#thisusetobeaclub

Thank you @djtaranyc for all you do to promote, preserve and protect #NYCNightlife. I am looking forward to tonight's conversation and hearing more about your project @thisusedtobeaclub. 

✍️🏾reposted from @djtaranyc THANK YOU so much for your interest in @thisusedtobeaclub! We are so excited to present the work and be in conversation. I am so grateful to @prattcenter @nycnightlifegov @nycsmallbiz for supporting this work!

The response has been great and we are thrilled to announce that we can accommodate additional attendees virtually on Zoom!

If you have an in-person ticket and are unable to make it/prefer to attend virtually, please release the ticket so that we may offer it to someone else to attend in person.

Register to attend on Zoom! Link in my bio!

Food & Drink will be served and attendees will have an opportunity to purchase @djdisciplenyc 's book The Beat the Scene the Sound which is an EXCELLENT READ (he will sign copies!), and we will learn more from @danceparadenyc about the ongoing restrictions to dancing in NYC.

✍️🏾Reposted from @prattcenter Join us at Pratt Manhattan for an evening of conversation on archiving, protecting, and advocating for nightlife spaces!

Nightlife has long been more than entertainment. For Black, queer, immigrant, and other marginalized New Yorkers, nightlife is infrastructure—a form of inclusive public space in the face of racialized zoning, policing, and gentrification.

This Used to Be a Club (@thisusedtobeaclub) is a data-driven reconstruction of club geographies that visualizes cultural displacement. It also celebrates how nightlife communities have persistently engaged in placemaking, culture, and joy. 

This Used to Be a Club’s founder and Pratt Center’s Senior Planner, Tara Duvivier (@djtaranyc) will introduce new data on former nightlife spaces in Manhattan and lead a conversation with David Banks (@djdisciplenyc) and Greg Miller (@greg_nyc), Executive Director at @danceparadenyc on how we can learn from the past to save the nightlife spaces of today.