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Provincetown Aids memorial dedication

6/24/2018

At the recent dedication of the Lauren Ewing’s elegant and transcendent AIDS Memorial on Provincetown Town Hall lawn, the community told the story of the town’s valiant response to HIV/AIDS. Jay Critchley was honored to speak as director of the Provincetown Community Compact and the Swim for Life, citing the town’s continuing role and responsibility to share Provincetown's narrative to a fractured and discordant world. TheCompact.org

SHROUDED RAINBOW - THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE NATURAL AND CIVIC ENVIRONMENT

3/15/2018

HERRING COVE BEACH, CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE, PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS

A project by Jay Critchley

A planetary dream deferred.

Herring Cove Beach in Cape Cod National Seashore was dramatically transformed by four nor'easter storms in the winter of 2018. Although not unprecedented, the break in the narrow sand spit created an enormous breach that threatens the protected salt marsh behind it. Exposed after the barrier dune was washed away were three pilings that formed the base of a measured nautical mile target.

TEDx Provincetown 2018

3/15/2018

A portrait of the artist as a corporation

35th Annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, January 7, 2018

1/8/2018

Thirty hearty folks joined me on a very cold and breezy winter day to purge 2017 in grand style...Gracias. Photo by Adam Berry.

Sponsored by the International Re-Rooters Society, Jay Critchley, CEO.

35th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony – 1-7-2018 – Provincetown Harbor
Preemptive Cheats
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The Lord appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush and gave him…
The Ten Commandments of Loopholed Bullies

1. Complicit corporate creep is the Lord Thy God and Thou shalt not eclipse
      unsheltered growth-stocked storm surges before me
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2. Thou shalt not robocall border wall-mart-inis whoring as profiled pass through
        weaponized broflakes
3. Thou shalt not fat check countryless donor maintenance bullying race-blind
       retroambulative franchised hair extensions
4. Thou shalt keep holy post-combustion gender fluid kleptocrats jomo-ing
       deregulated preemptive creation stories
5. Honor thy father and thy mother: Duck + Cover
6. Thou shalt not kill paper-toweled smallism predation clawbacking off-shoring
       fact indifferent spirit guides
7. Thou shalt not commit indigenous ecocidal copays migrating as supply
        chained whitewashing face palm earnings calls
8. Thou shalt not commit unclapped lecturous savage gorpcore auto-polluting
       prosthetic drugged troll armies
9. Thou shalt not gut flora provenance assaulting fake pews loopholing arsenal
       kneeing nativists
10. Thou shalt not covet white herbicidal shootings diddling petty Amazonian
       sea level silence of the lands.

THE WHITENESS HOUSE - SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE, NOVEMBER, 2017

11/19/2017

The Whiteness House – Tarred and Feathered | An Interactive Installation, Performances, and Discussion About “Whiteness” | A New Project by Artist and SFAI Equal Justice resident Jay Critchley | Sunday, November 19, 3:00-5:00 pm. | Santa Fe Art Institute | Free & Open to the Public

You're invited to my talk at Harvard Univ.

9/26/2017

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Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 4-6pm
The Barker Center, Room 114, The Kresge Foundation Room

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Pre-Texts in the Bahamas

4/7/2016

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I recently visited the Bahamas to assist Harvard Professor Doris Sommer in her week-long workshop, Pre-Texts. It is a unique project that teaches literacy and citizenship through the arts.