NYU SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES CENTER FOR PUBLISHING & APPLIED LIBERAL ARTS CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS (PALA/CE)

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PALA/CE Events

Community Matters: A Discussion on Inclusivity in Publishing 03/18

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Join the NYU Center for Publishing and its Publishing Students Association (PSA) for a discussion on inclusivity in the publishing industry this Thursday, March 18 at 5:30pm ET.
 
This free event is an opportunity for those interested in publishing to learn what different publishing houses and communities are doing to integrate more inclusive practices into the industry, as well as how to get involved in working with publications that fit your values and interests.
 
Panelists include speakers from publications Lee & Low and Chaos+Comrades, and speakers from advocacy organizations We Need Diverse Books and Latinx in Publishing. The discussion will be moderated by MJ Franklin, editor at The New York Times Book Review.
 
Register for the event here.

Faculty Profile: Donna Walker-Kuhne – Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Arts

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Today, when the 2021 Oscar nominations were announced, seems like a perfect day to recognize Donna Walker-Kuhne’s contribution to the promotion of diversity in the arts. Donna Walker-Kuhne is the founder of Walker International Communications Group, a marketing, press, and audience development consulting agency. Her team specializes in multicultural marketing, group sales, multicultural press, and promotional events. Walker-Kuhne is acknowledged as the nation’s foremost expert in audience development by the Arts & Business Council and has devoted her professional career to increasing access to the arts. She has raised over $23 million in earned income promoting the arts to multicultural communities.

Donna Walker-Kuhne

From Walker International Communications Group – “She is currently consulting as Senior Advisor, Community Engagement at New Jersey Performing Arts Center charged with developing and deepening relationships with targeted communities through partnerships, special events and group sales. She was formerly Vice President, Marketing and Communications for New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

A veteran of over 22 Broadway productions providing multicultural marketing and group sales most recently for Once on this Island, The Lion King, Aladdin, Smokey’s Joe’s Café  Little Rock, HUGHIE, A Raisin in the Sun, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk, STICK FLY, Time Stands Still, Driving Miss Daisy and Ragtime. Her current non-profit clients also include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre,  The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Staten Island Arts Council and HARLEM WEEK.

She was an Associate Producer for George C. Wolfe’s Harlem Song at the Apollo Theater and co-producer for the 2004 AUDELCO Awards. She is co-founder of Impact Broadway, a socially and technology driven audience development initiative serving 300 African American and Latino students throughout the 5 boroughs of New York City. These students have participated in Broadway productions, social networking and participation in seminars and lectures. She was formerly Director of Marketing and Audience Development for The Public Theater and Director of Marketing for Dance Theatre of Harlem.” For more information click here.

Tip! You can also keep up with Walker-Kuhne’s insights and commentary on the arts by subscribing to her blog at: Arts and Culture Connections

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This summer at CALA Donna Walker-Kuhne will be teaching her very popular course, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts. Click on the link below for details and to register: 

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts

Revamp Your Podcast with CALA’s Dan Bobkoff

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Dan Bobkoff

If there’s one good thing to come out of the pandemic, it’s the abundance of podcasts. More and more people are using podcasts to tell their stories, most of them from the comfort of their own homes, but podcasting has actually been an important mode of information long before Covid took its toll. 
 
Dan Bobkoff, who instructs Podcasting, Radio Reporting, and Storytelling at NYU CALA, recently told The Wall Street Journal that demand for his class has led him to offer it six times a year, with students varying from professors and college kids to dentists and retirees. 
 
“I love the class because it’s so diverse, in every sense of the term,” Bobkoff, who is also the executive producer for podcasts at Axios, told WSJ. 
 
Bobkoff’s podcasting classes haven’t come to a halt because of the pandemic either: sections will be offered in April, June and July of 2021 online via Zoom. You may register for either month here.
 
While all you need for podcasting is a microphone and perhaps a laptop with stable internet connection, learning from the professionals can help boost your skills and potentially secure more listeners. The earliest section will begin on April 6, and the course may also satisfy requirements for CALA’s Certificate in Storytelling.

Happy World Book Day & National Grammar Day! Continue the Celebration with Our Upcoming Book Club Discussions

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In honor of this year’s Book Day, we recommend joining us on March 16 for a virtual book club reading of “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamid.
 
 
Happy World Book Day! Coincidentally for writing lovers, today is also National Grammar Day. (Check out this catchy video if you’ve ever been labeled ‘grammar police’ — you’ll enjoy it!)
 
In honor of this year’s Book Day, we recommend joining us on March 16 for a virtual book club reading of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. The novel by the Pakistani author explores themes of community, citizenship, and the meaning of home in transitional contexts. If emigration is a topic of interest to you, register here for the discussion. The event is free and will take place on Tuesday, March 16 at 12:30pm ET.
 
We also have another virtual book club in line — a reading of The Gift of Diamonds, the first installment of a Transylvanian trilogy series written by CALA instructor Roberta Seret. This book delves into much more than its title may imply: it concludes on the connection between fascism, communism, and modern-day terrorism. The Zoom event is free and will take place on Tuesday, April 20 at 11:00am ET. Register here.

Join NYU SPS for An Evening of Expression + Open Call for Literary Magazine Submissions! 

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Join NYU SPS for an evening of music, visual art, and spoken word performances by our talented students on Monday, March 1. 

Join NYU SPS for an evening of music, visual art, and spoken word performances by our talented students on Monday, March 1.

The event is hosted by the Community Service Committee of the Student Council in collaboration with the NYU SPS literary and art magazine Dovetail (currently accepting submissions — details below!) and aims to bring awareness to Urban Word NYC, an organization helping the youth of New York City enhance their voices through literary writing.

Although attendance is free, we highly encourage you to support the NYC youth and consider making a donation to Urban Word.

 The virtual event will begin at 5pm EST on March 1. You may register here.

Are you an SPS student interested in having your work featured in Dovetail? The magazine is seeking submissions of art and writing for online publication in their new Spring 2021 issue. They accept poetry, fiction, non-fiction and all forms of visual art. Please email submissions to: dovetail@nyu.edu by March 1, 2021.

Faculty Profile: Leonard Cortana – Racial Literacy and Anti-Racism Practices Series

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CALA faculty, Leonard Cortana, is a Ph.D Candidate at the Cinema Studies Department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard Law School. He holds undergraduate degrees in comparative politics and Spanish from Sciences Po Aix en Provence (France) and a EU Commission NOHA Masters degree in humanitarian assistance from Deusto University (Spain).

Leonard Cortana

Cortana is also a filmmaker. His last documentary, Marielle’s Legacy Will not Die,  follows activist movements spreading the intersectional legacy of Afro-Brazilian activist and politician Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. You can see his work here: Leonard Cortana Vimeo His doctoral research focuses on the circulation of transnational film narratives about racial justice and activist movements that re-open wounded historical memories between Brazil, France and the US. 

Cortana also earned a BA in cinema and aesthetics from Sorbonne University Paris. Prior to his doctoral studies, he conducted several artistic and educational projects with non-profits and UN agencies that engage with youth in multiple countries including Chile, Brazil, France, and Bulgaria. He became a Trainer for the European Commission’s Youth Program projects and the Children International Summer Village Organization (CISV) and designed methodologies in theater and storytelling for social inclusion.

CALA is pleased to announce that Leonard Cortana will be teaching a racial literacy series this spring semester starting on Monday, February 22 at 1 PM. See below for full details:                                                

Sign up for any or all of the series’ four courses today:
 
Understanding Race in a Global Context: tinyurl.com/HIST1-CE9021
The Fight Against Black Voter Suppression: tinyurl.com/HIST1-CE9020
Microaggressions and Racial Stress: tinyurl.com/HIST1-CE9024
An Introduction to Intersectionality: tinyurl.com/HIST1-CE9966
 

Eligible NYU employees may register with 100% tuition remission. The two required forms are available here: 

Reading Dante’s Paradise on the 700-Year Anniversary of His Death

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To mark 700 years since Dante’s death, the Uffizi Galleries are displaying a never-seen-in-full exhibit of Divine Comedy illustrations by painter Federico Zuccari. ‘To Rebehold the Stars’ — a title picked from Dante’s words — is a collection of 88 red and black ink drawings. According to an article in Airmail News, the show includes “28 sketches of hell, 49 of purgatory and 11 of heaven,” along with text from Dante. A number of the sketches were shown in Florence in 1865 and in Abruzzo 1993, but have never been displayed as a full collection until now. The exhibit is available to view virtually. 

An illustration of Dante's 'Paradiso, Canti XXIII-XXVI' by Federico Zuccari. [Credit: Uffizi Galleries]
An illustration of Dante’s ‘Paradiso, Canti XXIII-XXVI’ by Federico Zuccari. [Credit: Uffizi Galleries]
“Comprising both text and images, the virtual medium also opens up the possibility of breaking free of Dante’s linear narration,” Eike Schmidt, Uffizi’s director, told Airmail. “You can jump around to different drawings and personalize your viewing experience.”  

Here at CALA, we’re commemorating Dante through our Spring 2021 course, “Reading Dante’s Paradise.” This course is the final leg of our favorite pilgrim’s trip through the afterlife’s three realms —  we bid adieu to Virgil and enter Paradise, as Dante completes his personal journey to spiritual salvation. The course begins Feb. 26, so register today!

Register for “Reading Dante’s Paradise” here.

View the Uffizi Gallery exhibit here.

Free Live Event From Trinity College Dublin: Discussing Natalia Ginzburg

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Author Natalia Ginzburg photographed with journalist husband, Leone Ginzburg. [Credit: Wikimedia Commons]
Join us on Tuesday, Feb 16 for a conversation on Natalia Ginzburg’s 1960 Italian novel, Family Lexicon.
 
We will be discussing the 2018 translation by the award-winning writer and CALA faculty, Jenny McPhee, who will also be present at the event.
 
The New York Times described Ginzburg’s autobiographical piece as a ‘glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.’ 
 
Coming to you live from Trinity College Dublin, Prof. Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, the former Head of Italian at the College, will be introducing the event. 
 
The event will take place Feb 16 at 1:30pm EST. Open to the public for free – register here.

Join the Academy of Lifelong Learning (ALL) for an Info Session Friday, Jan. 8

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The Academy of Lifelong Learning (ALL) is bringing you an info session on Friday, Jan. 8 at 12 pm EST!
 
ALL is an SPS initiative serving the lifelong pursuit of knowledge because we believe there’s no age to stop learning. Join us on Zoom for more specifics on our daytime courses in the humanities and global affairs, the virtual classroom experience, and opportunities to engage in our learning community. 
 
With the spring semester just around the corner, you don’t want to miss this.
RSVP here:  bit.ly/ALLinfosession

Upcoming Virtual Panel Event—The Art of The Pitch: The TV and Film Executive Take

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CALA invites you to “The Art of The Pitch: The TV and Film Executive Take,” an event where you can hear directly from industry executives on what makes a booming pitch. 

The pitch is the first—and sometimes the hardest—step in taking your creative project to the next level. Join us in this conversation to learn exactly what the higher-ups are looking for in your pitch. It’s not easy to win them over!

Panelists include ColorCreative’s COO Deniese Davis, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions’ Head of TV Kevin Hill and Miranda Abdool Rahman, Head of Development at Sri and Company, a production company launched in conjunction with US-based writer Sri Rao. The event is moderated by NYU CALA instructor, and writer and producer, Frederic Richter.

Event takes place Oct. 27 at 5pm EST. Register here—you don’t want to miss this!
 
The Art of the Pitch flyer