Day of Community 2018

Each fall semester, all of Tisch comes together for a Day of Community.

This year we celebrate Community during the week of October 15, culminating on October 19 with a school-wide breakfast and evening event at Town Hall. Please join us and engage with your community by attending one of several events hosted by Tisch departments.

October 4 - January 18

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    cit.i.zen.ship: reflections on rights

    Photography & Imaging

    In collaboration with For Freedoms’ 50 State Initiative, Photography & Imaging presents cit.i.zen.ship: reflections on rights, an exhibition featuring photographs, works on paper, writings, and video that reflect on human rights and notions of citizenship.

October 15

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    Blood Drive

    Kanbar Institute of Film & TV

    Support the New York Blood Center by giving blood at a blood ddrive hosted by Kanbar Institute of Film & TV.

  • Year 1 Graduate Acting Students

    Graduate Acting

    Year 1 Graduate Acting students will work with Bronx HS students lead by EPIC Theatre Ensemble in developing ideas for a Macbeth Remix project that the HS students will write and produce later this year.

October 15 - October 19

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    The Sole of Tisch

    Drama

    This interactive art installation originating in the department's Costume Shop invites the full Tisch community to learn more about the thousands of colleagues, friends, and collaborators they work and create with every day—from academic and organizational departments to faculty, students, and alumni.

  • DRAMA STUDIO COMMUNITY WEEK PROGRAMMING

    Drama Studios

    Throughout the week and on Community Day (Oct. 19), the department’s training studios will host an exciting array of activities and discussions reflective of the topic of community. The line-up includes class exercises, a series of staged readings, ensemble workshops, community lunches, and other events

October 16

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    NATIONAL FOOD DAY FILM SCREENING

    Kanbar Institute of Film & TV

    Join Kanbar for a film screening on food insecurity issues in solidarity with 28 other universities across the country who are dedicated to ending hunger.

October 17

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    POP-UP POETRY WITH ROSS GAY AT GHOSTFISHING EXHIBITION

    Art & Public Policy

    Poet Ross Gay will initiate a pop-up poetry event as part of the exhibition Ghostfishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology Exhibition at NYU's Kimmel Window Galleries. He will perform in front of the exhibition window that displays the text of his poem "A Small Needful Fact"

October 18

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    KANBAR FLEA

    Kanbar Institute of Film & TV

    Kanbar Institute of Film and TV will host the first Kanbar Flea on October 18th. They will open the 9th Floor lobby to the Tisch community where all the donated goods will be up for grabs (no monetary exchange). At the end of day, all remaining items will be donated to a local charity.

  • TRANSFORMING THE GAMES INDUSTRY

    Games Center

    Join the Game Center faculty and your fellow students for an open-ended, freewheeling discussion about how the game industry works, and how it could work better. Possible topics include: enforced crunch and mass layoffs, sexism and other forms of bias in the workplace, the feasibility of unions, the economics of free-to-play, and the viability of indie development in the crowded channels of the digital marketplace. Light lunch provided.

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    A CONVERSATION WITH ERIC WAINAINA

    Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music

    Join us for A Conversation with ERIC WAINAINA, moderated by professors Jeff Peretz, and Ashley Kahn.

October 19

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    Community Breakfast

    Dean's Office

    Take a moment to connect with someone you haven't met while enjoying coffee, cider, and pastries on your way to class or the office!

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    SYMPOSIUM: QUEER NEW YORK AND URBAN PERFORMANCE IN THE 1970'S AND 1980'S

    Performance Studies

    In conjunction with the exhibition Rubbish and Dreams: The Genderqueer Performance Art of Stephen Varble at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, this one-day symposium will explore queer performance and its relation to New York City’s public spaces in the 1970s and 1980s.

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    Day of Community 2018: with Dogs!

    Cinema Studies

    Come meet the Canine Community of Cinema Studies featuring an all-star line up including Iris, June, Roz, Suzy, and Sondra, as well as other special guests!

  • Year 2 Graduate Acting Students

    Graduate Acting

    Year 2 Graduate Acting students will share political speeches in Washington Square Park on this year's Day of Community.

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    Special Master Classes for Dance Students

    Dance

    Tisch Dance Students have the opportunity to take special master classes with four talented dance artists in celebration of Community Day. Recent dance alumni are also invited for pizza afterwards to share their experience at Tisch and beyond.

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    ARTIST TALK WITH KAROLINA SOBECKA

    ITP and IMA

    Karolina will talk about her work and research on emerging technologies that aim to address climate change. From proposals for large scale intervention into the climate system, to seemingly incremental advances in existing technologies.

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    SUSTAINABILITY AND MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS

    ITP and IMA

    Join us for a discussion and strategizing session so that groups, departments, and individuals can leave with a jumping off point for a more critical engagement of the materials in their work.

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    WEB ACCESSIBILITY

    ITP and IMA

    Join ITP/IMA for an interactive 2-part session on web accessibility as they discuss guidelines, tools and techniques that allow us to build better websites accessible to all. The session will be hands-on and will include a workshop in which participants audit and make necessary changes to the websites they manage.

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    OPEN ARTS AND THE CLINTON SCHOOL/UNION SQUARE

    Open Arts

    Open Arts will host 11th and 12thgrade filmmakers from the Clinton School in Union Square for a documentary interview workshop. Led by Open Arts faculty, high school students will get hands-on exposure to lighting and sound techniques for on-camera interviews.

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    OPEN ARTS, ETW AND PS3

    Open Arts and the Experimental Theatre Wing

    Open Arts in partnership with students from Tisch Drama's Experimental Theatre Wing, welcome 5th graders from Public School 3 in Greenwich Village to visit for a morning of conversation and brainstorming. This visit will mark the fourth year of an ongoing creative partnership between local elementary school students at PS3 and Tisch.

  • MAKE AMERICA PROJECT

    Design for Stage & Film

    In celebration of the Tisch School of the Arts Week of Community, come hear about the Make America Project. MAP was founded by two Design Department alumni - Ilana Breitman '16 and Lily Prentice '17, along with Maridee Slater. Ilana and Lily are excited to come in to speak with us about their recent cross-country trip and their future plans.

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    Can You Separate Art From the Artist?

    Dramatic Writing

    The Department of Dramatic Writing will be hosting a panel discussion, Can You Separate Art from the Artist?, in the Goldberg Theater from 10:30am -12:15pm.

October 22

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    GRADUATE MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING Alumni Panel

    GRADUATE MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING

    Graduate Musical Theatre Writing hosts a paneled discussion featuring a variety of program alumni and faculty members who activate change in community life and use their writing for purposes of social outreach.