NYC Events You Can’t Miss This Fall
Film screenings, readings, book launches, gallery exhibits, talks, interactive classes, music, drama performances + more abound this fall semester at The New School. You can’t get to everything, but if you insist on trying, this guide will make it easier!
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S E P T E M B E R
Tools & Weapons: A conversation with Brad Smith and Trevor Noah
Monday, September 9, 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Note: free, New School community tickets are sold out, but regular tickets are still on sale via The Strand. This event will not be livestreamed.
How should the world navigate the vast potential and existential risks of our digital world? Microsoft President Brad Smith discusses Tools and Weapons, a new book co-authored with Carol Ann Browne, with Daily Show host Trevor Noah.
PEN Out Loud: Rion Amilcar Scott and Vinson Cunningham
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 7:00PM
Tickets: use code NEWSCHOOL
PEN America Literary Awards winner Rion Amilcar Scott returns to New York City to launch his sophomore short story collection The World Doesn’t Require You. This highly anticipated collection highlights Scott’s blazing prose as he takes on race, history, and genre, further establishing him as an essential voice in the contemporary literary canon. Scott will read from the book and discuss his creative process and inspirations with cultural critic Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker staff writer and Director of Programming for Jack Jones Literary Arts’ inaugural Culture, Too conference.
Critical History Today: Tensions of Empires
Monday, September 16, 6–7:30 PM
Over two decades ago, Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler published the groundbreaking edited collection, Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. The text challenged the conventional wisdom that the metropoles of Europe simply exported strategies of governance and normative cultural values to their colonies, and instead insisted that the developments in the colonies and the metropole must be held together in a single analytic frame.
Central Park Five Screening and Discussion
Tuesday, September 17, 6 — 9 PM
Come see the award-winning film about the miscarriage of justice in the case of the Central Park Five, and what it can tell us about New York City in 1989 and its legacies.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for New York City Affairs, The Institute for Transformative Mentoring, and the Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals. Refreshments will be provided.
Best American Poetry 2019 Reading
Thursday, September 19, 7:00–10:00pm
Series editor David Lehman and guest editor Major Jackson headline an all-star cast of poets included in the book’s launch reading, an annual rite of Autumn in New York.
Open Mic (Archive as Score) with Performances by Alison Kuo & Umber Majeed
Thursday, September 19 at 7:00 pm
Join artist Alison Kuo and The New School alumni and artist Umber Majeed for a participatory open platform that invites participants to share their own work and process.
Open Mic with Readings by Aisha Jordan & Allen Strouse
Friday, September 20 at 7:00 pm
Join writers and The New School alumni Aisha Jordan and Allen Strouse for an open mic. Bring your work to share or listen to others present their ideas, works in progress, or finished pieces.
Freedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies Into Darkness
Day 1: Friday, September 20, 6:30–8:00pm
Day 2: Saturday, September 21, 1:00–5:00pm
Over the past year, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School has partnered with ARTICLE19, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), the New York Peace Institute, and Weeksville Heritage Center, to address the perennially contested right to free speech.
Building a Resilient Future
Sun, Sep 22 from 8:00am — 6:00pm EDT Politics & Society
Join the resilience movement ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit for an event that sets out ambitious and transformative actions needed to build resilience. Full Concept Note of the Day available here.
MFA Production: Oliver Twist
September 26–28, 7:00 PM; September 28, 2:00 PM; October 2–4, 7:00 PM @ The Theater at the School of Drama
School of Drama will present an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist written by Neil Bartlett as the first MFA Mainstage production of Drama’s 2019–20 season. The production will be directed by Melissa Maxwell, and feature the entire cohort of MFA Third Year Actors: Hannah Adrian, Olivia Battle, William Berger-Bailey, Jazmyn Boone, Yun-Chin Chang, Caroline Hertz, Racquel Jean-Louis, Ian Lawrence, Philip Lopez, Kasey O’Brien, Riley Jo Payne, Kyle Ryan, Carla Smith, Michael Spara, and Jacqueline Theoharis.
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The Festival of New
Tuesday, October 1—Sunday, October 6
The Festival of New, celebrating 100 years of The New School, will certainly dominate campus from the 1st through 6th. Enjoy free concerts, talks, exhibitions, screenings, workshops, and more. Build your schedule online, and bring your friends—it’s open to the public!
Featured events happening at The Festival of New:
Will the United States Ever See Another Military Draft?
Monday, October 7, 7 PM in partnership with The New York Times
Since the United States’ military draft ended in 1973, the call of national service has fallen on a more concentrated group of Americans. Today the all-volunteer force is comprised of less than 1 percent of the total U.S. population — an often-overlooked class of citizens that has carried the burden of fighting the nation’s war on terror for nearly two decades. Is the present system fair? How would a return to mandatory conscription affect the country’s opinion of America’s involvement abroad? In the wake of all combat-arms jobs opening to women, should they also be required to register with the Selective Service? On the 18th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, historians, academics and journalists will come together to discuss all these issues and more.
New School Studio Orchestra Concert directed by Ryan Truesdell
October 16, 2019, 7:00 PM
The College of Performing Arts’s newest large ensemble, the New School Studio Orchestra is composed of students from the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music and Mannes School of Music, performing music from a wide variety of genres including jazz, soul, pop, and improvised music. This fall the group is led by special guest artist composer/producer Ryan Truesdell. This evening’s performance features the music of jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer Robert Edward “Bob” Brookmeyer.
Microaggressions in Academia
Thursday, October 17, 6–8 PM
The term microaggressions was coined in the 1970s and has gained significant traction in both scholarly and general discussions in the past decade. Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University has dedicated much of his career and writings to the study of microaggressions, which he defined in a major 2007 study as “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color.” A sought-after speaker and trainer on the topic, Sue will address the many forms microaggressions can take in academic environments.
Mannes Sounds Festival and Camerata New York present the Mannes Opera in Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice
Thursday, October 17th and Saturday, October 19 @ Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, 921 Madison Avenue, NYC
In collaboration with Camarata Opera and the Martha Graham Dancers, Mannes Opera offers an elegant and heartrending telling of Gluck’s 1762 masterpiece. Orfeo, consumed with grief at the death of his beloved Euridice, that journeys into the world of the dead to beg for her return.
Richard Owen, Conductor
William Gustafson, Stage Director
The Mannes Orchestra presents an all-Aaron Copland Concert at Alice Tully Hall
Saturday, October 26, 7:30 pm
This special concert, in recognition of The New School Centennial and of Aaron Copland as a central figure within the history of The New School, features landmark works by Copland, as well as a newly devised dramatic work that uses the transcript of Copland’s testimony before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, which was chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Rachael Ray in Conversation With Kim Severson
Wednesday, October 23, 7:00 PM
Spend an evening with Rachael Ray, one of the world’s most influential food personalities, in an intimate conversation with The New York Times food correspondent Kim Severson. Ms. Ray is out with a new book, titled Rachael Ray 50, that celebrates turning 50 and reveals stories about her loves, her life lessons and her favorite things to cook. Ms. Severson, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service reporting on sexual harassment, began covering Ms. Ray in 2005.
A limited number of free tickets for this event is available to New School students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Click here to reserve a ticket.
We Are The Weather: Jonathan Safran Foer
Monday, October 28, 7:00 — 8:30 PM; in partnership with McNally Jackson Bookstore
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response? In We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.
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2019 Student Production Awards (Student Emmys)
Friday, November 1, 2019
The School of Media Studies will host the 2019 Student Production Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. This live broadcast will present the winners of the 2019 Student Production Awards. The broadcast will prominently feature The New School as the host institution, and Media Studies students, faculty, and alumni will assist in producing the broadcast.
The Mannes Orchestra presents the world premiere of Johanna Beyer’s Cyrnab and other works
Friday, November 22, 7:30 pm; John L. Tishman Auditorium (63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003)
As a female composer working in the 1930s, Johanna Beyer was largely overlooked in her own lifetime, and only today is beginning to receive her due as one of the most experimental composers among the ultra-modernists who she associated with. An associate of Cowell, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Aaron Copland, and other great composers of the time, Beyer was at the forefront of new music and composed breakthrough works for orchestra, percussion ensemble, and was a pioneer of early music technology.
The world premiere of this short work caps off a program of contemporary and experimental works by Rochberg, Cowell, and Penderecki.
Program:
George Rochberg — Black Sounds
Henry Cowell — Symphony №2 “Anthropos”
Krzysztof Penderecki — Threnody To The Victims of Hiroshima
Johanna Beyer — Cyrnab
David Hayes, conductor
