Monday, March 18, 2013 7:15PM
              
          
                            At almost any New York City bodega, you can quick-draw, scratch, or mega-million your way towards million dollar jackpots. Thousands of New Yorkers play the lottery every day. But how does the lottery really work? Who is playing, and where does all the money go? Who wins and  ... 
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                - Anthology Film Archives
 32 2nd Avenue (at Second Street)
 New York, NY
 F to 2nd Avenue
 
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:30PM
              
          
                            Join us for a very special AIGA/NY screening and discussion of The Water Underground with CUP’s Valeria Mogilevich and Christine Gaspar. CUP will discuss the process and challenges of making this video that looks at the water we drink, put out  ... 
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                - Bumble & Bumble
 415 W. 13th Street,
 3rd floor Auditorium
 New York, NY
 L/A/C/E to 8th Ave
 
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                Tuesday, August 16, 2011 7PM
              
          
                            Blackberries, Razors, and Droids, OMG! We spend so much time with them, but do we know anything about how cell phones work?  How do our voices travel through the air? Why do our cell phone bills work the way they do? Who owns the air?
What the Cell? is a collaboration  ... 
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                - William S. Paley Foundation
 1 East 53rd Street
 
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                Sunday, May  8, 2011 6:30PM
              
          
                            CUP hosted an evening of videos about the inner workings of some of NYC’s  hidden systems. Ever wonder where your garbage goes when you’re done  with it? Why you shouldn’t go swimming after a heavy rainfall? Who owns  the Internet? Three of CUP’s  ... 
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                - Anthology Film Archives
 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street)
 
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                Saturday, February 26, 2011 6PM
              
          
                            After we screened an excerpt from Frederick Wiseman’s  “Welfare” (1974) in January, we got a whole bunch of requests to  screen this incredible documentary in its entirety. And so, by popular  demand, it was our pleasure to host a screening at the CUP  ... 
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                - the CUP Office
 232 Third St. #D201
 Brooklyn, NY
 
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                Monday, January 31, 2011 7PM
              
          
                            We showed two films  about the world of welfare: Warren Wallace’s seldom-screened Superfluous  People (1962), and an excerpt from Frederick Wiseman’s Welfare (1975).  Wallace’s award-winning film turns an eye on overlooked  urbanites – from  ... 
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                - Anthology Film Archives
 32 Second Avenue (@ 2nd Street)
 New York, NY 10003
 
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                Thursday, July 29, 2010 7PM
              
          
                            Bodega Down Bronx was presented by Exit Art and after the screening, CUP Teaching Artist Jonathan Bogarín answered questions alongside representatives  from Just Food and Green My Bodega. This program was presented in  conjunction with the exhibition CONSUME on view  ... 
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                - Exit Art
 475 Tenth Avenue (at 36th Street)
 New York, NY
 
                                
        
              
                  
              
              
              
                Tuesday, June  1, 2010 7:30PM
              
          
                            What’s the deal with all those empty lots in East Flatbush? CUP Teaching Artist Douglas Paulson and students from the BCCP’s afterschool program  at Walt Whitman Middle School looked deep into the emptiness and  investigated hidden uses, ownership patterns, and  ... 
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                - Anthology Film Archives
 32 Second Avenue
 New York, NY