Save the Date: Voices of a People's History | Student Performance
Save the date for our 9th annual student performance of Voices of a People’s History at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. Details to come!
Save the date for our 9th annual student performance of Voices of a People’s History at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. Details to come!
Join co-editors Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin for a discussion on the twenty-first century social movements that come to life through speeches, essays, and other documents of activism, protest, and social justice in Voices of a People’s History in the 21st Century.
This Voices of a People’s History evening of discussion and performance will shed light on an all-too-often suppressed history, and in doing so, equip us with the tools to fight for a just future.
In partnership with National Nurses United
The People Speak is a set of dramatic readings of selected testimonies—speeches, letters, poems, songs, petitions, and manifestos—of people throughout U.S. history who struggled against slavery, racism, war, oppression, and exploitation, and who articulated a vision for a better world. The People Speak was inspired by Howard Zinn’s legendary book A People’s History of the United States, and its companion text, Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
Narrated by Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin
Featuring:
Abigail Breslin
Rosario Dawson
Michael Ealy
Aisha Hinds
Tatiana Maslany
Arian Moayed
Andre Royo
Nico Santos
Wallace Shawn
and Hayley Gene Penner and the tall tall buildings
This event spotlights readings and music from the social movements that have shaped our recent past, as collected in the newest Voices book, Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century: Documents of Hope and Resistance.
Join us on Saturday, June 17 for Juneteenth UNITYFEST, a BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert co-presented by Robert Randolph Foundation, featuring readings from Voices of a People's History.
Now in its eighth year, students from Judith S. Kaye High School, N.Y.C. Lab School for Collaborative Studies, and Urban Academy Laboratory High School will bring to life these heroic voices and find personal meaning in these timeless texts.
Join leading artists and activists including Marisa Tomei, Kerry Washington, and Stephanie Hsu at The Town Hall on May 2nd for the book launch of Voices of a People's History of the United States in the 21st Century.
Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Voices of a People's History project at this dynamic musical collaboration between musician Brandee Younger and singer/actor Eisa Davis.
In collaboration with longtime Lincoln Center partner Voices of a People's History, the David Rubenstein Atrium honors the centenary of Zinn's birth with Voices of a People's History of the United States. This spoken word and musical celebration of our nation’s rich history of dissent, sets Zinn’s subjects’ words to music, alongside protest songs by rebels and visionaries of our past and present.
NYU Portraits is an annual, performance-based event featuring a dynamic cast of student and celebrity performance artists, speakers, and trailblazers. This NYU tradition is a vibrant and exciting showcase where historical and contemporary movements for justice and equity come together on stage to inspire social change.
During this webinar, educators will learn about the organization, Voices of a People's History, learn how they can get involved, experience part of the Voices curriculum, and receive resources for their classrooms.
Using the history and narratives they’ve explored this year, students will present artistic pieces covering topics within disability justice, from disabled representation in the arts to neurodivergent student self-advocacy.
This latest iteration of our now seven-year-long partnership with Lincoln Center.
Scholars and authors Imani Perry (Looking for Lorraine) and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. will discuss the 50th anniversary of the National Black Political Convention, an under-acknowledged landmark assertion of the Black freedom struggle.
Lincoln Center's 2021 Poet-in-Residence Mahogany L. Browne (Black Girl Magic) and poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor (Mama Phife Represents), will join Zakiya Collier to discuss and read aloud from Sister Outsider, collected essays from the iconic activist, author, and poet Audre Lorde.
Author and historian Donna Murch (Assata Taught Me) and journalist Chenjerai Kumanyika (cohost of Uncivil podcast) will join Zakiya Collier to discuss author W.E.B. Du Bois' 1935 text Black Reconstruction, which foregrounded the role of Blacks forging our democracy.
This musical celebration of our nation’s rich history of dissent sets Zinn's subjects’ words to music, alongside protest songs by rebels and visionaries of our past and present.
NYU Portraits is a performance-based program in collaboration with Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Through poetry, monologues, and song, performers create a vibrant, striking experience where historical and contemporary movements for justice and equality meet the stage. Featuring a cast comprised of artists, social change activists, and NYU students, faculty, and staff, Portraits utilizes an innovative approach to highlighting the importance of campus diversity and social justice for incoming students.
In collaboration with Maxine Greene High School for Imaginative Inquiry and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
In celebration of a century of Women's Suffrage in the U.S., artists bring to life the words of those who struggled to transform democracy.
Celebrating Dr. King’s commitment to equity, freedom and peace for Black Americans and all people of this country and the world through performances.
This CAP UCLA presentation will feature Marisa Tomei, Morgan Spector, Staceyann Chin, Martha Redbone with Aaron Whitby, and others.
Tune in to The People Speak as renowned artists give voice to activists throughout history who made the world a better place by insisting on justice.
Bringing historical context and inspiration to our current moment, in which the battle lines are constantly shifting and a truly holistic vision in which reproductive justice is guaranteed remains paramount for all.
#PeopleSpeakSundays curator takeover continues with special guest curator Voices of a People's History of the United States, hosted and curated by poet Staceyann Chin.
In partnership with Maxine Greene High School for Imaginative Inquiry and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
This special virtual performance will feature students at the High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry, a New York City public school located at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Educational Campus
Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage Anywhere presents “The People Speak”, a collaboration with VOICES, a nonprofit arts, education and social justice organization, features excerpts by Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Maya Angelou, Nina Simone, James Baldwin and others.
In partnership with 400 Years of Inequality, National Nurses United
“Why We Fight: Voices from the Struggle for Health Justice” features the voices of healthcare workers and activists, dissenters, and visionaries fighting for the right to health and health justice, past and present.
#PowerOfStory
Inspired by the work of the late historian Howard Zinn (A People’s History of the United States), this event brings to life, through readings and songs, the voices of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past—and present.
Presented by Netflix