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
Monday, November 29, 2010
PAUL MULDOON reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010
5-6:30 PM
QC, ROSENTHAL LIBRARY 230
Internationally renowned poet Paul Muldoon this year published the acclaimed poetry collection Maggot. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Muldoon has published over 32 collections. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2003 for Moy Sand and Gravel and has been poetry editor of the New Yorker since 2007. Following his reading, he will entertain questions from the audience.
*Sponsored by Irish Studies at Queens College, the event is free and open to the public.*
...Reception to follow supported by the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing...
For more information, contact: Clare Carroll, Director, Irish Studies: clare.carroll@qc.cuny.edu or 718 997 5691. This is a CLIQ event.
5-6:30 PM
QC, ROSENTHAL LIBRARY 230
Internationally renowned poet Paul Muldoon this year published the acclaimed poetry collection Maggot. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Muldoon has published over 32 collections. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2003 for Moy Sand and Gravel and has been poetry editor of the New Yorker since 2007. Following his reading, he will entertain questions from the audience.
*Sponsored by Irish Studies at Queens College, the event is free and open to the public.*
...Reception to follow supported by the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing...
For more information, contact: Clare Carroll, Director, Irish Studies: clare.carroll@qc.cuny.edu or 718 997 5691. This is a CLIQ event.
A Reading by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham
35th Anniversary Season of Queens College Evening Readings
Mr. Cunningham is the author of novels A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, FLESH AND BLOOD, THE HOURS (winner of the PEN/Faulker Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and SPECIMEN DAYS. In addition to reading from his work, he will be interviewed by Leonard Lopate.
NOTE: *The 35th Anniversary Season of Queens College Evening Readings* features several of the world's greatest living novelists in the English language, such as Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan, National Book Award-winner Jonathan Franzen, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham, National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Edwidge Danticat, as well as two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Cynthia Ozick--all in conversation with Leonard Lopate of radio station WNYC--plus A Centennial Celebration of the Work of Czeslaw Milosz with Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Hass, Guggenheim Foundation President Edward Hirsch, and Neustadt International Prize-winner Adam Zagajewski.
All events take place on Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm (except for the reading by Peter Carey, which is on a Wednesday) at the Music Building at Queens College (at exit 24 on the LIE). Admission to each event is $20. Season Tickets are now available through the mail at substantial discounts, or (beginning September 8) by calling the Kupferberg Center Box Office at 718-793-8080. For subscription information, directions, or a more detailed description of our New Season, please visit www.qc.edu/readings
November 30, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Queens College, Music Building
718-544-8080
Website:
http://www.qc.edu/readings
Mr. Cunningham is the author of novels A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, FLESH AND BLOOD, THE HOURS (winner of the PEN/Faulker Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and SPECIMEN DAYS. In addition to reading from his work, he will be interviewed by Leonard Lopate.
NOTE: *The 35th Anniversary Season of Queens College Evening Readings* features several of the world's greatest living novelists in the English language, such as Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan, National Book Award-winner Jonathan Franzen, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham, National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Edwidge Danticat, as well as two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Cynthia Ozick--all in conversation with Leonard Lopate of radio station WNYC--plus A Centennial Celebration of the Work of Czeslaw Milosz with Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Hass, Guggenheim Foundation President Edward Hirsch, and Neustadt International Prize-winner Adam Zagajewski.
All events take place on Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm (except for the reading by Peter Carey, which is on a Wednesday) at the Music Building at Queens College (at exit 24 on the LIE). Admission to each event is $20. Season Tickets are now available through the mail at substantial discounts, or (beginning September 8) by calling the Kupferberg Center Box Office at 718-793-8080. For subscription information, directions, or a more detailed description of our New Season, please visit www.qc.edu/readings
November 30, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Queens College, Music Building
718-544-8080
Website:
http://www.qc.edu/readings
A Giving Season ...
Faculty and Staff Holiday Food Drive (through December 10): Collection boxes for non-perishable canned food or boxed items can be found in Rosenthal Library, Powdermaker Hall, Kiely Hall, Student Union, FitzGerald Gym, the Science Building, and Jefferson Hall.
CUNY Cares Toy Drive (through December 13): Collection boxes for new and unwrapped toys can be found outside the Child Development Center at Kiely Hall 245 and in Delany Hall, rooms 112 and 231. Alos, "Toys for Tots Toy Drive" (through December 15): donate new and unwrapped toys at President's Holiday Party on December 7 or at Office of Human Resources, Kiely Hall 163.
*TRANSLATIONISTA*
Check out our MFA colleague Susan Bernofsky's fun and smart and wonderful new blog: http://translationista.blogspot.com/
Little Anthology Reading by Argos Books
December 8, 2010, 7:00 pm
KGB bar, New York, NY
A reading in celebration of the first Little Anthology. Amanda Smeltz, Katie Byrum, Josh Edwin, Rajiv Mohabir, & Morgan Parker will be reading.
OUR FIRST LITTLE ANTHOLOGY:
We decided to start our collecting in the city and in the community that we are currently a part of. The first Little Anthology will draw from the diverse group of students that are studying to receive their MFA’s in poetry from one of the six NYC schools that offer that degree. How are we alike, and how are we different? What does the future hold for this disparate group of writers currently in their journeyman phase? We hope that by bringing together these (mostly) young writers on the page, we will also help to bring them together in real life with events surrounding the NYC/MFA anthology.
http://argosbooks.org/?cat=7
KGB bar, New York, NY
A reading in celebration of the first Little Anthology. Amanda Smeltz, Katie Byrum, Josh Edwin, Rajiv Mohabir, & Morgan Parker will be reading.
OUR FIRST LITTLE ANTHOLOGY:
We decided to start our collecting in the city and in the community that we are currently a part of. The first Little Anthology will draw from the diverse group of students that are studying to receive their MFA’s in poetry from one of the six NYC schools that offer that degree. How are we alike, and how are we different? What does the future hold for this disparate group of writers currently in their journeyman phase? We hope that by bringing together these (mostly) young writers on the page, we will also help to bring them together in real life with events surrounding the NYC/MFA anthology.
http://argosbooks.org/?cat=7
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