12/7/2022
COVID-19, the Great Depression, and the Battle between Memory and Forgetting Wednesday, December 7, 8:00 p.m. Eastern/5:00 p.m. Pacific Organized by Living New Deal-NYC Both the Great Depression and the COVID-19 pandemic raised profound questions about government responsibility for public… read more
11/10/2022
In Person Benefit for Living New Deal—November 10 (Thursday), 6:45pm. Filmmakers Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow will show their new film, Town Destroyer, about the controversy of the George Washington High School murals, as a benefit for the he Living… read more
11/11/2022
JOIN US via ZOOM Living New Deal Webinars Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 5pm-6pm PDT (8pm EDT) “The Federal Theatre: Revisiting the Dream” with Susan Quinn and Dan Jacobs The Federal Theater Project put starving unemployed actors, directors,… read more
11/3/2022
ILL-HOUSED: THEN AND NOW Thursday, November 3, 2022, 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT Join the Living New Deal’s NYC Chapter on Thursday, November 3rd at 8pm EST for a virtual roundtable discussion on New Deal housing programs and policies and their implications for… read more
11/29/2022
“TOWN DESTROYER” A film by Deborah Kaufman and Alan SnitowThursday, November 10, 6:45pm The Roxie, San Francisco’s Iconic Nonprofit Cinema A Benefit for the Living New Deal What happens when art no longer reflects current societal views? This… read more
12/6/2022
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5pm-6pm PST “Reality Makes Them Dream: Revisiting New Deal-Era Photography” with Josie Johnson and Emilia Mickevicius Photography from the New Deal-era is often associated with mirroring the bleak realities of the Great Depression. Yet, the… read more
10/3/2022
The Unfinished Business of the New Deal A Roundtable Discussion led by Kevin BakerMonday, October 3, 2022, 8:00 ET/5:00 PT RSVP Here The New Deal transformed America, putting in place policies, programs, and massive building projects that endure to this… read more
6/18/2022
Our first Annual New Deal Book Award was presented on June 18th to Scott Borchert, author of Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America. The award ceremony was part of the FDR Library’s Annual Roosevelt Reading… read more
6/16/2022
Hear from artist, master printer, and educator Thomas Wojak on the importance and development of printmaking during the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which operated from 1935 to 1943. After an introduction by the exhibition’s curators, Wojak will highlight select prints on view… read more
5/11/2022
May 11, 2022 “Mapping the New Deal”: A Conversation with Richard Walker Live, virtual program Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2022, EDT Time: 2:00 p.m. See registration details here. Links: YouTube | Facebook | Twitter On Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, the Roosevelt… read more
