Sat, Jul 13 at 10:00 AM

SFPC Summer Block Party

Brooklyn, New York
Free - $22.46 (includes all fees)

Join the School for Poetic Computation on Saturday, July 13 from 2-6pm for a Block Party! Our Block Party is a celebration of learning and unlearning. The Block Party will feature presentations by students and teachers from the past year of classes. Food and beverages will be provided. Come as you are and hang out!

Participate in Dance Poem Revolution, a game about poetry and revolution inspired by the popular rhythm game Dance Dance Revolution. Browse a computer terminal from the Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation featuring web projects by students alongside curated software and games. Shop SFPC merch (totes, tees, bucket hats, stickers!) and publications and printed ephemera from Reading into the Past / Writing into the Future, Alternative Typographic Histories, Relational Reconstructions, Sex Ed, and Solidarity Infrastructures.

Community agreement
All members and guests of the SFPC community agree to uphold the community agreement when entering community spaces, both in person and online. We commit to actively participate in the social material of our learning and work together to create boundaries that help everyone feel as safe and comfortable as possible.

Read the SFPC Community Agreement: http://orienting.sfpc.study/is-where-we/look-after-each-other/community-agreement.html

Safety precautions for airborne viruses
All block party attendees are expected to wear a high quality K/N95 mask indoors. Masks will be provided.

Full schedule
2:00 PM: Doors open; sign up for raffle
2:30 PM: Opening remarks
2:40 - 3:10 PM: Presentations
3:10 - 3:25 PM: Toast; raffle winners announcement
3:25 - 3:40 PM: Break
3:40 - 4:25 PM: Presentations
4:25 - 6:00 PM: Browse student projects; play Dance Poem Revolution; shop community market
6:00 PM: Doors close

About the venue
LARPA is a worker-rented studio and communal gallery space located in Bushwick, NY. As a collective, we are dedicated to fostering experimental perspectives on digital culture.

Featuring presentations, projects, and publications from the following classes
Alternative Typographic Histories
HTTPoetics
Instruments of the Black Gooey Universe
Interrogating Computational Approaches to Art
Learning to Love Math
The Musical Web
Reading into the Past / Writing into the Future
Relational Reconstructions
Sex Ed
Solidarity Infrastructures


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