Week 1 Julissa BedfordAgnes Varda’s Salut les Cubains was striking for its editing approach. The choice of cutting the film together to have subjects […]
Week one response Benj OteroWe watched a few different films this past week, but the one I wanted to discuss the most was La hora de los hornos. La hora de los […]
Agnes Varda, Sara GómezI was deeply inspired by Agnes Varda’s Salut les cubains. Going back to Julio Garcia Espinosa’s manifesto, imperfect cinema may be an […]
Mosab Abu Toha & Ammiel AlcalayWednesday, February 12, 2025, 8:00 pmThe Parish Hall at St Mark’s ChurchTickets: $10/Free on YouTube QC MFA faculty member Ammiel Alcalay will be appearing at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project this March! Mosab Abu Toha and Ammiel Alcalay’s poetry bring new meaning to the act of witnessing, writing with and for the dead, summoning the living in a call to imagine anew—form an image of another world lying below the rubble of this world’s unending devastation. Since 1966, The Poetry Project has expanded access to literature, education, and opportunities for sharing one’s creative work in a counter-hierarchical, radically open space and community. Premised on the vision that cultural action at the local level can inspire broader shifts in public consciousness, The Project is committed to developing and collaborating on replicable program models that challenge persistent social narratives, especially through the verbal reframing made possible in poetry. This event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project […]“Mosab Abu Toha & Ammiel Alcalay”
ABORTION STORIES, Launch Event & Conversation Tue, Mar 4, 20256:00 PM–8:00 PMThe Skylight Room (9100)CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC.Free and open to all. Registration required. Penguin Classics presents ABORTION STORIES, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of abortion representation in American literature before Roe v. Wade that compellingly proclaims: when abortion is illegal, people’s lives are always more precarious and limited. Head to the CUNY Grad Center for a conversation with Karen Weingarten (Editor), Rebecca Traister (Foreword), and Renee Bracy Sherman (Afterword) who will discuss these stories, poems, essays, and memoirs that reflect a range of representations and responses to abortion. The conversation will be moderated by Professor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center). This event is free and open to all, please register to attend. Copies of the book will […]“ABORTION STORIES, Launch Event & Conversation”
CUNY Academic Works: New Look! You may be familiar with CUNY Academic Works, the online repository where members of the CUNY community can share their scholarly, […]
As the sun sets at the end of a New York workday, the mind transitions from specific career tasks to the broader, cloudier precincts of social issues, mass culture, and politics. That was my inspiration to create twilight Talks.
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