2011-2012 QAM Fellow Tommy Pico will co-host with Morgan Parker a poetry reading series, PWA, founded in 2014. Born out of the question, asked boozily at a bar one night, "What if poetry readings were never boring?" This installment, their first held at Ace Hotel, will include special guests Paul Tran, Mahogany Browne and Janea Kelly. The event is free and followed by Parker's own Reparations, Live!, for which Parker invites a panel to "tell us what America owes them, and brainstorm the infinite paths to getting paid."

More info and RSVP to attend here 

2011-2012 QAM Mentor Justin Vivian Bond will be performing Late for Love at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater post Valentine's Day. Joe's Pub writes, "in an attempt to practice radical empathy Mx Justin Vivian Bond is stepping out of their liberal champagne bubble and venturing on a cultural fact finding mission across America. Sticking with their credo, 'Keep it Pretty, Keep, it Shallow, Keep it Moving,' Mx Bond asks, 'Why alienate when you can infiltrate?'"

Read more about the performance and buy tickets here

2016-2017 QAM Fellow Anna Campbell will present her paper Sculpture For during the College Art Association Conference, held this year in New York. Her work will be featured as part of the session New Materialisms in Contemporary Art, chaired by Lex Morgan Lancaster of University of Wisconsin - Madison. The session also includes presentations by Joshua Lubin-Levy, Sarah Cowan and Linda Besemer.

More info on the session and conference here

2013-2015 QAM Mentor Yoruba Richen will screen a work in process cut of her new documentary film, How it Feels to Be Free, as part of the Athena Film Festival. The film explores groundbreaking black female entertainers, whose creative careers and political action for civil rights helped define their identities and inspire the next generation of women. Richen was also announced in January to be a recipient of Chicken & Egg Pictures' inaugural Breakthrough Award, which provides a $50,000 unrestricted grant to five women non-fiction directors, along with a year-long mentorship catered to each. 

Learn more about the festival and register to see the film here
Read the Breakthrough Award announcement here

2014-2015 QAM Fellow Arisleyda Dilone will show her short film Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito at the 29th MIX NYC New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. The film focuses on Dilone's relationship with her mother, primarily through a direct dialogue about Dilone's childhood, body and surgical decisions, and was completed during her QAM Fellowship.

Read more about the festival and buy tickets here 
See a trailer for Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito here

Queer|Art and Museum of the City of New York are co-sponsoring an evening of discussion and viewing as part of the exhibition Gay Gotham: Art & Underground Culture in New York. The roundtable, Queer Art at the Edge, includes some of Queer|Art's favorite folks: moderator Hunter O'Hanian (Executive Director of the College Art Association), and panelists Sheila Pepe, LJ Roberts and niv Acosta. Each participant will present examples of their work, and discuss with O'Hanian what the cutting edge means to them. Following the talk, the Gay Gotham exhibition will be open for special late night viewing.

For more info and specially priced $10 tickets for the Queer|Art community, gohere and enter code MCNY2 - Each ticket includes admission to the museum!