Fall Events Begin at The New School
The New School invites you back-to-school with an exciting array of public programming this fall. Join us in-person and online for insightful conversations with creative practitioners, engaging performances, and in-depth discussions of pressing social and political issues with distinguished academics and thinkers.
BOOKS AND WRITING
Book Forum: Helen Schulman
Wednesday, September 6, 2023, 6:00PM to 7:00PM (EDT)
Room A 407, 66 W 12th Street, New York, NY
Join us for a reading with author Helen Schulman as she sits down with Luis Jaramillo, Assistant Professor of Writing, to discuss her new work. Helen Schulman is a novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. She is the author of the novels Come with Me (San Francisco Chronicle ten best books of 2019), This Beautiful Life (a New York Times and International Best Seller), A Day At The Beach (a New York Times Notable), The Revisionist and Out of Time (Barnes and Nobles Discovery), and the short story collection Not A Free Show. Her work, P.S., was made into a film of the same name, starring Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden, Paul Rudd and Gabriel Byrne. Her latest novel, Lucky Dogs, was published in June 2023.
Schulman is the Fiction Chair of the Creative Writing Program at The New School where she is a tenured Professor of Writing and the Executive Director of WriteOnNYC. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, Professor Schulman has been a NYFA Fellow, Sundance Fellow, Aspen Words Fellow, a Tennessee Williams Fellow (Columbia University) and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize.
Poetry Book Launch and Small Press Discussion
Thursday, September 7, 2023, 6:00PM (EDT)
Wollman Hall, 65 W 11th Street, New York, NY
Join Poets & Traitors Press members Val Vinokur, MFA Poetry Coordinator, Johnny Lorenz, and Mia Perez for a reading and discussion about poetry and small-press publishing with their newest author and translator Annie Kantar.
Kantar, who is from Jerusalem, is the author of Means to Be Lucky: Poems and Translations. Her work has appeared in The American Literary Review, Barrow Street, Bennington Review, Birmingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Literary Imagination, On the Seawall, Plume Anthology 9, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Rattle, Smartish Pace, Tikkun, and Verse Daily. Her translation from the Hebrew of With This Night, the final collection of poetry that Leah Goldberg published during her lifetime, appeared with University of Texas Press (2011), and was shortlisted for the ALTA Translation Prize. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Fulbright Scholarship, she recently published her literary translation of The Book of Job (Koren, 2021).
A Writing Career in Gender & Sexuality: The Works of Joseph Allen Boone
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 6:00PM to 8:00PM (EDT)
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, New York, NY
The Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute, The SexTech Lab, and the Psychology Department in the Bachelor’s Program for Adults, with the Creative Writing Programs at The Schools of Public Engagement present a special reading of the latest book and first literary novel of Professor and writer, Joseph Allen Boon, Furnace Creek (2022).
Taking its inspiration from Great Expectations, this novel teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues of racial injustice, a war abroad, women’s and gay rights, and class struggle that galvanized the world in those decades. A guilty encounter with an escaped felon, a summer spent working for an eccentric man with a mysterious past set the stage for the journey of sexual and moral discovery that takes Newt Seward to many a place as he confronts life’s expectations and surprises.Professor Boone will offer a reading from Furnace Creek, followed by questions and opportunity for a meet and greet over refreshments.
Book Forum: John Reed
Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 6:00PM to 7:00PM (EDT)
Room A-407, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY
Join us for an evening with John Reed, Associate Professor of Writing Across Media, as he sits down with Sheena Daree to discuss his new book Never End: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, MI6, and the origin of Animal Farm.
Reed is the author of A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), The Whole (Simon & Schuster/MTV Books), the SPD bestseller Snowball’s Chance (Roof/Melville House), All The World’s A Grave: A New Play By William Shakespeare (Penguin/Plume), Tales of Woe (MTV Press), Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems (C&R Press), A Drama In Time: The New School Century (Profile), and The Family Dolls: A Manson Paper + Play Book (Outpost19). His work has appeared in ElectricLit, the Brooklyn Rail, Tin House, Paper Magazine, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Bomb Magazine, Art in America, the Los Angeles Times, the Believer, the Rumpus, Observer, the PEN Poetry Series, the Daily Beast, Gawker, Slate, the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Wall Street Journal, Vice, The New York Times, Harpers, and Rolling Stone.
PERFORMANCE AND FILMS
ALL OF A SUDDEN: SEKOU @ 75, Celebrating the Legacy of Sekou Sundiata
Thursday, September 7, 2023, 7:00PM to 8:30PM (EDT)
66 W 12th Street, New York, NY
Poet, griot, musician, jazz thinker, and arts activist – Sekou Sundiata taught at Lang College at The New School for 20 years and instigated and mentored several students before his passing. This event celebrating Sekou Sundiata’s 75th birthday will feature film excerpts, music and readings from some of his seminal theater pieces and beloved poems including Bring on the Reparations, Blessing the Boats and the 51st (Dream) State.
Doc Talks: Archive Acts – Short Films by Crystal Z. Campbell
Monday, September 18, 2023, 2:00PM to 3:45PM (EDT)
Kellen Auditorium, Room N101, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYÂ
Join us for a screening and conversation with Crystal Z. Campbell to discuss her short films, including Currency, On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth, Go-Rilla Means War, Revolver, and Futures for Failures. Campbell’s works perform critical excavations of history, drawing on archival research. They use collage, oral histories, and sonic recording to expose public secrets, historical gaps, structural violence, acts of omission, failures of collective memory, and sociopolitical narratives.
Mannes Sounds Festival Piano Celebration Gala: Mannes Goes All-Steinway
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 7:30PM (EDT)
Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
The Mannes School of Music at The New School’s College of Performing Arts is pleased to announce that it has been named an All-Steinway School in recognition of Mannes’s investment in the finest instruments for its piano students and ensembles.
The Mannes School of Music invites music enthusiasts, supporters of the arts, and aspiring musicians to celebrate the Steinway designation performances during its upcoming season, including the Mannes Sounds Festival. The festival’s opening event, Piano Celebration Gala: Mannes Goes All-Steinway features music for piano ensembles by Bernstein, Grant Still, Copland, Piazzolla, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Poulenc, Lavignac, Yoon, Smetana, Hailstork, Bolcom, Tower, Liebermann, Ravel, A Bu/Carlos Pascual Cippeletti.
CURRENT EVENTS
Navigating NYC’s Migrant Crisis
Thursday, September 7, 2023, 5:00PM to 6:30PM (EDT)
Online
Since Spring 2022, New York City has seen the arrival of 100,000 asylum seekers. This sudden and significant influx has tested city resources, bringing homeless shelters to capacity and raising concerns about the city’s ability to provide and welcome its most recent arrivals. The migrant crisis has also reignited important questions that the city has been grappling with related to shelter, mental health, and the support of vulnerable migrant communities.
Join the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility for a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities that come with the city’s latest migrant wave. The panel will discuss NYC’s migrant crisis and response, and the city’s role as a migrant sanctuary, bringing perspectives from activists, experts, and government officials actively involved in the city’s response.
Teen Vogue and The Nation Present: Rethinking Ambition
Thursday, September 21, 2023, 7:00PM to 8:30PM (EDT)
Auditorium, 66 W 12th Street, New York, NY
If you’ve ever felt “too ambitious,” or not ambitious enough, that’s by design. Ambition is constructed by institutional and societal forces that are glossed over as people are encouraged to hustle their way into happiness or climb over each other up a career ladder that leads nowhere. But what if it could be different? Amid endless conversations on burnout, overwork, and jobs that take more than they give, is it possible to reconceive our aspirations and how ambition functions?
Join All the Gold Stars author and Teen Vogue columnist Rainesford Stauffer; Teen Vogue News and Politics Editor Lexi McMenamin, MA Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism; Editor at The Markup Ko Bragg; and Teen Vogue’s former executive editor and author of the forthcoming book The Myth of Making It, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, for a conversation on work, productivity and how to frame ambition as more imaginative, radical, and collective.