Events
Events hosted by Common Notions, our authors, and our community
Word Up presents authors Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams in conversation with veteran organizer and multi-instrumentalist, David Friend, performing pieces by Susan Parenti, Mark Enslin, Larry Polansky, and Elizabeth Adams.
Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams in conversation with Teresa Basilio Gaztambide and Esteban Giron.
Performance by Margaret Lancaster.
Celebrate the publication of My City Need Something with Christopher R. Rogers and karim brown!
February 14, 2026 | 12-2PM
Blackwell Regional Library
125 S. 52nd St.
FREE
Cohosted with Hakim’s Bookstore and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction
With Enda Brophy (Simon Fraser University), Lilly Irani (University of California San Diego), Mostafa Henaway (Immigrant Workers Centre), and Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto).
Hosted by Ouvrage magazine
Join us at Friends House as we celebrate the launch of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, a brand new book full of first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labor movement as artificial intelligence gains ground in every facet of our lives.
Workshop with Kevin Van Meter and Robert Ovetz, editors of the forthcoming Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism, The Writings of Harry Cleaver
Eight-Session Political Education & Organizing Series
Join Mx. Yaffa for eight intensive sessions to discuss building Utopia, a collectively liberated world. This program is built around Yaffa's book Letters From a Living Utopia
Workshop with Benjamin Heim Shepard & Lynn Lewis
Yaffa AS in conversation with Leah Kim and Rabab Abdulhadi
Josh MacPhee (Interference Archive), Sarah Seidman (Museum of the City of New York), and Sohl Lee (Stony BrookUniversity) in conversation with Jordana Mendelson (NYU, Director of KJCC) and moderated by Auriane Benabou (NYU).
On Friendship and Fighting with George Orwell and Ourselves with Benjamin Heim Shepard and Eric Laursen
Online event featuring Kennedy Block, Alexandra “Al” Bradbury, Josh MacPhee, Robert Ovetz, and Kevin Van Meter.
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