Social Justice Through Artistic Expression Performance and Discussion

Come and be inspired by 4 artists who will take part in a panel discussion and then perform in the name of social justice.

This event was organized by the BMCC Social Justice Faculty Interest Group and will be hosted by Professor Shirley Leyro, Department of Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice.  For more information, contact Professor Brenda K. Vollman at bvollman@bmcc.cuny.edu.

This event is free and open to the general public.

		Patrick Dougher was born and raised in Brooklyn. He is an artist, musician, and educator with over 30 years’ experience as a fine artist, drummer/percussionist and over 20 years’ experience in working for community-based arts and social justice organizations. He has worked as an Art Therapist, a youth counselor and program coordinator at Project Reach NYC and assistant curator at The Museum of African Art. He has made art, music and the education and socio-emotional support of the underserved youth of the city his life’s mission.
		Shellyne Rodriguez is a visual artist who works in multiple mediums to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against false hope, a device employed in the service of subjugation. Her work utilizes text, drawing, painting, found materials, and sculpture. She has had her work and projects exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum, New Museum and her work has recently been commissioned by the city of New York for a permanent public sculpture, which will serve as a monument to the people of the Bronx.
		Amin Husain’s interests focus on resistance and liberation, as well as movement generated theory and practice. His research and teaching interests span debt and financialization, globalization and political economy, social movements and cultures of resistance, race, class and ethnicity in the media, and postcolonial theory. He is a member of Gulf Labor Coalition, a self-organized group of artists, writers, architects, curators, and other cultural workers trying to ensure worker’s rights are protected when art, labor and global capital intersect.
		Mahina Movement (Gabriella Callender, Erica DeLaRosa and vaimoana litia makakaufaki niumeitolu) is a group with varied cultural backgrounds (African American, Chicana, Tongan) who inspire communities to create songs, (music that fuses folk, blues and Hip Hop) poems, dances and/or movement and paintings (sometimes live!) to raise awareness and visibility around political and social injustices, to celebrate and encourage a consciousness, and most definitely, to Represent!

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