Parsons Presents the Quay Brothers: Dormitorium
This week, Parsons will explore the macabre fantasy world of the Quay Brothers with Dormitorium: An Exhibition of Film Decors by the Quay Brothers. Opening July 16, the exhibiton features 11 rare, highly detailed, original sets from the work of twin cult filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay.
In addition to the collaboratively designed miniature decors from some of the Quays’ most prominent works, the exhibition will also feature continuous screenings of excerpts from several of the Quays’ films.
The Quay Brothers have built a cult following with their dark, moody films, which are heavily influenced by Eastern European film, literature, and music and often feature disassembled dolls and no spoken dialogue.
Dormitorium will run through October 4 in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 2 West 13th Street. For more information and gallery hours of operation, please visit the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center website.
DRAMA ALUMS IN RIVERA’S REWORKING OF HIS PLAY REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT AT THE NEW SCHOOL
Playwright Jose Rivera has rewritten his own Obie-winning play, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, and is working with the cast of ABroad Stage Company’s first production on what he calls the “new world premiere.” This new production will be performed at The New School for Drama Theater July 10-19 under the direction of Drama Playwriting chair Pippin Parker, and features Drama alums Sara Gozalo ('09), Adriana Munera-Checho ('08), Mike Keller ('08), Federico Trigo ('08), and current student Emma Ramos (’10) and Drama faculty member Paul Ryan Rudd.
ABroad Stage Company is a new platform for artists with the goal of making a living at their craft by providing an infrastructure for every company member to produce his or her own dream project; this production was spear-headed by Gozalo. In addition to Gozalo, Munera-Checho, and Ramos, other company members include Drama students and alums Brittany Bellizeare (’09), Chaelon Costello (’10), Jennifer McVey (’09), and Jason R. Stroud (’09).
Performances will be at The New School for Drama Theater, 151 Bank Street, 3rd Floor. For more information, performance schedule, and to order tickets, visit www.abroadstageco.com.
PRESIDENT KERREY TO HOST LIVE WEBCAST ON HEALTH CARE REFORM DEBATE WITH TOP CAPITOL HILL STAFFERS
 Bob Kerrey |
 Kate Leone |
This summer, Congressional leaders are racing to meet an August deadline to get health care reform legislation to President Obama. Despite this mandate for reform, leaders on Capitol Hill struggle to build consensus around proposed changes that potentially affect every American.
 Dr. John E. McDonaough |
 Russ Sullivan |
On Thursday, July 23, President Bob Kerrey will host a live webcast from the recording studio in the U.S. Senate with leading health care aides involved in the debate. Representing the senators that are leading the reform effort, these experts will provide an inside look at the evolving debate. They are guests Kate Leone, senior health counsel to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV); Dr. John E. McDonough, senior health policy advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA); and Russ Sullivan, Democratic staff director for the Senate Committee on Finance led by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT).
Panelists will provide an inside look at the latest proposed legislative approaches to health-care reform; the Obama Administration’s controversial public health-care option; crafting reform while controlling costs for individuals, business, and government; taxing employer-provided health-care benefits; reducing reform’s price tag; points of agreement—and tension—between the White House and Congress; and lessons learned from the Massachusetts model of universal coverage.
The webcast will take place from 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Viewers will be able to submit questions online. To participate, please click here to register. You will receive an email confirmation with a link to the webcast site For additional information, please contact Stephen Kimmerling in the Office of the President at The New School.
GOLDBERGER RECEIVES GENE BURD URBAN JOURNALISM AWARD
Paul Goldberger, the Joseph Urban Professor in Design and Architecture, was recently awarded the 2009 Gene Burd Urban Communication Journalism Award. The honor, given by The Urban Communication Foundation, recognizes high quality urban media reporting on city problems, programs, policies, and public priorities. The award will be presented to Goldberger at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s annual convention on August 7.
Goldberger, a celebrated architecture writer, has won numerous prizes for his work with the New Yorker and other publications, including a Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Journalism in 1984 and the 1996 New York City’s Preservation Achievement Award, bestowed by then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in recognition of the impact of his work on historic preservation.
Goldberger, who served as Dean of Parsons from 2004-2006, currently works as an architecture critic for the New Yorker.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
FINE ARTS FACULTY EDITS NEW BOOK ON TWORKOV
Parsons fine arts faculty member Mira Schor edited the recently published book The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov. The book is the first comprehensive publication of the writings of Tworkov, a painter, teacher, and author who was a significant figure in the Abstract Expressionist period.
Schor contributed an introduction that includes biographical information on Tworkov, as well as historical and critical insights on his artwork and writings. In addition, Schor included supplemental information on 20th-century artists in New York City through the early 1980s. The book is intended to bring Tworkov’s work to the attention of artists, painters, art students, and art teachers.
A related exhibition of Tworkov’s work, Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes, Five Decades of Painting, will be held from August 13 through October 27 at the UBS Art Gallery, 1285 Avenue of the Americas between 51st and 52nd Streets.
For more information on The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov, please visit the Yale University Press website.
NEW FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA
DRAMA PLAYWRIGHT ALUM POISED FOR OFF-BROADWAY DEBUT
This September, Atlantic Theater Company will feature the world premiere of the comedy Oohrah! by Drama alum Bekah Brunstetter (Playwriting ’07) at Atlantic Stage 2, the company's second stage. The production will be directed by Evan Cabnet.
“I am so excited about this opportunity—and also have a small amount of fear,” Brunstetter responds to the announcement. “But mainly excitement! And also New School pride!”
Brunstetter wrote the first draft of the play a year ago when she went home to see her younger brother deployed to Iraq. It tells the story of two sisters seeking stability in Fayetteville, North Carolina—home to one of the South's largest military bases—and asks how we can remain true to ourselves when the pressures of domestic and military expectation threaten all. Oohrah! was originally workshopped at Ars Nova, New York City, as well as the Finborough Theater, London, as part of the Old Vic / New Voices play series.
“We did a reading of it at Ars Nova, where the current director Evan Cabnet got wind of it,” she explains, “and he brought it to the people at Roundabout Theatre Company, and they did a reading of it, too. From there, the Atlantic got a hold of it and here we are!”
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.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS RECOGNIZED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION
Anna Paretskaya and Yifat Gutman, two sociology students at The New School For Social Research were recently recognized by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.
Anna was awarded the 2009 Suzanne Langer Prize for Best Student Paper for her work, “The Soviet Communist Party and the Other Spirit of Capitalism.” Yifat was elected as the newest student member to the Council of the Sociology of Culture section.
The Sociology of Culture section of the American Sociological Association was established to encourage development of this perspective through the organized interchange of ideas and research. The Section on Culture considers material products, ideas, and symbolic means and their relation to social behavior.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
NEW SCHOOL JAZZ STUDENTS HEADLINE HUDSON RIVER PARK TRUST
STARS OF TOMORROW CONCERT SERIES
New School Jazz students return to Hudson Pier to headline the Hudson River Park Trust Stars of Tomorrow concert series. Each Tuesday through August 11, at 6:30 p.m., New School Jazz students will serenade New Yorkers on the Hudson River on Pier 45, located at West and Christopher Streets. This outdoor venue is quickly becoming a Greenwich Village hot spot. The New School Jazz Line-up is:
- Tuesday, July 14, Shrimrit Shoshan Trio with Shimrit Shoshan, piano; Sam Knight, drums; and Ross Gallagher, bass.
- Tuesday, July 21, Darrell Smith Trio with Darrell Smith, drums; Rotem Sivan, guitar; Peter Yuskauskas, bass; and special guest, Ryan Anselmi, tenor saxophone.
- Tuesday, August 4, Amanda Ruzza Trio with Amanda Ruzza, bass; Collin DeJoseph, piano; and Jeff Barton, drums.
- Tuesday, August 11, Erika Kapin Trio with Erika Kapin, violin; Angelo Spagnolo, guitar; and Maiko Ono, drums.
NEWS FROM MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC
MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC SUMMER 2009 INSTITUTES, FESTIVALS, AND SEMINARS
Mannes College The New School for Music culminates its exciting array of classical music institutes, festivals, and seminars with the The Eleventh Annual International Keyboard Institute and Festival, July 19–August 2. For more information about the institutes and festivals, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/summer.
The International Keyboard Institute, founded by Mannes alumnus and faculty member Jerome Rose, features performances by world-renowned pianists, master classes, and symposia. Two concert series will take place this year: the Prestige Series concert at 6:00 p.m., features accomplished young artists from around the world, many of them recent winners of major international competitions; and the Masters Series concerts at 8:30 p.m. feature guest artists and faculty.
This year the guest artist faculty includes distinguished pianists Joaquín Achúcarro, Philippe Entremont, and Olga Kern, each of whom will give a master classes and perform a recital. Founder/Director Jerome Rose will perform the opening concert on July 19.
Guest artists Alon Goldstein and Piotr Paleczny will make festival concert debuts at the Masters Series. Mykola Suk, Alexander Kobrin, Jeffrey Swann, HaeSun Paik, Steven Mayer, Jose Ramos Santana, and Yuan Sheng will return to give recitals and master classes. David Dubal will give a lecture “Anniversaries: Haydn, Mendelssohn, Albéniz.” Byron Janis joins David Dubal at the mid-point of the festival for “An Afternoon with Byron Janis,” an event that will be free to the public. For a detailed schedule of program information, evening events, and master classes, please visit: www.ikif.org or call 212.580.0210 x4858. All concerts will take place at Mannes Concert Hall, 150 West 85th Street.
Admission: $20 per concert; $15 per master class; Daily Pass: $50 (classes plus 2 concerts); Festival Pass (2 weeks - 28 events): $250; Week I, Festival Pass: $125 (12 concert events; 1 lecture); Week II, Festival Pass: $125 (13 concert events; 1 lecture; MacKenzie Competition semis and finals)
Sunday, July 19—Opening Concert
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Jerome RoseMonday, July 20
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Mei-Ting Sun
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: David DubalTuesday, July 21
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Lucille Chung
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Philippe EntremontWednesday, July 22
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Vitaly Pisarenko
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Jeffrey SwannThursday, July 23
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Yoni Levyatov
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Joaquin AchúcarroFriday, July 24
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Gabriele Leporatti
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Mykola SukSaturday, July 25
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Ran Dank
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Alon GoldsteinSunday, July 26, 3:00 p.m.
An Afternoon with Byron Janis, hosted by David Dubal, (Free Admission)Monday, July 27
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Sofya Gulyak
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Yuan ShengTuesday, July 28
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Mariya Kim
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: HaeSun PaikWednesday, July 29
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Ying Feng
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Piotr PalecznyThursday, July 30
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Matei Varga
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Steven Mayer / Jose Ramos SantanaFriday, July 31
Prestige Series Concert, 6:00 p.m.: Ching-Yun Hu
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Alexander KobrinSaturday, August 1
MacKenzie Competition Semifinal, 11:00 a.m.
Master Series Concert, 8:30 p.m.: Olga KernSunday, August 2
MacKenzie Competition Final, 11:00 a.m-1:00 p.m. and 2:00-4:00 p.m.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
THE MUSIC INSTINCT: SCIENCE AND SONG
On Wednesday, July 15, at 6:00 p.m., Elena Mannes (relative of the founder of Mannes College The New School for Music) presents her documentary film, The Music Instinct: Science and Song. The special screening and lecture is being held in conjunction with the Creative Arts Therapy program at The New School and the summer course Music, Mind, and Healing.
The film explores recent discoveries made in a variety of disciplines that reveal new connections between music and the human mind, the body, and the universe. It features neuroscientist Daniel Levitin and an array of musicians, including Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Evelyn Glennie, and Jarvis Cocker. The film was written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Elena Mannes, narrated by Audra MacDonald, and produced by Mannes and Margaret Smilow.
This free event is sponsored by the Creative Arts Therapy program at The New School and will be held in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
USE YOUR FREE ADMISSION TO DROP IN ON MOMA’S AFTER HOUR THURSDAY NIGHTS IN
JULY AND AUGUST
Thursday, July 2, 2009, marks the first of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA’s) Thursday Nights, a series of Thursday evenings in July and August 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: 33 Variations, The 39 Steps, Altar Boyz, American Ballet Theatre, The American Plan, August: Osage County, Avenue Q, Ballet NY, Beast, Big Apple Circus, Blithe Spirit, Christopher Cross at B.B. King's, Distracted, Enter Laughing, Exit the King, The Fantasticks, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, Fueerzabruta, Gypsy, Hedda Gabler, Impressionism, Irena's Vow, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, London Philharmonic at Lincoln Center; The Marvelous Wonderettes, Mourning Becomes Electra, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Next to Normal, Pal Joey, Patti Austin at Brooklyn Center; Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Phantom of the Opera, Reasons to be Pretty, Rock of Ages, Ruined, Shrek: The Musical; Speed the Plow, Spring Awakening and Uncle Vanya.
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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