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Slought encourages dialogue and relationships through social and cultural programs.
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A Worker's Lunch Box
Begins Jun 02, 2017
A research project and installation exploring the role of the worker in urban factory life and the production of things
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(Un)Witnessable: Holocaust in the East
Begins Apr 27, 2017
A conference about the potential of witnessing and remembering genocide and its aftermath
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Sinking under the dark sea
Begins Dec 16, 2016
An online project about the Sewol Ferry Disaster (2014) and the contestation of memory in South Korea
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Philadelphia
Jun 02, 2017
A Worker's Lunch Box

A research project and installation exploring the role of the worker in urban factory life and the production of things

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World
Feb 16, 2017
The Fluid Edge: Art Criticism in a Divided Era

A conversation about writing and responsibility

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A Beautiful Ghetto
A visual story by Devin Allen about Freddie Gray's Baltimore and the rise of the New Activist

Erasures
An exhibition with Fazal Sheikh tracing the dispossessions and displacements of the Arab-Israeli War of 1948

Love-Driven Politics
A dialogue series about the urgency of love as a political virtue and practice

We are powerful
A conversation with Philadelphia's top reentry experts, a group of formerly incarcerated individuals who power the Reentry Think Tank

Fairytale Project
A research initiative and archive about the experiences of 1001 Chinese participants who traveled to Germany with Ai Weiwei

Love Me If You Can
A performance and action questioning the dichotomies and boundaries between public/private and collective/individual

John Cage | How to Get Started
A permanent installation that features a rarely heard performance by John Cage and evolves over time through participation from the public

Mixplace Studio
An urban education model addressing the crisis in community participation and political representation