BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:421@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210225T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210225T190000 DTSTAMP:20211213T155630Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/spring-2021-sciame-se ries-liza-peterson-and-raphael-sperry/ SUMMARY:Spring 2021 Sciame Series: Liza Jessie Peterson\, Raphael Sperry\, and Elias Beltran DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series\, titled And/O r. This lecture will feature Liza Jessie Peterson and Raphael Sperry\, in troduced by Elias Beltran\, for a discussion of art and architecture.\n\nF ree and open to the public - Please register for this Zoom event here.\n\ nIn this online series\, curators Viren Brahmbhatt\, Ali C. Höcek\, and M artin Stigsgaard argue that the traditional format of a single lecturer sp eaking to an audience sets up a binary opposite all of its own -- speaker/ listener\, which simply reinforces the power structure between those who " possess" knowledge and those who "consume" it. In its place\, the &\;/O r Online Dialogues will present two speakers in conversation with each oth er\, moderated by a third. The series features prominent artists\, activis ts\, and architects from across the globe who will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they confront.\n\nRaphae l Sperry is an architect\, sustainable building consultant\, and human ri ghts advocate. As President of Architects / Designers / Planners for Socia l Responsibility from 2004-2020 he led ADPSR's national campaign to ban th e design of spaces that violate human rights. He promotes restorative alte rnatives to incarceration as a board member of Designing Justice + Designi ng Spaces. He is an Associate at Arup\, where he consults on net positive design for buildings that regenerate energy\, water and natural systems an d helps shape Arup’s efforts to incorporate human rights and the UN Sust ainable Development Goals into corporate policies and building projects.\n \nLiza Jessie Peterson is an artivist\; an actress\, playwright\, poet\, a uthor and youth advocate who has been steadfast in her commitment to incar cerated populations both professionally and artistically for over two deca des. Her critically acclaimed one woman show\, The Peculiar Patriot\, was featured at the 2020 Democratic National Convention\, and was recently rec orded for Audible. Her play was also featured at The Pulitzer Center’s f all 2020 program and a documentary is in production about her performance at the notorious Angola Penitentiary where she performed the play in front of 700 inmates and was live streamed throughout the entire prison. The Pe culiar Patriot premiered at the National Black Theater in Harlem\, followe d by Arts Emerson (Boston) and Woolly Mammoth (D.C.) and was nominated for a Drama Desk award in 2019. The Peculiar Patriot received a generous gran t from Agnes Gund’s prestigious Art for Justice Fund. During the early y ears of this play’s uncanny trajectory and true to her artivist nature\, Liza performed The Peculiar Patriot in over 35 penitentiaries across the country in a self-funded prison tour spanning the course of four years.\n\ nLiza is author of ALL DAY\; A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcer ated Kids at Rikers Island (Hachette publishing). She was featured in Ava DuVernay’s Emmy award winning documentary\, The 13th \, and was a consul tant on Bill Moyers documentary Rikers (PBS).\n\nAlso known for her except ional poetic skills\, Liza began her poetry career at the Nuyorican Poets Café and was a vital member of the enclave of notable poets that inspired Russell Simmons to bring spoken word to HBO where Liza appeared on two ep isodes of Def Poetry.\n\nIn addition to The Peculiar Patriot Liza has writ ten several other plays that received development support from The Lark\, Syracuse Stage\, The McCarter Theater\, Manhattan Theater Club\, New York Theater Workshop\, and The Atlantic Theater Company.\n\nAs an actress Liza appeared in several feature films: Love the Hard Way (co-starring with Pa m Grier and Adrien Brody)\, Spike Lee’s Bamboozled\, K. Shalini’s A Dr op of Life and Jamie Catto’s What About Me. She can be seen in an upcomi ng webseries\, A Luv Tale\, directed by Kay Oyegun (This is Us\, Blackish) .\n\nLiza is currently writing a television series based on her book ALL D AY\, about her teaching experience at Rikers Island\, as well as another s eries based on her stage play SistahGurls and the Squirrel that tackles st ate sanctioned violence against Black bodies and the second amendment righ t to bear arms.\n\nElias Beltran was a case manager at the Center for Comm unity Alternatives\, where he worked with justice-involved youth\, former Director of an HIV/AIDS awareness program\, and certified Peer Counselor. Elias graduated with a BA in Literature and the Humanities in 2017 from th e Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). At Bard\, his Senior Project looked at tra uma\, dispossession and reclamation in the work of Junot Díaz\, Amy Tan a nd Khaled Hosseini. Interested in Caribbean literature\, Chinese migration to the Caribbean\, postcolonialism and empire\, he continues to study Man darin Chinese and is now in the second year of a PhD in Comparative Litera ture at Cornell University where he is also a Spanish Language Instructor. At 16\, Elías was sentenced to a term of 30-years-to-Life in prison. He served 29½ years of that term.\n\nLecture series sponsored by Sciame . . . Where Building Is an Art CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR