| DATE |
EVENT |
VENUE |
TIME |
| 4-28-06 |
Exhibit & Book Talk |
SUNY Purchase
Purchase, NY |
3:00pm |
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SUNY Purchase employees participated in the unseenamerica project in 2005. Participants were from various unions including United University Professionals and Civil Service Employees Association. There will be live performances by Purchase alumni including a band called Broadcast Live.
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| 5-1-06 |
Book Release Party & Signing |
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY |
6:30-8:30pm |
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Over 800 people, including unseenamerica participants from all over the country, attended this event. Speakers at this event include book participants, Dennis Rivera, President of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East; Richard Schwartz, Chairman of NYS Council on the Arts; Lisa Dennison, Director of the Guggenheim Museum; and Esther Cohen, Executive Director of Bread & Roses.
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| 5-3-06 |
Press Release |
Cleveland City Hall
Cleveland, OH |
2:00pm |
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The Mayor of Cleveland will host this event. 1199SEIU OH/WV/KY has images in the unseenamerica book.
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| 5-3-06 |
Book Release Party, Signing & Panel Discussion on Poverty |
Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art
8501 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH |
5:30-7:30pm |
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1199SEIU OH/WV/KY celebrates participants from their local in the unseenamerica book.
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| 5-3-06 |
Dance Performance & Exhibit |
Mulberry Street Theatre
New York, NY |
7:00pm |
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This HT Chen dance troupe will perform a dance based on the lives of Garment Workers and celebrateshe history of Chinatown. Choreographed by world renowned choreographer HT Chen. UNITE HERE Local 23/25 photographs will be on display. The event will be a week long performance.
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| 5-4-06 |
Exhibit & Community Forum on being 'seen' |
Shine Student Center
SUNY Syracuse, Syracuse, NY |
6:00-8:00pm |
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Workers from Syracuse participated in an unseenamerica workshop in 2005. The project was a huge success and received a lot of media attention. Syracuse is celebrates labor, community and diversity at this event.
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| 5-4-06 |
Exhibit & Book Signing |
Banana Factory
230 Dean Street, Bethlehem, PA |
6:00-8:00pm |
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At-risk school students have been participating in the unseenamerica project for two years. The Banana Factory has adopted the unseenamerica syllabus as part of their arts programming. The exhibit will showcase photographs by the middle school kids who participated in the project.
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| 5-10-06 |
Exhibit |
Gallery 1199
310 W 43rd Street, New York, NY |
5:30-7:30pm |
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Upstate NY Workers exhibit their photos. Exhibit will be up until the end of May.
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| 5-15-06 |
Exhibit & Book Release
hosted by State Senator Joseph L. Bruno |
Legislative Office Building
3rd floor terrace
Albany, NY |
afternoon |
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unseenamerica participants will be at the event along with Esther Cohen, Executive Director of Bread and Roses and Zoeann Murphy: Regional Coordinator of unseenamerica to talk about the book.
Guest speakers will include State Senator Bruno, President of the NYS AFL-CIO Denis Hughes and Chairman of the NYS Council on the Arts, Richard Schwartz.
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| 5-15-06 |
Exhibit & Book Talk |
Dallas Convention Center
650 S. Griffin St. Dallas, TX 75202
| evening |
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There will be an Art walk through the city of Dallas with unseenamerica images exhibited. Several events will be hosted by Mayor Laura Miller at the Dallas City Hall.
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| 5-16-06 |
Exhibit |
SUNY Oswego College
| evening |
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Exhibit of healthcare workers in upstate New York. Contact Jim Crampton for more info about the event.
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| 5-17-06 |
Forum & Book Signing |
Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA)
70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
| evening
|
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A discussion with Local 23/25UNITEHERE
(garment workers) facilitated by Esther Cohen, Executive Director of Bread and Roses, about “seeing” and “being seen.”
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| 5-17-06 |
Exhibit & Book Talk |
Dallas City Hall
| evening
|
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Unseenamerica Day proclamation by Mayor Laura Miller at the Dallas City Hall.
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| 5-17-06 |
Exhibit & Book Talk |
Boston Public Library
| TBD
|
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Photographs taken by local workers will be on display.
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| 5-18-06 |
Exhibit & Book Signing |
CEPA Gallery
1199SEIU Upstate Division Buffalo
617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY |
5:30-7:30pm |
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Photographs taken by local workers will be on display. Contact Jim Crampton for more info about the event.
|
5-20-06
5-21-06 |
Community Forum on "being seen"
& Book Talk |
First United Presbyterian Church
1915 Fifth Avenue, Troy, NY
| 5-20:
6:00-8:00pm
5-21:
11:30-12:30
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Pride at Work/Pride at School will focus on Gay and Lesbian inclusion in Church.
Open house on the 20th, Church workshop on the 21st. unseenamerica participants will be at the event to talk about the book.
Please call 518.272.2771 for more information.
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5-21-06
|
Community Forum on "being seen" |
Borders in Rapid City, SD
(near Pine Ridge Reservation)
| 1:00pm
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Eight of the photos in the book were taken by members of the Pine Ridge Lakota Native American
Reservation Community.
- The Pine Ridge Reservation is two million acres, roughly the size of Connecticut. The reservation is home to approximately forty thousand Lakota.
- The reservation covers the poorest two counties in the nation with an average of 86 percent unemployment versus the 5.5 percent national average. Sixty-three percent live bellow the federal poverty level, and that number continues to rise.
- Pine Ridge’s boundaries include the site of Wounded Knee, the infamous massacre that basically ended effective Indian resistance is the late 1800s.
- Pine Ridge is also the site of the 1973 American Indian Movement Siege at Wounded Knee.
Zoeann Murphy: Regional Coordinator of unseenamerica will be at the event as well as photographers who are published in the book.
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| 5-30-06 |
Exhibit |
The Fortune Society Office
53 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor New York, NY
| evening
|
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Staffed primarily by former prisoners, The Fortune Society is a not-for-profit community-based
organization dedicated to educating the public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the
root causes of crime. They also help former prisoners and at-risk youth break the cycle of crime
and incarceration through a broad range of services.
|
| 6-3-06 |
Book Release Event |
Los Angeles, CA
| evening
|
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Photographs taken by janitors of SEIU Local 660 will be on display.
|
| 6-5-06 |
Exhibit |
Queens College Library
| evening
|
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An unseenamerica exhibit by Afghan women living in Queens. Exhibit runs through the month of June.
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| 6-6-06 |
Exhibit & Book Talk |
United Nations, New York, NY
| 6:00pm
|
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Visually impaired elderly residents from the Jewish Guild for the Blind in Yonkers participated in the unseenamerica project and took beautiful photographs. The exhibit will be part of a larger exhibit about ageing.
|
6-8-06 thru
6-10-06 |
Conference on Class
& Book Signing |
State University of New York
at Stony Brook
| all day
|
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A conference on "How Class Works." To see the full program visit the conference page at
www.workingclass.sunysb.edu
|
| 6-17-06 |
Exhibit & Book Talk
workers will speak |
Hudson Opera House
Hudson, NY
| 6:00-8:00pm
|
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unseenamerica participants will be at the event as well as Zoeann Murphy: Regional
Coordinator of unseenamerica to talk about the book. Photos by local workers will be on display.
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| 6-22-06 |
Book Talk, Press Conference &
Community Roundtable |
Eastern Middle School
Silver Spring, MD
| 12:00pm
|
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SEIU will co-host the event with Casa De Maryland, which will feature graduates from an English as a second language program organized by Wheaton Worker's Center. There will be 400 immigrant graduates in attendance plus their families and friends. The graduates will be honored and Jaime Contreras, from SEIU local 82, will speak on behalf of the unseenamerica project. unseenamerica exhibit will feature images by the workers from local 82. Potluck with food from around the world will be served followed by a dance party.
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| 6-23-06 |
Exhibit, Community Forum
on "being seen" & Book Talk |
Hot House
31 East Balbo Ave., Chicago
| 5:00-7:00pm
|
|
SEIU janitors will exhibit their work. Please call 312.362.9707 for more information.
|
| July TBD |
Exhibit & Book Talk |
Hudson Valley Community Ctr.
Progressive Theatre
Poughkeepsie, NY
| TBD
|
- Hudson River Health Care Centers provides healthcare regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.
- The class was transnational. One class took place in Poughkeepsie with Latino workers and another took place in Oaxaca Mexico with their families.
- Many of the workers could not ever return home to Oaxaca. So because of this project they got to see their families and homes via photographs.
|
| 8-12-06 |
Exhibit & Forum on "being seen" |
Newburgh Public Library
Newburgh, NY
| 12:00-2:00pm
|
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There is an unseenamerica class taking place in Newburgh with women security guards of color
in Newburgh public schools. unseenamerica participants will be
at the event as well as Zoeann Murphy: Regional Coordinator of unseenamerica to talk about the book.
|
| Fall TBD |
Exhibit & Book Talk |
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY
| TBD
|
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Security guards from several Brooklyn institutions, including Brooklyn Academy of Music and Brooklyn Museum of Art, will exhibit their work.
|
| Fall TBD |
Exhibit & Book Talk |
Center for Working Class Studies
Youngstown, OH
| TBD
|
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Photographs taken by local steelworkers will be on display.
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| Fall TBD |
Exhibit & Book Talk |
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
| TBD
|
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Women in Transition have images in the book.
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