LANG FACULTY AND STUDENTS WORK ON RADIO PLAY TO BE PRESENTED AT WNYC RADIO’S NEW SPACE
On Tuesday, April 28, WNYC Radio will open the doors of its new street-level public space, the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space (the Greene Space), a multipurpose, multiplatform street-level studio and performance venue at 44 Charlton Street at the intersection Varick Street.
As part of the 10-day celebration a number of ongoing signature initiatives will be established including “A New Theater of Sound,” in which the Greene Space will collaborate with theater groups to reimagine audio theater for the 21st century. One of the first up is The Fall of the City, a 1937 CBS radio drama by Archibald MacLeish, presented on May 3, at 4:30 p.m., (dress rehearsal and behind-the-scenes tour), and Monday, May 4, at 7:00 p.m., (live broadcast and post-performance reception).
Both evenings will begin with a short audio documentary directed and produced by Lang faculty member Sarah Montague. Research for the documentary was provided in part by Eugene Lang students as part of a class taught by Montague in Spring 2008, when students studied The Fall of the City and its mileu.
The new restaging of this searing work directed by Sarah Montague will follow. As in the original broadcast, approximately 100 students from throughout New York City will serve as the play’s Greek chorus, and will be directed by Lang faculty member Cecilia Rubino.These include the following Lang Students from the theatre program: Ali Krasner, Roberto Sanabria, Celine Robinson, John Gentile, Kirsten Hess, Teddy Rodger, Caitlin Wilson, Valentino Yung, Emily Winkler-Morey, Michael Lincoln, Duncan Bindbeutel, Jessica Gorman, Alix Girrous, Misha Beiser, Charlotte Peters, Valentino Yung, Alex Rochinski, Ben Van Buren, Michael Buffer, McCabe Walsh, Derek Spaldo and Andrew Smrz (a master’s student in Media Studies). Speaking parts in the production have also gone to Lang students: Ben Van Buren, Michael Lincoln, Alex Rochinski, Celine Robinson, Caitlin Wilson, Duncan Bindbeutel and Heather Lewis.
For more information and tickets go to the Greene Space website.
NYC SERVICE: NEW SCHOOL STUDENTS AND STAFF ATTEND MAYOR BLOOMBERG’S EVENT LAUNCHING NEW VOLUNTEER INITIATIVE
On Monday, April 20 a group of New School students along with several Student Services’ staff members attended Mayor Bloomberg’s press event announcing a new initiative to promote volunteerism throughout New York City’s five boroughs. The high-energy event, NYC Service, held at the Armory Track and Field Foundation’s arena in Washington Heights, featured a number of speakers including Arhea Marshall, a sophomore at the High School of Math, Science, and Engineering at City College; Sway Calloway, a reporter for MTV News; Caroline Kennedy, author and attorney; and a video appearance by Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Obama. Much of the positive energy at the event was generated by hundreds of attendees who are involved with community service and volunteer programs including students from public middle schools, members of City Year Corp and Service Nation, New York Cares, colleges and universities including The New School, and many other nonprofit agencies and organizations.
The announcement of NYC Service by Mayor Bloomberg preceded the historic signing of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act by President Obama on April 21, 2009, which will greatly expand the size of AmeriCorps, the nation’s civilian corps of volunteers, over the next five years. According to Mayor Bloomberg, “the NYC Service program has three main goals: channel the power of volunteers to address the impacts of the current economic downturn; make New York City the easiest city in America in which to serve; and ensure every young person in New York City is taught about civic engagement and has an opportunity to serve.”
Student Services’ Office of Student Development and Activities will continue to organize New School teams to collaborate with several NYC nonprofit organizations that will play a large role in the NYC Service initiative.
New School students, faculty, and staff who are interested in learning more about NYC Service should visit nyc.gov/service and email Student Development and Activities to learn more or to sign up for New School volunteer projects.
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.
NYC WILD FLOWER WEEK PRESENTS A SYMPOSIUM ON SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES
Natural ecosystems provide numerous fundamental life-support services, including the production and maintenance of biological diversity. Yet species loss and habitat degradation continue to be major threats to the conservation of New York City’s natural resources.
In this symposium, Creating Sustainable Landscapes: Policy Initiatives, Research Goals, and Design Strategies, on Monday May 4, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., a discussion will take place on how to enable built landscapes to support natural ecological function by protecting existing ecosystems, conserving bio-diversity, and restoring ecological capacity. Participants will also learn how these issues are being addressed and can be advanced through policy initiatives, and determine a course for future design approaches and research agenda.
Speakers for the event include: Dr. Paul Mankiewicz, executive director, Gaia Institute; Dr. Richard Pouyat, ecologist, U.S. Forest Service, and co-principal Investigator of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study; Dr. Jean Marie Hartman, department chair of Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University; Cameron Tonkinwise, co-chair of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School; and Marni Horwitz, founder, Alive Structures.
The symposium 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 nycwildflowerweek@gmail.com by April 30.
This event is being hosted by the Torrey Botanical Society, The New School’s Tishman Environment and Design Center, and New York Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARDS 2009
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| Martin Duberman |
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| Carole DeSanti |
On Thursday, May 7, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., the 21st Annual Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2008 will be presented.
Martin Duberman is the recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whiteread Award for Lifetime Achievement, named in honor of a legendary editor of the 1970s and 1980s. Carole DeSanti is the recipient ofthe Publishing Triangle's Leadership Award, which was created in 2002 and recognizes contributions to lesbian and gay literature by those who are not primarily writers—editors, agents, librarians, and others.
Duberman is the author of over 20 books, including Stonewall; James Russell Lowell (a National Book Award finalist); and the memoir Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey. His play In White America won the Vernon Rice / Drama Desk Award for Best Off-Broadway Production in 1963. In 2007, he published The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, a biography of the man who was the force behind George Balanchine's New York City Ballet. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the City University of New York, and the founder and first director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the CUNY Graduate School.
DeSanti has been an advocate for LGBT books since the 1980s, when she became the first openly lesbian editor at a major American trade publisher. Back then, at E.P. Dutton, she acquired Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina. DeSanti is currently vice president, editor at large at the Penguin Group.
The other awards that will be presentedare the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction in this annual ceremony. The Publishing Triangle also partners with the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards to present awards in gay and lesbian fiction and with the Robert Chelsey Foundation to present awards for playwriting. For the complete list of nominees, please visit Publishing Triangle website.
This free event hosted by The New School Writing Program will take place in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street. A public reception follows the ceremony.
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 has two screenings left at the AMC Village VII, 66 3rd Avenue at 11th Street, on 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 has two screenings left at the AMC Village VII, 66 3rd Avenue at 11th Street, on Thursday, April 30, at 4:15 p.m., as well as Saturday, May 2, at 6:15 p.m., and one screening will be at Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street at Laight Street, below Canal Street on Sunday, May 3, at 5:30 p.m.
NEWS FROM MILANO THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND URBAN POLICY
THE OBAMA AGENDA: OVERCOMING POVERTY IN NEW YORK AND THE NATION
On Thursday, April 30, from 6:00 to 7:45 p.m., Milano and the Center for New York City Affairs present the 2009 Bill Green Forum in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Obama administration’s 2010 budget plan include resources and tools for large-scale job creation, increased benefits for low-income and unemployed people, refundable tax credits, and the prospect of new flexible funds for child and family services. What is Washington offering the states, and how will New York respond? Can the nation develop a new framework for reducing poverty, or are these initiatives simply old programs in new packages, with more dollars attached?
In a panel moderated by Andrew White, director, Center for New York City Affairs at The New School, these questions will be explored. Panelists include David Hansell, commissioner, New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance; Ron Haskins, co-director, Center for Children and Families, The Brookings Institution; Margarita Rosa, executive director, Grand Street Settlement; Debbie Weinstein, executive director, Coalition on Human Needs; and Veronica White, director, New York City Center for Economic Opportunity.
The Bill Green Forum memorializes the late Honorable Bill Green (1929-2002), who represented the East Side of Manhattan in Congress from 1978-1992. Bill Green was an independent thinker who frequently crossed the aisle to collaborate on critical issues such as the environment, urban policy, and affordable housing. He served as a trustee of The New School and a board member of Milano. This forum, which pays tribute to his deep commitment to bipartisanship, is generously funded by the Taconic Foundation, on whose board he also served.
Admission to this event is free; but seating is limited and reservations are required by calling 212.229.5418 or emailing centernyc@newschool.edu.
Additional support provided by the Sirus Fund and the Milano Foundation.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
NSSR STUDENT WINS FELLOWSHIP TO STUDY GENDER ROLES IN INDIA’S IT SECTOR
Sheba Tejani, a doctoral student in the department of Economics at The New School for Social Research and a Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis research assistant, has been awarded the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF). This program, administered by the Social Science Research Council and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, assists graduate students in the humanities and social sciences to formulate research proposals for their doctoral dissertations.
Sheba plans to study the particular confluence of social, cultural, and economic factors that enable the systematic reproduction of sex segregation in the information technology industry of India. Sheba’s research will highlight how the IT industry in India, which is the biggest foreign exchange earner in the country and known to be internationally competitive, perpetuates gender inequality within its structures. She will conduct a qualitative study on-site in the western region of India, interviewing employers as well as employees to understand why women are crowded into particular professions within the IT sector, such as tele-work at call centers and low-level software coding.
INTERPRETING POLITICS, HISTORY, AND SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Since the middle of the 20th century, practitioners of social science disciplines such as political science have employed quantitative reasoning and analysis to answer research questions. Recently, however, new qualitative methodologies borrowed from sociology, anthropology, and philosophy have gained increased attention. These new research methodologies—which include discourse analysis, textual analysis, and ethnography—have enlarged the scope of research and practice of political analysis and enabled scholars to address political questions of increasing complexity.
Interpreting Politics, History, and Society in the 21st Century, a conference organized by the Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research will be held on Friday, May 1, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Serving as an intellectual forum for scholars working on interpretive methodology, the conference brings together a number of prominent scholars—including Dvora Yanow, Julia Ott, and Timothy Pachirat—who have employed alternative modes of research and explored the possibilities offered by their particular approaches.
For a full schedule of the conference, visit The New School for Social Research event calendar.
This free event, which will take place at the New Wolff Conference Room at 6 East 16th Street, rooms 906/913, is made possible by the NSSR Student Conference Fund, Union of Political Science Students and NSSR Department of Politics.
NEWS FROM
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN AND
THE INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE
THE NEW SCHOOL AND THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE HOST CONFERENCE ON EMERGING EXCHANGES: NEW ARCHITECTURES OF INDIA
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| India Construction by Satya Pemmaraju |
The Architectural League of New York joins with Parsons The New School for Design and the India China Institute of The New School to present a two-day conference titled, Emerging Exchanges: New Architectures of India, at The New School. The conference will include presentations by architects working in India and panel discussions on the new challenges and conceptualizations affecting India’s landscape.
Participants include Himanshu Burte, Prem Chandavarkar, Kenneth Frampton, Soumitro Ghosh and Nisha Mathew, Sudhir Jambhekar, Rajeev Kathpalia, Anupama Kundoo, Reinhold Martin, Gurjit Singh Matharoo, Anuradha Mathur, Dilip da Cunha, Rahul Mehrotra, Geeta Mehta, Vyjayanthi Rao, Samira Rathod, Margie Ruddick, Tom Zook, Michael Sorkin, Neerja Tiku, Billie Tsien, Tod Williams, Kazi K. Ashraf, Brian McGrath.
The conference will be structured around two overlapping themes: material formations and territorial intersections. It will look at how economic growth, euphoric urbanism, media technologies, transnational modes of production, and new state and social dynamics are challenging India’s notions of culture, identity, practices, and obligations. The keynote address will feature Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor for Media, Culture, and Communication at the New York University, who will discuss “Architecture and Amnesia in Indian Modernity.”
The conference will take place Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at The New School in the Theresa Lang Student and Community Center located at 55 West 13th Street in New York. Registration is required for the conference. Tickets are $40 for the general public and $25 for members of The Architectural League. Admission is free for students, faculty, and staff of New York City educational institutions with valid school ID. Admission to the keynote address may be purchased independently for $10. The keynote address takes place on Thursday, April 30 at 7:00 p.m. in The Great Hall of The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York.
For the full conference schedule, speaker bios, and to purchase tickets, visit the Architectural League of New York website.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
NEW SCHOOL JAZZ VOCALIST AT KENNEDY CENTER
On April 1, New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music vocalist Sarah Charles (’12), was one of 29 young musicians from around the world selected for the 12th Annual Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead residency at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Now in its 12th year, Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a national jazz residency program for emerging artists including two weeks of intense training in performance, composition, and arrangement led by renowned musicians. The program culminated in three free concerts performed by (residency) participants on the Millennium Stage Wednesday, April 1 through April 3. These Kennedy Center performances were also broadcast live on the Internet and can be viewed at the Kennedy Center website.
Dr. Billy Taylor, artistic director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center, invited the late, great jazz singer Betty Carter to bring her Jazz Ahead program to the Center in 1998. Artists are selected by audition application that considers both composition and performance skills. The panel of judges included jazz artists Nathan Davis, Carmen Lundy, Winard Harper, and Curtis Fuller.
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
MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC
On Friday, May 1, at 8:00 p.m., the Mannes Ensemble-in-Residence Orion String Quartet will perform in a free concert.
The quartet featuring violinists Daniel and Todd Phillips, violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Timothy Eddy, gained immediate attention in the classical music world when its founding members, each with distinguished solo and chamber music careers, formed the ensemble in 1987. They have been consistently praised for the fresh perspective and individuality they bring to performing a broad range of repertoire. In its residency at Mannes, the Orion Quartet presents four free concerts each year, in addition to working with student ensembles in a series of chamber music master classes.
The concert will take place in the Mannes Concert Hall, Mannes Building, 150 West 85th Street. Orion Quartet tickets are free and may be picked up on the day of the concert starting at 6:00 p.m. at the security desk, one ticket per person. Seating begins at approximately 7:30 p.m.
For more information call 212.580.0210 x4817.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
PARSONS PRESENTS 2009 THESIS SHOWS
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Thesis season at Parsons begins this week with the opening of Between the Lines, an exhibition of work by graduating students in the Integrated Design Curriculum which runs from April 29-May 8, in the Anna Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue.
Throughout the month of May, Parsons will present a series of exhibitions in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and at venues across Manhattan celebrating the work of its undergraduate and graduate students. Work from students in the architecture, fashion design, fine arts, illustration, integrated design, interior design, lighting design, photography, and product design programs will be represented.
Thesis programming continues on May 2-3 with the MFA Design + Technology Thesis Symposium, a weekend of panels, screenings, and presentations at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. The conference includes a keynote address by We Make Money Not Art founder Regina Debatty on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. and a discussion between artist/computer programmer Zachary Lieberman and designer Ken Tanabe on the state of design and technology on Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
From May 7-16, Parsons MFA Fine Arts program will present a special exhibition of thesis work curated by Anthony Allen, associate director of the Paula Cooper Gallery, at the Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street.
Click here for more information and a full schedule of upcoming thesis exhibitions.
PARSONS FACULTY NAMED GUGGENHEIM FELLOW
MFA Fine Arts faculty member Lenore Malen was recently awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced last week. Malen is one of 180 artists, scientists, and scholars from across the United States and Canada chosen for this year’s fellowship program from a pool of over 3,000 applicants.
Malen is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with photo, video, audio installation, live performance, and artist’s books to create imaginative scenarios involving historical fiction. As a member of the Parsons faculty, she teaches seminars on contemporary art and culture and thesis writing.
Established in 1921 by Senator Simon Guggenheim, Guggenheim Foundation fellowships provide financial support for established artists and scholars to assist in their research and artistic creation. The fellowships are awarded to practitioners in a wide range of academic and artistic disciplines, from the natural sciences to the performing arts.
To be considered, applicants must demonstrate an exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative abilities in the arts. The stringent selection process includes a review by a panel of distinguished artists and scholars, the results of which are presented to the selection committee for a final decision.
For more information on Lenore Malen and her work, please visit her website. For more information on the Guggenheim Fellowship, visit the Guggenheim Foundation website.
PARSONS PHOTOGRAPHY PRESENTS WORK FROM MILAN TO ST. PETERSBURG
Parsons is teaming up with esteemed cultural organizations from Milan and St. Petersburg, giving photography students and alumni the opportunity to exhibit their work on the global stage.
This month, Parsons presents Amaranth, an exhibition of work by 30 alumni exploring the theme of eternity, at the Maramotti Collection, the Milan-based permanent art collection of the Max Mara Fashion Group. Curated by associate professor Michelle Bogre, the exhibition, which takes its name from the legendary flower that never fades, explores the ability of photography to simultaneously represent the past, present, and future. This exhibition is the latest in a longstanding relationship between Parsons and Max Mara, which has over the years selected a number of student works to be displayed in the Max Mara flagship store on Madison Avenue, and eventually become a permanent part of the Maramotti Collection. Amaranth is now on view through May 15 at the Maramotti Collection in Milan, Italy. For more 
information, please visit www.maxmarafashiongroup.com
This summer, Parsons photography continues this spirit of global collaboration with Interaction and Space (June 10-28), an exhibition of undergraduate student work at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Co-curated by Thomas Werner, director of Parsons BFA Photography Program, and Igor Lebedev, head photography instructor at the Hermitage, the exhibition features a body of work produced by students at both Parsons and the Hermitage, which explores differences in American and Russian cultural and artistic traditions. For more information, visit the Hermitage Museum website.
NEWS FROM EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS
The Eugene Lang College Dance Department presents their annual Spring Dance Performance on Friday, May 1, at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, May 2, at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m., at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street at Ninth Avenue.
The performance will feature an original William Forsythe inspired work based on the essential principals and movement phrases from one of Forsythe’s renowned choreographic works, One Flat Thing Reproduced. The residency was lead by William Forsythe dancer and collaborator, Jill Johnson. The Performance will also premiere original dance works, conceived and directed by Lang faculty Eric Jackson Bradley, Rebecca Stenn, Takehiro Ueyama, and Karla Wolfangle.
Admission to the performances is $5.
STEM CELLS IN THE CITY: FILM SCREENING OF HOPE DEFERRED
On Tuesday May 5, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., a free screening of the documentary short film Hope Deferred, directed by the award-winning author and widely-acclaimed adman, Jimmy Siegel and produced by the Brook Ellison Project, will take place in the Theresa Lang Student and Community Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
The film is a personal plea to understanding the importance of stem cell research and an effort to provide information and clarify mistruths. It provides a refreshing look at the public’s perception of stem cell science and the legislation surrounding it, as well as commentary from leaders in the field of stem cell science.
Katayoun Chamany, associate professor of Biology, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts will moderate a discussion following the screening. Speakers will include: Jimmy Siegel, director of Hope Deferred, and partner of a-political, an issue and advocacy marketing firm established in 2006; and Brooke Ellison, M.A., Stem Cell Advocate; founder and president of the Brooke Ellison Project; and member of the New York State Stem Cell Science Ethics Committee.
This event is sponsored by Eugene Lang College and the Project Pericles. For more details on the film visit the Brooke Ellison Project website. For more information of this series contact Katayoun Chamany.
WHAT COULD BE BIGGER THAN HOLLYWOOD:
WORKING IN CINEMA FOR A GREATER PURPOSE
“Filmmakers need money people to keep them on budget, to crunch numbers for investors—this is how the films get made,” this was a comment made by Michelle Materre, a panelist at the “What Could Be Bigger Than Hollywood” panel discussion on April 16.
Close to 70 students and independent filmmakers attended the event hosted by Student Services’ Office of Career Development to hear about how to develop careers that encompass both film and social justice.
Speakers on the panel, included Andrea Holley, deputy director of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival; Spencer Mandell, award-winning documentary film director; Michelle Materre, founder and consultant for Creatively Speaking, and faculty member at The New School Media Studies Department; and Greg Rhem, manager of Acquisitions for HBO Documentary Films and New School Media Studies master’s student.
Panelists answered questions about various career paths involved in getting documentary, educational, and advocacy films made, seen, and sold.
“I saw the poster and thought, ‘wow!’” said one student. “Film and activism—that’s so New School!”
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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