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
