the backdrop to her “Grupos Motivos” AR monument as well! We’ll see you soon Philly!

Head over to or go to PHLAFF.ORG to find out more about this year’s festival schedule. , is happening May 24 - July 5.

What is Grupos Motivos?

Back in the mid-1980s, a group of local Puerto Rican women, weary of the pervasive presence of drug dealers and the blighted state of the Norris Square neighborhood and park, embarked on a remarkable journey. They undertook the transformation of a vacant lot, christening it as Las Parcelas (which translates to “parcels” in English). Las Parcelas now proudly features a vibrant tapestry of vegetable and flower garden plots. The original collective of women activists has since adopted the name Grupo Motivos.

The garden stands as a testament to the power of community effort and reimagining your local urban spaces. Participants are invited to experience this powerful community story through the augmented reality (AR) monument created in collaboration with Philadelphia-based mural artist Betsy Casañas and Kinfolk Tech. The Grupos Motivos collective and the monument are a testament to what is possible when we dream collectively.

Our next teach-in “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is professor, researcher, a...
05/21/2026

Our next teach-in “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is professor, researcher, and author Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Escoffery ().

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Escoffery is the Margaret Walker Professor of Communication Studies and Founder of the Media and Data Equity (MADE) Lab at Northwestern University, Faculty Director of the MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises, and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center. He is the author of Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television (NYU Press, 2018), Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture (MIT Press, 2025), and The Cookout: A Guide to AI: Ancestral Intelligence (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025). He is the co-author of The Media Reparations Manifesto (Polity, forthcoming) and Beyond the Screen: A Decade of Unfiltered Storytelling (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025), which chronicles 10 years of the streaming platform OTV | Open Television, which he co-founded. His research & development has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, MacArthur Foundation, and Wallace Foundation, among others.

Our next teach-in, “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is writer and activist, Br...
05/19/2026

Our next teach-in, “We The People”, is Tuesday June 16 and joining our panel for this session is writer and activist, Brea Baker ().

💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesay, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

Brea Baker is a writer and activist whose book, ROOTED: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, details her family’s experiences across the South and makes another case for reparations to include land distribution. ROOTED has been celebrated in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Apple Books, the New York Times, iHeart Radio’s The Breakfast Club, Harper’s BAZAAR, Ms. Magazine, and was honored as a BCALA 2024 Nonfiction Honor award winner. With a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, Brea believes deeply in political imagination and the need for nuanced storytelling that doubles as ancestral veneration.

She also regularly contributes reported op-eds and personal essays to ELLE and Refinery 29 Unbothered with other bylines in Harper’s BAZAAR, The Nation, Oprah Daily, THEM, Coveteur, The Progressive, Mission Magazine, Nonprofit Quarterly, and Inside Philanthropy. Brea is a collective member of BLIS (Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty) as well as the Highland Project, and is on the board of YWCA USA, The Gathering for Justice, and Black Farmers’ Market NC.

05/18/2026

Where do we go to gather? Where do we go to tell stories?

Adrian Cepeda, owner of , reflects on his mission to steward a Latinx-owned community bookshop where stories by writers of color are uplifted, communities of color are seen in commerce, books, and cultural heritage, as well as what it means to be a member of the World’s Borough, and its most diverse neighborhood of Jackson Heights.

and Kinfolk Tech are excited to partner with The World’s Borough Bookshop, and to present the augmented reality monument of Dome Cartographies, by .

Come celebrate the launch of this monument in an essential New York diasporic third space!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP for FREE

Our next The People’s Archive teach-in is next month! Join us on Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30 pm ET for We The People in par...
05/14/2026

Our next The People’s Archive teach-in is next month! Join us on Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30 pm ET for We The People in partnership with .

Inspired by Kinfolk Tech’s AR monument to Philadelphia’s No Arena Movement—when communities in Chinatown, Black North Philadelphia, and across the city organized in solidarity to defeat a proposed 76ers arena that would have displaced thousands. The fight wasn’t just about stopping one development; it was about Asian, Black, Latinx, and working-class white Philadelphians recognizing that gentrification, displacement, and corporate extraction are interlocking systems of oppression that require interlocking resistance.

This session will feature panelists Brea Baker (), Claire Maracle, and Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery () discussing how collective power emerges when communities refuse to be pitted against each other.

📅 Tuesday, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

A preview of, and some history behind AR monument and sculpture “Dome Cartographies”This monument extends on Nakazawa’s...
05/09/2026

A preview of, and some history behind AR monument and sculpture “Dome Cartographies”

This monument extends on Nakazawa’s sculpture of the same name, from her recent installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. This monument is a dome that functions as a space for storytelling, gathering, and diasporic connection in the World’s Borough of Queens.

The sculptural dome takes its inspiration from the work of CHARAS, an education-focused group of former Puerto Rican gang members-turned-activists who challenged notions of who New York City was built for. In the 70s, they collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller to create Geodesic domes as gathering spaces in the abandoned areas of the Lower East Side.

Nakazawa’s reinterpretation of the domes are now transported to Jackson Heights, a neighborhood where many of New York’s Latinx populations (Ecuadorian, Colombian, and more!) have made their homes. But this neighborhood is not just a core Latinx neighborhood, but is also a place where different diasporas meet and fuse. Thus, the dome serves as a counter-map to how we see the city. Instead of street names and numbers, we see stories and perseverance.

Join us at The World’s Borough Bookshop in Queens to celebrate the monument launch with music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

🎉 Dome Cartographies Monument Launch Event
📅 5–7 PM
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP

YOU’RE INVITED🎉 Monument Launch Party🗓️ Friday May 29📍The World’s Borough BookshopThe Clemente and Kinfolk Tech are exci...
05/01/2026

YOU’RE INVITED

🎉 Monument Launch Party
🗓️ Friday May 29
📍The World’s Borough Bookshop

The Clemente and Kinfolk Tech are excited to announce the Jackson Heights, Queens edition of Historias in Motion, featuring “Dome Cartographies,” a new AR monument by artist Natalia Nakazawa paired with historical contributions from the Queens Memory Project. This signature series engages audiences with historically important Latinx neighborhoods around New York City, building community memory through artist-storyteller pairings, walking tours, limited-edition zines, and commissioned AR monuments that offer new possibilities for memorialization.

Join us at 5 pm on Friday, May 29, at the World’s Borough Bookshop to celebrate the monument launch music, artist conversations, walking tours, ‘zines, and more!

Tonight’s teach-in, Beyond The Past Tense, is inspired by “Black Hole Spacetime Machine” an AR monument created in partn...
04/20/2026

Tonight’s teach-in, Beyond The Past Tense, is inspired by “Black Hole Spacetime Machine” an AR monument created in partnership with Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa of . The monument is a tribute to the legacy of preacher, social activist, educator, and entrepreneur Rev. Leon H. Sullivan. It encourages viewers to look beyond the constraints of the present to envision Black people thriving in the future.

There’s still time to register and join us for tonight’s dialogue with our panel of digital archivists. We’ll explore questions of data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and how we build technologies that honor non-linear time, ancestral knowledge, and future generations simultaneously. We’ll examine how digital tools can help us break free from oppressive timelines that treat Black and Brown communities as disposable, always past, never future.

💻 The People’s Archive: Beyond The Past Tense
📅 Monday, April 20
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register

ASL interpretation will be available.

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