Week of Community 2021
A Week of In-Person and Virtual Events for the Tisch Community
NYU Tisch School of the Arts has a long tradition of convening to celebrate our community of artists, scholars, and entrepreneurs during the annual Week of Community. With so much going on around Tisch, this week presents an opportunity to explore the intersecting disciplines, environments, and experiences at our school. For 2021, we return with a week of both in-person and virtual events hosted by a range of departments. As we kick things off Monday, October 18, we invite you to participate in the many program offerings, including conversations, showcases, games, and other special events. We look forward to seeing you there!
October 18-22
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Events from the Drama Studios
Drama Studios
Each October, more than 1,700 members of the Tisch Drama Community—faculty, students, and staff across the department’s 10 training studios and theatre studies program—come together to build relationships with new and existing communities as part of Community Week. This year, Drama planned multiple events for the week of October 18–22, as well as for the final celebration on October 22.
October 18
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11am et: ACTIVATING THE ARCHIVE OF VOICES
Drama
What is the nature of archives? What is the usefulness of archiving texts and the potential of active engagement with plays and playwrights from diverse backgrounds? Join for this interactive event that will feature recorded performances of scenes from plays in the Archive of Voices. Over the summer, select student groups took to the task of creating recorded scenes from the works of diverse writers. It is our pleasure to present the fruits of their labor during this collaborative convening.
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5:30pm et: STUDENT RESEARCH FUND PECHA KUCHA
Tisch Creative Research
As part of Tisch Community Week 2021, Tisch Creative Research will be hosting a Student Research Fund Pecha Kucha, a night of Pecha Kucha-style presentations featuring the work of recent (graduate and undergraduate) Student Research Fund grantees.
October 19
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11am et: PEACEFUL PUZZLING
Dramatic Writing
Take a pause from your to-do list and work together--or alone, but together--on a puzzle! We'll have a variety of sizes, types and expertise levels. Come for a five minute break or commit yourself to getting as much done as you can before your next class! Registration is not required, but space will be limited.
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6pm et: SEEN & UNSEEN: LIFE IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK BY SHERIL ANTONIO
Art & Public Policy
This set of images are Dr. Antonio's attempt at rendering the seen and unseen life of a place she has come to know throughout her years in college at NYU/Tisch and during her professional career at the university. It is a personal story, as well as a professional story. It is a story using original photography, personal archives, and research.
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6pm et: HEAR US MINI-FEST
Tisch Creative Research
As part of Community Week, Tisch Creative Research will be hosting the HEAR US Mini-Fest, an informal online showing of works and works-in-progress of the first cohort of HEAR US awardees.
October 20
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11am et: FALL CELEBRATION AT STUDENT AFFAIRS
Office of Student Affairs
Join Tisch Student Affairs for our fall Community Week celebration. Enjoy snacks, games, and music, and make new friends. Meet the staff of Student Affairs and learn how we can support you during your time at Tisch!
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1pm et: CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
Office of Strategic Initiatives
Please join Sheril Antonio and Patti Pearson from the Office of Strategic Initiatives in a conversation about finding ways to be creative in a high stress and unpredictable time. This is a virtual event.
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6pm et: Screening of Hand, Writing
Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
Attend a screening of hand, writing, a short film by Graduate Film Chair, Julia Solomonoff. The film is an intimate, witty film-essay exploring the fast transition from physical to virtual life brought about by the pandemic. UGFTV Chair Ezra Sacks will host a Q&A with Julia after the film.
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7pm et: AILEY FILM SCREENING AND CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR JAMILA WIGNOT
Dean's Office, Dance and Photography & Imaging
AILEY celebrates the artistic genius of Alvin Ailey and the impact of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on American culture and presents an opportunity to celebrate Black art as well as have an intergenerational dialogue about racial equity, identity, creativity, belonging LGBTQ experience, and more. Join in watching the full-length documentary followed by a conversation with Director Jamila Wignot.
October 21
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9am et: PEACEFUL PUZZLING
Dramatic Writing
Take a pause from your to-do list and work together--or alone, but together--on a puzzle! We'll have a variety of sizes, types and expertise levels. Come for a five minute break or commit yourself to getting as much done as you can before your next class! Registration is not required, but space will be limited.
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1pm et: Filming the Biographical Picture
Graduate Acting and Graduate Film
In celebration of Tisch Community Week, Grad Acting & Grad Film will be coming together to discuss how each discipline prepares to perform in and film a biographical picture. This is a private event for students of Grad Acting & Grad Film only.
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4pm et: GAMES WITH FRIENDS!
Cinema Studies
Join Cinema Studies for virtual games! There will be fun, creative versions of classic board, trivia, word and murder mystery games. You can play as a team or on your own, stop by for a few minutes or stay for several rounds. There’s plenty to choose from and two different sessions scheduled.
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5:30pm et: PLAYTEST EVERYTHING
NYU Game Center
At Playtest Thursdays, you can try games made by students and other members of NYC's game-making scene...but during Community Week, we're inviting the rest of Tisch to come by and test anything and everything with us! Do you have a draft of something you're working on that you'd like to read, perform or show? Rushes from a film project? A composition that's ready for a listening party before it hits prime-time? A new software toy that you want to test? Come by and demo what you've got, and we'll help you set it up, play it, and talk about it.
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6pm et: NEW MEDIUMS FOR ARTMAKING
Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
What is possible now that wasn't before? With the emergence of technologies such as augmented and virtual reality, brain-computer interfaces, and artificial intelligence, we as artists have the ability to make art in new ways that have never been explored before. Join Tisch students as we discuss projects we've been working on that explore new mediums of artmaking such as dystopian virtual environments, conscious music and more!
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7pm et: FRESH FEST 2021
Undergraduate Film & Television
Join your fellow UGFTV first-years at the Fresh Fest Awards Ceremony where we’ll reveal and screen the Top 10 Yourselfies as voted for by you. Plus, prizes will be awarded! We want to help the Class of 2025 connect, so there will be a chance for students to hang out online after the awards ceremony. Voting is open until Sunday, October 17.
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7pm et: GOLDBERG PLAY PRIZE READING - BASHERT
Dramatic Writing
Dramatic Writing is pleased to present a virtual reading of BASHERT, written by 2021 Goldberg Playwriting Prize winner, Alicia Louzoun-Heisler. When rumors circulate within her tight-knit Haredi Jewish community, Leora fears she’ll receive “the bottom of the barrel” for potential marriage matches. In this Jane Austen-inspired Comedy, Leora is determined to prove that she'd make a great wife, but past indiscretions and old habits keep getting in the way.
October 22
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10am et: PS ASSEMBLY WITH PROFESSOR ALEX VAZQUEZ
Performance Studies
This Assembly is open to the entire Tisch community. Each session will be loosely grounded in a topic that ties to the faculty's pedagogy. The series will be run by alternating members of the faculty who will briefly introduce each session and then facilitate discussion for the group. The assemblies will offer opportunities to come together--across the ranks and in a more informal setting--to discuss how we can approach a project, or an object, or a problem; how we research it; how we put our ideas together; how we communicate those ideas.
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1pm et: JAMIL ELLIS: TECHNOLOGY TO SAVE THE PLANET
ITP and IMA
Please join in-person on Friday, October 22nd from 1-2pm EST for a talk by Jamil Ellis. We are already feeling the effect of the climate emergency now as we see wild fires and floods around the planet. There's a lot of work to do bring us back from irreversibly damaging the planet. He will talk about technology's role in the fight against climate change.
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1pm et: CARNATIONS & CONTROLLED CHAOS
Collaborative Arts
Stop and mold the flowers! The entire Collaborative Arts program is gathering to celebrate their community. Part clay (carnations), part musical experiment (controlled chaos), the students in Tisch's newest BFA program will be using their skills to make their house a home. We invite the Tisch community to join us at 3 PM to see our new colorful garden.
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1pm et: Filming the Biographical Picture
Graduate Acting and Graduate Film
In celebration of Tisch Community Week, Grad Acting & Grad Film will be coming together to discuss how each discipline prepares to perform in and film a biographical picture. This is a private event for students of Grad Acting & Grad Film only.
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4pm et: 'THIS PLACE I CALL HOME' JAMILA WOODS: IN CONVERSATION WITH JOAN MORGAN
Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
Join for a special launch event celebrating singer-songwriter, educator and poet Jamila Woods’ 2021-2022 Artist Residency. Woods will be in conversation with Dr. Joan Morgan, acclaimed writer, scholar and Program Director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture. The conversation will cover Jamila Woods’ music and practice, and the way that themes of home and place inform her artistry; and students will have an opportunity to ask questions in a closing Q&A.
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4pm et: GAMES WITH FRIENDS!
Cinema Studies
Join Cinema Studies for virtual games! There will be fun, creative versions of classic board, trivia, word and murder mystery games. You can play as a team or on your own, stop by for a few minutes or stay for several rounds. There’s plenty to choose from and two different sessions scheduled.
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6pm et: NEW VISIONS & VOICES FESTIVAL
Undergraduate Film & Television
New Visions & Voices is a celebration of work completed by students in Intermediate Production courses. These up-to-eight-minute-long films feature student work from our Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, and Animation classes as well as work from our Prague Study Abroad Program, which specializes in 35 millimeter film. The festival takes place every fall and culminates in a screening of our top finalists. The Niklas Kalborg Production Awards are given to the top three award winners.
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6:30pm: First Conversations
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing and Design for Stage & Film
The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing and The Department of Design for Stage and Film will come together to simulate a series of "first conversations" between designers and writers to explore thoughts of how the thesis musicals written by the GMTWP second year students might be visualized. A virtual "cocktail hour" will follow the event. This is a private event for students of The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film only.
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7pm et: COMEDY CLUB
Dramatic Writing
Join Dramatic Writing for a special Week of Community edition of DDW's Comedy Club! Friday, October 22nd, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM in the Goldberg Theater.