Sidewalk Study

Taking Attention Activism to the streets

SoRA's program in experimental street-level pedagogy. Organized and facilitated by our STUDY CORPS, studies convene members of the public at a group at a bar, park, or other semi-public space for a short close reading of a text. Participants then depart to conduct a Practice of Attention en route to a second location, where they reconvene to synthesize their experience. 

In this fashion, SIDEWALK STUDY brings together analysis and embodiment, reading and walking, theory and practice… and does it all in PUBLIC SPACE. Union members, PHD graduates, activists, artists, teachers, students, and humans from all walks of life have gathered under the umbrella of SIDEWALK STUDY.

All of our SIDEWALK STUDIES are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. No homework required!

To learn more, see our archive.

Our theme for September is…

FASHION!

Not in NYC? SIDEWALK STUDY is now NATIONAL!

Sign up here to get more information on our Studies in: Washington, DC; St. Louis, MO; Austin, TX; Cleveland, OH; Silicon Valley, CA.


Upcoming Studies


IN VOGUE, IN VITRO

WED

SEPT 9

7:00-9:30pm

Reading: Coralie Fargeat's ā€œThe Substanceā€ Screenplay & Adeline Yen Mah’s Chinese Cinderella ā€
šŸ“Lower East Side with Anha & Cherilyn ā€


TRUE BLUE

TUE

SEPT 14

7:00-9:30pm

Reading: Ravi Mangla’s ā€œTrue Blue: A Brief History of Ultramarineā€
šŸ“Whitehall Terminal with Shrin & Samvit


THE COOL

MON

SEPT 22

7:00-9:30pm

Reading: Robert Farris Thompson’s ā€œAn Introduction to Transatlantic Black Art Historyā€ 
šŸ“Chelsea with Nicholas & Connor


OH, TO BE CLOTHED!

SAT

SEPT 26

7:00-9:30pm

Reading: Lucia Ruggerone’s The Feeling of Being Dressed: Affect Studies and the Clothed Body
šŸ“Chelsea with Miranda & Eleanor


STROLLING IN STYLE

TUE

SEPT 29

2:00-4:30pm

Reading: Monica L. Miller’s Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
šŸ“Harlem with Lindsee & Katie