What: A performance art event organized by Mark Tribe and based on a speech given by Coretta Scott King at a 1968 peace march in Central Park.When: Saturday, September 16, 5:00 PM. Rain date: Sunday, September 17, 5 PM. Check www.porthuronproject.net to see if the event is postponed due to rain.
Where: Mineral Springs field, Central Park, New York City.
More information: http://www.porthuronproject.net
How to get there: Take the B, C, 1, 2, or 3 subway to W 72nd Street. Enter the park at W 69th St. and follow the path due east to West Drive, a paved two-lane road. Mineral Springs field is diagonally across the road to the right (south), between the Sheep Meadow and the Bowling and Croquet Greens.
The Port Huron Project is a series of remakes of historic protest speeches from the 1960s and early '70s. Inspired by the Port Huron Statement, the visionary manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society that helped launch the New Left movement in the United States, the Port Huron Project seeks to explore the role of protest speech in progressive movements, and to reanimate historic protest speeches so that they might galvanize a new generation of political activists. Each event will be staged at or near the site of the original speech, and will be documented using a range of older and newer media, from 16mm film to high-definition video. This documentation will then be distributed online as open source media and exhibited in various ways.
Port Huron Project 1: Until the Last Gun Is Silent is presented as part of Conflux, a festival for contemporary psychogeography. Support for this project has been provided by the Pacifica Radio Archives, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and Brown University.
