*Co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and the CUNY MFA Affiliation Group*
Turnstyle, a cross-genre MFA reading series, features the faculty and students of four CUNY graduate creative writing programs. Two faculty readers and seven second year MFA creative writing students read a mix of non-fiction, plays, fiction, and poems.
MFA Readers
Jill Noel Shreve, Hunter College
Thierry Saintine, City College of New York
A.J. Kandathil, Hunter College
Catherine Tung, Brooklyn College
Julia Jackson, Brooklyn College
Brian Kim, Queens College
Katie Vane, Hunter College
Faculty Readers
Roger Sedart, Queens College, author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic.
Harold Aram Veeser, The City College of New York, author of Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism
Tuesday, February 1st, 6:30pm
Martin E. Segal Theater
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005
centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Friday, January 28, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Maxine Hong Kingston
A rare appearance:
The Asian American Writers' Workshop presents a special event with novelist Maxine Hong Kingston on February 1, 2011.
For details and to buy tickets:
http://aaww.org/#february1.
The Asian American Writers' Workshop presents a special event with novelist Maxine Hong Kingston on February 1, 2011.
For details and to buy tickets:
http://aaww.org/#february1.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
BENEFIT READING IN HONOR OF DEAN YOUNG
Thursday, January 20th, 7:00 PM
A benefit reading in honor of the prominent poet and teacher, who is facing a heart transplant, featuring poets Matthea Harvey, Edward Hirsch, Mary Karr, Matthew Rohrer, Gerald Stern, Dara Wier, and others. All donations will be used to help Dean Young with his transplant expenses.
Admission is free, but donations are encouraged. To read about Dean and make an online donation, please visit www.transplants.org.
Location:
Grand Gallery, National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park, Manhattan
A benefit reading in honor of the prominent poet and teacher, who is facing a heart transplant, featuring poets Matthea Harvey, Edward Hirsch, Mary Karr, Matthew Rohrer, Gerald Stern, Dara Wier, and others. All donations will be used to help Dean Young with his transplant expenses.
Admission is free, but donations are encouraged. To read about Dean and make an online donation, please visit www.transplants.org.
Location:
Grand Gallery, National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park, Manhattan
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
It's "Spring"--It's TURNSTYLE--
TURNSTYLE READINGS SERIES for the four CUNY MFA Programs begins on Tuesday, February 1
6:30 pm
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER
Fifth Avenue at 34 Street in Manhattan
Eight MFA students will read with two faculty--
Roger Sedarat teaches poetry and translation in the MFA program at Queens College. He is the author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic (winner of Ohio UP's Hollis Summers Prize), and Ghazal Games (forthcoming, Ohio UP). His poems and translations have recently appeared in World Literature Today, Green Mountains Review, and Storyscape.
H. Aram Veeser, Department of English, The City College of New York, co-author, Painting Between the Lines (2001), and editor, The New Historicism (1989), The New Historicism Reader (1994), Confessions of the Critics (1996), and The Stanley Fish Reader (1999). He has written for The Nation Magazine and various academic quarterlies, including The Journal of Armenian Studies, Ararat, and Armenian Forum. His most recent book is Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism (Routledge, 2010). He is at work on another book, a group portrait of eight literary critics who gained notoriety around the time of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
***
Each Turnstyle reading features 8 student readers and 2 faculty readers drawn from the four spectacular CUNY MFA Programs. Conceived as a kind of mixer for the students/faculty to mingle and hear one another’s voices, it is free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the CUNY MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group
6:30 pm
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER
Fifth Avenue at 34 Street in Manhattan
Eight MFA students will read with two faculty--
Roger Sedarat teaches poetry and translation in the MFA program at Queens College. He is the author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic (winner of Ohio UP's Hollis Summers Prize), and Ghazal Games (forthcoming, Ohio UP). His poems and translations have recently appeared in World Literature Today, Green Mountains Review, and Storyscape.
H. Aram Veeser, Department of English, The City College of New York, co-author, Painting Between the Lines (2001), and editor, The New Historicism (1989), The New Historicism Reader (1994), Confessions of the Critics (1996), and The Stanley Fish Reader (1999). He has written for The Nation Magazine and various academic quarterlies, including The Journal of Armenian Studies, Ararat, and Armenian Forum. His most recent book is Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism (Routledge, 2010). He is at work on another book, a group portrait of eight literary critics who gained notoriety around the time of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
***
Each Turnstyle reading features 8 student readers and 2 faculty readers drawn from the four spectacular CUNY MFA Programs. Conceived as a kind of mixer for the students/faculty to mingle and hear one another’s voices, it is free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the CUNY MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group
Monday, December 13, 2010
reminder: MFA Community Event (for current students)
Three workshops--Susan's translation, Nicole's poetry, and John's thesis--will all gather on Tuesday night for an end-semester reading celebration. 6:30 pm
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POLITICAL THEATRE AND
... "THE GREAT GAME": TRICYCLE THEATRE'S NICOLAS KENT
Nicolas Kent, Artistic Director of London's Tricycle Theatre, joins us for a discussion of contemporary political theatre in the UK and around the world. Called "Britain's foremost political theatre" by The Guardian, The Tricycle Theatre has established a unique reputation for presenting plays that reflect the cultural diversity of its community; in particular plays by Black, Irish, Jewish, Asian and South African writers, as well as for responding to contemporary issues and events with its ground- breaking ‘tribunal plays’ and political work. Presented with the support of the British Council, in conjunction with Tricycle's concurrent run of The Great Game at the Public Theater, in association with NYU Skirball Center.
Date:
December 16, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
Admission:
Free
Nicolas Kent, Artistic Director of London's Tricycle Theatre, joins us for a discussion of contemporary political theatre in the UK and around the world. Called "Britain's foremost political theatre" by The Guardian, The Tricycle Theatre has established a unique reputation for presenting plays that reflect the cultural diversity of its community; in particular plays by Black, Irish, Jewish, Asian and South African writers, as well as for responding to contemporary issues and events with its ground- breaking ‘tribunal plays’ and political work. Presented with the support of the British Council, in conjunction with Tricycle's concurrent run of The Great Game at the Public Theater, in association with NYU Skirball Center.
Date:
December 16, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
Admission:
Free
Monday, December 6, 2010
A Flurry of Events...
**AN EVENING WITH JOHN GUARE**
U.S. playwright John Guare returns to the Segal for an intimate evening. His new play, A Free Man of Color, weaves a Don Juan narrative into the lush, lawless melting pot of early 19th Century New Orleans on the eve of the Louisiana Purchase. Guare will discuss the production, running concurrently at the Lincoln Center Theater in a production directed by George C. Wolfe, with Distinguished Professor and Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre David Savran (Graduate Center, CUNY).
Date:
December 6, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
**OHIO THEATRE: 29 YEARS OF DOWNTOWN THEATRE**
Join us for an evening with Robert Lyons, Artistic Director of the two-time OBIE Award-winning Soho Think Tank/Ohio Theatre, as we look back on the Ohio's extraordinary history, now closing its doors after 29 remarkable years. Lyons and guests will share stories, images, and video from the many productions that helped make this converted Soho factory one of Lower Manhattan's great cultural centers. Although the building has closed, the Ohio's programming now continues off-site through the Ohio Interrupted series.
Date:
December 8, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
**THE LAST QUEEN OF EGYPT: STACY SCHIFF ON CLEOPATRA**
Join the Leon Levy Center for Biography for a night of discovery and insight with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, who will discuss her new biography, Cleopatra: A Life. Schiff has created "a cinematic portrait of a historical figure far more complex and compelling than any fictional creation, and a wide, panning, panoramic picture of her world," says Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times. "Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era," notes Azar Nafisi, "one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history and ourselves."
Date:
December 10, 2010
Time:
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
CUNY Graduate Center
Room:
Elebash Recital Hall
Phone:
212-817-2008
Website:
http://www.leonlevycenterforbiography.org
U.S. playwright John Guare returns to the Segal for an intimate evening. His new play, A Free Man of Color, weaves a Don Juan narrative into the lush, lawless melting pot of early 19th Century New Orleans on the eve of the Louisiana Purchase. Guare will discuss the production, running concurrently at the Lincoln Center Theater in a production directed by George C. Wolfe, with Distinguished Professor and Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre David Savran (Graduate Center, CUNY).
Date:
December 6, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
**OHIO THEATRE: 29 YEARS OF DOWNTOWN THEATRE**
Join us for an evening with Robert Lyons, Artistic Director of the two-time OBIE Award-winning Soho Think Tank/Ohio Theatre, as we look back on the Ohio's extraordinary history, now closing its doors after 29 remarkable years. Lyons and guests will share stories, images, and video from the many productions that helped make this converted Soho factory one of Lower Manhattan's great cultural centers. Although the building has closed, the Ohio's programming now continues off-site through the Ohio Interrupted series.
Date:
December 8, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
**THE LAST QUEEN OF EGYPT: STACY SCHIFF ON CLEOPATRA**
Join the Leon Levy Center for Biography for a night of discovery and insight with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, who will discuss her new biography, Cleopatra: A Life. Schiff has created "a cinematic portrait of a historical figure far more complex and compelling than any fictional creation, and a wide, panning, panoramic picture of her world," says Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times. "Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era," notes Azar Nafisi, "one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history and ourselves."
Date:
December 10, 2010
Time:
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
CUNY Graduate Center
Room:
Elebash Recital Hall
Phone:
212-817-2008
Website:
http://www.leonlevycenterforbiography.org
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
A POLITICAL THEATER FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: RESTAGING ANGELS IN AMERICA
December 2, Thursday, 5:00pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, in conversation with Steven Kruger (English, Queens College and The Graduate Center), David Savran (Theatre, The Graduate Center), and Alisa Solomon (School of Journalism, Columbia), as they discuss the politics of restaging of Angels in America in the current moment and the potential for vital political theater in the twenty-first century.
THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, in conversation with Steven Kruger (English, Queens College and The Graduate Center), David Savran (Theatre, The Graduate Center), and Alisa Solomon (School of Journalism, Columbia), as they discuss the politics of restaging of Angels in America in the current moment and the potential for vital political theater in the twenty-first century.
THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan
TENDENCIES: POETICS AND PRACTICE
December 9, Thursday, 7:00pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Co-sponsored by CLAGS, the PhD Program in English, and the Poetics Group
This series of talks by and about contemporary poets and artists, curated by Tim Peterson (Trace) and titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between queer theory, poetic manifesto, poetic practice, and pedagogy. This event will feature poets Abigail Child, Michael D. Snediker, and Timothy Liu. Abigail Child is a poet, director, producer, and writer of a number of films; her most recent book is This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film (2005). Michael D Snediker is the author of Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (2009) and the poetry collection Nervous Pastoral (2008). Timothy Liu is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Polytheogamy and Bending the Mind Around the Dream’s Blown Fuse (2009); he has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (2000). Visit http://tendenciespoetics.com for commentary and sample recordings from past events, as well as news about upcoming events.
THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan
THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)