TUESDAY JULY 22ND

Building Maroon Infrastructures: Counter-territories, Counter-logistics, Survival Programs – 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Hosted by: Muindi Fanuel Muindi

@ Co-Prosperity • 3219 S Morgan St

This workshop explores maroon infrastructures as living, adaptive systems that resist the coercive order of Empire while creating conditions for planetary abolition. Drawing from AbdouMaliq Simone’s concept of “the surround,” we will examine how fugitivity gives rise not only to escape but to world-making—to infrastructures that hold refusal and endurance in dynamic tension.

Using the analogy of a communal meal, the workshop will unpack four interwoven dimensions of maroon life: (1) Administrative Statements as recipes for collective care; (2) Technical Implements as tools for survival, concealment, and mobility; (3) Built Environments as fugitive architectures and escape routes; and (4) Dramatic Elements as the actors and forces shaping maroon dynamics.

Participants will engage historical and contemporary examples—from the Underground Railroad and quilombos to Black Panther survival programs and diasporic counter-logistics—to explore how these infrastructures unsettle dominant systems while prefiguring alternative futures.

This is not a workshop about nostalgia or heritage, but about practice—how we prototype autonomous forms of life under conditions of constraint, through relational tactics of care, evasion, and insurgency. Together, we will trace the rhythms, tools, and spatial strategies through which maroon communities have survived, adapted, and rehearsed the impossible.

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Plant life is abundant and so are you! An invitation to water your relationship with plants – 6:00 – 8:00 PM

@ Research House for Asian Art • 3217 S. Morgan St

Seed collection, plant cuttings, food, medicine, nature-based arts! Scarcity mindset is out; creating abundance through relationships with plant life is in! Before you go to the store to buy veggies, flowers, or a new houseplant, learn how you can grow your own with what you already have in your home (or in your friend/neighbor’s home).

(If space allows please include the next two sentences in the blurb/paragraph):

Take small moments to become familiar with plant relatives that surround us. When you’re ready, you can take steps to tend to and share the bounty.

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Screening of ‘La montaña’, 2023 – 8:00PM – 10:00 PM

Hosted by: Contratiempo

@ Co-Prosperity • 3219 S Morgan St

A film log of the maritime journey of a delegation of seven indigenous rebels from Chiapas to Europe in the midst of the pandemic. During the Atlantic crossing, the story and generational change of the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) is narrated, based on the idea that in order to change the world we must first change the way we look at it. Squadron 4-2-1. The documentary will have English subtitles.

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Queer Everyday: Collage & Talk – 8:00PM – 10:00 PM

@ Research House for Asian Art • 3217 S. Morgan St

Queer Everyday is a hands-on workshop where we share stories about queer identity, everyday life, and feeling at home (or not). We start with a talk and short freewriting, then turn words into colorful collage pages for a zine we make together. Come, chat, cut, collage!