At Home In the Movement, Harlem
Organized by Dondo Zakh for Shandaken's Youth Intensive Cycle Eight
Walking tour and discussion led by Akemi Kochiyama
Beginning at 3208 Broadway, Manhattan, NY
February 17, 2026, 11am
On Tuesday February 17 at 11am, join the participants of Shandaken Projects' Youth Intensive Cycle Eight for a walking tour describing Manhattanville's significance in the Civil Rights Movement, in partnership with the Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Project.
Shandaken Project's semiannual Youth Intensive pays teenaged artists an hourly wage to attend afterschool classes, learning about printmaking and how the medium has intersected with social justice struggles throughout history. The course has a special focus on how participants' own stories and family history are interwoven with contemporary American society and discourse, and this coming Tuesday Shandaken is pleased to invite the public to join our students for a very special illustration of this idea.
Beginning at 3208 Broadway at 11am, Akemi Kochiyama will lead a short walking tour of Manhattanville, to visit sites that were significant in the Civil Rights Movement and life of Yuri Kochiyama, a Japanese-American activist who was incarcerated during WWII, educated under Malcolm X, and later participated in the Organization of Afro American Unity (OAAU), Harlem Freedom Schools, and many of the social justice movements and struggles that defined the 20th century.
Upon conclusion of the tour, the group will move indoors to the Forum at Columbia University for a discussion about old NYC, community-based art, civil rights and the Freedom Schools movement, history and its suppression, and more.
RSVP is required, to info@shandakenprojects.org. Limited space available.