We The Youth–Keith Haring Lecture Series
Kids Lecture Series
- Nov 14 | 2pm
The 2026/2027 We the Youth–Keith Haring Lecture Series will open with a lecture from Jerron Herman on Interdependence on Nov 14 at 2pm!
Disabled interdisciplinary artist Jerron Herman speaks on how to be yourself in community through inviting interactive activities across his two installations LAX and Temporary Body which encourage everyone to find what it means to be connected. Participants will play within the disability justice principle of interdependence by jointly pulling ropes to unravel their rest and collectively creating talismans, baubles, and crowns to wear and share. The freedom of movement grounds the entire experience to heighten witnessing, listening, and feeling while giving participants the chance to move themselves. With so much going on in our world, it’s more important than ever to learn and practice how our unique body-minds help our neighbor, how our individual voice contributes to our community, and how play is protest.
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We the Youth–Keith Haring Lecture Series invites children and their friends and families to meet luminaries who talk about ideas and social issues that are often left off of school curriculums.
This series is supported by The Keith Haring Foundation in honor of Keith Haring who collaborated with children throughout his life and believed in art’s ability to create a more accepting society.
Previous We the Youth lectures include:
ALOK on Gender invited by Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo).
Dr. Cornel West on Justice invited by Ariana Reines.
Fahim Amir on Animals invited by quori theodor.
Whale Fall: It’s all right to cry and laugh at the same time!
The Cyborg Stork: What do you know about how babies are made? What does it even mean to “make a baby”? What are the electronic and social technologies that “make a baby”? This children’s class explores 21st century baby technologies from sonograms, IVF, to the NICU, to breast pumps, adoption, birth certificates and more, through a combination of lecture, games, blowing bubbles, and make-believe.
Together with anthropologist Dana Burton, children ages 8–18 dove into how water connects us to the cosmos and to one another. Through interactive storytelling, art, sound, and movement, participants explored how microbes survive in deserts, how tides rise and fall with the Moon, and how comets brought water across the solar system—discovering that intelligence, or the ways we sense and understand the world, lives in the flow of water, the rhythm of tides, and the connections between all living and nonliving beings.
The afternoon concluded with a collaborative art project and a cosmic dance party by SCRAAATCH, celebrating our shared, watery connection to the universe and our understanding of it.
Kia LaBeija‘s MAKE ART. CURE AIDS. EAT BREAKFAST. explored how text and images carry weight and go viral, entering the popular lexicon to make lasting impacts on generations to come, inspired by art and activism during the height of the AIDS crisis.
