DOT ACCEPTS STUDENT BIKE RACK PROPOSAL
Have you noticed the new bike racks springing up along Fifth Avenue and 13th Street? They are the first results of a proposal submitted to the city by ReNewSchool, the university’s student sustainability organization.
Last fall, the members of the group, under the direction of assistant director for operations and sustainability Philip Silva, submitted a 36-page proposal to the city Department of Transportation requesting 16 new curbside bike racks around The New School campus. In preparation for the proposal, students did fieldwork, researching and surveying new sites to ensure they complied with city code. Feedback on the report was positive, with one DOT staffer noting that “all applications we receive should be this well thought out and presented.”
At the end of February, three new racks were installed outside of the Welcome Center and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. In the coming weeks, Silva expects to see more installations at the proposed locations. As the weather warms, more members of The New School community could find biking to campus an enticing transportation alternative.
PARSONS PRESENTS AFTERTASTE 3: NEW AGENDAS FOR THE INTERIOR
On April 3-4, Parsons will present AFTERTASTE 3: New Directions in Interior Design, an international symposium exploring interior design and the five senses. Participants include James Auger, Robert Israel, Kent Kleinman, Robert Kirkbride, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Charlie Morrow, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Victoria Anne Rospond, Mayer Rus, Emily Thompson, James Tichenor, Sissal Tolaas, Sabine von Fischer, Joshua Walton, and Alfred Zollinger.
AFTERTASTE 3 will include a series of lectures and panels, each dealing with a different sense. It will be held from 3:00-7:00 p.m. on Friday, April 3 and 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 4 in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required, and seating is first-come, first-served.
AFTERTASTE is a yearly design symposium dedicated to a critical review of the interior. It was developed in conjunction with Parsons new MFA program in Interior Design, which is launching in fall 2009. AFTERTASTE is sponsored by the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons, the only comprehensive school for architecture, interior design, lighting design, and product design in the country.
For more information and a full schedule of events, please visit parsons.newschool.edu/sce.
THE NEW SCHOOL PARTICIPATES IN NEW GI PROGRAM TO PROVIDE FULL SCHOLARSHIPS TO VETERANS OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
The New School has enrolled in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program. A provision of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, the law created a benefit program to support veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts to attend private universities.
The Yellow Ribbon Program provides direct benefits to private institutions equal to the cost of attending New York’s most expensive public program. The VA also provides dollar-for-dollar matching funds for any voluntary tuition support by schools in excess of the direct benefit. The New School has committed to meet 50 percent of the charges remaining for ten qualifying veterans, enabling them to attend at no cost.
“The GI bill represents our country’s commitment to both our service men and women and the value of a quality education,” said Bob Kerrey, president of The New School. “The New School has a proud history of serving at the intersection of these values to provide returning veterans access to new opportunities. Under the World War II GI Bill of 1944, the university welcomed home hundreds of service members to a new future. These men and women helped establish Greenwich Village and The New School community as the intellectual and creative epicenter of New York. The partnership between the university and the GI Bill helped build the traditions that sustain the university’s mission today. The New School is proud to continue this legacy by opening our doors to those who have served our country in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Veterans enrolled full-time will also receive a monthly housing allowance based on military housing benefit rates and an annual stipend of $1,000 for books and supplies. Benefits will be available beginning on August 1, 2009, for qualifying veterans accepted to a degree program at the university for the Fall 2009 semester. For more information, visit the GI Bill website.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL LIBRARIES
SPANNING THE DECADES:
100 YEARS OF STUDENT WORK FROM THE KELLEN ARCHIVES
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| Color wheel in student notebook, c.1906, Roy Fleming papers / Kellen Archives |
An exhibit of student work from 1906 to 2007, culled from the many treasures in the Kellen Archives is currently on display at the Gimbel Library, 2 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, until May 1, 2009.
The exhibit includes sketches, travel diaries, homework exercises, presentation drawings, fashion croquis, photographs, and more. It represents work done within various Parsons departments and disciplines, including Advertising Design, Communication Design, Costume Design, Environmental Design, Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Architecture & Design, Product Design, and Printmaking.
Viewers will also find examples of work done by a few students who made it big after graduation, including Albert Hadley, dubbed the "Dean of American Design" by the New York Times and fashion designers Marc Jacobs and Willi Smith.
The mission of the Kellen Archives is to document the history of Parsons, as well as the work of its students, faculty, alumni, and associates.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA
DRAMA AND SAMUEL FRENCH PLAY PUBLISHING HONORS PLAYWRIGHT ALUMNA
On March 23, The New School for Drama and Samuel French held a staged reading event honoring 2007 graduate Bekah Brunstetter. Brunstetter was one of the winners of the 33rd Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival last year for her play F*cking Art. To continue the relationship between Drama’s playwrights and Samuel French, the two collaborated to present excerpts of Brunstetter’s newest play, Oohrah!, for an invited audience of theater producers, literary agents, and guests. Both Drama and Samuel French hope to make this an annual event, which will highlight and support the work of Drama’s emerging alumni playwrights.
Introductory remarks were given by President Bob Kerrey, who spoke of the continued success of the Drama program, as well as comments from Drama Director Robert LuPone, Playwright Chair Pippin Parker, and Leon Embry, president of Samuel French. The reading, directed by Parker, also featured Drama alumni Eleanor Handley (’08) and Federico Trigo (’08).
The story of two sisters seeking stability in Fayetteville, North Carolina—home to one of the South's largest military bases—Oohrah! asks how we can remain true to ourselves when the pressures of domestic and military expectation threaten all. Oohrah! was originally workshopped at the Ars Nova, New York City, and is currently playing at the Finborough Theater, London, as part of the Old Vic / New Voices play series.
In addition to being a two-time winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival, Brunstetter is also a winner of the New York Innovative Theater Award for Best Original Full-Length Play. Her work has received acclaim across the United States and has been produced at Boston Theatre Works, the Ohio Theater, The Alliance Theatre, and many others.
DRAMA’S RANDOM ACTS ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL TO FEATURE ORIGINAL WORKS
The New School for Drama’s RANDOM ACTS One-Act Play Festival continues with its fourth week of productions Thursday, April 9. Audiences are invited to experience work by some of the best of the school’s up-and-coming actors, directors, and playwrights. Free and open to the public, the plays are presented every other week with the final two weeks featuring six new works by Drama’s third-year playwrights.
The fourth weekend runs April 9-11 and will feature these new plays:
Waking Up With Strangers by Paul David Young, directed by Mary Beth Smith; with Nate Faust, Marco Formosa, Ji-Hye Kwon, and David Marshall;
Broken Wing by Rachel White, directed by Jennifer Hart; with David Bly, Connor Carew, Alison Bridget Chambers, and Bridget Ori;
I’d Do Anything by Rebecca Stokes, directed by Sherri Eden Barber; with Brittany Bellizeare, Mikaela Johnson, Jennifer Lagassé, Aidan O’Shea, Jason R. Stroud, and Patrick Williams.
The festival will run through April 26, with performances Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday matinees at 3:00 p.m. Admission is free, and seating is first come, first served. Reservations are recommended; call Ticket Central at 212.279.4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com. Performances will take place at The New School for Drama Theater, 151 Bank Street, 3rd floor.
Visit the drama website for the complete schedule and more information.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
FACULTY CELEBRATE GERMAN FASHION ON BERLIN WALL ANNIVERSARY
On Tuesday, March 31, Parsons will join other fashion industry leaders for “Approach to Design,” a panel discussion on eco-friendly trends in global fashion design. The panel is part of the New Museum’s 20 Years of Change: Berlin Days in New York City, a three-day programming series exploring Berlin culture since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Parsons Dean of Fashion Simon Collins, Shelley Fox, the Donna Karan Professor of Fashion design and director of the new MFA in Fashion Design and Society, and Cameron Tonkinwise, co-chair of the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School, will discuss sustainability, innovation, and the merits of American and European design approaches. The panel is one in a series of opening-day events, including film screenings and a fashion show, which celebrate Berlin as a global fashion center.
“Approach to Design,” will be held on Tuesday, March 31 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY. Registration required by emailing berlin.days@gaccny.com. For more information on 20 Years of Change: Berlin Days in New York, please visit the www.be.berlin.de/newyork.
NEWS FROM EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS
STEM CELLS IN THE CITY: ETHICS, LAW, AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Now that President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, New Yorkers are asking important questions: What does this executive order allow and what does it prohibit? Is there a need for state funding and ethical oversight for oocyte and embryo donation? Who will have access to the therapies that emerge from this area of research? How will people be informed?
On Tuesday, April 7, from 6:30-8:30 p.m., the first of three evenings that highlight the biological, ethical, legal, and social dimensions of stem cell research in New York City in an attempt to address some of these important questions will be held in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. A question and answer period follow the presentations and panel discussions.
Presenters include: Katayoun Chamany, PhD, associate professor of Biology, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts; Advisor for Education and Outreach, The New York Stem Cell Foundation; and Greggory Keith Spence, JD, professor in Professional Practice, The New School.
Discussants include: Robert Klitzman, MD, associate professor of Clinical Psychiatry (Socio Medical Sciences), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health; and member of the New York State Stem Cell Science Ethics Committee; and Brooke Ellison, MA, Stem Cell Advocate; founder and president of the Brooke Ellison Project and member of the New York State Stem Cell Science Ethics Committee
This free event is sponsored by Eugene Lang College and Project Pericles. Future programming will investigate the role of stem cells in the media and the therapeutic potential of stem cell research. For more information contact Katayoun Chamany.
THE NEW SCHOOL MEDIA FORUM: D.N. RODOWICK
On Thursday, April 2, at 6:00 p.m., D.N. Rodowick will give a free talk at 80 Fifth Avenue, room 529.
Rodowick is the author of numerous essays as well as five books: The Virtual Life of Film (Harvard University Press, 2007); Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media (Duke University Press, 2001); Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine (Duke University Press, 1997); The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Film Theory (Routledge, 1991); and The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory (University of Illinois Press, 1989; 2nd edition, University of California Press, 1994).
NEWS FROM THE INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE
DEPUTY MAYOR OF XI’AN, CHINA, SHARES GROWING CITY’S SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT PLANS
The New School’s India China Institute will host a lecture by Deputy Mayor Wang Jun of Xi'an, China, on on March 31, from 4:00-5:30 p.m. in the Kellen Auditorium at 66 5th Avenue. He will talk on the city’s urban development and environmental planning.
Xi’an is the capital of the Shanxi province in China and one of the oldest cities in Chinese history. Since the 1990s, as part of the economic revival of interior China, Xi'an has reemerged as an important cultural, industrial, and educational center of the central-northwest region.
As Deputy Mayor, Wang is utilizing ideas of modernization, fashion, and environmental awareness in the building of a new Xi'an. He will talk about his proposed concept of creating Tri-brands for Xi'an: building a new Xi'an that reflects the culture, history, science, and innovation of such a historically important city.
In September 2007, Mr. Wang led the Xi'an government delegation to London and won the bidding for 2011 World Horticultural Expo to be held from April to October in the Chanba Bio District of Xi'an, China. Now Wang is head of the preparation committee for the upcoming event, which is expected to bring over 10 million visitors to the city. Both the India China Institute and Parsons New School of Design are involved in the expo and are co-sponsoring Wang's talk.
The event is free and open to the public.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES AND
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
THE 9TH ANNUAL CRITICAL THEMES IN MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE:
FEATURING AMY GOODMAN, DEMOCRACY NOW!
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| Amy Goodman |
On Saturday, April 4, at 10:00 a.m., award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, host of the daily, radio/TV news hour Democracy Now!, will give the opening keynote address of the 9th Annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Graduate Conference. Following the address to be held in Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, Goodman will be signing her book Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times in Wollman Hall at 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor, where the rest of the conference will take place.
The conference is a venue for students from The New School and other programs and schools to present interdisciplinary, theoretical, and critical approaches to a broad range of topics in media studies. Since it was initially held in 2000, the Critical Themes Conference has grown into a leading forum for presentation of research papers by graduate students worldwide. It will conclude with a closing keynote address by Dominic Pettman, faculty Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts at 6:00 p.m., followed by a reception.
This free event is co-sponsored by The New School for Social Research Sociology Student Association and the Department of Media Studies and Film. For complete conference information, visit the critical themes website.
NEWS FROM MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC
THE MANNES ORCHESTRA AT ALICE TULLY HALL
On Monday, April 6, at 8:00 p.m., the Mannes Orchestra will perform at the newly reopened Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
This concert will feature David Hayes, conductor and director of orchestral and conducting studies leading a performance of Dukas' L’apprenti sorcier, Ibert's Concertino da Camera for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, featuring saxophonist Scott Litroff; and Dvorak's Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70.
Admission to the concert is free and tickets can be picked up at Alice Tully box office by calling 212.875.5050.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
OULIPO IN NEW YORK: A WORKSHOP IN EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE
In a rare New York City appearance by Paris-based writers group Oulipo, members of this "Workshop of Potential Literature" will read their own work both in English and in French, kicking off a week-long celebration on Wednesday, April 1, at 7:00 p.m., in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street. Introduced by Jean-Jacques Poucel, who curated a feature on Oulipo writers for the literary magazine Drunken Boat, the Oulipians will demonstrate the diversity and beauty of work written under constraint.
Featuring Marcel Bénabou, author of Jacob, Menahem, and Mimoun: A Family Epic; Anne F. Garréta, author of Not a Day; Jacques Jouet, author of Une Mauvaise Marie; Herve LeTellier, author of Esthétique de l’Oulipo; Daniel Levin Becker, translator, and contributor to Dusted Magazine; Ian Monk, author of Family Archeology and Other Poems; and Jacques Roubaud, author of Some Thing Black. The event will be hosted by Honor Moore, faculty, the Writing Program and Jean-Jacques Poucel, associate professor of French at Yale University.
Oulipo stands for "Ouvroir de littérature potentielle," which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature." It is a loose gathering of French-speaking writers and mathematicians, and seeks to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais. Other notable members include novelists Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, the poet Oskar Pastior, and the poet and mathematician Jacques Roubaud. The group defines the term “littérature potentielle” as: "the seeking of new structures and patterns which may be used by writers in any way they enjoy" (rough translation).
This free event is cosponsored by the French Embassy, Columbia University, Drunkenboat, and The New School Writing Program. Oulipo in New York is being held from April 1-4, 2009 at several venues throughout New York City. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on this and other events, please visit www.frenchculture.org.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
On Tuesday, April 7, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, will deliver The New School for Social Research’s Annual Hans Maeder Lecture titled, "The Limits of Free Speech."
Ian Buruma books include God's Dust, Behind the Mask, The Missionary and the Libertine, Playing the Game, The Wages of Guilt, Anglomania, Bad Elements, and Murder in Amsterdam, which won a Los Angeles Times book prize for the best current interest book. He was awarded the 2008 Shorenstein Journalism Award, which honored him for his distinguished body of work and the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His most recent book is The China Lover.
The lecture will take place in Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor. Admission is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required by emailing mcnamard@newschool.edu.
NSSR PROFESSOR JOINS CHRONICLE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION BLOG
Teresa Ghilarducci, Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Chair of Economic Policy Analysis at The New School for Social Research, today joins the “Brainstorm” blog hosted by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The blog features short items on “ideas, culture, and the arts featuring some of the best minds in academic and policy circles.” Ghilarducci was invited to become a Chronicle blogger due to her expertise in making the complicated machinery involved in retirement security and economics accessible to students and readers. To view Professor Ghilarducci’s blog posts, please visit http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/ beginning Monday, March 30.
ANTHROPOLOGY CONFERENCE: SCALING THE ETHNOGRAPHIC
As disciplines other than anthropology increasingly look to ethnography as a method of research, the method is itself going through significant transformations. Anthropologists are now conducting ethnographic fieldwork that would have been inconceivable only 15 years ago. On April 10, The New School for Social Research’s Department of Anthropology will present a free conference, “Scaling the Ethnographic” from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in the Machinist Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, mezzanine level.
The conference will consist of three panels in which participants will address one of three themes in a conversation moderated by two students, who will pose questions raised by the work of the panelists.
“Inner Space: Scales of Subjectivity” addresses questions on the scale of the human interior.
Participants include: Ann Stoler, professor of Anthropology, The New School; João Biehl, professor of Anthropology, Princeton University; and Emily Martin, professor Anthropology, New York University.
“Cosmopolitanism: Scales of Circulation” addresses questions of the largest or most ethereal scales—what are often called the global and the universal. Participants include: Douglas Holmes, professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University; Ben Lee, professor of Anthropology, The New School; and Caitlin Zaloom, assistant professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University.
“Material Entanglements: Scales of Liveliness” questions the traditional ethnographic presumptions on scales of agency.
Participants include: Hugh Raffles, associate professor of Anthropology, The New School and Stefan Helmreich, associate professor of Anthropology, MIT.
Closing remarks will be made by Vyjayanthi Rao, assistant professor of Anthropology, The New School.
For additional information, visit www.scaling.wordpress.com.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
JAZZ STAFF MEMBER PERFORMS ON LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN ON MARCH 31
It’s been a busy time for cellist/composer Chris Hoffman, engineering and production supervisor of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
He performs (on cello) with English singer, songwriter, actress and diarist, Marianne Faithful at The City Winery March 27 and 28 and appears with her on Late Night with David Letterman on Tuesday, March 31. In between, Hoffman performs with Jonah Smith at the BlueNote on March 30. He was also interviewed in the March edition of L'Uomo Vogue with the noted indy band, Pagoda, he regularly plays with,.
Christopher Hoffman moved to New York after working as a post-production and music engineer at Chicago Recording Company. He has worked with on diverse projects, and with versatile artists and producers including Randy Newman, Ryan Adams, Christina Courtin, Willie Nile, Agnus and Julia Stone, Dar Williams, Greg Cohen, Ryan Scott, Spring Awakening, John Zorn, Jeremiah Cymerman, Clare and The Reasons, Henry Threadgill, and Disney. In addition to performing regularly with Pagoda, Hoffman also has a band with his three brothers, Needers and Givers, and has released two records of his own compositions. In addition to his responsibilities at the university, Hoffman works as a free-lance engineer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, and serves as a committee member of the New York section of the Audio Engineering Society.
CELEBRATE VDAY 2009 WITH THE NEW SCHOOL'S PRODUCTION OF ANY ONE OF US AND SCREENING OF WHAT I WANT MY WORDS TO DO TO YOU
Any One of Us evolved from a decade long writing group with Eve Ensler and 15 women at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. This piece is a collection of stories from the raw, fiercely honest voices written by the original 15 women combined with writing from women in prisons across the nation. The group moved toward healing, understanding, and change with the ultimate goal of using their writing to impact policy, laws, and treatment of incarcerated women. Their voices reveal the deep connection between women in prison and the violence that often brings them there. The New School’s production of Any One of Us is directed by Laura Thies, graduate from Media Studies and current student in the GPIA program, and Lucas Brooks, a Lang student. The cast is comprised of New School students and staff.
Thursday-Saturday, April 2-4, at 8:00 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street
Tickets are $7 for the general public; $5 with New School ID.
Tickets can be purchased at the University Box Office on the ground floor of 66 West 12th Street, Monday-Friday, 1:00-7:00 p.m. Reservations and inquiries can be made by emailing boxoffice@newschool.edu or calling 212.229.5488. Tickets will also be available before the Saturday show beginning at 7:30 p.m.
What I Want My Words to Do to You offers an unprecedented look into the minds and hearts of the women inmates of New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. The film goes inside a writing workshop led by playwright and activist Eve Ensler. The workshop participants are 15 women inmates, many of whom were convicted of murder. Through a series of exercises and discussions, the women delve into their pasts and explore the nature of their crimes and the extent of their own culpability.
All proceeds will benefit nonprofit organizations working to end violence against women. For more information, contact vday@newschool.edu. These events are sponsored by Student Services at The New School.
Thursday, April 9, 8:30-10:30 p.m.
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue
Tickets are $2 each and will be on sale in the lobby starting at 8:00 p.m.
CHOOSE YOUR ROOM FOR NEXT YEAR:
STUDENT HOUSING SELECTION PROCESS TAKES PLACE THE WEEK OF APRIL 13
The annual student housing selection process will take place during the week of April 13. Students should submit their housing applications and deposits by March 25 in order to choose a room for the 2009-2010 academic year.
For more information, please visit the Housing website, and click on “Apply for Housing.” If you have any questions, please email myhome@newschool.edu.
USE YOUR FREE ADMISSION TO DROP IN ON MOMA’S AFTER HOUR MONDAY NIGHTS
Monday, December 8, 2008, marks the first of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA’s) Monday Nights, a series of Monday evenings over the next six months when the Museum will remain open until 8:45 p.m. We encourage New School students and employees to drop in after work and enjoy access to the entire Museum. In order to receive your free admission, go to the lobby information desk and show them your valid New School ID. Students, faculty, and staff receive one free admission for themselves. Faculty and staff may also obtain an additional two tickets for their guests.
There will be live entertainment as well as drinks and cocktails available for purchase. MoMA is located at 11 West 53rd Street, New York City. Enjoy!
TIME OUT NEW YORK DISCOUNT OFFER
Start your year off being in the know about things free or fancy. Time Out New York is offering all students, faculty, and staff at The New School a full year's subscription for just $20! That's 51 issues for the entire year and only 39c an issue. Steal this deal for yourself or a gift to another.
THE BEST DEAL FOR AFFORDABLE THEATER, Dance, and concert TICKETS:
THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND
An exciting spring theater, music and dance season is under way: Why pay $100 or more, when you can pay $20-$36 for Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows, dance performances and concerts? An inexpensive way to enjoy the best of New York culture is to join Theatre Development Fund (TDF).
To be eligible, you must be a full-time student or teacher, senior citizen (62+), civil servant, union member, staff member of a not-for-profit organization, performing arts professional, or member of the clergy or armed forces. Annual membership fee is $27.50, and you can join online.
A small sampling of performances recently available to TDF Members for $20-36 per ticket include: 13-A New Musical, The 39 Steps, Absinthe at the Spiegeltent, Altar Boyz, American Ballet Theatre, August: Osage County, Avenue Q, Ballet NY, Beast, Big Apple Circus, Boeing Boeing, The Fantasticks, Flamingo Court, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, Fueerzabruta, Gypsy, Hairspray, Irena's Vow, Legally Blonde, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Marvelous Wonderettes, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Phantom of the Opera, Speed the Plow, Spring Awakening, The Seagull, To Be Or Not To Be and Xanadu.
So don't miss this great opportunity to see great theater at great prices.
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Here's how it works. Unlike traditional subscriptions, the education rate can be set up by semester or in a combination that best reflects your schedules for both delivery and billing. New School faculty, staff, and students can have a subscription Monday-Friday, Sunday only, weekends only, or any combination.
To take advantage of the special discount to the Times or to change a current subscription, students, faculty (full-time and part-time), and staff should contact the customer service center at 888.NYT.COLL, to order a single subscription or a classroom subscription of up to eight copies for required reading in the classroom.
To order a classroom subscription of eight or more copies for required reading in the classroom, contact the education program's customer service center at 800.631.1222.
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