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NOW AFRICA: Playwrights Festival, organized to illuminate dramatic African literature, will be held in New York in September 2015. Artists such as, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and other contemporary African artists, will be featured in multiple events to engage both NYU and the greater NYC theater community.
NOW AFRICA: Playwrights Festival, organized to illuminate dramatic African literature, will be held in New York in September 2015. Artists such as, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and other contemporary African artists, will be featured in multiple events to engage both NYU and the greater NYC theater community.
Dubai rarely comes to mind as a central node in the film industry. And yet, recently, there have been moves to diversify into film production in readiness for a post-oil economy. Dubai’s centralized filmmaking complex, Studio City, is a designated free economic zone. Given that an estimated 89.8% of Dubai’s workforce does not hold citizen rights to this land and that free zones forbid unionization, urgent issues arise concerning how cinematic capital and creative labour are managed geopolitically.
Join Tisch Internship Guru Adam Underhill for this presentation and Q&A, covering everything you need to know about academic internships in the entertainment world. All majors and levels welcome!
Governor Andrew Cuomo will be speaking at NYU on the significance of climate change, climate action and climate-related policy in New York. EarthMatters@NYU, the largest and oldest student environmental club on campus, is partnering with the organization Know Tomorrow in hosting the event.
Join us for a screening of 'Ash and Money,' a riveting documentary about one small European theatre company’s ingenious — and wildly successful — attempt to insert itself directly into the political process, followed by a moderated discussion on the intersection of theater and politics, and ways that we as theater artists can participate in and have direct influence on the community and the system through our work.
October 2nd is a day set aside for all of Tisch to reflect upon what it means to be a “citizen artist.” Here at DDW, we’re going to ask ourselves hard questions about what we write when it comes to identity, how we approach identity, and what we do with historical work that is inherently and irreducibly offensive
Come play this ghost story game that revolves around the history of the building, 721 Broadway. Using mobile devices, game participants will travel in pairs throughout the building to uncover a century of hidden stories.
Graduate Acting will host alumni, faculty, and staff from the 52nd St. Project for a discussion of the program and working with NY youth in making theater.
Grad Film students are going to create a video from interviews and existing footage about how coming to Tisch has expanded their own community and their vision of community.
Join the 50th Anniversary and Day of Community kick-off on Friday morning! Coffee, hot apple cider, and breakfast before class! (Catering by Hungry Ghost.) Opening remarks by Allyson Green, Dean. Don't miss free give-aways and a live DJ. Drawing at 12:45pm for FREE TICKETS to Broadway production of Hamilton and upcoming performance by Billy Crystal at Town Hall!
Five v Five Fridays is a casual tournament for the New York City Killer Queen community that meets every week at the NYU Game Center in Brooklyn. Played on a massive ten person arcade cabinet, Killer Queen is a team game of strategy and skill where a deadly, flying Queen and her four drones try to protect their hive by collecting berries, eliminating the opposing hive's Queen, or riding the obstinate snail to glorious victory.
Lydia Witt will present the movie she shot this summer documenting the work of the humanitarian organization Medici Per I Diritti Umani.
Join the Tisch community for an all-school lunch at 12pm! Drawing for FREE TICKETS will take place in the Riese Lounge at 12:45pm. OPEN TO ALL TISCH
Produced by Open Arts in partnership with the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research, the Department of Drama, Graduate Musical Theater Writing, and the Department of Dance. Tisch will host fourth graders from New York City Elementary School PS3 in a day of movement-based workshops and collaborations exploring what it means to create community.
Award winning poet Claudia Rankine, author of “Citizen”, will address the Freshman class, and then engage with other segments of the NYU community on Monday October 5, 2015.
An event dedicated to international initiatives led by Cinema Studies graduate students. Students will give presentations and answer questions about their involvement in student-led missions including the MIAP Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX), Encrucijadas: Dialogues for Latin American Cinema, and NYU global exchange fellowships.
Screening of Margarita With A Straw (Dirs: Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar, 2015, 100min.), a feature film about a rebellious young woman with celebral palsy who leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love. Post-screening discussion with director Shonali Bose.
As part of Tisch's Day of Community, the Ability Lab at Magnet brings in assistive technology researcher, Sara Hendren.
Whether you are a sculptor or a computer programmer, an architect or a philosopher, a dancer or a scientist, and want to apply your interests to interactive media, we would like an opportunity to learn more about you.
As a part of Tisch's Day of Community, ITP presents photographer, Susan Meiselas.
This meditation on the work of conceptual artist Danh Võ explores Võ's work as an encounter with a coming community that exists in a shared and incommensurable relationship to things and of the singularities who encounter them. It suggests that Võ's work opens up an opportunity to perform into being an actually existing queer and brown communism of incommensurability. Joshua Chambers - Letson is an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America (NYU Press, 2013), winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award from the Association of Theater in Higher Education (ATHE). He is currently working on a book exploring the intersection of Marxist theory with contemporary minoritarian performance and art. With Ann Pellegrini and Tavia Nyong’o he is a series co-editor of the Sexual Cultures series at NYU Press.
A panel of innovative changemakers—photographers, DPI students, video artists, community activists, dancers, scholars, and a physician— to discuss their work focusing on social justice, collaboration, community empowerment and activism.
Come play this ghost story game that revolves around the history of the building, 721 Broadway. Using mobile devices, game participants will travel in pairs throughout the building to uncover a century of hidden stories.
The Tisch School of the Arts is a community of storytellers, and to mark our 50th anniversary we will gather to hear from our outstanding faculty & alumni. See the event live at 11AM EST.