NextNOW Fest: Mojdeh Rezaeipour: Classroom Solidarities

NextNOW Fest: Mojdeh Rezaeipour: Classroom Solidarities

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 • 5–7PM
Photo by Senna Ahmad.

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ABOUT THE EVENT

From 2022–2024, Mojdeh Rezaeipour has archived over 200 digital photos and videos produced by womxn and young girls in classrooms across Iran. These images call for bodily autonomy and other basic freedoms under conditions of severe repression throughout the Jin Jiyan Azadi movement.

Borrowing visual language from a previous series based on childhood writings, drawings, and photographs from 1990s Tehran, Rezaeipour weaves together material from these recent protests in analog collage, film, and sound-based works. At a time when student-led demonstrations against injustice face alarmingly similar repression in the US and across the globe, Classroom Solidarities asks how the classroom – at times a site of violence – can be a generative space for transformation.

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ABOUT NEXTNOW FEST

Started in 2014, Clarice Presents’ annual NextNOW Fest is an inspiring arts experience that celebrates imagination, creativity and community. In addition to the core festival nights at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, we’re thrilled to continue partnerships with student-led groups, academic departments and university-based arts venues to hold festival events throughout campus.

NextNOW Fest is a signature event in University of Maryland's Arts for All initiative, which leverages the combined power of the arts, technology and social justice to address the grand challenges of our time.

FUNDING

NextNOW Fest is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Additional support is provided by Terps After Dark and the University of Maryland's Arts for All initiative. NextNOW Fest's Silent Disc-Glo event is supported by UMD's Student Entertainment Events; and the Vital Signs Mini-Grants Showcase is supported by the Venable Foundation and Pepsi.