night one Bill Weinberg presents LIVE Tompkins Square: Legacy of Rebellion + Mutual Aid + Captured . night two SETH TOBOCMAN presents live FREE THE LAND! + Paul Garrin's Man with a Video Camera/Free Society + Echoes in Tompkins. night three NYC anarchist book fair Emma Goldman Film Festival featuring…

Date: Saturday, September 13th · Time: 11am-7pm Location: La Plaza Community garden Over 30 different publishers and anarchist zine makers will be exhibiting, as well as dozens of in person workshops.

Matthew Courtney. Thinking… Open-Mic with EMCEE FACEBOY May 18, 6-8pm at MoRUS 155 Ave. C

Thursday, May 1st, at 8:00 pm at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. Eric Drooker, a native of Manhattan’s East Side, will give a slide lecture about the changing landscape of the neighborhood. He will struggle to answer the question: “Is it possible for an artist to survive in the 21st…

La Plaza Community Garden @ 2pm – 3pm Come celebrate this year’s Earth Day with Time’s Up! Come celebrate earth day with a custom bike tour of our amazing community gardens! The tour will start 2pm and will last abut an hour. The ride will be starting and ending at…

Come see, hear, and meet cartoonists from Ukraine, Russia, Palestine, Israel, Brazil, Peru, and beyond. Refreshments, too, naturally. Comics, Art and Poetry dedicated to social justice and a livable planet. This comics anthology is edited by Jordan Worley, Nicole Schulman, Seth Tobocman, and Sue Simensky Bietila. Sunday, Oct 13, 12pm-8pm…

The Anarchist Switchboard was a political organizing space on the Lower East Side from late 1983 to 1989. It was located at 324 East 9th Street and was started by people associated with The Libertarian Book Club,  Alchemical Theatre, Freespace, and The Living Theatre. After the 1988 Tompkins Square Park Police…

Featured films highlights urban grassroots environmental activism-revealing how community organizing, direct action and education have led to a more sustainable city and helped to combat climate change. Purchase tickets here and check out press release here.  

Thursday, June 20th…………5 pm @ Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, 155 Avenue C Come to the opening of our new showing in collaboration with C-Squat

Original hand-painted NYC punk banners painted by Masoto Okano. Click here for details

It's National Poetry Month and we are having a Poetry Reading with several local East Village poets. 4pm-6pm. Got something to say? Open Mic around 5pm.

The Collezione di Attimi photo exhibit will open Saturday, September 16th as part of the NYC Anarchist Book Fair and close Sunday, September 24rd. Check out the event page for open hours and exhibit talks.  

4 nights, 10+ films on urban housing solutions | Thursday September 14-Sunday September 17, 2023 | Held in a different community garden each night | Details here.

2 hours of walking, photographing, and placemaking on the Lower East Side. Get up close to its activist history, from a 19th century German immigrant enclave to its 1970s urban reclamation. | Sunday September 3, 2023 @ 4PM | Details here.

Join us Sunday, August 13th at 1pm for an Art & Activism Workshop led by Montreal's Stefan Christoff, which will explore the intersections of social movements and aesthetic production.

Opening Saturday June 17th from 6-9PM, Fridge Street: Bridging Sites of Mutual Aid explores and archives the network of community fridges across New York City.