Explore the drama of social activism in New York City from the 17th century right up to the present. In a town renowned for its in-your-face persona, citizens have banded together on issues as diverse as civil rights, wages, sexual orientation, and religious freedom. Using artifacts,
1 Minute Meal: Stories of Food and Community in New York at MOFAD Thursday, July 27, 2017 6:30pm 8:00pm Museum of Food and Drink62 Bayard StreetBrooklyn, NY, 11222United States To launch James Boo’s pop-up exhibit at MOFAD, 1 Minute Meal: Stories of Food and Community
THE THIRD SIDE OF THE RIVER A film by Celina Murga (La tercera orilla, Argentina, 2014, 92 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) NYC Premiere — Q&A with the filmmaker! This slow-burn drama follows 17-year-old Nicolas, who lives with his mother and younger siblings in a
Celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, at the Museum of the City of New York! Join them to learn more about this time of gratitude for Muslim people and share what you are thankful for by contributing to a community mural. Explore Muslim cultural traditions
Rhythm & Power: Salsa in New York Through November 26 Rhythm & Power illuminates how the diversity of New York City gave rise to salsa, an up-tempo combination of percussive Latin music and poly-rhythmic, Afro-Caribbean infused dance. The exhibition brings the history of salsa in New York
Join Girls Write Now THIS Friday, June 16, 6-8pm for the Girls Write Now June CHAPTERS Reading at New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West (and W 77th St). Hear today’s best young writers perform their original work with keynote speaker Karina Glaser , author of the forthcoming novel The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street.
June 9-18th at the IFC Center For more information please visit the website. https://ff.hrw.org/new-york
June 9-June 17 For More information visit their website http://www.ecuadorianfilmfest.com
This weekend! For more information and lineup visit their website http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org
JUNE 9—18 FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER and IFC CENTER Latin American Films Presented by Cinema Tropical Special discount ticket price for friends of Cinema Tropical: At the IFC Center: Select “HRW SUBSCRIBER” rate tickets online or at the box office. For tickets at Film
Pairing artworks from the 1970s with contemporary practices, Soft Skills critically examines interpersonal capacities like communication, cooperation, empathy, and flexibility, framing them as modes of feminized performance—and moreover, as work. Early feminist art often troubled the threshold between artifice and authenticity, using devices like masquerade and fictive personae to denaturalize
For the upcoming 6th Asian Borderlands conference in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), we invite panels and papers that address the following questions: How are borderlands in Asia creating alternative spaces for heritages, self-definition and the extraction of resources? How can these cases serve to rethink social theories
THIS Friday, June 2, as Qwerty showcase’s the next generation of media makers creating at the intersection of language, technology, and art — with a panel of digital game changers moderated by Jenna Wortham, staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and co-host of Still Processing. Panelists include: Jasmyn Lawson, GIPHY Culture Editor; Janice Morris, Head of Lifestyle
Media Studies Faculty Mario Paoli has multiple performances this year! On June 4 Paoli will be performing at Muchmore in Brooklyn On June 9 he will be performing Signal-to-Noise, some other sound work, screen some Video Art, and a experimental electronica duo with an old friend and
Creative Tech Week: The Conference Saturday, May 20, 2017 9:00AM Doors; 10:00AM Start; 6:30PM End Sunday, May 21, 2017 10:00AM Doors; 11:00AM Start; 5:30PM End Two Roboticists from Google X. The Head of VR and Game Design at IBM Research. The Creative Director of Virtual
Documentary Film Festival TRUTH BE TOLD 2017 May 23, 24, 25 at 7pm The Auditorium 66 W. 12th. St 14 Original short films from the 2017 Documentary Studies program. Over three evenings, short documentaries made by students in the Documentary Media Studies graduate certificate program are
The Student and Campus Life team in Student Success will host the first-ever Grad Week, from Friday, May 12, through Wednesday May 16, 2017. To celebrate your graduation from The New School, we have planned a series of fun events, including a tour of the
Sustainability At The New School View this email in your browser ON THE BLOG CALL FOR FACULTY PROPOSALS: SUSTAINABILITY CURRICULUM FUNDING OPPORTUNITY We are excited to announce the Tishman Center’s faculty funding opportunity for Academic Year 2017-2018. The Tishman Center will offer grants to faculty members
Media Management Job Talks Week of May 8
UNSUNG: The Impact and Imprint of African-American PR Practitioners: A Historical Perspective When Wednesday, May 3, 2017 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Wednesday, May 3, 2017 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Add to Calendar Where 55 Lexington Ave, 14th floor, room
Making Queer Documentary May 19 – 21 https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-05-19-making-queer-documentary/ Filmmakers, film producers and distributors: develop your film with Making Queer Documentary at UnionDocs May 19-21. Led by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Cheryl Furjanic, this intensive three-day workshop will explore all aspects of creating documentary for social impact with
The World Press Freedom Day event being held at the United Nations Headquarters– jointly organized by The Department of Public Information (DPI) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This year’s celebration, entitled, “Critical Minds for Critical Times: Media’s role in advancing
Paola Piers-Torres is an alumni of the MA Media Studies program at The New School. She recently completed her thesis documentary, The Chicago Mixtape, which was produced with Media Studies Faculty Vinay Chowdhry. The Chicago Mixtape is a portraiture of arts programs, that create safe
For a third year, GreenspaceNYC will host Civic Art Lab. This year’s lab will feature sustainability, art and design-themed workshops and talks, and a pop-up group art exhibition. All programming is free, open to the public, and generously sponsored by Material for the Arts and
Join us for a behind the scenes presentation by acclaimed filmmaker Carol Wilder, screening of her Puttin’ on the Dog documentary short with Q& A session. A media creatives networking soiree to follow. To RSVP Click Here About the film: Malcolm Sidney wasn’t any ordinary
Please join us next Wednesday, April 19th at 4 pm as Marie Hicks presents Databite No. 97: Why Should We Care About the Failure of the British Computing Industry? This talk draws on the example of our closest historical cousin–the UK– to look at the
Faculty member Shannon Mattern and her Urban Intelligence class have partnered with Storefront for Art and Architecture to host a one-day symposium, “Smart Cities? Impossible Objects, Political Objects, Measuring Objects,” in Kellen Auditorium this Sunday, April 23, from noon to 6pm Guests include artists, designers,
SOCIAL SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA Public Lecture Wed. April 19 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM 68 5th Ave, Orientation Room – M 104 Kieran Healy informally examines how social science, and especially sociology, has been affected by the rise of social media.