1040 Lounge: A Cultural Map

At the Bronx Museum of the Arts

Friday, December 6, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Free!

How would you design a map of the Bronx? Join them for a lively discussion of the Bronx Grand Concourse: A Cultural Map, the new interactive website that takes viewers on a multitude of adventures around the literary and creative history of the borough. Poet, performer, and professor Urayoán Noel, anthropologist / independent curator Libertad Guerra, and Executive Director of the Bronx Children’s Museum will lead a conversation with the public on the ways in which maps help shape, build, and reflect a community. By examining Bronx Grand Concourse: A Cultural Map, we will think about how cartography is used to define a social group: do we build maps for our peers, with the goal of serving local social and historical interests, or do we build maps to provide a representation of our community to the world outside of the Bronx?

Visit the site now at mappingbronxstories.com/.

Location: North Wing Lobby

Event page: http://www.bronxmuseum.org/events/1040-lounge-a-cultural-map

1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street

Bronx, New York 10456

T: 718-681-6000

D OR B TRAINS to the 167 STREET STATION. Exit at rear of station, walk south along Grand Concourse two blocks.

4 TRAIN to the 161 STREET/YANKEE STADIUM STATION.

Bx1 or Bx2 to 165th St. and Grand Concourse

BxM4A / BxM4B  Express bus to and from Manhattan