Institution: Allied Productions, Inc. & Le Petit Versailles
Event Title: PUBLIC NOTICE: Allied Productions' Living Archive
Location: 368 E 8th St New York, NY 10009
Event Format: Hybrid Program
Event Date: Friday, October 23, 2026
Event Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Allied Productions will be unearthing select boxes from the archive that reveal a history of New York’s Lower East Side placing artists as organizers and advocates in efforts for public health and community welfare. Through records and programs tracking legal disputes involving historic NYC squats and visual documentation of queer performances and DIY art shows amidst the AIDs crisis, Allied Productions, Inc. Records and Media Collections holds a blueprint for artists challenging the status quo and working against governmental neglect. Founders Jack Waters and Peter Cramer will be discussing their work stewarding community spaces such as ABC No Rio, CHARAS, and Le Petit Versailles as well as their ongoing endeavors in collecting queer ephemera and producing artwork centering marginalized voices. They will be joined by Rose Knopper and Grace Muller, both artists who have spearheaded Allied’s recent archival project initiated in 2024 as they discuss what lessons can be drawn from revisiting vulnerable histories and creating systems for a living archive. Some featured documents were processed with help of archivists at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space.
Capacity: 50
Registration Note:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-notice-allied-productions-living-archive-tickets-2003216338995
Public Contact: J.C. Llaguno, jcllaguno@alliedproductions.org
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