The Zip Code Memory Project was a Social Engagement Project that sought to find community-based ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic while also acknowledging its radically unequal effects on Upper New York City neighborhoods. Our efforts resulted in two years of art-based community-building, a film, and an exhibition at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine. That was then. Now, at five years after lockdown, there is even more need to remember how social and economic differences determined what we went through, insisting on a better path and imagining justice and repair.

SCHEDULE

3:15: Welcome

3:30 – 4:15: Together, Not Alone
Screening and Talkback With Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Gabriela Canal

4:15 – 4:30: Participatory Exercise
Led by Performance Artist María José Contreras, Columbia University

4:30 – 6:00: Roundtable and Audience Discussion with The Zip Code Memory Project
Moderator: Matthew Jacobson, Yale University
Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
Susan Meiselas, Artist
Lorie Novak, Artist
Isin Onol, Curator, the School of Visual Arts
Laura Wexler, Yale University