Housing Works Bookstore Hosting Marathon ‘Art After Trump’ Reading Thursday Night

SoHo, NY — Housing Works Bookstore Cafe is hosting more than 100 artists for a marathon event Thursday evening, asking participants to present a two-minute performance on their reaction to the 2016 election and raising money for people living with HIV and AIDS in New York City.

More than 100 performers are expected to present work of varying forms at the bookstore, located at 126 Crosby St., between Houston and Prince St. The marathon-style evening was spurred by Donald Trump’s election, event organizers said in a news release.

The continuous string of performances will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday and run through midnight. The event is free, and donations will be accepted.

Organizers reached out to 150 performers and asked them: As an artist, how are you reacting to this uncertain future?

Expected performers include Tavi Gevinson, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib and Diamond Sharp. You can find the full list of expected artists here.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Housing Works, an advocacy organization that provides services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS. AIDS activists launched Housing Works in the 1990s to support the men and women with HIV and AIDS living in New York City.

“Trump and the Republican Party have pledged to overturn the Affordable Care Act, a critical platform Housing Works has leveraged to address health disparities based on poverty, race, sexual orientation, and other markers. And we now know we are facing a federal assault on reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, on immigrants and the cities and states that protect them,” event organizers wrote in a news release.

“On December 15, we will gather members of NYC’s creative communities to speak for human rights, just as the founders of the AIDS movement did thirty years ago.”

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