MIT Open Documentary Lab

✨ Artist Talk at Cambridge Public Library ✨

Join the MIT Open Documentary Lab and IXRDC for a public talk with Peabody-nominated and Emmy award-winning director Michaela Ternasky-Holland.

🎥 Navigating the Crossroads: When Art and Technology Intersects and Diverges
📍 Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
🗓 Monday, June 15
⏰ 6:30–8 PM

Part of Libraries as Immersive Storytelling Hubs.

Upcoming VR Pop-Ups at other MA libraries:
📍 Mattapan Public Library — June 24 & July 14
📍 Medford Public Library — July 13 & July 27

Upcoming artist talks and workshops:
✨ Michèle Stephenson , Emmy award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author
✨ Sister Sylvester , multimedia artist
✨ L’Merchie Frazier , multidisciplinary artist, educator, and poet

Learn more: opendoclab.mit.edu/presents/libraries

Step into immersive storytelling at your local library! 🎧✨

The MIT Open Documentary Lab and IXRDC (Independent XR Distribution Coalition) present:
🎥 IMMERSIVE DOCUMENTARY POP-UPS
📍 Watertown Library — 123 Main St, Watertown, MA
🗓 Saturday, May 9 | Drop in 12–3 PM
🗓 Thursday, May 28 | Drop in 4–7 PM

Experience groundbreaking virtual reality works by trailblazing artists exploring climate change, identity, immigration, indigeneity, racial injustice, disability, memory, and civic life.

Featured projects include:
• Ice Sailors
• Less Than Five Grams of Saffron
• Travelling While Black
• You Destroy. We Create. 
• Notes on Blindness
• Danse, Danse Matisse
…and more.

Part of Libraries as Immersive Storytelling Hubs, a civic research initiative by the MIT Open Documentary Lab exploring how public libraries can become spaces for immersive storytelling, community engagement, and new ways of knowing.

Upcoming VR Pop-Ups at other MA libraries:
📍 Cambridge Public Library — May 14
📍 Arlington Library — June 4 & June 6
📍 Mattapan Public Library — June 24 & July 14
📍 Medford Public Library — July 13 & July 27
And more to come…

Upcoming artist talks and workshops:
✨ Rashin Fahandej , Iranian-American immersive filmmaker, futurist, and cultural activist
✨ Michaela Ternasky-Holland , Peabody-nominated & Emmy award-winning director
✨ Michèle Stephenson , Emmy award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author
✨ Sister Sylvester , multimedia artist
✨ L’Merchie Frazier , American artist, educator, and poet

With generous support from

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