This event requires registration\; see further details below.
Join Liz Lerman and Paloma McGre gor for a screening of short films documenting aspects of their work-in-pro gress dance-based public art project My Body is a Library. The pro ject centers libraries as places of refuge\, research\, and medicine\, and wonders how our bodies also hold knowledge\, stories\, and even the law. Th is iteration\, in partnership with the Harvard Law Library\, plays with mem ory\, rules\, and dislocation\, including how books move. The evening inclu des performative moments and conversation with Martha Minow\, the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University.
Liz Lerman has culti vated generations of artists\, focusing on dance as an agent for social cha nge and community engagement. Her leadership in the arts has been recognize d with a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a MacArthur “Genius Grant\,” and a Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award.
Paloma McGregor\, originally from St. C roix\, is an award-winning artist and organizer living in Harlem. She was a n artist in residence at New York University’s Hemispheric Institute for Pe rformance 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 admis sion\, but seating is limited and registration is required. You can registe r by clicking on the event on this form\, beginning Thursday\, February 27\, 2025 at 10am.
The lecture wil l take place in Menschel Hall\, Lower Level. Doors will open for seating at 6:30pm\; please use the museums’ Broadway entrance.
Limited complime ntary parking is available in the Broadway Garage\, 7 Felton Street\, Cambr idge.
This event is part of ArtsThursdays\, a university-wide initiative supported by the H arvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA).
The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all vis itors. 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 d ate of the program in the subject line of your email.
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