Iniciativas
Yes Lab at the Hemispheric Institute
Starting in September, the Hemispheric Institute Yes Lab will involve students, faculty, local activists, and the occasional government official in strategizing and accomplishing funny media-getting actions. This fall’s Yes Lab projects will focus on the problem of income disparity and the rich-poor divide, locally and globally. Participants will join “action groups” to come up with funny media actions around manifestations of income disparity; specific focuses will include immigration, corporate tax cheats, military spending, and environmental injustice in Long Island City.
Also visit yeslab.org/hemi for all projects and current information.
Hemispheric New York Performance Network: Activating Hemispheric Performance in NYC
Led by the Hemispheric Institute and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation’s NYC Cultural Innovation Fund, the Hemispheric New York Performance Network (HNYPN) seeks to create innovative, long-term institutional partnerships with key NYC arts spaces to provide comprehensive and creative support and training for politically engaged, local, performance-based artists and to increase the presence of Americas-wide artists in NYC venues by building on the Hemispheric Institute’s experience in fomenting collaborations between artists, activists, and scholars across the Americas. Core partner institutions are Dixon Place, HERE, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), La MaMa, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX).
EMERGENYC
The Hemispheric New York Emerging Performers Program, EMERGENYC, trains emerging New York-based artists through a yearly program of workshops, lectures, performances and other events. We work with young artist-activists who see their work as a vehicle for political expression and social change and who share a vision of New York City and its five boroughs as a portal to hemispheric artistic practices, identities and histories. With an emphasis on activist performance and drawing on the experience of distinguished artists, activists and scholars, the program encourages participants to take interdisciplinary leaps, mix styles and traditions, and develop incisive new work at the intersection of performance and politics.
Religion and Politics in the Americas
Religion and Politics in the Americas is a 3-year initiative funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation that aims to promote transnational interdisciplinary research and dialogue between scholars, artists, activists and policymakers regarding the intersection of religion and politics in the Americas. Program activities include lectures, courses, performances, a flagship conference and policy roundtables in the United States, Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Canada. The initiative will convene a permanent Americas-wide working group and publish a trilingual blog on religion in the public sphere.
New WORLD Theater Legacy Initiative
From 1979-2009, New WORLD Theater worked at the intersection of artistic practice, community engagement, scholarship, and activism toward a vision of a “new world”—one that broke the confines of multiculturalism and was an artistic harbinger of America’s shifting demographics. In July 2009, citing the economic recession, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst made the decision to suspend, and effectively end, the operations of the New WORLD Theater. With support from the Ford Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Hemispheric Institute is leading a multipronged initiative to preserve, disseminate, and foster outgrowth from the vital legacy of the New WORLD Theater.
Iniciativa Hemi de Estudiantes Graduados
Inspirada por el trabajo del Instituto Hemisférico en las Américas, la Iniciativa Hemi de Estudiantes Graduados (Hemi GSI, por sus siglas en inglés) tiene el objetivo de reunir personas dedicadas e interesadas en trabajar en la intersección entre la academia, la expresión artística y la política. Trabajamos para promover prácticas corporales como un vehículo para la creación de nuevos significados y la transmisión de valores culturales, memoria e identidad. Únanse a nosotros para juntos borrar nuestras fronteras como profesores, estudiantes, artistas y activistas.
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Transnational Arts Initiative
Through the Transnational Arts Initiative, the Hemispheric Institute has expanded its work with Latino/a artists and arts organizations in United States, bringing them together with their counterparts throughout the Americas to explore the potential of working transnationally in the arts. This work is made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation.