Sidewalk Study
Taking Attention Activism to the streets
SoRA's program in experimental street-level pedagogy. Organized and facilitated by our STUDY CORPS, studies convene members of the public at a group at a bar, park, or other semi-public space for a short close reading of a text. Participants then depart to conduct a Practice of Attention en route to a second location, where they reconvene to synthesize their experience.
In this fashion, SIDEWALK STUDY brings together analysis and embodiment, reading and walking, theory and practice… and does it all in PUBLIC SPACE. Union members, PHD graduates, activists, artists, teachers, students, and humans from all walks of life have gathered under the umbrella of SIDEWALK STUDY.
All of our SIDEWALK STUDIES are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. No homework required!
To learn more, see our archive.
Our theme for September is…
FASHION!
Not in NYC? SIDEWALK STUDY is now NATIONAL!
Sign up here to get more information on our Studies in: Washington, DC; St. Louis, MO; Austin, TX; Cleveland, OH; Silicon Valley, CA.
Upcoming Studies
IN VOGUE, IN VITRO
WED
SEPT 9
7:00-9:30pm
Reading: Coralie Fargeat's “The Substance” Screenplay & Adeline Yen Mah’s Chinese Cinderella
📍Lower East Side with Anha & Cherilyn
TRUE BLUE
TUE
SEPT 14
7:00-9:30pm
Reading: Ravi Mangla’s “True Blue: A Brief History of Ultramarine”
📍Whitehall Terminal with Shrin & Samvit
THE COOL
MON
SEPT 22
7:00-9:30pm
Reading: Robert Farris Thompson’s “An Introduction to Transatlantic Black Art History”
📍Chelsea with Nicholas & Connor
OH, TO BE CLOTHED!
SAT
SEPT 26
7:00-9:30pm
Reading: Lucia Ruggerone’s The Feeling of Being Dressed: Affect Studies and the Clothed Body
📍Chelsea with Miranda & Eleanor
STROLLING IN STYLE
TUE
SEPT 29
2:00-4:30pm
Reading: Monica L. Miller’s Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
📍Harlem with Lindsee & Katie
AUGUST '26: PORTALS!
JULY '26: HEROES!
JUNE '26: SHAPES of LIBERATION
MAY '26: LIMBO
APRIL-MAY '26: BLOOM
MARCH-APRIL '26: TASTE
FEBRUARY-MARCH '26: THE PARTY
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '25: PLAY!
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER '25: BEGINNINGS…
JULY '25: CROWDS
MAY '25: SNAPSHOT
APR '25: ~VIBES~
MAR '25: DESIGN for the TIMES!