Through collaborative multimedia productions agitprop blurs the lines between the studio, the gallery and the neighborhood as a way of creating spaces of dialogue and pointing to sites of institutional contention.
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Reading Series: Joseph Mosconi & Ara Shirinyan 5/4 at 7pm

Reading Series: Joseph Mosconi & Ara Shirinyan 5/4 at 7pm

Dear Friends, Now that national poetry month is nearly over, we’re ready to have our next event on Saturday, May 4 at 7pm featuring LA-based literary artists Joseph Mosconi and Ara Shirinyan. This reading will be bittersweet—This isn’t the last Agitprop reading, but it is the last reading we’ll have in our current space. So...
Feb. 2, 2013  7pm: Alt Lit Cityscapes With Ana Carrete & Aurelio Meza

Feb. 2, 2013 7pm: Alt Lit Cityscapes With Ana Carrete & Aurelio Meza

Agitprop Reading Series: Alt Lit Cityscapes With Ana Carrete & Aurelio Meza February 2, 2013 at 7pm Dear Friends, We hope you can join us this Saturday, February 2, 7pm for the first reading in what promises to be an outstanding Spring reading series. This month, we’re hosting two writers recently featured in Jacob Steinberg’s...
Poets Sophie Sills and Frank Montesonti at Agitprop Sat. Dec. 1st 7pm

Poets Sophie Sills and Frank Montesonti at Agitprop Sat. Dec. 1st 7pm

This month, we’re thrilled to host poet and editor Sophie Sills in her debut reading at Agitprop. We’ll also welcome back former San Diegan Frank Montesonti to celebrate the publication of his first book, Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope and his soon-to-be-released second book, Hope Tree. Sophie Sills’ collection of poetry, Elemental Perceptions: A...
Genevieve Kaplan and Joseph Harrington Read on 11/3, 7pm

Genevieve Kaplan and Joseph Harrington Read on 11/3, 7pm

Dear Friends, We hope you can join us this Saturday, November 3 at 7pm for a reading by poets Genevieve Kaplan and Joseph Harrington at Agitprop. Before and after the reading, you can check out some of the events hosted that same day by the There Goes the Neighborhood collaborative in conjunction with the Living...
TGTN event: "What’s the Use?" November 3rd 2012

TGTN event: “What’s the Use?” November 3rd 2012

“What’s the Use?” November 3rd 2012 Organized by the There Goes the Neighborhood collaborative A day of programming in association with Living As Form (The Nomadic Version)* http://theregoes.org You are invited join us on November 3rd for “What’s the Use?”; a day of programming organized by the There Goes the Neighborhood collaborative.   The first...
Enabling Neighborhoods

Enabling Neighborhoods

From October 4th through December 14th 2012 Agitprop will be participating in Living As Form (the Nomadic Version) at the University Art Gallery at the University of California, San Diego.  This is an exciting exhibition because we get to team up with some really great people on this project.  For this exhibition Agitprop and collaborators...
Summer Salon Series - "Capitalism Works For Me!"

Summer Salon Series – “Capitalism Works For Me!”

Summer Salon Series Friday August 10th 2012 http://www.sdmart.org/calendar/summer-salon-series-2012-beyond-banner-9   5:00 – 9:00 p.m.  Giuseppe’s Bar Service 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.  Capitalism Works for Me by artist Steve Lambert 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.  Ad Sense, an installation by Tim Schwartz 5:30 – 6:00 p.m.  The Third Party 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.  Art-making Activity: Money Printing 7:30 p.m....
Summer Salon Series: Swaggart Night!!!

Summer Salon Series: Swaggart Night!!!

Summer Salon Series 2012: Beyond the Banner Andrew Dinwiddie, Joe Yorty and Kelly Eginton 5:00 -9:00 p.m.  Giuseppe’s Bar Service 5:00 -9:00 p.m.  It’s getting darker…and darker and darker, a sound installation by Joe Yorty and Kelly Eginton 5:00-9:00 p.m.   Ad sense, an installation by Tim Schwartz 6:00-8:00 p.m.   The Quilt Conversation, with Ann Olsen and...
Hard Shoulder - Closing Reception  Exhibition by Shane Anderson 7/28 7pm

Hard Shoulder – Closing Reception Exhibition by Shane Anderson 7/28 7pm

Hard Shoulder – Closing Reception Exhibition by Shane Anderson Saturday July 28th 2012 7pm to 10pm Agitprop 2837 University Ave.  (entrance on Utah St.) Hard Shoulder is a series of photographic images that depict now obsolete objects disregarded on the freeways throughout Southern California after they blustered out of the owners vehicle. Each image from the...
There Goes the Neighborhood! 2012 Updated Schedule

There Goes the Neighborhood! 2012 Updated Schedule

There Goes the Neighborhood! is a four day event that positions “the neighborhood” as a fluid institution of creative production, critical thinking and intersecting interests. Collaborations among artists, residents, small businesses, universities and local activists will culminate in a series of workshops, talks, installations, performances and tours that center around the North Park neighborhood of San...
Summer Salon Series 2012

Summer Salon Series 2012

For the past two years Agitprop has had the great pleasure of working with the San Diego Museum of Art to establish and co-curate the Summer Salon Series.  Entering its third year, this summer looks to be the best one yet. Here is a complete schedule of the line up for this year and information...
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD! IS BACK!!

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD! IS BACK!!

There Goes the Neighborhood! is a four day event that positions “the neighborhood” as a fluid institution of creative production, critical thinking and intersecting interests. Collaborations between artists, residents, small businesses, universities and local activists will culminate in a series of workshops, talks, installations, performances and tours that center around the North Park neighborhood of...
5/3/12 Not Free, Not Dead: The Psychedelic End @ Space4Art

5/3/12 Not Free, Not Dead: The Psychedelic End @ Space4Art

Thursday 7:30 pm at Space4Art A touring program of recent San Francisco Bay Area Shorts, featuring work by Caitlin Denny, Gregory Kaplowitz, Jen Kirsten, Alex S. Lukas, Jessica Miller, Dan Olsen, Skye Thorstenson, Virtual Pubes, and Nightmare City. Space 4 Art 325 15th St, San Diego, CA 92101  
5/11-12/12 DRONES AT HOME PHASE 2  SYMPOSIUM @ UCSD

5/11-12/12 DRONES AT HOME PHASE 2 SYMPOSIUM @ UCSD

Press Release from gallery@calit2 DRONES AT HOME PHASE 2 SYMPOSIUM May 11 & 12, 2012 Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall Friday 8:30am-8:00pm Saturday 8:30am-7:30pm Phase 2 of the DRONES AT HOME project takes the form of a two-day conference organized by the gallery@calit2. The conference consists of a series of panels, screenings, and open sessions that...

4/28/12 Cognate Collective collaboration with Mujeres Mixtecas

  Mujeres Mixtecas, CAFE and Cog•nate collective invite you to share in a night of exchange! Mujeres Mixtecas, a female Mixtec sewing co-op will share their language and culture as they will unveil a sewn mural created in collaboration with cog•nate collective, and give a short talk on their history and culture. The event is...