STUDENTS DESIGN LABEL FOR KIEHL’S EARTH DAY LAUNCH
Three students from Parsons will get a taste of the spotlight on Earth Day, when Kiehl’s launches a product featuring their label design. Marie Claire Brush (BFA Fashion Design), Alex Bulloch (BFA Communication Design), and Jennifer Mutrux (BFA Fashion Design), produced one of four label designs for Kiehl’s Superbly Restorative Argan Body Lotion debuting on Earth Day. The other three designs were produced by actor Adrian Grenier, musician Erykah Badu, and surfer Kelly Slater. As part of the launch, students were photographed by famed photographer Terry Richardson and flown to Los Angeles to participate in promotional events.
The Parsons/Kiehl’s partnership was forged through last year’s Sustainable Design Review, which challenged students to examine the retail consumption cycle and develop solutions to decrease consumer waste by increasing awareness of sustainability. Administered by the Design & Management program, the Sustainable Design Review is a university-wide, student-run organization that promotes sustainability through design. Brush, Bulloch, and Mutrux’s winning design was a graphic treatment of a tree tracing Kiehl’s history of social responsibility. The submission was chosen by a panel of judges from Kiehl’s and Parsons, and eventually chosen as part of Kiehl’s Earth Day campaign. All proceeds from the sale of the 16 oz Superbly Restorative Argan Body Lotion will benefit the WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and preserving community waterways.
For more information on the collaboration, visit www.kiehlsgivesback.com. Images of the winning design and details on Parsons’ partnership with Kiehl’s can also be found on the Sustainable Design Review website.
MEDIA STUDIES FACULTY MEMBERS SCREEN FILMS AT THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
Two Media Studies faculty members will screen films in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
Vladan Nikolic, director of Undergraduate Studies and associate professor will show the film he produced Here and There as part of the Festival’s World Narrative Features Competition.
The film follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert, a depressed New Yorker, tries to make quick cash and ends up in chaotic Serbia, where instead of money he finds his soul. At the same time, a young Serbian immigrant, Branko, struggles in an unforgiving New York, desperately trying to bring his girlfriend from Serbia to the United States.
Here and There will have four screenings at the AMC Village VII, 66 3rd Avenue at 11th Street, on Thursday April 23, at 9:15 p.m.; Sunday April 26, at 1:00 p.m.; Friday May 1, at 12:00 p.m.; and Saturday May 2, at 8:45 p.m.
Joel Schlemowitz, a part-time faculty member will show his film Camera Roll (for Taylor), which he produced and directed, as part of the Festival’s short film program Human Landscapes.
The short film is a camera roll city cine-poem, filmed in Brooklyn in the vicinity of the Gowanus Canal. It will also have four screenings. Three will be at the AMC Village VII, 66 3rd Avenue at 11th Street, on Thursdays, April 23, at 9:45 p.m., and April 30, at 4:15 p.m., as well as Saturday, May 2, at 6:15 p.m. The fourth screening will be at Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street at Laight Street, below Canal Street on Sunday, May 3, at 5:30 p.m.
INTELLIGENT IMMIGRATION REFORM
On April 23rd, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., New School President Bob Kerrey will host a panel of experts with divergent opinions on immigration to discuss practical, legislative approaches to reform. The event, titled, “Intelligent Immigration Reform: A Real-World Legislative Approach,” will include an examination of the McCain/Kennedy Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, as well as subsequent legislation, and discuss which aspects of these legislative proposals are feasible. Finally, the speakers will assess what the Obama Administration has accomplished in its first 100 days and what it needs to address going forward.
Speakers include: Michael Aytes, acting deputy director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security; Tamar Jacoby, president & CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA, Inc.; Mark Krikorian, executive director, The Center for Immigration Studies; Marshall Fitz, director of advocacy, American Immigration Lawyers Association; Jeffrey Passel, senior demographer, Pew Hispanic Center; and Alec Ian Gershberg (contributing moderator), associate professor, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy..
The event will be held in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street.
Registration is required at http://19836.rsvpmenow.com. For additional program information, please contact Stephen Kimmerling or Lindsey Jochets in the Office of the President at The New School.
LEARN ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY:
SEMINAR ON THE NEW SCHOOL POSTPONED
The final paper for this academic year, entitled “Facilities Planning” which was to be presented on Thursday, April 23, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m., has been postponed.
A new date and location will be announced.
THE NEW SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT TO BE HELD ON MAY 22
Dean of Yale Law School, expert on international law, and advocate for human and civil rights Harold Hongju Koh will deliver the address at the university’s commencement ceremony on Friday, May 22, 2009, at 2:30 p.m. at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. President Bob Kerrey will address the graduates and confer honorary degrees on Koh, philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah; playwright, performer, and activist Eve Ensler; legendary opera singer Regina Resnik; and statesman and philanthropist John C. Whitehead.
NEWS FROM MILANO THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND URBAN POLICY
THE MEDIA AND THE MAYOR: MICHAEL BLOOMBERG'S TRANSFORMATION
Mayor Bloomberg was once described as an antidote to the old urban politics. Today he’s become an institution whose work could define a generation in government much like two other three-term mayors, Ed Koch and Robert Wagner. Are the news media revising their views on Mayor Bloomberg in this election year? Can he hold on to the winning image of an independent, effective reformer three times in a row?
On Wednesday, April 22, from 8:30-10:00 a.m., the Center for New York City Affairs convenes leading journalists to discuss changing perceptions of Mayor Bloomberg. Moderated by Dominic Carter, anchor, “Road to City Hall”, NY1 News, participants will include:
- Wayne Barrett, senior editor, the Village Voice
- Robert George, associate editorial page editor, New York Post
- Errol Louis, columnist and editorial board member, New York Daily News
- Joyce Purnick, veteran political columnist and reporter, the New York Times
- Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, executive editor, El Diario / La Prensa
The event, which is supported by the Sirus Fund and the Milano Foundation, will take place in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. Admission is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required by emailing centernyc@newschool.edu.
MILANO STUDENT FILM TO PREMIERE AT THE NEW SCHOOL
Milano student Golzar Naghshineh Selbe will premiere her film Making Waves, Saving Lives on Saturday, April 25 at 7:00 p.m. in Kellen Auditorium at 66 Fifth Avenue.
The documentary film grew out of Selbes work last summer with Dolphin Anti-Rape and AIDS Control Outreach, a grassroots nonprofit in Kenya that works to teach rape awareness and self-defense to young girls. “I took a bunch of video footage while I was in Kenya and have since been working on a documentary with the help of a few volunteers,” says Selbe. “For the premiere, everything has been donated or volunteer done, which is great because it follows the same grassroots actions of the Dolphin volunteers who travel around to schools in Kenya to teach girls rape awareness and self-defense,” Selbe continued.
The film premiere will include poetry and music by ONOME. Admission is a $10 suggested donation; but no tickets or reservations are required and seating is first-come first-served. All proceeds from the suggested donation will go directly to Dolphin Anti-Rape and AIDS Control Outreach, Kenya.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
PAULO BORGES LECTURES ON “FERNANDO PESSOA: ‘THE FICTIONS OF THE INTERLUDE’ OR THE THEATRE OF VACUITY”
On April 22, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Paulo Borges, Philosophy professor at the University of Lisbon and a famous playwright, poet, and novelist in Portugal, will give a talk at The New School titled, “Fernando Pessoa: ‘The Fictions of the Interlude’ or the Theatre of Vacuity.”
Paulo Borges is the author of more than a dozen of books (including various novels, poetry anthologies, aphorisms, and theatre plays). Among other things, he is one of the best-known Pessoa scholars and the editor of the Nova Aguia, a continuation of Pessoa’s famous journal.
This free event will be held at 6 East 16th Street, room 1009.
EMPIRE, POST-COLONIALISM, AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES
On Thursday, April 23 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., The New School for Social Research faculty members Carlos Forment and George Steinmetz will convene a workshop to survey and make sense of the current state of postcolonial thinking. Scholars who are closely identified with this approach or whose work is attuned to some of its concerns will be presenting early drafts of work-in-progress on a broad range of topics.
Program:
Where is Postcolonial Thinking Today (10:00 to 11:30 a.m.)
- Partha Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences and Columbia University), Lineages of Political Society
- Ann Stoler (NSSR), Beyond Sex: Bodily Exposure in the Colonial and Postcolonial Present
Traces of Postcolonialism in Academic Disciplines (11:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.)
- Craig Calhoun, (New York University and Social Science Research Council), TBA
- Lydia Liu (Columbia University), Lacan's Cybernetic Machine: How American Theory Became French Theory
Social Science and Empire (2:45 to 4:15 p.m.)
- George Steinmetz (NSSR), Scientific Autonomy, the German Social Scientists and Empire, 1880-1945
- Andreas Kalyvas (NSSR), Carl Schmitt and the Question of Imperial Sovereignty
Peripheral Peoples in Political Theory (4:15 to 5:45 p.m.)
- Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania), Franz Fanon’s Revolutionary Rhetoric
- Carlos Forment (NSSR and Universidad General de San Martin), Tocqueville, Modern Democracy and the Emergence of Colonial Regimes
This free event which is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and The New School for Social Research Dean's Office will take place at Machinist Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, mezzanine level.
INTERPRETING POLITICS, HISTORY, AND SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
A conference on Interpreting Politics, History and Society in the 21st Century, will be held on Friday, May 1, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. by the Political Science Department at The New School for Social Research.
Since the middle of the 20th century, social science disciplines such as Political Science have focused their research on using quantitative reasoning and analysis to answer their research questions. Recently, however, new qualitative methodology has gained increased attention, breaking away from the “classical” quantitative research paradigm that has dominated Political Science and other social science disciplines since the 1960s. This expansion in research methodology, which includes discourse analysis, textual analysis, ethnography among others—borrows from sociology, anthropology, and philosophy—enlarging the scope of research and practice of political analysis. As political questions have grown more complex, scholars have turned to these new forms of research processes to address them.
This conference will bring together scholars such as Dvora Yanow, Julia Ott, and Timothy Pachirat have conducted alternative modes of research and seek to explore what can be gained from their particular approaches.
This free event will take place at the New Wolff Conference Room at 6 East 16th Street, rooms 906/913.
NEWS FROM THE INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE
THE HISTORICAL CHINDIAN PARADIGM:
A TALK WITH PROFESSOR TAN CHUNG
On Tuesday April 21, from 5:00 to 7: 00 p.m., the India China Institute is hosting a talk by Professor Tan Chung titled, “The Historical Chindian Paradigm: Intercultural Transfusion and Solidification,” moderated by Professor L.H.M. Ling, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School.
It is hard to overstate the influence that India and China have had on each other, from the introduction of Buddhism into Chinese society, to their rapid and concurrent development in modern times. Yet their two-thousand years of interaction has been short-changed in academic
circles, covered in not nearly the same depth as the relatively recent invasion of Western powers. Professor Tan’s talk will address these and other discrepancies, focusing on the acculturation of Buddhism into Chinese society.
Professor Tan is an academic associate at the University of Chicago and an emeritus member at the Institute of Chinese Studies in New Delhi. A legendary figure among Asian scholars, he has published countless articles and over 15 books in Chinese and English, including Across the Himalayan Gap: An Indian Quest for Understanding China and Rise of Asian Giants: The Dragon-Elephant Tango.
This free event will take place in Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor. For more information please visit the India China Institute website.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
LISTEN UP! JAZZ SCHOOL ENSEMBLE FEATURED ON WBGO RADIO
Celebrate JAM! (Jazz Appreciation Month), and tune into WBGO 88.3 FM from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m., on Thursday, April 23 for a live broadcast with The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music’s Ornette Coleman Ensemble. Under the direction of faculty member Jane Ira Bloom, the band includes Rick Savage, soprano sax; Joe Hartnett, alto sax; John Collinge, tenor sax; Josh Olken, guitar; Glenn Zaleski, piano; Ross Gallagher, bass; and Max Jaffe, drums.
NEW CD FROM NEW SCHOOL JAZZ FACULTY MEMBER HAL GALPER
New School Jazz faculty member, the award-winning Hal Galper (piano) has released a new CD Art-Work (Origin Records), which follows in the footsteps of his critically acclaimed first Origin release, Furious Rubato. Recorded live at William Paterson University's Jazz Room Series, Art-Work features fellow New School Jazz faculty member and jazz icon Reggie Workman on bass and Rashid Ali on drums. The release is garnering rave reviews from Jazz Times, Just Jazz, and Cadence.
With over 89 recordings (including 29 as a leader in his own right), pianist, composer, publisher, educator, author, and touring artist, Galper is best known for his work with Chet Baker, Connonball Adderley, John Scofield, and the Phil Woods Quintet. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Galper anchored bands including the Slide Hampton Quartet, the Lee Konitz Duo, the Stan Getz Quartet, and many others. He has over 100 original compositions recorded and published, and has won a Grammy nomination and Grammy award for recordings with the Phil Woods Quartet and Quintet. Galper is also known internationally as an educator and his theoretical and practical articles have appeared in many publications. His book, The Touring Musician, A Small Business Approach to Booking Your Band on the Road, is currently reissued by Alfred Publishing. In addition, his technologically innovative interactive e-book, Forward Motion, From Bach To Bebop, A Corrective Approach To Jazz Phrasing, is actively in use (with hardcopy published by Sher Music).
SPRING 2009 ENSEMBLE AND RECITAL SERIES
Ongoing through May 19, over 70 free concerts will take place featuring The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music senior recitals (for graduating students) and final projects of ensemble classes (all levels). The Ensemble and Recital series proudly showcases the talents of our emerging artists in performances that blend mastery and creativity. Pick a date an enjoy the variety.
For a complete schedule, visit www.newschool.edu/jazz/events. All concerts, unless otherwise indicated, are held at Jazz Performance Space, 55 West 13th Street, 5th floor.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA
DRAMA STUDENT ACCEPTED INTO DRAMA LEAGUE SUMMER DIRECTING PROGRAM
New School for Drama directing student Sherri Eden Barber, class of 2009, has been accepted into the summer directing program of the prestigious Drama League Directors Project. The Program is a unique opportunity for early-career directors to "take charge" of a theatre where they are responsible for selecting, designing, casting, and producing the summer season for the Hangar Theatre’s Lab Company, a non-Equity company comprised of actors, designers, assistants and stage managers, in Ithaca, New York.
The season provides the directors with three productions: a main stage children's show and two plays of their choice produced in the Lab Company's own performance space, the Wedge. One of these choices will be a new play, giving each director the opportunity to collaborate with a playwright-in-residence.
“I came to The New School for Drama because of the program in company building and new works collaboration,” remarks Barber. “Now putting what I learned into action is the next step. I’m ready to put my training to work with another community that inspires creative collaboration, and to help build a company of actors and direct in an environment dedicated to pushing towards challenges and taking chances to hear new voices.”
Of the hundreds of nationwide applicants, Barber is one of only four directors selected for the program. The application process is intense: one must select a play to write about in terms of character and design, and then develop a statement of purpose and personal essay. If chosen, the next step is an interview with a panel of professional and well respected directors, and the executive director and the artistic director of the Drama League.
“I am extremely grateful for the education I received at Drama,” Barber notes, “and feel it played a crucial role in helping me develop the necessary skills needed to succeed in this fellowship— this is what I want to do with my life.”
DRAMA’S RANDOM ACTS ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL COMES TO A CLOSE
The New School for Drama’s RANDOM ACTS One-Act Play Festival finishes its five-week run with its final week of productions starting Thursday, April 23. 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, this final week features new works by Drama’s third-year playwrights.
The fifth weekend runs April 23-25 and will feature these new plays:
Extinction by Gabe McKinley, directed by Tamara Ruppart; with Nate Faust, Marco Formosa, Mikaela Johnson, and Valerie Lonigro.
An Alan Turing Fantasy by Zay Amsbury, directed by Web Begole; with David Marshall, Aidan O’Shea, and Amanda Rhines.
Cherries by Diana Polansky, directed by Sabina Ptasznik; with Jennifer McVey, Bridget Ori, and Patrick Williams.
The festival will finish April 25, 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
STUDENT WINS MACARTHUR DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION
Parsons student Jonah Model (BFA Design + Technology) was recently selected as one of 19 winners of the 2009 Digital Media and Learning Competition, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The competition challenges people around the world to create projects exploring digital media’s ability to help people learn. The $2 million dollar prize money is distributed among winners to fund their proposals.
Model’s project, Origami: Enfolding Real and Virtual Learning, is a file-sharing system that can be accessed via email or text message. The project links physical spaces with existing collaborative software such as wikis, social bookmarking, and groupware systems, allowing students to quickly share learning resources without interrupting lectures or conversations. Model was awarded $9,000 to develop Origami.
MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton announced the winners of this year’s competition, part of a larger initiative at MacArthur to determine how digital technologies are changing the way people interact, at a press conference in Chicago on April 16.
For more information, please visit the MacArthur website.
PARSONS PRESENTS INTO THE OPEN: THE CONFERENCE
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On Friday, April 24, Parsons presents Into the Open: The Conference, featuring presentations by four designers represented in the exhibition Into the Open: Positioning Practice, now on view in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. Designers Teddy Cruz (Estudio Teddy Cruz), Deborah Gans (Gans Studio), Laura Kurgan (L00K), and Rick Lowe (Project Row Houses) will discuss how designers and architects can integrate the issues raised in the exhibition into contemporary architectural practice.
Following an introduction by exhibition curators Bill Menking, founder of The Architect’s Newspaper, and Aaron Levy, director of the Slought Foundation, the four presenters will engage in an informal discussion with the public, triggered by agents provocateurs from the Parsons faculty including William Bevington, Jean Gardner, Jess Irish, Robert Kirkbride, David J. Lewis, Lydia Matthews, Brian McGrath, Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Raoul Rickenberg, Bob Rubin, Grahame Shane, John Thackara, Susan Yelavich, and Alfred Zollinger.
Into the Open: The Conference will take place on Friday, April 24 from 5-9 p.m. in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. For more information and a complete list of panelist bios, please visit the Johnson Design Center website.
NEWS FROM EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS
LANG COLLEGE SPRING THEATER PRODUCTION: THE TEMPEST
Eugene Lang College’s spring 2009 main stage production is Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
This drama, one of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare, starts when King Alonso of Naples and his entourage sail home for Italy after attending his daughter's wedding in Tunis, Africa. They encounter a violent storm, or tempest. Everyone jumps overboard and is washed ashore on a strange island inhabited by the magician Prospero who has deliberately conjured up the storm. Prospero and Miranda live in a cave on the island, which is also inhabited by Ariel, a sprite who carries out the bidding of Prospero, and the ugly, half-human Caliban.
This production is directed by Cecilia Rubino, Eugene Lang College faculty member, and performed at the historic Playhouse at Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street. It will run from April 23 to 26, with performances Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and a Sunday matinee at 1:00 p.m. General admission is $5.
Tickets can be purchased made at The New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday-Friday 1:00-7:00 p.m. Reservations and inquiries can be made by emailing boxoffice@newschool.edu or calling 212.229.5488.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
FINANCIAL REPORTERS SHARE STORIES OF THE INDUSTRY AND COVERING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
The Center for Communication and The New School Department of Media Studies and Film present “Buyouts, Takeovers, Downsizing: Financial Reporting in Today's Economy,” on April 22nd at 6:30 pm. Aspiring journalists will hear how to avoid the perils and pitfalls of the profession, and media observers can decide for themselves if the media has a responsibility in the state of today’s economy.
The event features a panel discussion of leading financial journalists who will discuss their careers and the role reporters play in shaping perceptions of today’s economic crisis. In addition to sharing how their own careers got started and how to break into the industry, they will assess the global crisis and discuss the ‘perfect storm’ of events that led to it. The panel moderated by Jeff Bercovici, Blogger, “Mixed Media,” Portfolio.com includes Charles Gasparino, on-air editor, CNBC; Farnoosh Torabi, correspondent, TheStreet.com TV; Liz Claman, anchor, Fox Business Network; and Alan Murray, deputy managing editor, The Wall Street Journal; executive editor, Journal Online, and WSJ Television.
The event will be held in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. Admission is free, but reservations are required by emailing info@cencom.org or visiting the Center for Communication website
FRIDAYS @ ONE SERIES: WOMEN AND PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
On Friday, April 24, at 1:00 p.m., filmmaker and peace activist Lilly Rivlin will screen and discuss her documentary, Can You Hear Me? Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight for Peace.
Can You Hear Me? is the first documentary to explore in depth the role of Israeli and Palestinian women peace activists dealing with one of the world’s oldest conflicts. Though prospects for peace have ebbed and flowed between Israelis and Palestinians, women peace activists have worked consistently to bring an end to the bloodshed that has brought so much anguish to both sides. A Q&A session will follow the screening.
Lilly Rivlin is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker. She is also a consultant for Middle East politics, Jewish affairs, non-violent conflict resolution, and gender issues. She is a co-founder of the original Feminist Seder and serves on the International Committee of Women of the Wall. Her films also include Miriam's Daughters Now, The Tribe, and Gimme a Kiss.
The event will be held in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. Admission is free, but reservations are required by calling 212. 229.5682.
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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