The Greene Space at WNYC/WQXR

05/06/2021

Pity These Ashes: Tulsa 1921-2021 | The Greene Space

On June 19, we present Pity These Ashes: Tulsa 1921-2021, a free Juneteenth concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in partnership with The Harlem Chamber Players, Harlem Stage, and The Harlem School of the Arts.

RSVP at bit.ly/3xVDe1E.

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, The Greene Space in partnership with The Harlem Chamber Players, Harlem Stage and the Harlem School of the Arts presents Pity These Ashes: Tulsa 1921-2021.

05/04/2021

Punishment & Profit – Investors

LIVE NOW: Join us for the final installment of Punishment & Profit. Worth Rises leads a discussion with guests Elizabeth Parisian of AFT - American Federation of Teachers, Investment Strategist at Adasina Social Capital Phuong Luong, Jim Baker and Morgan Duckett, who are all working to disentangle institutional funding from the prison industry.

04/30/2021

The Baptism

LIVE NOW in collaboration with Lincoln Center: The first live performance of Meshell Ndegeocello's score to Carrie Mae Weems’ The Baptism (rhetoric), based on the poem by Carl Hancock Rux, followed by a conversation with them and New Sounds John Schaefer.

04/29/2021

Kinan Azmeh Cityband

Watch a special performance from The Greene Space at WNYC/WQXR with Syrian-born, Brooklyn-based genre-bending composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh , part of Carnegie Hall's Voices of Hope Festival.
Kinan Azmeh Cityband creates spellbinding music by blending classical and jazz with the sounds of Azmeh’s Syrian homeland. His dark-hued clarinet—called “intensely soulful” by The New York Times—is featured in this performance of works Azmeh wrote in response to events in Syria, the aftermath of the revolution, and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. The cornerstone of the program is the world premiere of On Resilience, commissioned by Carnegie Hall—a new piece in which Azmeh incorporates audio testimonies from Syrians after 10 years of war and conflict.

04/28/2021

Death, S*x & Money Presents: How To Talk About Hard Things, and Why You Should

LIVE NOW: Join NPR ’s Noel King as she interviews @deathsexmoney's Anna Sale about her new book, and about all that can be gained from more courageous, open and direct conversations.

04/28/2021

Don't miss Poetry & the Creative Mind, the 25th anniversary celebration of National Poetry Month from our friends at Poets.org on April 29 at 7:30 p.m. EDT. This one-of-a-kind event hosted by the Academy of American Poets features performances of poems by Meryl Streep, Regina King, Sandra Oh, Joy Harjo, and Lucinda Williams, among others. Free, virtual, and open to the public. Register here: poets.org/gala/2021

Don't miss Poetry & the Creative Mind, the 25th anniversary celebration of National Poetry Month from our friends at Poets.org on April 29 at 7:30 p.m. EDT. This one-of-a-kind event hosted by the Academy of American Poets features performances of poems by Meryl Streep, Regina King, Sandra Oh, Joy Harjo, and Lucinda Williams, among others. Free, virtual, and open to the public. Register here: poets.org/gala/2021

04/27/2021

Punishment & Profit: Community Corrections

LIVE NOW: Join us as we uncover carceral innovations and what’s at stake for the millions on probation and parole and their communities with Columbia University School of Social Work 's Vincent Schiraldi, MediaJustice's James Kilgore, and freelance journalist Victoria Law. https://bit.ly/3gEzUBw

04/23/2021

Kinan Azmeh Cityband Trailer

🎶 On Thursday, April 29, Kinan Azmeh Cityband takes the stage as part of Carnegie Hall's Voices of Hope festival. Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh كنان العظمة will perform music written in response to recent events in his homeland and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. RSVP: bit.ly/3xelSwq

Produced in partnership with WQXR.

04/20/2021

Punishment & Profit: Transportation

LIVE NOW: Learn more about transportation in the prison industry and how journalism has sparked change with Worth Rises. We’ll hear from reporters at The Marshall Project.org, Eli Hager and Alysia Santo, Former Corrections Officer Victoria Maxwell + Activist Joseph De La Luz.

04/15/2021

Uncovered: Jessie Montgomery, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, George Walker

LIVE NOW: Catalyst Quartet culminates their trio of performances from their latest project, UNCOVERED, with the work of composers Jessie Montgomery, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and George Walker. WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon hosts.

04/13/2021

Punishment & Profit: Healthcare

LIVE NOW: #PunishmentProfit w/ Worth Rises on healthcare in prisons feat. American Friends Service Committee 's Caroline Isaacs, Trial Lawyer Marcy Croft, Clinical Associate Professor at NYU School of Global Public Health Homer Venters and Sheron Edwards who is currently incarcerated.

04/13/2021

Catalyst Quartet at The Greene Space on 04.15

🎻🎼 UNCOVERED — Catalyst Quartet’s online concert series highlighting the work of composers who have been overlooked because of their race and/or gender — concludes Thursday April 15 at 7PM ET with the compositions of Jessie Montgomery, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and George Walker. Co-presented w/ WQXR.

04/07/2021

🍚 Missing anything in your grocery list? Tomorrow April 8, we’re teaming up w/ MOFAD - Museum of Food and Drink again for Caribbean Chinese Fried Rice: An Afro-Asian Diaspora Story.

Cornell University Professor Tao Leigh Goffe and Lucas Sin of junzikitchen & Nice Day Chinese lead a lecture, cooking demo and conversation exploring the crossroads of Black and Asian diaspora cuisines. $20 tickets + full recipe: bit.ly/3dIZUZn

Photo courtesy of Lucas Sin

🍚 Missing anything in your grocery list? Tomorrow April 8, we’re teaming up w/ MOFAD - Museum of Food and Drink again for Caribbean Chinese Fried Rice: An Afro-Asian Diaspora Story.

Cornell University Professor Tao Leigh Goffe and Lucas Sin of junzikitchen & Nice Day Chinese lead a lecture, cooking demo and conversation exploring the crossroads of Black and Asian diaspora cuisines. $20 tickets + full recipe: bit.ly/3dIZUZn

Photo courtesy of Lucas Sin

04/06/2021

Punishment & Profit: Food & Commissary

LIVE NOW: #PunishmentProfit w/ Worth Rises on health and food in prisons- featuring Impact Justice's Leslie Soble, The Counter Newsroom's Joe Fassler, Down North Pizza's Michael Carter and Uprooted & Rising's Mina Aria.

03/31/2021

Get Lit with All of It - Patricia Lockwood

LIVE NOW: Alison Stewart discusses author Patricia Lockwood's genre-defying first novel "No One is Talking About This" for #GetLit with
All Of It With Alison Stewart. Featuring an interview and performance with the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle.

03/31/2021

Caribbean Chinese Fried Rice: An Afro-Asian Diaspora Story | The Greene Space

🍚 On April 8, join us in the kitchen as we prepare Caribbean Chinese fried rice and explore cultural crossroads with MOFAD - Museum of Food and Drink.

Professor Tao Leigh Goffe (Cornell University) and Chef Lucas Sin (Junzi Kitchen, Nice Day Chinese) will give a virtual cooking demo and discuss the intersection of Black diaspora and Asian diaspora cuisines.

$20 tickets at bit.ly/31Cwaru

In collaboration with the Afro-Asia Group and Junzi 君子 Kitchen, MOFAD and The Greene Space take you through Afro-Asian foodways and intimacies, featuring a lecture, cooking demo and conversation exploring the crossroads of Black diaspora and Asian diaspora cuisines. Troubling the concept of what...

03/30/2021

Punishment & Profit: Financial Services

LIVE NOW: #PunishmentProfit on Financial Services in the Prison System w/ Worth Rises featuring Wegotusnow Ebony Underwood, Prison Policy Initiative's Katie Rose Quandt and Human Rights Defense Center's Paul Wright.

03/24/2021

Digital Verse: Nuyorican Poets Cafe x TGS

LIVE NOW: #DigitalVerse with Nuyorican Poets Cafe hosted by J.F. Seary and featuring established and up-and-coming performers including Joanna Hoffman, Suzen Baraka, Tahani Salah, Allison Hicks, Gabriel Ramirez, Ryan Victor Pierce, Ishmael Reed, and Caridad de la Luz.

03/23/2021

Punishment & Profit: Telecom

LIVE NOW: #PunishmentProfit w/ Worth Rises on how communication impacts the families of incarcerated people feat. previously incarcerated and current activist Ulandis Forte, journalist Rachel Cohen, advocate Diane Lewis, Director of Financial Justice of the city of SF Anne Stuhldreher and host Bianca Tylek.

03/19/2021

Catalyst: Uncovered Florence B. Price

LIVE NOW: Catalyst Quartet continues their trio of performances from their latest project, UNCOVERED, with the work of Florence B. Price. WQXR's Terrance McKnight hosts.

03/16/2021

Punishment & Profit: Data and Information Systems

LIVE NOW: #PunishmentProfit w/ Worth Rises featuring Columbia University in the City of New York professor Bernard Harcourt, journalist Debbie Nathan, advocate Paromita Shah and activist Taylonn Murphy Sr. to discuss the work being done to restore civil liberties for those behind bars.

03/11/2021

2021 Avery Fisher Career Grants Virtual Ceremony

Watch a virtual ceremony celebrating the newly announced 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipients - Oliver Herbert, Sterling Elliott, Geneva Lewis, Eric Lu, and Kevin Zhu.
The Avery Fisher Career Grant is given annually to talented solo artists or chamber ensembles who exhibit great potential for major careers. Each recipient receives an award of $25,000 to be used towards furthering their careers. Previous recipients include Hilary Hahn, Yuja Wang, and Joshua Bell.

03/10/2021

Uncovered: Florence B. Price Presented by The Catalyst Quartet

Join us March 19th at 7PM ET as New York Times-celebrated ensemble Catalyst Quartet performs beautifully-crafted works by Florence B. Price. WQXR’s Terrance McKnight hosts.

RSVP for a FREE link at https://thegreenespace.org/event/uncovered-florence-b-price/

03/09/2021

Punishment & Profit: Equipment

LIVE NOW: Punishment and Profit with Worth Rises on equiment in the prison industry featuring founder of and Executive Director of National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Andrea James, Killing Them Safely Director Nick Berardini and George Joseph from WNYC and Gothamist. Bianca Tylek hosts.

03/04/2021

Join MOFAD in partnership with The Greene Space on Wednesday March 10th at 8PM ET for a virtual exploration of the Aichi prefecture. Led by food writer, photographer and Aichi food ambassador Michael Harlan Turkell, we’ll learn about this region’s unique history and culinary traditions with host of Japan Eats Akiko Katayama and Chef Sachie Nomura.

We’ll also get a lesson in Japanese craftsmanship from master bladesmith Murray Carter who studied in Japan under the apprenticeship of Sensei Yasuyuki Sakemoto, whose family custom forged samurai swords for some of Japan’s prominent feudal lords. The event will also feature, Headmaster, Classical Japanese Dance, Nishikawa Company, Kazumaza Nishikawa.

As part of the evening, Chef Sachie Nomura will teach us how to make one of her favorite traditional dishes from Aichi, Miso Katsu.

RSVP and more info at https://thegreenespace.org/event/aichi-prefecture/

03/02/2021

Punishment & Profit: Programs & Labor

LIVE NOW: Punishment and Profit with Worth Rises on labor in private prisons. Featuring activists Renaud Antonio with LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Sawari Mi from #nationalprisonstrike, Kamau Waset from Abolish Slavery National Network, and attorney Andrew Free with host Bianca Tylek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKFjRlInSGA

02/25/2021

Get Lit with All Of It: Mateo Askaripour

Watch a live video stream as Alison Stewart, host of WNYC’s All of It, continues her virtual book club series with author Mateo Askaripour. The author’s debut novel follows a young Black salesman at a mysterious cult-like tech startup. The Washington Post describes it as “an irresistible comic novel about the tenacity of racism in corporate America.”

This event will also feature Thomas McLeod, Investor with Saltwater and Chief Content Officer at Coil, an interview with rapper Pharoahe Monch and performances from his new project, Th1rt3en. The group features Monch, guitarist Marcus Machado and drummer Daru Jones.

02/24/2021

Punishment & Profit: Personnel

Private personnel corporations supply and train a wide range of correctional staff for prisons in roles with great amounts of responsibility and power, from officers to healthcare workers. Investigative reporters have uncovered instances where these agencies hired doctors who’ve lost their medical licenses or used mock riots to train officers to kill. Join us to hear firsthand experiences with these corporations and about opportunities for change.

Guest speakers include journalists Danny Robbins and Scott Morris, policy advocate Insha Rahman (Vera Institute of Justice), and incarcerated activist Talib Williams (We Bring Change). Worth Rises’ Executive Director Bianca Tylek hosts.

02/23/2021

Punishment & Profit: Personnel

Private personnel corporations supply and train a wide range of correctional staff for prisons in roles with great amounts of responsibility and power, from officers to healthcare workers. Investigative reporters have uncovered instances where these agencies hired doctors who’ve lost their medical licenses or used mock riots to train officers to kill. Join us to hear firsthand experiences with these corporations and about opportunities for change.

Guest speakers include journalists Danny Robbins and Scott Morris, policy advocate Insha Rahman (Vera Institute of Justice), and incarcerated activist Talib Williams (We Bring Change). Worth Rises’ Executive Director Bianca Tylek hosts.

02/23/2021

The Harlem Chamber Players’ 13th Annual Black History Month Celebration

Celebrate the final week of Black History Month with an enticing concert led by The Harlem Chamber Players, fresh off their acclaimed “To America” performance in Greenwood Cemetery. With Florence Price Quartet in G Major serving as an anchor, the quartet performs more recent compositions by Trevor Weston, George Walker, Jessie Montgomery and Carlos Simon.

This concert is presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Public Library and WQXR.

02/22/2021

The Harlem Chamber Players’ 13th Annual Black History Month Celebration

Celebrate the final week of Black History Month with an enticing concert led by The Harlem Chamber Players, fresh off their acclaimed “To America” performance in Greenwood Cemetery. With Florence Price Quartet in G Major serving as an anchor, the quartet performs more recent compositions by Trevor Weston, George Walker, Jessie Montgomery and Carlos Simon.

This concert is presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Public Library and WQXR.

02/20/2021

Uncovered: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

New York Times-celebrated ensemble Catalyst Quartet commences their trio of performances from their latest project, UNCOVERED, with a concert dedicated to the compositions of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. NY Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill joins the ensemble. WQXR’s Terrance McKnight hosts.

02/19/2021

Uncovered: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

New York Times-celebrated ensemble Catalyst Quartet commences their trio of performances from their latest project, UNCOVERED, with a concert dedicated to the compositions of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. NY Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill joins the ensemble. WQXR’s Terrance McKnight hosts.

02/17/2021

Punishment & Profit: Operations & Management

When we think about prisons and profit, private prisons are often the first to come to mind. However, they constitute only 8 percent of prison beds in the U.S. Thanks in large part to activist efforts to reduce their decades-long influence on criminal legal policy, the Biden Administration signed an executive order to phase out private prisons in the federal prison system in one of his early actions on racial equity. Join us to find out what the future holds for the notorious private prison industry.

Guest speakers include: Matthew Carrier (Advocate), Rachel Gilmer (Co-Director, The Dream Defenders), Robert Craig (Associate Director, Abolish Private Prisons), and Donna Norton (Executive Vice President, Moms Rising). Worth Rises’ Executive Director Bianca Tylek hosts.

02/16/2021

Punishment & Profit: Operations & Management

When we think about prisons and profit, private prisons are often the first to come to mind. However, they constitute only 8 percent of prison beds in the U.S. Thanks in large part to activist efforts to reduce their decades-long influence on criminal legal policy, the Biden Administration signed an executive order to phase out private prisons in the federal prison system in one of his early actions on racial equity. Join us to find out what the future holds for the notorious private prison industry.

Guest speakers include: Matthew Carrier (Advocate), Rachel Gilmer (Co-Director, The Dream Defenders), Robert Craig (Associate Director, Abolish Private Prisons), and Donna Norton (Executive Vice President, Moms Rising). Worth Rises’ Executive Director Bianca Tylek hosts.