Week of Community 2020

A Week of Virtual Events for the Tisch Community

NYU Tisch School of the Arts has a long history of gathering together as artists, scholars, and entrepreneurs to deepen discussions with civic issues, community engagement, and celebration. In 2020, when so much is different, our Week of Community events continue to celebrate a collaborative environment and include opportunities to shine a spotlight on important issues here in our school and in our world. In spite of so much adversity, we continue to come together and encourage you to participate in one of the many activities and get to know the inspiring work of the school.

October 15

  • COLLABORATIVE ARTS COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

    Collaborative Arts

    Rather than build on a body of work, we will uplift building a body of trials to imagine shifting oneself through the acts of doing. This convening is a creative dialogue amongst our practices where we figure the spaces for what is and is not urgent to our creative needs at this time.

October 19-23

  • VIRTUAL ART LOUNGE

    Office of the Dean

    The Virtual Art Lounge is a daily offering during Tisch's Week of Community. No lecture. No meeting. No panelists. Yes, we're still on Zoom, but let's bring those fleeting moments of connecting with a fellow artist – in a hallway, in an elevator, in a student lounge over coffee – to our current, remote world.

October 19

  • DISMANTLING

    ITP and IMA

    Participants will dismantle objects down to their component parts. Guest speakers will deliver short talks connecting an aspect of critical theory to the theme of dismantling internal bias. Mediators will be on hand to help foster discussion around the act of “dismantling” as a political/social/ meditative act and to create connections between the ideas presented and (un)making. Participants will then be challenged to use the pieces around them to create new objects.

  • COVID STORIES FROM CUBA

    Special Programs

    Join Tisch Special Programs for "COVID Stories from Cuba", part of the 2020 Tisch Week of Community. This event will feature program alumni discussing the final films they created during the spring 2020 study abroad program Documentary Video Production in Havana.

October 20

  • MAKE-A-MASK WITH KANBAR!

    Kanbar Institute of Film & Television

    Join UGFTV academic advising manager Danielle Mebert, on for an online mask-making class! Learn how to use simple tools to make your own PPE, or better yet, make several masks and give them to friends. Any Tisch student, faculty, or staff living in the NYC area can pick up free mask-making kits at 721 Broadway, 9th floor front desk, beginning October 12th.

  • PERFORMANCE PRACTICE WITH/IN/DURING THE PANDEMIC

    Art & Public Policy and Performance Studies

    We are gathering artists to discuss how they are creating, performing, and enacting during this pandemic. Is solo work the foreseeable future of performance? How might one work within and beyond the solo form? What other possibilities might exist?

October 21

  • REFLECTING ON THE MOMENTS: PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL PROTESTS, COVID19, AND #BLACKLIVESMATTER

    Photography & Imaging

    Covid19, #BlackLivesMattters, protest, political upheavals, and our climate crisis are some of the issues that will be addressed in this panel of DPI community members past and present. Alums Marcia Allert, Zalika Azim, Bryan Denton, Rian Dundon, Janna Ireland, Alice Proujansky, current student Eric Hart. Jr., and Professor Lorie Novak will discuss how their photographic practices and the potential of photography to address social justice issues.

  • GAMES WITH FRIENDS!

    Cinema Studies

    Cinema Studies welcomes friends and family from all Tisch departments to join us for virtual games! We have 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.

  • A SOUL SESSION: COLLABORATION WITH THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE

    Drama

    Drama's Office of Diversity Initiatives, in partnership with student group the Alliance, presents A Soul Session—exploring what it means to activate the soul as we create the future we want to see. As the residency of the National Black Theatre (NBT) for TISCH DRAMA STAGE's Building the Future Now comes to an end, we welcome NBT Artistic Director Jonathan McCrory, and inaugural NBT Director in Residence member, Ebony Noelle Golden, to join us in exploring what it means to be an artist today and how together we can develop expansive practices to build our future.

  • THEATER COLLAGE

    Collaborative Arts and Dramatic Writing

    Join Gustavo Aguilar (Collaborative Arts Assistant Arts Professor) and Joe Vinciguerra (Dramatic Writing Associate Chair) in the collaborative workshop, "Theater Collage." Participants will create a new work that fuses 4 well-known (or not known) plays with one another to make dissimilar narratives by placing them in an unfamiliar order and context. This event is open to Collaborative Arts and Dramatic Writing 1st and 2nd year students.

  • THE SOCIAL DISTANCE NETWORK

    Undergraduate Film & TV

    Mix and mingle with your UGFTV peers outside of class. Catch up with what everyone’s been watching in small break-out groups and get the chance to chat with new people one-on-one, plus find some new titles to add to your watchlist!

  • Merging Emerging Voices

    Graduate Acting and Dramatic Writing

    The Dramatic Writing Program and Graduate Acting Program are collaborating, to explore new material in Grad Acting’s Speech/Text class. This gives both writers and actors the opportunity to bring unrehearsed material to life in a ‘first read’.

  • ESCAPE THE ZOOM

    Student Affairs

    Join Student Affairs on a Zoom-hopping scavenger hunt! Race the clock and your colleagues through Zoom rooms of trivia and show your skills in a final showdown with Dean Robert Cameron. Prizes will be awarded to the first ten players to reach Dean Cameron.

  • FUTURE LEXICONS: PLEASE LEAVE ALL DYSTOPIANS AT HOME

    Future Imagination Fund

    In 2040, what are you thinking about? What are your priorities? What are you doing? What are you doing for FUN? Let's play to figure it out! Join the Future Imagination Fellows for a lexicon-building game, some aspirational future-building, and a cocktail/mocktail hour. Just bring your imagination...and a tasty beverage.

October 22

  • CRITICAL RESPONSE PROCESS WORKSHOP 2020

    Creative Research

    The Critical Response Process, created by Liz Lerman, is a four-step process that combines the power of questions with the focus and challenge of informed dialogue. Since its inception, CRP has supported artists of all disciplines, as well as elected officials, leaders of arts and cultural institutions, educators, scientists and many more. This workshop, led by Administrator Erika Moore, will provide faculty, staff, and students with the tools needed to enhance ways of thinking, communicating, and interacting with artistic work.

  • POLITICAL REALMS ARTS POLITICS ALUMNI PANEL

    Art & Public Policy

    Fall is election season in the United States. In democracies, politics can be enacted through electoral processes and policy. But politics also occur inside of organizations and institutions, social networks, grassroots movements and interpersonal relationships. Join us to hear how Arts Politics alumni are enacting their politics in multiple realms and modalities during these volatile and vibrant times.

  • HOW WE STAGED A TEACH-IN ON RACIAL JUSTICE

    NYU Game Center

    A few weeks ago, the Game Design department at Tisch cancelled all classes for two full days and held a teach-in about race and the game industry for our students, staff, and faculty. This session will be a look back at what we did, how we did it, and why. We’ll be sharing some of our approaches for structuring presentations and discussions about difficult topics, with the idea of providing a model for other departments and programs that might want to undertake something similar.

  • OPEN CLASS WITH ANNIQUE ROBERTS

    Dance

    Annique, an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch Dance, will be leading a West African style Contemporary dance class featuring NYU Tisch Dance students.

  • ALICIA GARZA IN COMMUNICATION WITH DR. LISA COLEMAN

    Alicia Garza, Principal at Black Futures and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter will be in conversation with Dr. Lisa Coleman, NYU’s Senior Vice President for Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation, and Chief Diversity Officer.

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October 22-23

  • HOLDING BREATH

    Drama and Open Arts

    Tisch Drama, Open Arts, and colleagues at NYU's Gallatin and Steinhardt Schools will present Holding Breath. In a moment when there is so much to care about and so much care needed, where can we gather for care? Holding Breath is a facilitated online experience where care can be shared, collected, and held with others. Enter an online room, locate your breath in relation to others, find a collective rhythm, express a response, and gather your breath yet again. Curiosity and a generous spirit are all that’s needed.

October 23

  • 100 GECS Q&A EVENT

    Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music

    100 gecs Joins NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music as 2020-2021 Artists-in-Residence. The groundbreaking pop duo will kick off their residency with a Q&A event co-moderated by current student Cam Franklin and Clive Davis alumnus and Pitchfork staff writer Noah Yoo. The virtual event will explore the duo’s production philosophy and pioneering musical style, their musical releases to date, their innovative use of technology in boldly reimagining live and virtual performance and creating the 100 gecs expanded multiverse, and how issues of identity and activism are evolving in a tumultuous election year.

  • STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD SCREENING

    Undergraduate Film & TV

    Film Screening and evening with Student Academy Award Winners UGFTV Alum ('19) Talia Smith and Grad Film Alum ('19) Karishma Dev Dube. Opening Remarks from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Dean Allyson Green Dean. Screening of UMAMA followed by conversation between Talia Smith and UGFTV Arts Professor, Rick Litvin. Screening of BITTU followed by conversation between Karishma Dev Dube and Grad Film Department Chair, Barbara Schock.

  • PREVIEW PARTY: THE NYU GAME CENTER'S DIY ONLINE SPACE

    NYU Game Center

    Students at the NYU Game Center have created an online version of the department based (loosely) on the 6th floor of 370 Jay Street! This multiplayer game/space is the result of an independent study led by Adjunct Professor Greg Heffernan, and now you can be one of the first folks to explore the re-creation of our home.

  • Words In Motion

    Graduate Acting and Dance

    In this Grad Acting and Dance department collaboration, two political social pieces will be read out loud by actors and interpreted by dancers. This performance will be recorded and shared through a link with the public during community week. Performers: Malcom Young (Dance) and Devin Kessler (Grad Acting), Dymon Samara Smith (Dance) and Jennifer Mogbock (Grad Acting)

  • MAKE-A-MASK WITH KANBAR!

    Kanbar Institute of Film & Television

    Using the mask you made in the mask making workshop (or a mask you already own), join Tisch staff and faculty members Alyce Benevides & Courtney Malenius for a mask decorating workshop. Alyce and Courtney will provide tips and techniques for how to transform your PPE from drab to fab! The workshop will end with a tour of Special FX Makeup faculty Rob Benevides’ at-home studio.

  • GAMES WITH FRIENDS!

    Cinema Studies

    Cinema Studies welcomes friends and family from all Tisch departments to join us for virtual games! We have 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.

October 24

  • Our Lives, Our Vote

    Tisch Undergraduate Student Council (TUSC)

    Our Lives, Our Vote is hosted by GenVote@NYU and the Tisch Undergraduate Student Council to help inspire our classmates to get out the vote. We’re bringing together leading voting advocates and performers to this virtual voter rally. Come together alongside notable NYU Alumni to harness the power of our vibrant NYU community!

October 28

  • COMMUNITY FORUM: COME TOGETHER WITH PHIL CHAN

    Dance

    Final Bow for Yellowface cofounder Phil Chan shares 400 years of “oriental” portrayals in ballet, questioning what ballet looks like when we remove outdated Eurocentric portrayals of Asians. Chan also shares a framework for his advocacy, and proposes solutions for how to discuss race and representation in the broader performing arts.

October 30

  • 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. This is a private event for students of The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and the Department of Design for Stage & Film.