Upcoming Events
Summer Sessions:
Lucky Dragons, Zola Jesus,Wet Hair
Friday, July 3, 2009, 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Join us outside on the University of Trash courtyard stage for our inaugural summer concert series!
Lucky Dragons, Zola Jesus, Wet Hair
Mark your calendars!
The show is $7, tickets can be purchased through our website, at the SculptureCenter front desk, or at Academy Records Annex in Williamsburg:
Academy Annex
96 N. 6TH ST. (Between Berry & Wythe)
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY 11211
Sunday through Thursday 12:00 AM to 8:00 PM
FRIDAY and SATURDAY 12:00 AM to 10:00 PM
The University of Trash presents:
Architectures of Crisis/ Architectures of Resistance
Saturday, July 18, 2009, 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Architectures of Crisis/ Architectures of Resistance highlights the role of built space past and present in organizing radical movements and documenting shifting economic, social, and political climates. MLAB will present their traveling RV classroom, gallery, and library. The Center for Urban Pedagogy will present Nehemiah! A Case Study of Radical Pragmatism, a slideshow and discussion about a visionary project made real. Teddy Cruz and CUP's founder Damon Rich will discuss the economic crisis in relation to Rich's current exhibition Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center at the Queens Museum, and Cruz's ongoing work with the trans-border urbanisms at the US and Mexico border region.
Image: Damon Rich, Block Buster, 2008. Animated neon sign. Photo: Lite Brite Neon.
Summer Sessions:
The Homosexuals, Little Claw, Religious Knives
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Join us outside on the University of Trash courtyard stage for our inaugural summer concert series!
The Homosexuals,
Little Claw, Religious Knives
Mark your calendars!
The show is $7, tickets can be purchased through our website, at the SculptureCenter front desk, or at Academy Records Annex in Williamsburg:
Academy Annex
96 N. 6TH ST. (Between Berry & Wythe)
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY 11211
Sunday through Thursday 12:00 AM to 8:00 PM
FRIDAY and SATURDAY 12:00 AM to 10:00 PM
The University of Trash hosts:
Capital Reading Group
Thursdays, May 14 - July 30, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us on Thursday nights 6-8pm in the Conversation Space at the University of Trash to follow David Harvey's video lectures on Marx's Capital Volume 1. David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and has been teaching Capital for over 40 years. We will follow his video lectures and discuss the reading and its relevance to the current crisis in an informal setting, likely to adjourn to a near by bar for further discussion. Attendance is open, however you must have your own copy of Capital Volume 1, Penguin classics edition.
Summer Sessions:
BARR, Silk Flowers, Love Tan
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Join us outside on the University of Trash courtyard stage for our inaugural summer concert series!
BARR, Silk Flowers, Love Tan
Mark your calendars!
The show is $7, tickets can be purchased through our website, at the SculptureCenter front desk, or at Academy Records Annex in Williamsburg:
Academy Annex
96 N. 6TH ST. (Between Berry & Wythe)
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY 11211
Sunday through Thursday 12:00 AM to 8:00 PM
FRIDAY and SATURDAY 12:00 AM to 10:00 PM
The Free Skool at The University of Trash
May 11 - August 3, 2009, Thursday - Monday, 11-6
The Free Skool at the University of Trash is an informal educational program that invites the public to become transient professors and students by proposing and participating in workshops, classes, meetings and more. Running during all open hours from May 11th- August 3rd, the University of Trash will host workshops ranging from weekly reading groups, book making workshops, to physical education intensives. A schedule of events will be updated regularly on SculptureCenter's website. The full schedule can be found on the Facebook page for University of Trash.
To propose a project or event for the Free Skool, email freeskool@universityoftrash.org.