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Premier at the Parkside, March 2, 2025
Openings of HOLDING PATTERNS, The PatParker/ Vito Russo Library at The Center, NY (Oct 2025)
Opening @ The ONE Archives at the USC Libraries (Oct 2025)
Screenings Fall 2025: ASA, Video Visions, Amherst, Yale, Political Grief and so on…
Iglesia de la Santa Cruz + Bushwick Abbey , 176 St. Nicholas Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237, February 6, 2026.
Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, on haunting, Smith College , December. 2025.
Connecting Across Queer Memory Work workshop at the Center’s Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library + Lesbian Lives, Oct. 2025.
Political Grief Workshop led by the What Would an HIV Doula Do? October 4, 12-2. The One Archives. What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective held a workshop/ritual that engages participants to think about personal grief, political grief, and anticipatory grief (for the future) as a braided concatenation of individual and group memories and expressions.
NYU, September 26, 2025, 5 pm. Presented by the Center for Media, Culture & History, Conversation post-screening with NYU Arts Professor, Pato Hebert (Tisch School of the Art’s Department of Art & Public Policy), with focus on Long COVID and chronic illness.
Los Angeles LGBT Center, September 30, 6pm. Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Senior Center, Special Seniors Screening! (all ages welcome).
UCLA, English Department. October 7, 3-5. Hosted by Professor Rachel Lee.
The New School, Manhattan, NY, November 10, 2025, 6:30 pm, Hosted by Professor Mev Luna with a conversation between Alexandra Juhasz and the co-creators of the learning guide accompanying the installation, Chloe Buergenthal and Shwe Ye Shoon Myat.
Yale University, November 11, 2025. Hosted by Professor Neta Alexander. More here.
Amherst College, November 13, 2025. Hosted by Professor Pooja Rangan.
Northampton MA, Video Visions, November 14, 2025.
American Studies Association, Memory Intimacies with Marty Fink, Nov. 2025.
Wexner Center, Picture Lock Festival
The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library Committee at The Center, Feb. 25
Online & in-person small screenings: What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective, Knowledge of AIDS network, and Visible Evidence members
Screening for Juhasz Family, with support from Mimesis Documentary Festival, 2024
Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski Family Screening at Positive Exposure, 2024
Wexner Center for the Arts, Staff Screening, March 2024
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