Pop by Gelateria on South Grand and tell us your thoughts about anything and everything STL. We want to hear your opinions, needs, where you find joy, and more. Let’s hang out for a little lunch break!

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Join us at 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis for happy hour! This event is a part of our series of monthly gatherings for 2024: “Connect with Counterpublic.” We’ll hang out, talk community, discuss St. Louis, and more!

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Let’s grab coffee! Meet us Monday the 18th for a lunch break at Kaldi’s on Euclid Ave to Connect with Counterpublic. We look forward to learning about you + communities you care about in the city. Coffee’s on us!

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Join us at Sugarloaf Mound for a closing event of Counterpublic 2023 featuring a performance by The Wah.zha.zhe Puppet Theatre, a water acknowledgement with artist Anita Fields, and a conversation between Dr. Andrea Hunter (Osage Nation) and Fields, sited at her WayBack installation adjacent to the mound.

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New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: The Gathering, an innovative live event format that splits the difference between the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow and the Gathering of the Juggalos. Combining public assembly, academic symposium, music festival, and film screening, the two day event will conjure new pasts and ancient futures of the-place-currently-called St. Louis. Artists, activists and academics share the line-up with rappers and noise musicians in order to present a discursive and hallucinatory trip towards collectively convoking crimes against reality.

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Experience the “sculpting sounds” of White Mountain Apache musician and artist Laura Ortman. Performing in the Pulitzer’s main gallery, Ortman will play a solo set inspired by HeavyShield’s aiyo niitahtaan (2023) and other works included in the exhibition, Faye HeavyShield: Confluences.

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Join The Griot Museum of Black History and Counterpublic as we host a neighborhood-wide block party with interactive workshops for all ages, music, food, and more.

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New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: The Gathering, an innovative live event format that splits the difference between the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow and the Gathering of the Juggalos. Combining public assembly, academic symposium, music festival, and film screening, the two day event will conjure new pasts and ancient futures of the-place-currently-called St. Louis. Artists, activists and academics share the line-up with rappers and noise musicians in order to present a discursive and hallucinatory trip towards collectively convoking crimes against reality.

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Raven Chacon’s Drum Grid is a composition for numerous drummers, each positioned on a street corner throughout the Benton Park neighborhood. Beginning with a single drum hit from one player, subsequent drummers imitate the sound of the previous drummer down the block, with the gesture evolving as it travels around the neighborhood.

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Join Counterpublic and the Green City Coalition for the groundbreaking of Peace Park and Jordan Weber’s permanent regenerative sculpture, Defensive Landscape.

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Join us at Profield Reserve for an interactive workshop on the power of sound. Participants will discuss how music and sonics hold memory and narratives across time and space. We will listen and think together about how sound is passed down in families and communities and how sonics map the history of a place. Victoria Donaldson, owner of Northside Soul record shop will share her experiences as a DJ and keeper of sound, and together we will compose a collaborative mix. After the workshop, enjoy spins by the Sage DJ collective and vending by Northside Soul.

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For Counterpublic 2023, The Black Healers Collective will be organizing a healing space and ritual around spaces affected by immense traumas along Jefferson that require deep communal healing. This is a public session for the St. Louis community. Registration is required.

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This performance will be held near the (imagined) site of Josephine Baker's childhood home. (Her home, among many, was included in the demolition of the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood.)

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Departing from The Luminary and visiting Sugarloaf Mound, Benton Park, Pillars of the Valley, The Griot Museum of Black History and more.

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Departing from The Luminary and visiting Sugarloaf Mound, Benton Park, Pillars of the Valley, The Griot Museum of Black History and more.

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Water is life. The public will join together to honor/heal the water, water systems and Mississippi River through sound art and ritual. Chambers will lead the healing experience. In this site specific ekphrastic response, Chambers attempts to encapsulate the movement of people, water and nature through sound.

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To celebrate the opening the Saint Louis Art Museum’s exhibition Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s–1970s, Alexander Brier Marr, SLAM’s Associate Curator for Native American Art, will moderate the discussion with artists Anita Fields, Linda Lomahaftewa, and Alfred Young Man will discuss their time at the Institute of American Indian Arts and reflect on how it shaped their work.

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The 2nd Annual Saint Louis Juneteenth "FREE-DOME" Celebration presented by Saint LAAA FaB Inc. is a family-oriented event celebrating the rich heritage, history, and culture of people of African descent. We will come together to show that we are UNITED and to celebrate.

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In this workshop with Solidarity Economy STL at CF:STL Lab, we will invite participants to imagine what it would be like to live in a solidarity economy where all of the things a community needs–like housing, schools, farms and food production, local governance structures, art and culture, healthcare and healing, and transportation–are controlled and governed by everyday people. Through interactive discussions and visioning exercises, we will examine the potential for building these models and envision how solidarity economy principles can be applied to housing and other systems in our communities.

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Native Bee Stewardship Network aims to Decolonize the Hive by expanding our view of “Save the Honey Bees” to pivot towards advocating and supporting Native Bees. This hour-long knowledge sharing workshop celebrates native pollinators and their unique relationship with native plants through self-expression, environmental stewardship, and community building.

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Get ready to envision a future where housing in St. Louis is equitable and sustainable! Come join us for an immersive experience that blends engaging discussions, artful performances, captivating storytelling, and interactive activities to explore the past, present, and futures of housing in St. Louis - with an emphasis on historically marginalized communities most impacted by limited housing access, choice, and stability. We'll explore the interplay of race, class, and housing, and brainstorm ways to take action toward sustainable and just #housingfutures. Come expand your knowledge base, connect with your neighbors working toward housing justice, and help shape a more just and livable St. Louis.

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A Free Soil Party, hosted by Jackie Sumell.

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A song and performance to recall, to call in and to call out by Daughter of all Relations, Basmin Nadra.

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REGULAR DEGULAR is a response to the disparate architectural, economic, and historical tensions that lie on the surface of St. Louis, created by Will Rawls, a multidisciplinary artist working with choreography, performance, video, sculpture, works on paper, and installation.

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A walking tour of remembering and calling in the collective, guided by Dail Chambers.

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Hosted by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, join Curator Meredith Malone for a talk exploring how the artworks on view in “Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava” reflect the artist's engagement with the histories of Black liberation, abstraction, and new world building.

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General Sisters’ "Spreading out a woven blanket so that we can find each other here,” a gathering hosted by Xochitl Plancarte.

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During this “Tracing Histories” workshop led by artist and instructor Carrie Keasler, with support from Central Print Director Marie Oberkirsch, participants will engage in discussion and collaborative map-making activities based on St. Louis histories, especially those that have been erased.

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Experience Tha Muthaship at SLAM Underground, where Simiya will be holding two 15 minute soundhealings.

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We invite you to join us for a screening of documentaries and short films that explore topics of Black space, time, housing, and land justice, from The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, to the Black Artists Group documentary, and short films such as Afronauts and an episode of Cosmic Slop called the Space Traders, based off of the short story by critical race theorist Derrick Bell. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

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Join StL Art Place and Dutchtown South Community Corporation at CF: STL Lab for a dynamic workshop that focuses on community-centered solutions for equitable development, housing stability, and neighborhood vitality, using strategies into the intersection of art and housing justice.

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Led by Jen Everett, participants will learn and share strategies for record keeping and preservation while highlighting differences between institutional and vernacular frameworks. We will focus on the practices of informal archivists and keepers* within our own families and communities, subverting the myth of the institutional archive as the sole source of true or official knowledge. This offering will center histories that have been suppressed, omitted, or are at risk of being lost.

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Though the native bee sanctuary is sited at Chávez’s Northside Workshop, the project invites visitors and participants to reexamine their assumptions about vacancy throughout the city. Empty lots are bee sanctuaries. To recognize vacancy as sanctuary is to also remember the Native and Black lives that have been displaced, and ultimately to see the mechanisms of dispossession and intentional property blighting at work.

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Join the St. Louis Housing Authority to celebrate the donation of recently uncovered artifacts to former residents of Pruitt-Igoe.

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Join us for the first screening of REGULAR DEGULAR, a film by Will Rawls, as well as a conversation between Rawls and curator Katherine Simóne Reynolds.

REGULAR DEGULAR is a response to the disparate architectural, economic, and historical tensions that lie on the surface of St. Louis, created by Will Rawls, a multidisciplinary artist working with choreography, performance, video, sculpture, works on paper, and installation.

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Join artists Anita Fields and Faye HeavyShield for this special conversation about their work. The discussion coincides with HeavyShield's career-spanning solo exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the launch of Fields' project for Counterpublic 2023, a triennial civic exhibition that weaves contemporary art into the life of St. Louis. Hear the artists consider their locally exhibited works and share connections across their practices.

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Simiya Sudduth is a mother, artist, and educator currently living and practicing in St. Louis. For Counterpublic 2023, Sudduth’s projects include a number of murals and a mobile healing studio, Tha Muthaship, based out of Rung for Women, a nonprofit that promotes economic and social empowerment for women in St. Louis. Tha Muthaship is a mobile healing and arts space nestled inside a repurposed 1970s Terry Travel Trailer bringing visual art, mindfulness, healing, and wellness modalities to communities in St. Louis.

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Please join The Luminary for Fair Housing Futures in STL: Using Fair Housing Policies to Advance Housing Justice, the first of six programs hosted by Black Quantum Futurism in conjunction with their Summer Exhibition — Community Futures: Space Time Liberation Lab.

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Participate in a guided tour of the exhibition “Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth” at the Contemporary Art Museum, on view from March 10 – August 13, 2023.

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A day of discussions with the Counterpublic curatorial ensemble and artists, hosted by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

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Join us at the Luminary for Black Quantum Futurism: Community Futures: Space-Time Liberation Lab (CF:STL Lab), an Afrofuturist housing and land justice lab.

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Experience Mendi + Keith Obadike’s SlowDrag, a sound installation consisting of cars moving through the St. Louis Place neighborhood playing numerous simultaneous remixes of a song (an interpolation of “Black Angel Blues”) created by the artists.

Their sonic procession relies on the shape and form of the neighborhood to determine the route. Curated by Allison Glenn and realized in part in collaboration with Muhammad “Mvstermind” Austin. Departing from St. Louis Place Park, the procession will last approximately one hour.

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