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Art of the Photo Essay
Have you ever wanted to tell a story using photographs and text? In Susan Hartman’s Art of the Photo Essay class, students have created photo essays about quinceaneras, Coney Island, swingers, Occupy Wall Street, and the Bird Man of Washington Square Park.
Misha Cohen, a talented freelance journalist, was one of Ms. Hartman’s first students. Misha has since shot projects in the United States and West Africa, working with the Huffington Post, San Francisco magazine, and the International Rescue Committee. Her photo above is titled, Bronx Prom.
For information and to register for Susan Hartman’s class click here.
2017 UN Competitive Examination for UN English Translators
Calling all translators! The United Nations is accepting applications for the Competitive Professional examination, with openings in numerous cities and several posts, such as English Translators, Editors, Proofreaders, and others. The deadline is fast approaching!
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2017 COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR UN ENGLISH TRANSLATORS:
Deadline: February 8, 2017
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We are forwarding this announcement from the ATA and the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management of the United Nations:
The purpose of this post is to invite applications from prospective applicants who wish to take the combine 2017 Competitive Examination for ENGLISH TRANSLATORS/PRÉCIS-WRITERS, EDITORS, VERBATIM REPORTERS AND COPY PREPARERS/PROOFREADERS/PRODUCTION EDITORS P-2/P-3, which is scheduled to be held remotely on April 3, 2017.
The deadline for submission of applications is Wednesday, February 8, 2017. |
Phillip Lopate Visits Susan Hartman’s Writing Course
Phillip Lopate recently visited CALA’s fall Feature Writing for Print and Digital Media class, taught by Susan Hartman, to discuss the craft of writing personal essays. Mr. Lopate, who is widely celebrated for his essays, has also published two novels, novellas, books of poetry, and film criticism. Chatting informally, he encouraged students to sometimes break away from the old writing rule: “Show don’t tell.” And to celebrate the element of surprise.
This spring Susan Hartman will be teaching two courses. Please click on title links for information and to register:
The Art of the Photo Essay and Interviews and Profiles
For all Spring 2017 Writing Courses at CALA click on links below:
Acting in the Zone End-of-Semester Performance on December 12th
Students in Laurence Gewirtz’s fall 2016 course Acting in “The Zone”: Scene Study and Improvisation have been hard at work this semester, perfecting scenes and experimenting with improvisation. They have been in search of “the zone”, or what actors call the transcendent state in which the character and actor fuse as one. Attend one of their end-of-semester performances on December 10th or 11th to see how their hard work has paid off!
ACTING IN THE ZONE: Scenes & Monologues, Fall 2016
Presenting:
- Maria Jose Albrich
- Jacqueline Cagnon
- Brandon Choi
- Candy Dato
- Margaret Doyle
- Susan Fields
- Marie Halpern
- Caroline Husted
- Richard James
- Rehema Moke
- Forist Sylvester
Saturday, December 10 @8:00 PM
&
Sunday, December 11 @8:00 PM
at
The Producers Club
358 W. 44th Street
(Between 8th & 9th Avenues)
There is no charge for admission.
To attend, please RSVP to lg46@nyu.edu. Seating is limited.
Film Screening at Casa Italiana: Habemus Papam
Political Landscapes: A View From Abroad
CALA’s final screening for the semester is a fun one!
Join us on Monday, December 12th at 6 PM, at NYU’s Casa Italiana. Click on this link for information and to RSVP. Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope)
William Trevor
Irish writer, William Trevor died peacefully in his sleep during the early hours of 21 November 2016, at his home. He was 88 years old.
Born as William Trevor Cox in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland, to a middle-class Protestant family, he moved several times to other provincial towns, including Skibbereen, Tipperary, Youghal and Enniscorthy, as a result of his father’s work as a bank official.
He was educated at St. Columba’s College in Dublin, and at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he received a degree in history. Trevor worked as a sculptor under the name Trevor Cox after his graduation from Trinity College, supplementing his income by teaching. He married Jane Ryan in 1952 and emigrated to Great Britain two years later, working as a copywriter for an advertising agency. It was during this time that he and his wife had their first son.
His first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, was published in 1958, but had little critical success. He later disowned this work and refused to have it republished.
In 1964, at the age of 36, Trevor won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature for The Old Boys. The win encouraged Trevor to become a full-time writer.
He and his family moved to Devon in South West England, where he resided until his death. In 2002, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for services to literature. Despite having spent most of his life in England, he considered himself to be “Irish in every vein” (Wikipedia)
This spring CALA is offering a timely course in which William Trevor and his compatriots will feature. It will be taught by Nancy DiBenedetto.
LITR1-CE 9082 The Irish Short Story: Oscar Wilde to Edna O’Brien
If that’s not enough of the Irish for you, CALA has more in this one-session course from George Scheper, focusing on the “greening” of New York:
“I think it is the art of the glimpse. If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short story is an impressionist painting. It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. It is concerned with the total exclusion of meaninglessness. Life, on the other hand, is meaningless most of the time. The novel imitates life, where the short story is bony, and cannot wander. It is essential art.”
― William Trevor
Carol Bergman at Cornelia Street Cafe
From fiction writer and journalist Carol Bergman comes a third potpourri of very short stories, aphorisms, anecdotes, verbal snapshots and mini-essays: NOMADS 3. In these subtle, profound and original works, each using a different narrative persona, Bergman demonstrates her experience as a phrasemaker and storyteller. Like Lydia Davis and Czeslaw Milosz, her writing is both unique and difficult to classify, yet its cumulative affect in the last volume of the NOMADS TRILOGY is clear. Humorous, perceptive, precise, wry, sometimes chilling, she writes about war and peace, love and disappointment, the mundane and the sublime, with deep attention and warmth.
To make reservations for a 45 minute performance on Tuesday, December 6, click Cornelia Street Cafe
Carol Bergman’s articles, essays, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Salon.com. Her essay, “Objects of Desire” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize; her short stories have appeared in many literary magazines. She is the author of biographies of Mae West and Sidney Poitier, a memoir, Searching for Fritzi, two books of novellas, Sitting for Klimt and Water Baby and two novels, Say Nothing and What Returns to Us. She compiled and edited Another Day in Paradise; International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories, nominated for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. She lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University
She will be teaching two courses at CALA this spring: Click the links below for details.
Steve McQueen, Director of Hunger, wins BFI Fellowship
Bravo Steve McQueen! From the London Film Festival 2016, Vanessa Thorpe writes for The Guardian: It was the culmination of a film festival that attempted to correct a bias against celebrating black screen talent: Steve McQueen, the film-maker, screenwriter and Turner prizewinning artist, was awarded the British Film Institute fellowship on Saturday. … McQueen is the first black director or producer to receive the film industry honour. …
“As winner of both the Turner prize and an Academy Award, Steve is pre-eminent in the world of film and the moving image. He is one of the most influential and important British artists of the past 25 years and his work, both short and long form, has consistently explored the endurance of humanity – even when it is confronted by inhumane cruelty – with a poetry and visual style that he has made his own,” said Josh Berger, chairman of the BFI.
“We are thrilled that Steve has become a BFI fellow.”
Before striking Oscar gold in 2014, McQueen, 47, stepped nimbly between the world of art to the world of film with his acclaimed 2008 first feature Hunger, which won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes film festival and many other international prizes. (Full story here)
CALA’s Second Foreign Film Series, Political Landscapes: A View from Abroad, features Steve McQueen’s Hunger on Frid
ay, November 4, at Ireland House. McQueen’s longtime collaborator and friend, Irish actor Michael Fassbinder, plays IRA man Bobby Sands in the film. Moderated by CALA’s Michael Zam, this screening is currently full but we have a waiting list – click here to add your name via the RSVP link because there will be cancellations.
The first film of the series, Blackboards (Iran), was screened on Monday, October 17. Directed in 2000 by Samira Makhmalbaf (who was a mere 20-years-old at the time), it is a film to put on your “must see” list. Perhaps we will run a “best of” series one of these semesters.
In the meantime, except for the powerful Hunger, all of the other scheduled movies have seats available. Take a look at the line-up here and RSVP to reserve your seat.
Political Rhetoric: The Presidential Campaign and Beyond – Oct. 19th
Join the NYU SPS Division of Language and Humanities on October 19th for this special panel on political rhetoric. From the current US presidential election to the United Kingdom’s historic Brexit vote, political rhetoric has the power to build communities and create rifts in society that have lasting global repercussions. As political rhetoric continues to escalate, both in the U.S. and abroad, join us in taking a step back to consider how politicians and the media use words and language to shape our perceptions of society.
Panelists
★ Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at New York University
★ Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University
★ Ben Zimmer, Language Columnistfor The Wall Street Journal
Details
October 19, 2016 6:30 – 8:00 PM Closing Reception 8:00-8:30 PM
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò New York University 24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011
Space is limited so please RSVP to: http://tinyurl.com/nyudialogues2016
Recommended Courses at CALA this semester: