THIS SATURDAY!
Playsmiths Presents: FlashFest
Starring the Great Short-Shorts
(sudden, flash, micro, postcard ...)
from the Queens College MFA Program and the Playwrights of Playsmiths
WHERE: Manhattan Theatre Club
311 West 43rd Street, 8th Floor
WHEN: Saturday, May 28th, 2011 @ 7:30pm
Suggested Donation of $15 at the Door
Free for All Writers Involved
Contact Jonathan Alexandratos re questions
(jsalexan@gmail.com or 917-443-1961)
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
*** EARSHOT
EARSHOT!
Join us at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
Friday, May 27 at 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!
Guest Host: Gregory Crosby
Featuring:
THERESA SENATO EDWARDS (Voices Through Skin)
TONY GLOEGGLER (The Last Lie)
Brian Kim (Queens College)***
Diana Khoi Nguyen (Columbia University)
Richard Moy (The New School)
ROSE LIVE MUSIC is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://roselivemusic.com.
EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area. Visit http://www.earshotnyc.com for more information or e-mail Nicole Steinberg at earshotnyc@gmail.com.
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EARSHOT!
http://www.earshotnyc.com
http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
Join us at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
Friday, May 27 at 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!
Guest Host: Gregory Crosby
Featuring:
THERESA SENATO EDWARDS (Voices Through Skin)
TONY GLOEGGLER (The Last Lie)
Brian Kim (Queens College)***
Diana Khoi Nguyen (Columbia University)
Richard Moy (The New School)
ROSE LIVE MUSIC is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://roselivemusic.com.
EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area. Visit http://www.earshotnyc.com for more information or e-mail Nicole Steinberg at earshotnyc@gmail.com.
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EARSHOT!
http://www.earshotnyc.com
http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
Saturday, May 21, 2011
UGLY DUCKLING
Sun Jun 19 at 5:30PM
Susan Bernofsky, Jeannine Marie Pitas, Laura Solomon
at Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd St., NYC
INFO: www.uglyducklingpresse.org
Susan Bernofsky, Jeannine Marie Pitas, Laura Solomon
at Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd St., NYC
INFO: www.uglyducklingpresse.org
CONGRATULATIONS--
to our new MFA grads in poetry, prose, playwriting, and literary translation. Each one of you has completed a thesis--creative work plus a process paper and bibliography--and each has passed their MFA Orals with an advisor and second reader. All of us professors take your work seriously and wish you wild (or quiet) success in what will be new stages of your creative development!
Nicole Cooley, Jayanti Tamm (visiting prof), Susan Bernofsky (visiting prof), Jeffrey Renard Allen, Kimiko Hahn, Richard Schotter, Roger Sedarat, John Weir.
Graduation and reception on Thursday, June 2.
Information:
Professor Nicole Cooley, MFA Director
nicole.cooley@qc.cuny.edu
Nicole Cooley, Jayanti Tamm (visiting prof), Susan Bernofsky (visiting prof), Jeffrey Renard Allen, Kimiko Hahn, Richard Schotter, Roger Sedarat, John Weir.
Graduation and reception on Thursday, June 2.
Information:
Professor Nicole Cooley, MFA Director
nicole.cooley@qc.cuny.edu
Monday, May 9, 2011
CUNY's TERRIFIC PROGRAMMING--
Dont' forget to check on what is happening on our campus, apart from the MFA events, and also the other CUNY campuses. Google "This Week at CUNY" and subscribe. Here are several upcoming:
*A Reading, by Ernesto Quinonez*
Spring 2011 Book Talk Lecture Series: Writers on Writing - Ernesto Quinonez is from the Spanish Harlem section of New York City. He received his BA and MA from the City College of New York. His debut novel, Bodega Dreams, was chosen as a Los Angeles Times and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and has been proclaimed a New Immigrant Classic. His second critically acclaimed novel, Chango's Fire, was also well received and his work has appeared in Newsweek, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, El Pais, The Kenyon Review, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Epoch, and other publications. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Cornell University's MFA program in Creative Writing.
May 9, 2011 6:00 PM
College:
The City College of New York
Address:
CCNY Center for Worker Education
25 Broadway, Manhattan
Building: 7th Floor Auditorium
Phone:
212-925-6625 x 241
Website:
http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/cwe2/Spring-2011-Book-Talk.cfm
Admission:
Free
*Working in Theater & TV*
Between them, Rachel Axler and Steve Bodow have worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TV), Elevator Repair Service (Theater), Parks and Recreation (TV), Bored to Death (TV), and had plays produced at the Women's Project, the NY Public Theater, and The Kitchen Theatre. Join us for a conversation about the work that they do, with insight into what it takes to build a career in theater, or TV, or both. Co-presented by the Drama, Theatre and Dance Department and the Media Studies Department. Free of charge For more information contact Professor Katherine Profeta, at 718-997-3088 or katherine.profeta@qc.cuny.edu
May 12, 2011 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
College:
Queens College
Address:
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, Queens
Building: King 115
Room: The Little Theatre
Admission:
Free
*Second-Wave Situationism: Art Activism and Artists' Participation in Social Movements, 1964-1977*
The notion of activist art has long been both popular and widely diffused. This has become particularly vexing in relation to current debates on "social" and "participatory" art. Join Gavin Grindon as he examines groups active in the 1960s and 1970s that developed practices and identities which eschewed the identity of "artist" and the institutions of the art world for new forms of cultural production within social movements. These practices cohere around the use of detournement and other situationist ideas and practices of performance and participation. Gavin Grindon is postdoctoral research fellow in Visual and Material Culture at Kingston University of London, where he is writing a history of art and activism, and has previously taught at Manchester, Goldsmiths and Birkbeck Universities in the United Kingdom. He has published articles in the Oxford Art Journal; Third Text; and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest; and is a participant in the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
May 10, 2011 6:30 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
Room: The James Gallery
Website:
http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Admission:
Free
*A Reading, by Ernesto Quinonez*
Spring 2011 Book Talk Lecture Series: Writers on Writing - Ernesto Quinonez is from the Spanish Harlem section of New York City. He received his BA and MA from the City College of New York. His debut novel, Bodega Dreams, was chosen as a Los Angeles Times and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and has been proclaimed a New Immigrant Classic. His second critically acclaimed novel, Chango's Fire, was also well received and his work has appeared in Newsweek, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, El Pais, The Kenyon Review, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Epoch, and other publications. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Cornell University's MFA program in Creative Writing.
May 9, 2011 6:00 PM
College:
The City College of New York
Address:
CCNY Center for Worker Education
25 Broadway, Manhattan
Building: 7th Floor Auditorium
Phone:
212-925-6625 x 241
Website:
http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/cwe2/Spring-2011-Book-Talk.cfm
Admission:
Free
*Working in Theater & TV*
Between them, Rachel Axler and Steve Bodow have worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TV), Elevator Repair Service (Theater), Parks and Recreation (TV), Bored to Death (TV), and had plays produced at the Women's Project, the NY Public Theater, and The Kitchen Theatre. Join us for a conversation about the work that they do, with insight into what it takes to build a career in theater, or TV, or both. Co-presented by the Drama, Theatre and Dance Department and the Media Studies Department. Free of charge For more information contact Professor Katherine Profeta, at 718-997-3088 or katherine.profeta@qc.cuny.edu
May 12, 2011 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
College:
Queens College
Address:
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, Queens
Building: King 115
Room: The Little Theatre
Admission:
Free
*Second-Wave Situationism: Art Activism and Artists' Participation in Social Movements, 1964-1977*
The notion of activist art has long been both popular and widely diffused. This has become particularly vexing in relation to current debates on "social" and "participatory" art. Join Gavin Grindon as he examines groups active in the 1960s and 1970s that developed practices and identities which eschewed the identity of "artist" and the institutions of the art world for new forms of cultural production within social movements. These practices cohere around the use of detournement and other situationist ideas and practices of performance and participation. Gavin Grindon is postdoctoral research fellow in Visual and Material Culture at Kingston University of London, where he is writing a history of art and activism, and has previously taught at Manchester, Goldsmiths and Birkbeck Universities in the United Kingdom. He has published articles in the Oxford Art Journal; Third Text; and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest; and is a participant in the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
May 10, 2011 6:30 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
Room: The James Gallery
Website:
http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Admission:
Free
Thursday, May 5, 2011
REMINDER OF ONE OF OUR SPECIAL EVENTS --
New Works by Louis Armstrong/MFA Writers-in-Residence:
Brian Kim and Melissa Bobe
Friday, May 6th
6:30 pm
Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM)
34-56 107th Street, Corona, NY 11368
www.louisarmstronghouse.org, 718-478-8274
Join us for a wonderful evening of readings by our program’s third Louis Armstrong/ Queens College MFA Writers-in-Residence in the beautiful garden of the Louis Armstrong House Museum. In case of rain, reading will be moved inside. Writers will be reading from new works that were created in response to the Armstrong House Museum & Archives, which houses Armstrong’s recordings, films, letters, photographs, and collages in a world renowned collection.
Brian Kim and Melissa Bobe
Friday, May 6th
6:30 pm
Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM)
34-56 107th Street, Corona, NY 11368
www.louisarmstronghouse.org, 718-478-8274
Join us for a wonderful evening of readings by our program’s third Louis Armstrong/ Queens College MFA Writers-in-Residence in the beautiful garden of the Louis Armstrong House Museum. In case of rain, reading will be moved inside. Writers will be reading from new works that were created in response to the Armstrong House Museum & Archives, which houses Armstrong’s recordings, films, letters, photographs, and collages in a world renowned collection.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Lewis Hyde: Cultural Commons
Friday May 6, 4:00pm
Join Lewis Hyde for a discussion of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have both inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is “intellectual property,” Hyde, in his newest book, Common as Air, turns to America’s founding fathers—Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and more—in search of other ways to value the fruits of human wit and imagination. Shedding fresh light on everything from the Human Genome Project to Bob Dylan’s musical roots, Hyde discovers a rich tradition in which knowledge was assumed to be a commonwealth, not a private preserve. Lewis Hyde is the author of The Gift (1983), This Error Is the Sign of Love (1988), and Trickster Makes This World (1998). A MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College and a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
The James Gallery
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Join Lewis Hyde for a discussion of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have both inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is “intellectual property,” Hyde, in his newest book, Common as Air, turns to America’s founding fathers—Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and more—in search of other ways to value the fruits of human wit and imagination. Shedding fresh light on everything from the Human Genome Project to Bob Dylan’s musical roots, Hyde discovers a rich tradition in which knowledge was assumed to be a commonwealth, not a private preserve. Lewis Hyde is the author of The Gift (1983), This Error Is the Sign of Love (1988), and Trickster Makes This World (1998). A MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College and a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
The James Gallery
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Monday, May 2, 2011
Brooklyn on My Mind: Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
Leonard Lopate of WNYC Radio's The Leonard Lopate Show will talk with Jennifer Egan (Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, A Visit from the Goon Squad, the NY Times Magazine cover story on Lori Berenson), Darin Strauss (Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, Half a Life), and Phillip Lopate (Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays, Two Marriages) about writing both fiction and nonfiction. Egan won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad; Strauss won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography for Autobiography with Half a Life.
Date:
May 4, 2011
Time:
5:00 PM
College:
Brooklyn College
Address:
2900 Bedford Avenue & Avenue H
Brooklyn
Building:
Brooklyn College Library
Room:
Woody Tanger Auditorium
Phone:
718.951.5847
Website:
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/departments/wolfe/
Admission:
Free
Date:
May 4, 2011
Time:
5:00 PM
College:
Brooklyn College
Address:
2900 Bedford Avenue & Avenue H
Brooklyn
Building:
Brooklyn College Library
Room:
Woody Tanger Auditorium
Phone:
718.951.5847
Website:
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/departments/wolfe/
Admission:
Free
Opportunities in the World of Publishing
Book publishing isn't just for English majors anymore. It is filled with possibilities for Finance, Marketing, Sales, Publicity, Design, Editorial, Legal, Production, and many more.
To register, contact the Career and Scholarship Center.
May 5, 2011, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
College:
College of Staten Island
Address:
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island
Building: 5N, Room 112
Phone:
718.982.2300
Website:
http://www.csi.cuny.edu/career
Admission: Free
To register, contact the Career and Scholarship Center.
May 5, 2011, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
College:
College of Staten Island
Address:
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island
Building: 5N, Room 112
Phone:
718.982.2300
Website:
http://www.csi.cuny.edu/career
Admission: Free
Sunday, May 1, 2011
REVISIONS OF GENDER
REVISIONS OF GENDER in Contemporary Mexican Film
*presented by QC Women's Studies Program*
Monday, May 9, 2011
QC, Powdermaker Hall, room 302
12:15–2 pm
Complimentary lunch will be served.
Iliana Alcantar is in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Specializing in Mexican literary and cultural studies, she works in gender, film, and trauma studies. Her current research deals with revisions of gender and representation in contemporary Mexican literature, film, and performance art.
*presented by QC Women's Studies Program*
Monday, May 9, 2011
QC, Powdermaker Hall, room 302
12:15–2 pm
Complimentary lunch will be served.
Iliana Alcantar is in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Specializing in Mexican literary and cultural studies, she works in gender, film, and trauma studies. Her current research deals with revisions of gender and representation in contemporary Mexican literature, film, and performance art.
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