NYU Constitution Day 2020: Voting Rights in America
The NYU Brademas Center, NYU Votes and NYU Government Affairs will celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution with a special performance on the history of voting rights in America entitled: You Can’t Unring the Bell created by NYU Steinhardt’s Verbatim Performance Lab.
Constitution Day, also known as Citizenship Day, is an American federal observance that recognizes the adoption of the United States Constitution (September 17, 1787) and those who have become U.S. citizens.
NYU Students, faculty/staff as well as local community members are invited to this free performance and discussion with Jack Knott, Dean of NYU Steinhardt and Franita Tolson, Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
The Verbatim Performance Lab (VPL) investigates and performs words and gestures collected from found media artifacts and interview-based data. Through these investigations, VPL disrupts assumptions, biases, and intolerances across a spectrum of political, cultural, and social narratives.