University Open Air: History and Evolution of the City in the West: How the COVID pandemic will change New York City

Since 2019 the Brooklyn Public Library is hosting the University Open Air, an space for immigrant professionals to do workshops, classes, and lectures. Since then the BKYPL - UOP is inviting me to participate in this exciting program and I won't say not to them. This fall is the 2021 version of the event and I will be there with this lecture Sunday, September 12 at 11 and 1PM, please, join me and share the info with your friends and relatives, it is free. Click on the image if you want to know the whole program. 

See you there!

Marcelo 

BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: UNIVERSITY OPEN AIR - FALL SEMESTER 2020

In their third edition, the Brooklyn Public Library is featuring the University Open Air, Fall Semester. As the last two editions, I was invited to participate in this one, I will do two lectures Saturday, September 19 at 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM. I am leaving here all the information about the UOA schedule, participants, and lectures plus my two classes on that specific date. 

This is a free event, please, spread the word and join us!

Click in the imagen to access to all the info about these events.

University Open Air Webpage 

First Lecture - Click in the image to go to the registration webpage

The second Lecture - Click in the image to go to the registration webpage

I hope you can participate

Enjoy!

Marcelo Arroyave

The last Collective Sursystem member in the pandemic world. 

OUTCOME FROM THE UNIVERSITY OPEN AIR MAGAZINE SSyS 3'R WORKSHOP AT MARCH 07/2020

Just one week before the lockdown in NYC (03/07/20) I made the final session of the Sursystyem 3'R workshop at University Open Air; it was really fun and very creative, the participants finished their interior pages and build their own magazine SSyS 3'R where they included those pages. 

We didn't decorate the cover and the back cover of the magazine that each participant made, due to a lack of time in the workshop, but we spent quality time learning different things about making pages for the magazine and about how to make the magazine with our own hands (DIY), we shared a lot of ideas and were able to know each other. It was a very nice experience just right BP (Before the Pandemic). It is a good memory from the past time to keep in my mind in this difficult moment. 

I want to show to the blog visitors the pictures from the workshop and their outcome; I don't show here pictures of my magazine exterior because I didn't decorate yet it and I don't know if the other participants did. 

The UOP Workshop participants

The UOP Workshop participants

Interior page from one of the workshop participant

Interior page from one of the workshop participant

Interior page from one of the workshop participant

The next pictures are from inside my magazine SSyS 3'R that I made in the workshop with the participant pages included in the content, plus the content page that was made in a typewriter machine. 

Many thanks to Gary Hardcastle for facilitating the typewriter machine to the workshop

Enjoy!

Marcelo Arroyave

Transmitting from the worst place to be in the middle of a pandemic, NYC.