Gatherings
Throughout our time together in the Zip Code Memory Project, we turned to performance to connect, touch, and express our feelings. The workshops offered a space to improvise and trust each other. But we wanted to enlarge our circle to engage our families and larger communities. We invited participants, their families, and friends to create …
Imagine Repair Exhibition
During the first two years of the global Coronavirus pandemic, New Yorkers suffered isolation and devastating loss, much of it caused by inequality and neglect. Yet through the restorative power of artistic collaboration and community, this exhibition dared to Imagine Repair. How has the pandemic affected our lives? Where, in our bodies, do we carry …
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 4:30-8:00 PMWhat We COULD Do:The Zip Code Memory Project in Conversation with Related Pandemic InitiativesThe Forum, Columbia University, 601 W 125th St. Register here For the last two years the Zip Code Memory Project found ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic while also acknowledging its radically …
ABOUT ZCMP
The Zip Code Memory Project was an invitation and an experiment. This site offers a glimpse into how a group of New Yorkers worked together to find ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upper New York City neighborhoods. In the Fall of …
Roundtables
To reflect on and supplement the work done in our workshops and gatherings, we invited the memorial artists and architects, geographers and demographers, epidemiologists and public health experts we have found inspiring to join us in several public roundtable discussions. Project participants joined for several participatory roundtables to reflect on “Covid Three Years Later.” Roundtables …
Imagine Repair
Imagination and repair are two words that, as Rev. Billy pointed out during our Imagine Repair event in April 2022, do not normally go together in our throw-away culture. The performances and presentations in the Nave of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, however, invited us to imagine how to rebuild some of the …
ESP
The Zip Code Memory Project seeks to find community-based ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upper New York City neighborhoods. Through a series of art-based workshops, public events, social media platforms, and a performance/exhibition at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, …
