My Body is a Library
March 13, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
This event requires registration; see further details below.
Join Liz Lerman and Paloma McGregor for a screening of short films documenting aspects of their work-in-progress dance-based public art project My Body is a Library. The project centers libraries as places of refuge, research, and medicine, and wonders how our bodies also hold knowledge, stories, and even the law. This iteration, in partnership with the Harvard Law Library, plays with memory, rules, and dislocation, including how books move. The evening includes performative moments and conversation with Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University.
Liz Lerman has cultivated generations of artists, focusing on dance as an agent for social change and community engagement. Her leadership in the arts has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” and a Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award.
Paloma McGregor, originally from St. Croix, is an award-winning artist and organizer living in Harlem. She was an artist in residence at New York University’s Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, an artist in residence at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and is currently a Movement Research Artist in Residence and an Urban Bush Women Choreographic Fellow.
Free admission, but seating is limited and registration is required. You can register by clicking on the event on this form, beginning Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 10am.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Doors will open for seating at 6:30pm; please use the museums’ Broadway entrance.
Limited complimentary parking is available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
This event is part of ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative supported by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA).
The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register@harvard.edu at least 48 hours in advance. Please include the name and date of the program in the subject line of your email.