Mark the third anniversary of the COVID-19 Pandemic in NYC by coming together to ask: What have we learned and how can we do better?

This special event at the Museum of the City of New York, features a screening, panel, and day-long performance centered around the uptown NYC premiere of the Zip Code Memory Project film, Together, Not Alone.

Talk to the future – A durational participatory performance with Maria José Contreras
The artist invites visitors to step into an imagined time capsule and respond to the question: “What should future generations know about Covid?” Contreras listens carefully to participants and then inscribes their words verbatim on the time capsule.
11:30 AM — 3:00 PM Museum Atrium

Uptown New York City premiere of Together, Not Alone, panel discussion and refreshments

Together, Not Alone, 2022, a short film directed by Gabriella Canal and Judith Helfand, shows how a group of strangers from across three New York City neighborhoods—different ages, races, socio-economic backgrounds, work, and life experiences – come together after months of Covid-19 isolation to explore, map, paint, shape, recall and bear witness to each other’s zip code-determined struggles and imagine justice and repair.

Panel Discussion: Three Years of Covid: What have we learned and can we do better?
With Judith Helfand and Gabriela Canal, filmmakers; Nancy Ko, student Columbia; Marie Nazon, social worker, CCNY; and Marianne Hirsch, Project Co-Director.
3:00 PM — 4:30 PM