May 1, 2013 - June 1, 2013
Spring 2013 Dance Production - Friday
Date: May 3, 2013 7:30 p.m.
The Arts program at Eugene Lang College presents the annual Spring Dance Production. The program will feature work produced by the John Jasperse Residency, the David Thomson Movement Research Residency, Neil Greenberg’s First Year Repertory, and original student work.All pieces will be performed by students of Eugene Lang College...
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Queer Christianities 2: New Perspectives
Date: May 4, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Building on the successful Spring 2012 conference "Queer Christianities," this symposium brings together important new voices. Featured speakers Susannah Cornwall (Lincoln Theological Institute, Manchester), speaking on "Queering Susanna: Art. Liturgy, and Queer 'Emptiness'," and Lynne Gerber (University of California, Berkeley) speaking on "Queerish Celibacy, Christian Marriage and the Ex-Gay Movement," are preceded by a student research panel and followed by a panel discussion on New Direction...
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Spring 2013 Dance Production - Saturday
Date: May 4, 2013 7:30 p.m.
The Arts program at Eugene Lang College presents the annual Spring Dance Production. The program will feature work produced by the John Jasperse Residency, the David Thomson Movement Research Residency, Neil Greenberg’s First Year Repertory, and original student work. All pieces will be performed by students of Eugene Lang College...
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History Talk: Seth Rockman - Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America
Date: May 6, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
This talk considers the emergence of the American “negro cloth” industry in the 1820s and 1830s. At the intersection of material culture studies, business history, and comparative slavery, this talk traces the circuits of social knowledge that complemented the circuits of capital in the simultaneous expansion of the factory and the plantation. Enslaved men and women played a collaborative role in the design of particular textiles, and their preferences for some products and critiques of others s...
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Hip Hop Pioneers: A Conversation with Kangol Kid
Date: May 7, 2013 6:00 p.m.
The Contemporary Music program at Eugene Lang college invites
you to join in on a conversation with legendary Hip Hop performer Kangol Kid. Kangol Kid attributes are many:Founding Member of U.T.F.OBreakdancer for Full Force and WhodiniInstigator of the famous "Roxanne Wars"The first Haitian-born rap starPerformed at the first rap show at the Apollo TheaterFirst Rapper to receive an Official Product EndorsementContemporary Music at Lang explores the global diversity of contemporary musical lif...
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Public Art Fund Talks at The New School: Ugo Rondinone
Date: May 8, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
This spring, Public Art Fund brings
together a series of talks by three distinctive artists whose work transforms
the boundaries of objects and space in the public realm. Whether through the
scale of forms that shrink or expand in response to a specific context, or
through the permeability of concepts, ideas and emotions that exist in their
work, each of the artists showcased in this series explores the ways in which
art has the ability to alter our experience of public space and the natur...
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Alumni Day @ The New School 2013
Date: May 11, 2013 11:00 a.m.
All New School alumni are invited back to campus for a day of programs and events highlighting the best of the university. Alumni should visit the website for full information and to register online...
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Screening of HBO's Which Way is the Frontline From Here?: The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
Date: May 13, 2013 8:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Screening of HBO's Which Way is the Frontline From Here?: The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington...
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In Celebration of the Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards
Date: May 14, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
This event is open to The New School community only. This is not a public event.To commemorate the 2012–13 awardees and the artwork that inspired their winning pieces, a gathering will take place with honorary guest and artist Hans Haacke. His piece Helmsboro Country (dyptych), 1990, part of the Vera List Art Collection, is the subject of the critical response essay "Helmsboro Country and Me" by Thomas J. Ashley, New School for Public Engagement, Institute for Retired Professionals. Gathering in...
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From Sustaining Democracy to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art & Politics
Date: May 17, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
On its twentieth anniversary, the Vera List Center assesses the unique role art plays at the intersection of politics and civic life. This daylong conference addresses the changing cultural and political landscape shaped by new global social movements, and provokes responses and reflections from an international group of artists, activists, and scholars.While the last twenty years have been marked by a general interest in the convergence of art and politics, the current moment is being character...
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