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Heinz SocietyJoin Teresa Heinz, Noeleen Heyzer of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and Jehmu Greene, president of Rock the Vote, for an afternoon dedicated to financial issues currently facing women in the workplace and in their homes. Organized by the National Council for Research on Women Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm Posted by Chris at 03:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend See Mom... All That Mario was Good for Me
On a certain floor, in a certain building at Parsons School of Design, there is a shiny silver door with a portal window. Behind that door is the mysterious Design and Technology department where, in our fantasies at least, art geeks and tech geeks get together to change the future. Tonight, the D+T department brings James Paul Gee in to lecture us about the importance of Nintendo, Atari, and Playstation on our learning processes. In his most recent work, Why Video Games Are Good for Your Soul, Gee "offers 36 reasons why good video games produce better learning conditions than many of today's schools." I suggest that you continue your education at our latest bar obsession, Barcade, afterwards Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Posted by Chris at 06:00 AM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Being Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel is kind of a jack-of-all-trades in the art/media world. He first broke into the art world in the 80's during the "neo-expressionist" movement which was an emotional reaction to the saturation of minimalism in the art world., Schnabel then went on to produce two full length feature films, "Basquiat" and "Before Night Falls." Tonight he lectures on what he knows best... himself.
Time: 6:30pm
Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM Hip Hop Not Hip Hot
Big names from "back in the day" gather in the park to educate on the days when hip-hop was about love, unity, and respect. "The heart of the Hip-Hop culture has always been the community and we feel Hot 97, the supposed place "Where Hip-Hop Lives", has lost its respect and responsibility to the community a long time ago and it is about time for the community to step forward and take it back." (full info here)
Time: 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Posted by Chris at 03:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Voices of Latin American LeadersVoices of Latin American Leaders is "a series of in-depth discussions with prominent Latin Americans on issues facing the Americas and the world. Moderated by Jorge Castañeda, Global Distinguished Professor of Political and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU and the former Foreign Minister of Mexico, the series will probe economic, social, historical and political dimensions of Latin America's relations with the U.S. and the world community." Tonight, former Foreign Minister of Mexico Jorge Castañeda talks with Leonel Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic , about Latin America's relations with the U.S. and its place within the global community. Time: 4:00pm Posted by Chris at 04:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Block Printing WorkshopPark Slope's answer to Kate's is Lion in the Sun. Today, this quaint paperie hosts a free one-hour class on the basics of block printing. Date: Sunday, March 6th Posted by Chris at 04:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend The Future of the Planet is in Your Hands
“It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not then occur…so, protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace…those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act. We must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.” Professor Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, gives her first public lecture in New York City tonight. Copies will be available for sale and Maathai will be signing. Come early as space is limited
Date: Tuesday, March 8th
Posted by Chris at 07:15 PM Planet of Slums
Sure you think your over priced hole-in-the-wall apartment in Brooklyn is kinda third world, and all your Manhattan friends think your "slumin' it", but truth of the matter is folks, we got it good. "According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums...From the sprawling barricades of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth." Tonight, head up to City College to hear Mike Davis lecture on the shantytowns of the world, and how they have been "exiled from the formal world economy." The lecture is presented by the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture but is open to the public. Date: Wednesday, March 16th **I apologize for the last minute warning on this one** Posted by Lindsay at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Things you Missed in Scout CampKnot master Brian Matthews invades the Flux Factory to to teach you "how to tie knots like a sailor, like a pirate, like a mad husband, like a person who knows how to tie knots." Date: Sunday, March 20th Posted by Chris at 03:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Taking Back Hip HopProminant hip-hop editors, reporters, and artist gather for a panel discussion on how women can "take back hip hop." Expected to speak are local heros such as Jean Grae and DJ Beverly Bond along with industry bigwigs like Karen Hunter and Akiba Solomon. Register online here. Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy"The current climate of American journalism is fraught with incestuous relations between government and a handful of Fortune 500 corporations that own and operate news organizations. From News Corporation’s Fox News, General Electric’s NBC, Viacom’s CBS, Disney’s ABC, and Time Warner’s CNN to Clear Channel’s massive radio empire, what the mainstream media present as "news" has become largely a "paid political announcement" born of favor trading, conflict of interest, and self-serving, bottom-line corporate logic. As a result of such accommodationism, American viewers receive a homogenized, censored version of reality and the watchdog of American democracy, the press, has become a docile instrument of governmental authority and big money." Arthur Kent, Danny Schechter, Pete Tridish, and Mark Cooper, contributors to Prometheus Book's newly-published News Incorporated, are joined by journalists Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, and Kristina Borjesson, in a panel discussion on Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy, led by the editor of News Incorporated, Elliot Cohen.
Date: Thursday, March 24th
Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Flux Live Media SeriesChiaki Wantanabe hosts the first of 3 lectures at Flux Factory dealing with the medium of video and how it is applied to artistic expression. This particular lecture deals with "visual music" and using video as an instument. With guest speakers Giles Hendrix, Chris Jordan, and Chiaki Wantanabe. Date: Sunday, March 27th Posted by Chris at 05:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Something CorporateFashion, Accessory, and Product designers teach us how to make money doing what we love at this Parsons lecture entitled Mind Your Own Business: Developing a Business Plan. Priority to alumni and students so if you are then RSVP here, else show up early.
Date: Monday, March 28th
Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Noise from the Underground"Streaming audio and MP3s are transforming pop music, from indie-rock to hip hop. But what about those newly minted Web zines, blogs, and alt glossies poking into every nook and cranny of the music world? While the mainstream seems content to leaf through Rolling Stone and channel surf from MTV to VH1, these do-it-yourself publishing channels are busy creating a bewildering amount of chatter about music and contemporary culture." The National Arts Journalism program at Columbia host this panel discussion on the changing face of the music industry in the wake of blogs, ezines, bitTorrent, and all other online goodies. The panel is moderated by NY Times pop music critic Sasha Frere Jones, and features the likes of TV on The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Knox Robinson from the Fader, and fellow blogger Amy Phillips. Offical release after the fold. Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Urban Sprawl for All
Date: Monday, April 4th Posted by Chris at 06:15 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Document This!"Get your creative juices flowing at the April 5th meeting of the New York Sony Vegas users group. Our Main Event will be our first-ever Creative Video Challenge Contest, a game that challenges you to construct a movie in only one hour from the media clips we'll supply. Bring your laptop running Vegas (or any editing program you like) and join the fun. The meeting will also feature our first-ever Vegas Quickstart Tutorial for people who are new to Vegas (or to video editing) as well as a showcase for videos that you've created and a Tip Swap where you can get answers to your most pressing Vegas questions. If you want to join the creative challenge, email Charles Dennis, info@charlesdennis.net just so we'll know how many people to expect. To submit work for the showcase portion of the meeting, contact Jay at jayvivid@yahoo.com. Please keep submissions to 5 minutes or less. The pre-meeting will begin at 6:30 pm with the Quickstart Tutorial, then the main program begins at 7:00 pm. The new home for our meeting is B&H Photo at 33rd Street and 9th Avenue." Date: Tuesday, April 5th Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Build your Own Video ProjectorFor those who are tired of waiting for video projector prices to drop to what you may consider "affordable". Sabastien Santamaria teaches you how to make your own high end video projector for less than a tenth of the cost a part of the Flux Factory Technology Initiative Date: Sunday, April 10th Posted by Chris at 03:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Laurie Anderson, Herself
Laurie Anderson is recognized worldwide for her innovative and groundbreaking work with technologically vanguard instruments in the arts. As an artist with a vast collection of work, she has published six books, produced numerous videos, films and radio pieces, and created orchestral work. She recently collaborated with Silicon Valley-based Interval Research Corporation to explore new creative tools including the Talking Stick, a wireless musical instrument that emits sound when touched. Please join us for a very special evening of her work in retrospect, including a special screening of her latest media work, Hidden Inside Mountains. Hidden Inside Mountains, commissioned by EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan, is a high definition film that debuted on March 25, 2005 in Japan at EXPO 2005 on the largest high definition Astrovision screen in the world. An original score has been created by Laurie Anderson and mastered in stereo in 5.1. Hidden Inside Mountains is a film of short stories about nature, artifice and dreams. Located in a fictitious world of theatrical spaces, the stories unfold through music, gesture, text and the poetry of visual images. The film’s haunting music features violins, bells, dog barks and melody as well as many electronic sounds. Both joy and loss are caught in this film in Japanese and English. Running time is 25 minutes. Date: Tuesday, April 12th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Get Dorky with the Brazilian Girls
Usually I am not one for a geeked out tech lecture, but Brazilian Girls are going to swing by the Apple store in SoHo tonight to "discuss their use of Apple hardware and Mac OS X compatible software in both the recording process and in live performance." Date: Tuesday, June 7 Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Policy and Design for Housing DiscussionAs we enter a new phase of housing development in New York City, what will the role of community-based development organizations, private sector developers and government play in the production of low and moderate-income housing? What can we learn from the work of the New York State Urban Development Corporation (1968–1975) and City and community-based development initiatives (1974–2005)? What role can and should the City and community-based development groups play in new private sector-focused housing development initiatives? All this and more will be discussed. Date: Thursday, August 4th Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Global Issues in Design & VisualityPart 1: How We See Culture: "Impermanence may be the only permanent characteristic of the 21st century. New urban landscapes are rapidly evolving in response to tides of immigration; at the same time, new geographies are mapped everyday on the internet. How can we talk about these new cultures? This lecture considers what culture is, how it works, how we see it. Specifically, it will explore the ways in which objects and images take on value and negotiate between their social and aesthetic frameworks." Date: Tuesday, September 13th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Wise Words From WysmullerWhile the president claims the jury is still out on global warming, the rest of us are actually concered about how humans have impacted the environment and the atmosphere. This evening, Thomas H. Wysmuller, retired meteorologist (weather scientist) formerly with NASA, tells us what the really effects of global warming are and answers some of our questions. How will global warming cause the next ice age to occur in this century? How does global warming increase hurricanes'power and what can we do to stop it? Posted by Lindsay at 06:45 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Lighting Awards Rountable Discussion"In conjunction with the announcement of the second annual A/L Light & Architecture Design Awards, please join the New York area award winners for a roundtable discussion on current issues in lighting design. The participants will include Paul Gregory from Focus Lighting, Francesca Bettridge and Steven Bernstein from Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design in New York City, and Paul Zaferiou and Keith Yancey from Lam Partners in Cambridge MA." Date: Thursday, September 15th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Global Issues in Design & Visuality (part 2)"Impermanence may be the only permanent characteristic of the 21st century. New urban landscapes are rapidly evolving in response to tides of immigration; at the same time, new geographies are mapped everyday on the internet. Goods, services, and images have become their own culture, transforming designers and artists into culture authors. How can we talk about these new cultures? Lectures by anthropologists, historians, and critics will establish a critical framework for case studies drawn from design and visual media." Date: Tuesday, December 20th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Apple Computers and Ancient Fossils
If you're into either of the aformentioned phenomenona, join David Harvey of the American Museum of Natural History as he and his exhibition team share the inspiration, insight, and Apple technology used to create the popular new exhibition Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries. Remember kids: even dinos are mac-friendly. Date: Monday, September 26 Posted by at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Global Issues in Design & Visuality (part 3)This highly recommended lecture series on being a concious designer continues with a discussion on culture-centered web design. "Impermanence may be the only permanent characteristic of the 21st century. New urban landscapes are rapidly evolving in response to tides of immigration; at the same time, new geographies are mapped everyday on the internet. How can we talk about these new cultures? Lectures by anthropologists, historians, and critics will establish a critical framework for case studies drawn from design and visual media." Date: Tuesday, September 27th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Treating Starvation in the 21st CenturyDoctors Without Borders in Niger North Korea, and Sudan: John Hockenberry, former NBC "Dateline" correspondent and award winning journalist joins Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol, President of MSF in France, and Dr. Pauline Horrill, MSF emergency physician in a discussion on why "despite early warnings by many organizations, thousands have died as a result of severe acute malnutrition in Niger. Why was the international response to this epidemic so slow and why does it remain largely inadequate? What are the obstacles in delivering medical care to people starving as a result of economic policies in Niger, under the North Korean regime, and in the ongoing conflict in Sudan?" Date: Tuesday, September 27th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Making NoisePaper Mag will house a roundtable discussion with panel of 25-and-under fashion designers, marketeers, promoters, and general "hipper than thou" participants. Cool if your into that thing. Date: Thursday, September 29th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend War, Occupation, and Democracy: American Strategy In The Middle East
Palestinian Member of Israeli Knesset since 1996, Leader of National Democratic Assembly, and Celebrated Writer and Intellectual Azmi Bishara speaks on the current state of America in the Middle east this evening. Introduction by Rashid Khalidi Date: Wednesday, October 5th Posted by Chris at 08:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Social Justice and Entrepreneurship in 19th century New YorkJoin Barbara Balliet (Rutgers University), Peter Buckley (The Cooper Union), Kenneth Jackson (Columbia University), and Sean Wilentz (Princeton University) tonight for a roundtable discussion on social justice and entrepreneurship in 19th century New York. "For almost 150 years, The Great Hall of The Cooper Union has served as a popular stage for educational lectures, political movements, campaigns for social reform and the creative arts. These meetings have embodied what Peter Cooper meant by “civic culture.” The impact of The Great Hall on American society has been immeasurable." Date: Thursday, October 6th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Youth Culture: The Art and Currency of Globalization"Impermanence may be the only permanent characteristic of the 21st century. New urban landscapes are rapidly evolving in response to tides of immigration; at the same time, new geographies are mapped everyday on the internet. How can we talk about these new cultures?" The Global Issues in Design & Visuality lecture series continues with a look at the works of serveral heavy hitters in the street art game including Jameel Shabazz (NYC), Ryan McGinness (NYC), Shepard Fairey (LA), Os Gemenos (Brazil), Miguel Calderon (Mexico), Los Carpenteros (Cuba), As Four (NYC), Takashi Murakami (Japan), Malik Sadibe (Mali), Larry Clark (NYC/LA), Nick Waplington (UK), Surface to Air (France) and Nicky S. Lee (NYC). Date: Tuesday, October 11th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Happy Ending Reading SeriesAt the Happy Ending Reading Series, "Raconteurs, poets, and other cultural phenoms present their work as they showcase their other talents. Each reader is required to take one public risk. Reading in public cannot be one of them. [This is the] only reading series of its kind to combine genres; this series has become the underground hotspot for writers and readers actively taking risks." Date: Wednesday, October 12th Posted by Chris at 08:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Who’s listening? Who’s talking? with Catherine McCoyThe Global Issues in Design & Visuality series continues with graphic design guru and personal hero Catherine McCoy. McCoy was one of t he founders of the American post-structuralism movement in the US as the head of the graphic design program at Cranbrook. "McCoy argues that designers need new strategies to navigate between their own culture and the heterogeneous audiences they serve. She examines the legacy of modernism in the context of corporate globalism and makes the case—not for abandoning the history and conventions of design—but for evolving what she calls “a more open architecture, to effectively incorporate cultural human factors that respond to diversity, multiplicity and flux.” Date: Tuesday, October 18th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend The Imaginary Cultures of Online Multiplayer Video GamesThe Global Issues in Design & Visuality lecture series continues. "This lecture will look at how video game players build imaginary cultures. Specially-selected examples will be analyzed as harbingers of new global communities in formation, offering new insights into the burgeoning world of virtual vernaculars." Date: Tuesday, October 25th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend No More Monkey Business
Ok people, lets talk monkeys. I love monkeys, my neighbor who has a chimp which sits in his window 24/7 loves monkeys, and the world renowned primatologist, Jane Goodall also loves monkeys. She is actually best known for her decades of work with chimpanzees and baboons, but today she is droppin knowlegde not about the state of the animal kingdom, but of human society and the way we produce and consume in hopes of achieving a more sustainable world. In her latest book, Harvet For Hope, she outlines some of where western society has gone wrong and how we can creat positive change. Date: Wednesday, October 26th Posted by Lindsay at 12:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Putting Your Passion Into Print
Ariele Eckstut and David Henry, authors of Putting Your Passion Into Print explain the ins and outs of pitching a conceise book idea at this Strand workshop. Select attendees will even get to pitch to real professionals and get critiqued. Some sort of party to follow. Date: Wednesday, October 26th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Lets Talk About The Green Fairy
Cooper Union teaches its students about the important things in life... like absinthe. "Absinthe (the Green Fairy, la Fée Verte) has a romantic history like no other drink. This pale green alcoholic liqueur fueled and inspired the poets and artists of late 19th and early 20th century Europe. It is impossible to imagine painters like Toulouse Lautrec, Degas, Manet, and Van Gogh or writers like Verlaine, Rimbaud, Joyce, and Hemingway without the elaborate ritual that accompanied this beverage. No other drink has aroused such opposition as this wormwood-based beverage that was held responsible for all manner of crime, degeneration, sexual license and degeneracy. David Weir, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at The Cooper Union." Date: Tuesday, November 1st Posted by Lindsay at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend The Conspiracy of ArtReading and writing about this one makes my brain hurt like it used to during education days at New School. But lets try this... Today, Jean Baudrillard will read from and sign copies of his new book The Conspiracy of Art after a conversation with Sylver Lotringer, founding publisher of Semiotext(e). "In The Conspiracy of Art, Baudrillard questions the privilege attached to art by its practitioners. Art has lost all desire for illusion: feeding back endlessly into itself, it has turned its own vanishment into an art unto itself. Far from lamenting the ‘end of art,’ Baudrillard celebrates art’s new function within the process of insider-trading. Spiralling from aesthetic nullity to commercial frenzy, art has become transaesthetic, like the rest of society as a whole. Conceived and edited by life-long Baudrillard collaborator Sylvère Lotringer, The Conspiracy of Art presents his writings on art in a complicitous dance with politics, economy and media. Culminating with “War Porn,” a scathing analysis of the spectacular images of Abu Ghraib prison as a new genre of reality TV, the book folds back on itself to question the very nature of radical thought." Date: Wednesday, November 2nd Posted by Lindsay at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend The Critics Rush Me Like Salman Rushdie"Salman Rushdie will read from his book, 'Shalimar the Clown,' at Paula Cooper Gallery. Wish I knew more but Salman Rushdie rocks so go and hear him read because its a rare occurance. Date: Friday, November 4th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend An Evening With The GanzfeldThe New York celebration of Ganzfeld four continues today with a conversation between Peter Saul, Jim Nutt, Dan Nadel, and David Sandlin. A special DJ performance by Paper Rad will follow. Nutt and Saul will discuss their four-decade-long careers, influences, image-making, and the peculiar mix of humor, beauty and savagery that each calls their own. Friends and mutual admirers for decades, Nutt and Saul represent the satiric, wise-cracking, graphic side of contemporary art, making figurative work that is not afraid to go for the jugular. Between the two, Nutt and Saul have influenced scores of contemporary artists and illustrators, including Chris Ware, Mike Kelley, Gary Panter, Raymond Pettibon, and Carroll Dunham. This is the first time the two have spoken on the same stage. The conversation will be prefaced by a special musical performance by cult-favorite art collective Paper Rad. Date: Sunday, October 6th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Lecture with Jonathan Lipkin
For 15 years, Jonathan Lipkin has observed the phenomenon of digital photography as a photographer, writer, and educator. He is coauthor of In the Realm of the Circuit and his newest book, Photography Reborn: Image-Making in the Digital Age will be released by Harry N. Abrams in November 2005. From the publisher: "In this important companion to a new art form, author Jonathan Lipkin chronicles the rise of digital technology and explores its impact as well as the limits of its possibilities. Every kind of digital image from MRI scans to fine art is highlighted here, from an obscure scientific application, through its adaptation by pioneer computer artists, to its acceptance by the mainstream of the art world. This seminal text—coupled with fascinating images and examples by contemporary artists Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Pedro Meyer, Nancy Burson, and Loretta Lux—is uniquely appropriate for anyone interested in visual communications, photography, and culture." This event is free but I recommend contacting the department to see if they would like an RSVP if you plan on attending. Date: Tuesday, November 8th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Global Issues in Design & VisualityThis Week: Product Design as Cultural Critique. This series fulfills the "I want to go back to school" urge that creeps up every few months. It's a sit in lecture as part of an amazing coarse taught at Parsons this year dealing with a variety of various social concerns applicable to facets of design. As for today's topic... "The U.S. claims free-market capitalism as one of its main exports and consumer products often serve as the enticement to embrace its ideology. But as the worlds’ diverse cultures adopt and adapt this ideology, are we at risk of creating a corporate, global monoculture? This lecture presents critical product design practices that challenge market-driven orthodoxies and that re-frame design as a strategy for contesting a fully corporate future." Date: Tuesday, November 8th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend State of Emergency II"PEN American Center presents its second State of Emergency event, a special evening of readings in opposition to current United States policies on the treatment of detainees in this country and abroad. A stellar group of writers will come together to read and bring national attention to abusive government policies including torture, arbitrary detention, and extraordinary rendition. With Edward Albee, Paul Auster, Sandra Cisneros, Don DeLillo, Dave Eggers, Martin Espada, Philip Gourevitch, Jessica Hagedorn, Heidi Julavits, Nicole Krauss, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, Grace Paley, Emma Reverter, Salman Rushdie, and Colson Whitehead." Date: Tuesday, November 8th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Uses and Abuses of Sacred TextsDeidre Good, Qamar-al Huda, and Daniel Polish create an opportunity for religious examination by analyzing the role of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an in the modern context. Specifically to interpret if the way religious texts are quoted is legitimate. Participants will be allowed to learn the commonly held interpretations of these texts in a small group setting with an opportunity for discussion. Date: Wednesday, November 9th Posted by at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Zulu Nation's Meeting of the Minds
"The Universal Zulu Nation returns to the Bronx Museum to celebrate the international culture of hip-hop. This marathon mix of panels, music, discussions, and martial arts from the founding fathers of hip-hop, is about information sharing, and learning more about hip-hop culture and the self empowerment. Please come early!" Click here to download the full program (pdf). Date: Sunday, November 13th Posted by Chris at 02:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Game Day with Australian InventorsJack and Andrew Lawson, the wacky and entertaining inventors of the popular board games Imaginiff and Faces, will be at the Toys R Us in Times Square to talk about the growing trend of fun home based entertainment, describe what it takes to be a board game inventor, and, of course, play games with you! Date: Monday, November 14th Posted by Chris at 12:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Creative Responses to Race, Violence and Community: A Call for Peace"Please join us in an event addressing the spate of hate crimes that plagued New York City neighborhoods this summer. Over the course of three months, gangs of primarily white youths attacked two African American men in two separate incidents in Brooklyn, and an African American man killed a white woman in White Plains. In each case, the attackers cited the victim's race as the reason for their violent actions. As Italian Americans, we are particularly concerned with the fact that each of these attacks involved Italian Americans. Join us for an evening of readings and performance, featuring writers, rappers, musicians, performers, and community activists who are committed to finding creative and collaborative ways to combat racism. Participants: Manifest, rapper BR, rapper Rosette Capotorto, poet Ronnie Mae Painter, visual artist/writer Edvige Giunta, essayist/poet Hiram Perez, writer/activist Stephanie Romeo, writer George De Stefano, essayist/author Phyllis Capello, poet/musician Cristogianni Borsella, poet Bob Viscusi, poet/novelist Chiara Montalto, actress/associate producer Salvatore Lumetta, writer/filmmaker Michela Musolino, singer/musician Organized by Kym Ragusa (filmmaker/writer), Jennifer Guglielmo (historian/writer), and Joseph Sciorra (folklorist)" Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Defragging The da Vinci CodeYears after its release, The da Vinci Code is still raising questions about great artworks, religion, and their relationship. Tonight's slide lecture will cover works from Giotto through the High Renaissance in an aims of confirming or denouncing the facts of Dan Brown's novel. Date: Monday, November 14th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Can't We All Use Some Inner Peace?"The holiday season can be a time of peace and happiness. By recognizing that happiness comes from within, the challenges of the holiday season become opportunities to develop peaceful states of mind. Come join us at the Greenpoint YMCA (in the pre-school room) for this free talk." Date: Monday, November 14th Posted by Chris at 08:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Loyal and his Band... and his BookCelebrate Loyal's 5 year anniversary and book release with some free music and free beers at this local Williamsburg bookseller. The book features work from over 20 artists, many of whom will be in attendance. Limited copies available tonight. Date: Tuesday, November 15th Posted by Chris at 08:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Art Critic on Being Critcal About Art"David Cohen is an art critic of the New York Sun, publisher and editor of the online magazine, artcritical.com, and gallery director at the New York Studio School. As a newspaper critic and magazine editor, Cohen will address the relationship of individual taste and critical responsibility." Date: Wednesday, November 16th Posted by Chris at 03:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend The Worst NoelOkay, all my friends are hating on Christmas these days. Yeah, I think we get out of hand on spending for presents and yeah, it has been totally comodified by the Hallmarks of the world but I don't care. I get to eat lots of food, see my family, drink insane amount of egg nog (not store bought... gasp) and reflect on the year that past with a nice glass of port. Okay, maybe there is a lot of drinking involved as well but there is still food and family. But if you are a hater, or know an Xmas hater, then this reading of The Worst Noel is for you. "With the holiday season fast approaching local New York authors help us to laugh, groan and commiserate about the horrible personal holiday stories that each of us has! Among them, Mike Albo (The Underminer) and his romantic Christmas-in-Paris dream, which turns into a nightmare after an accident leaves him with a bloodied cross on his forehead, and the festive car ride that Cynthia Kaplan (Why I'm Like This) takes, which goes astray when she hits a deer and “Donner is Dead” becomes her family’s holiday story. Also reading, Valeria Frankel (The Accidental Virgin) and John Marchese(Building the Magical Box)." Authors will personalize copies of The Worst Noel. Date: Thursday, November 17th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Not One More Mother's Child - Cindy Sheehan Talk/Signing
"Cindy Sheehan lost her son, Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan, in an ambush in Sadr City, Baghdad, on April 4, 2004. As information became available that the war in Iraq was based on lies and 'cooked intelligence,' she began speaking out and testifying in the halls of Congress. In August 2005, she went to Crawford, Texas, to confront President Bush, and the floodgates of a renewed American peace movement were opened. Cindy Sheehan is a moving writer and vibrant storyteller. In Not One More Mother’s Child, she chronicles her thoughts and actions, reflections on war and peace, truth and accountability, sharing for the first time in book form the story of her journey from grieving mom to effective activist. With a Foreword by Congressman John Conyers, Jr." Date: Wednesday, November 30th Posted by Chris at 02:42 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Sunday Salon Series
Sunday's are always the laziest day of the week for me. Getting up at one, wandering over to breakfast, wandering back home for a nap. Okay, that's in an ideal world but it sounded. Nice. If you are wandering the (Williamsburg/Bushwick) neighborhood today, however, you may want to swing by the Sunday Salon Series at Stain. Four New York City authors read stories and book excepts. Stained is a NY themed "arts lounge" that has a nice supply of local brews and wines, free internet, and a great vibe. Date: Sunday, November 20th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Global Issues in Design & VisualityLecture series continues... I have ranted enough about my love for this series so I won't bore you again. Tonight's topic... Zara: "Zara, a retail company from Spain, is the world’s third largest clothing retailer with 638 stores in 47 countries around the world. They eschew conventional marketing strategies (based on buying patterns in different localities) for a consumer-based strategy mapped not by region but by technological/social networks. This lecture will use Zara as a case study to illustrate the changing paradigm of production and consumption, once mutually exclusive now interdependent." Date: Tuesday, November 22nd Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Rubble: Unearthing The History of Demolition"From the straight boulevards that "demolition artist" Haussmann smashed through rambling old Paris to the frenzied implosion of Las Vegas hotel towers, demolition has long played an ambiguous role in the architectural imagination. Author Jeff Byles surveys the evolution of unbuilding techniques, as old-school wreckers evolved into highly adept practitioners of "structural jujitsu." He covers pioneers like NYC’s Jacob Volk who crumbled skyscrapers in the Wall St area, the implosion of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St Louis + the profound impact the "disappearance" of tall buildings makes on the skyline & the urban psyche." Date: Tuesday, November 22nd Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Rocky: The One And Only
Date: Wednesday, November 30th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Small Press Book Fair"The Eighteenth Independent and Small Press Book Fair will take place on Saturday, December 3 (10am to 6pm) and Sunday, December 4 (11am to 5pm) at the Small Press Center, The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, at 20 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues) in Manhattan. Admission to the Book Fair is free and open to the public, and offers a great opportunity to purchase holiday gifts...Over 100 independent presses will be exhibiting in person, including The New Press, Akashic Books, Gingko Press, Soft Skull Press, Manic D Press, and Seven Stories Press. We are also hosting a diverse array of programs on topics such as graphic novels, crime fiction, and literary blogging." Full line up after the fold.
Posted by Lindsay at 10:00 AM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Small Press Book Fair"The Eighteenth Independent and Small Press Book Fair will take place on Saturday, December 3 (10am to 6pm) and Sunday, December 4 (11am to 5pm) at the Small Press Center, The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, at 20 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues) in Manhattan. Admission to the Book Fair is free and open to the public, and offers a great opportunity to purchase holiday gifts...Over 100 independent presses will be exhibiting in person, including The New Press, Akashic Books, Gingko Press, Soft Skull Press, Manic D Press, and Seven Stories Press. We are also hosting a diverse array of programs on topics such as graphic novels, crime fiction, and literary blogging." Full line up after the fold. Date: Saturday, December 3rd and Sunday, December 4th Posted by Lindsay at 11:00 AM | TrackBack | Email to a friend The Memory of John Belushi
Dan Aykroyd and widow Judy Belushi Pisano read tonight from Belushi, a tribute to the comic genius John Belushi. Date: Monday, December 5th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend American Suburbs and Exurbs LectureGlobal Issues in Design & Visuality series continues today... "Impermanence may be the only permanent characteristic of the 21st century. New urban landscapes are rapidly evolving in response to tides of immigration; at the same time, new geographies are mapped everyday on the internet. How can we talk about these new cultures? This lecture examines the impulse toward sprawl as an aspect of American ideology, particularly in light of the new found political power of the exurbs whose votes were highly influential in the last Presidential election." Date: Tuesday, December 6th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend powerHouse Holiday Book SigningAll your favorite powerHouse book authors - including Martha Cooper, Jamel Shabazz, Tony Ward, and Peter Sutherland - will be on hand tonight signing copies of their books just in time for the perfect hipster holiday present. Free drinks on hand. Date: Thursday, December 8th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Being Donald Trump ReadingTimothy O'Brien reads from his new book, "Trump Nation: The Art of Being Donald". Date: Monday, December 12th Posted by Lindsay F at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Shoot in the Cornfield Reading
"Shoot Them in the Cornfields!, a drama set in 1958, is a first-person account on the most notorious, criminal prisons of the Soviet Union, Butirka, to which an aging, free-spirited Jewish woman and her husband, caught for employing the mentally retarded, under Nikita Krushchev’s oppressive, anti-intellectual reign, are banished for ten years. This reading of global resonance features Ina Rosenthal, Howard Atlee, Brett Dykes, Heather Massie and Alexei Kostalevsky. A reception and short Q&A will follow. [note: there is no mention of this event on the Drama site so you may want to call ahead - 212.944.0595 - to confirm.] Date: Monday, December 12th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Gates Fever Continues
In an effort to never let us forget The Gates, Cristo and Jeanne-Claude return to Strand Bookstore to personalize copies of their newest book on the subject (limited run of 5000). "Christo & Jeanne-Claude will personalize books and give a short introduction to this newest work. Wine will be served. Christo & Jeanne-Claude will receive no income from the sale of the book." If you have an art lover, or a Gates lover, on your list then this may be the perfect present to pick up. Date: Wednesday, December 14th Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Serenity Now"Unfortunately, the Buddha never taught a sutra called 'How to Practice Compassion in The Age of Multinational Capitalism.' No ancient Indian meditator tried to be mindful while sending a text message. No nun in a Tibetan monastery had to learn loving-kindness while being bombarded 24/7 by ads constructed to undermine her self-esteem. But if we want to understand the relevance of Buddhism here and now, then we have to learn how to do all of these things. " Date: Wednesday, December 14th (and every Wednesday after) Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Bob Gruen on the New York Dolls
Not to be missed by any punk fans, rock photographer Bob Gruen discusses his new DVD “The New York Dolls – All Dolled Up.” The DVD is a documentary capturing the band in their early years and includes performances, TV shows and interviews over a three year period. Should be interesting as Gruen followed the band from early performances in NY and then on their tour of the west coast. Date: Wednesday, December 14th Posted by Lindsay F at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Lesbian Erotica ReadingsAny way you approach it, you can't go wrong with a thursday evening listening to authors and poets read their finest lesbian erotica. The Drunken! Careening! Writers! series is back at KGB tonight featuring the works of Eleen Myles, Anna Bishop, Skian McGuire and Zaedryn Meade. Date: Thursday, December 15th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Film Blogging DiscussionindieWIRE present some of it’s favourite film bloggers they will discuss various aspects of film making and their blogging. Those confirmed so far include: Karina Longworth (Cinematical), Scott Macaulay (Filmmaker Magazine Blog) and Alison Willmore (IFC News). The event will be moderated by indieWIRE Editor in Chief (and blogger) Eugene Hernandez. Date: Friday, Decmeber 16th Posted by Lindsay F at 07:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend "Bob Dylan All Night"Bob Dylan's music and legacy are discussed by music writers Ben Hedin, Robert Polito, David Gates and Dylan archivist Mitch Blank. Date: Saturday, December 17th Posted by Lindsay F at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend 100 Posters and 134 Squirrels!
Joe Ryan has made posters for rock acts such as Sonic Youth and TV on the Radio. Tonight he will be discussing his new book: "100 Posters, 134 Squirrels, a Decade of Hot Dogs, Large Mammals, and Independent Rock: The Handcrafted Art of Jay Ryan." Date: Sunday, December 18th Posted by Lindsay F at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Mary Gaitskill and Noria Jablonski ReadingsTonight Mary Gaitskill reads from her new novel ‘Veronica.’ A recommended NYT read and described as a ‘mesmerizingly dark novel.’ She is most well known for writing the short story the ‘Secretary’ that the 2002 film was based on. Noria Jablonski reads from her collection 'Human Oddities.' Date: Sunday, December 18th Posted by Lindsay F at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Espo Book Signing
From the aNYthing crew... "Walk, Skate, Bicycle, Flap Yer Wings, Or Take An Over-Priced Taxi.... Do Whatever You Have To Get Down To The LES & Get Yer Book Signed By Espo. Check The Website For The Exclusive Espo Drop! Plus, New Songs Added To Genre Now Radio! Check It, Check It! Official Tissue!" Date: Thursday, December 22nd Posted by Chris at 05:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend New Year’s Day Marathon ReadingSpend the first day of the year (if you can get out of bed after last night!) at the 32nd New Years Day Reading Marathon. Over 130 artists and authors from all corners of the New York art world are coming together to celebrate the New Year with an assortment of poetry, performance, dance and music. Date: Sunday, January 1st 2006 Posted by Lindsay F at 03:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend 2006 Is Totally The Future
Dorkbot is "a monthly meeting of artists sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties from the new york area who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term.)" And today's topic of conversation is Mikey Sklar: Chipped. Basically to sum it up, this dude, Mikey Sklar, will explain the process he used to install a RFID tag in his hand. He will discuss why he did this, the necessary materials, different tag options, and what people have been doing with these tag implants. 2006 is totally the future. Date: Wednesday, December 4th Posted by Lindsay at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend 21st Century BuddhismMy relationship with religion is ever-changing and a little volitile. But one thing I know for sure is there is a ton to be learned on the subject and important concepts to be taken away from each. The Interdependence Project is working on educating the public on issues relvant to Buddism and meditation in the 21st century. "Unfortunately, the Buddha never taught a sutra called 'How to Practice Compassion in The Age of Multinational Capitalism.' No ancient Indian meditator tried to be mindful while sending a text message. No nun in a Tibetan monastery had to learn loving-kindness while being bombarded 24/7 by ads constructed to undermine her self-esteem." If these are things you ponder about as well, you may want to check out their lecture tonight. Date: Wednesday, January 4th Posted by Lindsay at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend How the Rich get Thin
If you're like me, you ate way too much over the holidays. If you are not like me, you constantly wonder how the rich and famous stay stick thing. Well, tonight Dr. Jana Klauer, M.D., one of New York's premier weight control doctors, discusses the diet secrets of the high society at this Borders instore to hype her new book How The Rich Get Thin. It may just be the info you were looking for. I bet one of the tips is "do not to eat leftover Christmas cake for breakfast for 3 days straight..." Maybe that's why I will never make the high society. Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Dog Days
Tonight stop by Barnes and Noble on Astor Place for Wonkette blogger, Ana Marie Cox, reading from her debut novel Dog Days. Dog Days is described as "is a wry and sexy story of the young movers and shakers in D.C." Sexy movers and shakers in D.C., I totally smell scandal in this one! Date: Thursday, January 5th Posted by Lindsay F at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Elvis Reading
Jeff Scott reads from his book Elvis: Personal Archives. Date: Monday, December 9th Posted by Lindsay F at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Trump Signing
Donald Trump is trying to sell yet another new book and this afternoon will be signing copies of How To Build Wealth. Date: Tuesday, December 10th Posted by Lindsay F at 01:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Untitled
See written works come to life before your eyes tonight with up-and-coming actors performing ten pages of work by up-and-coming screenwriters. Date: Thursday, January 12th Posted by Lindsay F at 08:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Come Share The Dream
If you have turned on the news, read a newspaper, or walked to down the street lately, it is painfully obvious that neither in this country or the world at large have we reached Martin Luther King Jr's dream where people are "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." I know most of us use today for an extra day of rest and relaxation, but if you are looking for a peice of the Dream today head over to BAM and join BK Borough Present Marty Markowitz as he welcomes Dr. Carolyn Goodwin and Fannie Lee Chaney - mothers of slain Missisippi civil rights activists Andrew Goodman and James Chaney - along with Gwen Ifill - Senior Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - to Brooklyn's iconic BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. Raul Midón and The Imani Singers of Medgar Evers College provide the soundtrack. Additionally, there is a screening of Standing on My Sister's Shoulders which will be preceded by a work-in-progress screening of the documentary Neshoba, introduced by director Tony Pagano (Micki Dickoff co-directed) at the BAM Rose Cinemas (1:30pm). Seating is first come, first served. Date: Monday, January 16th Posted by Lindsay at 10:30 AM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Honoring Dr. King and The Hip Hop GenerationToday stop in and honor DR. King, Civil Rights and The Hip Hop Generation. A celebration of the Life and Times of Dr. Martin Luther King, featuring a keynote address by writer and activist, Kevin Powell. Jacque Reid will be the Mistress of Ceremonies, with musical director DJ Reborn and a special performance by vocalist Shannone Holt. Date: Monday, January 16th Posted by Lindsay at 12:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Douglas Rushkoff Reads
Douglas Rushkoff, author of semial raver classics such as Ecstacy Club and Club Zero-G, reads from his latest novel, Get Back in the Box, tonight. This work is a far cry from the later, as it deals with business models and company/client relations. Date: Tuesday January 17th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend 21st Century BuddismMy relationship with religion is ever-changing and a little volitile. But one thing I know for sure is there is a ton to be learned on the subject and important concepts to be taken away from each. The Interdependence Project is working on educating the public on issues relvant to Buddism and meditation in the 21st century. "Unfortunately, the Buddha never taught a sutra called 'How to Practice Compassion in The Age of Multinational Capitalism.' No ancient Indian meditator tried to be mindful while sending a text message. No nun in a Tibetan monastery had to learn loving-kindness while being bombarded 24/7 by ads constructed to undermine her self-esteem." If these are things you ponder about as well, you may want to check out their lecture tonight. Date: Wednesday, January 18th Posted by Lindsay at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend At A Lust For WordsIn the Flesh "is a new monthly reading series held the third Wednesday of every month at the appropriately named Happy Ending Lounge, and features the city's best erotic writers sharing stories to get you hot and bothered, hosted and curated by Village Voice sex columnist and acclaimed erotic writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel. From erotic poetry to down and dirty smut, these authors get naked on the page and will make you lust after them and their words. Future themed nights include fetishes, GLBT stories, true confessions and erotic memoirs." Tonight, listen to the lustfull words of romance novelist Edith Layton (Gypsy Lover), fiction writer Danyel Smith (Bliss), and erotic storytellers Iris N. Schwartz (Stirring Up a Storm) and Rob Stephenson (Best Gay Erotica), along with a naughty tale from host Rachel Kramer Bussel. Also, free candy and erotic book door prizes! Honestly, free candy and erotic reading material, I'm totally going! Date: Wednesaday, January 18th Posted by Lindsay at 08:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend STRAPPED: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead
Usually I just dismiss book lectures because there are thousands of them every day but this one caught my attention because I think it really speaks to the FreeNYC reader... "As Tamara Draut [in her new book Strapped] explains, getting ahead is getting harder. A college degree is the new high school diploma--but it now costs a fortune to get that degree and students graduate with crippling debts. Good jobs are scarcer thanks to stagnant wages and disappearing benefits. And, the cost of everything--starter homes, health coverage, childcare--keeps going up and up. Budding families, even those with two incomes, struggle to pay the bills, while Visa and Mastercard have become the new safety net. Young adults are starting out behind the financial eight ball--borrowing their way into adulthood and wondering whatever happened to the American Dream." Date: Thursday, January 19th Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Mo Politics, Mo Problems at Mo PitkinsJason Flores-Williams wrote about this event, stating "I've gotten together this event because I wanted to feature writers of our generation who actually have engaged in this dark time. This is going to be an intense gig." If your looking to hear what some current political writters have to say on the current state of affiars in this not so easy of times, drop by the upstairs lounge tonight at Mo Pitkins. Jason Flores-Williams, RNC protest organizer, former High Times political writer, reads from At The Crossroads, his first novel since the cult hit LastStand of Mr. America. Ted Hamm, founding editor of the Brooklyn Rail reads some of his new work and Dave Enders, last American journalist to enter Fallujah unembedded, reads from his new book, Baghdad Bulletin. Date: Thursday, January 19th Posted by Lindsay at 09:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Dealing with your Rowdy Dog"If you need help and advice for your rowdy, energetic dog come to this free training clinic at Eva's Play Pups in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Dog Trainer Denise Herman, of Empire of the Dog in Brooklyn will give you cutting edge strategies for creating a calm, relaxed and respectful companion dog. This clinic is free to the public, dog professionals and anyone with unanswered questions about training dogs to be polite companions. However, we ask that you leave the pooches at home. Please RSVP." Date: Saturday, January 21st Posted by Chris at 11:00 AM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Joyce Carol Oates on Mystery
Esteemed author, Princeton professor, and winner of the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature, Joyce Carol Oates discusses her latest release, The Female of the Species, at this mystery-centric book store. In this collection of nine short stories, Oates brings classic murder and macabre to the upstate New York backdrop. The result is both relative and disturbing all at once. Read an excerpt from "Female of the Species" Date: Monday, January 23rd Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Promoting Yourself On-LineGot a business that you are trying to jump off but slacked a bit on Microeconomics back in college, hit up this lecture to day at the New York Public Library as Ilise Benun, a marketing consultant to small business owners and author of 133 Tips for Presenting Yourself and Your Business and Marketing Online, gives a lecture on making it in the digital world. Date: Tuesday, January 24th Posted by Chris at 05:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Housing Works Bookstore Café is proud to welcome Dave Eggers and Lola Vollen, editors of the new McSweeney’s publication entitled Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated. Eggers and Vollen will be joined by Beverly Monroe and Christopher Ochoa, two exonerees featured in the book. A book signing and audience Q&A will follow the discussion. Surviving Justice is an attempt to expose a disgraceful situation that continues throughout our country—men and women sent to prison for someone else’s crime. It is a joint project of McSweeney’s and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The publication of Surviving Justice coincides with the New Yorker Films release of Jessica Sanders’s and Marc Simon’s After Innocence, the winner of the Sundance Jury Prize in 2005." Date: Tuesday, January 24 Posted by Lindsay at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend About Face: The Ethical Implications of Face TransplantationsSo I think I can safely say that this is one of the strangest things I have ever written about. Apparently face transplants are now all the rage in the medical world and if this creeps anyone out, dont worry your not alone. Besides this seeming totally weird and sci-fi to me there are a whole crap load of people who think this Nick Cage procedure is totally uncalled for. Tonight medical experts from Mount Sinai, NYU, the Rogosin Institute and the Jewish Theological Seminary will discuss the ethical implications of face transplants. Date: Monday, January 30th Posted by Lindsay at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Inequality Matters: A Public Forum with Paul Krugman
"At least eight million people live in each of the American mega-cities—New York, L.A., and Chicago to name a few. These cities and their surrounding suburbs are characterized by political fragmentation and racial and income segregation, impeding the efforts of low-income families to rise out of poverty and educate their children. This lecture will review the disparities that exist within a metropolis and discuss how a city and its suburbs negotiate these disparities." Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Lou Reed Signing
Music legend Lou Reed signs copies of his book: Lou Reed’s New York. A photography book featuring images of New York City. Date: Saturday, Febuary 4th Posted by Lindsay F at 03:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend I'm With the BandThe stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960's and 70's is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last fifteen years of adventures. Event will feature celebrity guest readers, including actress Sandra Bernhard. Reading, Q&A, Signing, Reception. Date: Saturday, January 4th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Tales of the City: Design in Service of Cultural Mediation
A new semester means a new series of Global Issues in Design & Visuality lectures. This lectures series is part of the Parsons School of Design curriculum for new media students. Each week a different pressing global issues is addressed. The lectures are designed to span all facets of design (industrial, graphic, fashion, etc) and are a great way to keep the brain matter lit up now that you've graduated. Tonight's lecture, Tales of the City: Design in Service of Cultural Mediation, Brings Fred Dust of IDEO to the microphone. "IDEO, the largest design and engineering firm in the world, renowned for its multi-disciplinary design practice, has expanded the consulting service model to the realm of social organization. Dust will present case studies of IDEO’s work with clients ranging from Native American tribes to the Finnish government." IDEO also designed the first Apple mouse for the LISA computer. Date: Tuesday, February 7th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Meet Jackie Collins!!
Best selling author Jackie Collins, is reading from and signing her new book 'Lovers and Players.' Fans will be pleased to know the book meets her usual glamour-heavy Collins trashtastic style. Date: Tuesday, 7th Febuary Posted by Lindsay F at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Patti Smith: Auguries of Innocence
Patti Smith, seminal LES artist and punk rock originator, reads and signs her latest book of poetry Auguries of Innocence. "Patti Smith is a poet, artist, and musician. Her band, the Patti Smith Group helped to open up the New York musical scene, centered on the iconic rock venue CBGBs in the early 70s. Together the band produced four influential albums: Horses, Radio Ethiopia, Easter, and Wave. Patti is the author of Witt, Babel, Wool Gathering, The Coral Sea, and Complete, a catalog of lyrics, photographs, and reflections. Her drawings have been exhibited at the Robert Miller Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. Auguries of Innocence is her first collection of poems since 1979." As this event is open to the public but created for students, we suggest early arrive as seating may be limited. Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Olympic CultureThe "Global Issues in Design and Visuality" lecture series continues to day with a discussion of national and post-national identities... "Modern Olympic Games are usually promoted as extravagant events that offer world-wide visibility to the host-city, while also strengthening the bonds of the local community. At the same time, the Olympics are often criticized as being representative of a rootless, ahistorical culture, 'a lexicon of deceit and self delusion' that takes the subject of 'shared humanity' as its pretext and distorts it to fit particular ideologies. This lecture examines the role of design in affirming established identities or configuring new ones. It questions whether the Olympic city and the design aspects involved, from the athletes’ uniforms to the stadia themselves, can be instrumental in the configuration of post-national identities in an era that nurtures social attachments that cut across national borders." Date: Tuesday, February 14th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend What Makes an Image Iconic?
Aperture, Parsons and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics are teaming up for a panel discussion tonight exploring the qualities that make a photograph's impact last. In the end, we as if it is possible to predict which images will be deemed “great” or emblematic of our times. Moderated by Diana Edkins, Director of Exhibitions and Limited-Edition Photographs, Aperture. Date: Wednesday, February 15h Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Ian MacKaye on StorytellingI grew up on punk rock, 7", bad VFW hall shows and all the other facets of punk pre-Blink182. Hell, I even saw Billy Joe play with Pinhead Gunpoweder before Green Day (hows that for "punker then you" arrogance). So tonight is a special treat as Ian MacKaye - lead singer of seminal bands Minor Threat and Fugazi - steps it up to discuss the art of storytelling at NYU tonight. This event is for NYU kids only but the public can grab tickets starting at 12:30. Date: Wednesday, February 15th Posted by Chris at 07:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series
"Bask in the post-Valentine’s Day afterglow with the hottest, sexiest words in the city! [...] From erotic poetry to down and dirty smut, these authors get naked on the page and will make you lust after them and their words." We here at FreeNYC really appreciate the written word, especially when they are dirty words! And seriously hot does this sound? Tonight's In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series features the work of M.J. Rose (Lip Service, The Delilah Complex), Carol Taylor(Wanderlust: Erotic Travel Tales, Brown Sugar series), Lauren Sanders (With or Without You, Kamikaze Lust), and two contributors to Wanderlust, Melvin E. Lewis and SekouWrites, along with a naughty tale from host Rachel Kramer Bussel. Plus there will be free candy! Date: Wednesday, February 15th Posted by Lindsay at 08:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Advertising, Culture and Globalization: Producing the Indian Consumer"William Mazzarella is the author of Shoveling Smoke. Mazzarella’s lecture will draw on his ethnographic research on the advertising and marketing world of Mumbai in order to explore the manner in which the globalization of markets puts a premium on the reinvention of cultural difference. Mazzarella is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. The Stephan Weiss Memorial Lecture Series was launched to commemorate the life of the late artist & sculptor, Stephan Weiss, husband and business partner of fashion designer Donna Karan." Date: Thursday, February 16th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Drunken! Careening! Writers!I'll be honest, I love to read, but these days I have the attention span of Blink 182 fan when it comes to my prose. That, and its really hard to hold a book with a beer in one hand and a shot of Jack in the other. Thankfully, Drunken! Careening! Writers! is back again this month at KGB Bar (a place where I - oddly enough - popped my 21 year old drinkers cherry). The premise is simple, each month the writers must read a piece which well written, under 15 minutes in length, and make you laugh at some point. Tonights reader/writers are Anne Elliot, boni joi, and Clem Paulsen. Bios after the jump. Date: Thursday, February 16th Posted by Chris at 07:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Raw Word Readings
Did you ever write something and wonder whether it was actually good or whether you just thought it was actually good. (Chances are if you read this website you have seen instances of both! Ha!) Well this is a great oppritunity for you to both judge and be judged. The Raw Word Readings are up-and-coming actors cold-reading original screenplay excerpts by up-and-coming screenwriters. Click here to submit your screenplay. Date: Thursday, February 16th Posted by Lindsay at 08:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend The Self Versus the Fashion IndustryIt takes quite a title for me to get excited about an event with no description. But that's exactly what this week's Global Issues in Design & Visuality lecture did when I learned the subject was "The Self versus the Fashion Industry." Something every designer deals with is trend, market, brand verses self, etc and having worked in fashion for years I can attest that compromises are made every day. It will be interesting to see how Van Dyk Lewis, Assistant Professor in the Department of Textiles and Apparel at Cornell University, approaches the subject. This is a college lecture but all are welcome (be on time or the teacher WILL yell at you). Date: Tuesday, February 21st Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Dylan Thomas Bus Tour
To celebrate Wales week in New York 2006 two free Dylan Thomas bus tours are taking place today. The tour talks about the life of the Welsh literacy legend and we will pass places that he visited, read at, and stayed at. His famous poems include Under Milk Wood and The Hunchback in the Park. Thomas died in New York in 1953 while on his third lecture tour - most likely from excessive drinking and an injection of morphine so expect the tour to visit various famous Greenwich pubs like Chumleys. Date: Saturday, February 25th Posted by Lindsay F at 10:30 AM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Branding by Artists"How have artists participated in their representation in the past? How do they work as co-curators and co-producers of their work today? This lecture examines how artists are participating in the production and the consumption of their work through the notion of branding. Historical examples, such as Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys, will be discussed as precedents to contemporary branded artists, such as Damien Hirst and Maurizio Cattelan who capitalize on the conflation of publishing, communications, art production and the market. Among the other artists to be discussed are: Takashi Murakami, Tracey Emin, Vanessa Beecroft, and Christian Philip Mueller." Part of the Global Issues in Design & Visuality series. Date: Tuesday, February 28th Posted by Chris at 06:00 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend Political Cartooning
Tonight meet America's most kick ass radical cartoonist Stephanie McMillan and columnist Ted Rall as Stephanie reads from her new book Minimum Security. Date: Wednesday, March 1st Posted by Lindsay F at 07:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution
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Posted by Chris at 06:30 PM | TrackBack | Email to a friend The 2006 Marshall McLuhan Lecture with Andy Borowitz
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