Andrew Scott Dicus

student projects:

Are you a CALA student and would like to submit your work (writing, film, podcasting, photography, etc.) for consideration on our website? Email sps.calastorytelling@nyu.edu

events:

Join CALA for our international film festival, showcasing films in spring 2020 that feature international activism and civic advocacy. 

resources:

Register to vote!

Learn about NYU advocacy, including NYU letters of support for legislation.

Learn about community engagement opportunities at NYU

Learn about the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU. From their website: “The Urban Democracy Lab promotes critical, creative, just, and sustainable forms of urbanism through engaged scholarship, collaborative undergraduate and graduate coursework, creative public programming, and active publication.”

student projects

Are you a CALA student and would like to submit your work (writing, film, podcasting, photography, etc.) for consideration on our website? Email sps.calastorytelling@nyu.edu

events

NYUSPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts Fall 2019 Film Series– Fragile Earth: Environmental Films Around the World.

In Fall 2019, the Center for Applied Liberal Arts will host an international film series addressing today’s most pressing environmental issues. From population growth and urbanization to climate change, the films in this series present different perspectives on the biggest threats to the environment and reflect on possible solutions and pathways for a sustainable future for the planet and its inhabitants. This series is held in conjunction with CALA’s film studies courses which can be seen at https://www.sps.nyu.edu/professional-pathways/topics/film-and-tv/film-studies.html. PLEASE NOTE : Each RSVP is for 1 person. For any questions or changes in reservations, please contact us at (212) 998-7061 or sps.cala@nyu.edu . RSVP does not guarantee admission if space is full. Films include Earth (2019), When Two Worlds Collide (2016), More than Honey (2012), and Tomorrow (2015)

“I AM” artists’ workshop on environmental justice

Free and open to the public: RSVP here.

resources

Read about opportunities for activism, scholarship, and grants relating to climate change and environmentalism in NYU’s Sustainablog from the Office of Sustainability.

Learn about six green-focused clubs at NYU.

Read about what the Sustainability Advisory and Working Group is up to.

student projects:

Are you a CALA student and would like to submit your work (writing, film, podcasting, photography, etc.) for consideration on our website? Email sps.calastorytelling@nyu.edu

events:

The Justice Initiative is hosting a gallery exhibition event, Capitalizing on Justice, being brought to Gallatin Galleries thanks to Worth Rises. Capitalizing on Justice features the works of incarcerated artists from across the nation who have used their talents to express the ways they and their loved ones have been commodified.

I Am Perspective Talk, with Nusrat Alam (2/28/2019)

Book launch for Michell S. Jackson’s Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family (3/05/2019)

resources:

Read NYU’s 2019 Report of the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Prison Industrial Complex

Learn about The Incarceration to Education Coalition and some of their recent activities

Learn about NYU’s Prison Education Program

student projects

“After a few loud exchanges, Mom pulled over on the side of the road by what she hoped was a public toilet. Instead she realized there was no bathroom, and her car was stuck in sand without four-wheel drive. It was the story the state trooper would never hear…”

Read the rest of “Grandma Has to Go,” by Kristen Gaerlan

Are you a CALA student and would like to submit your work (writing, film, podcasting, photography, etc.) for consideration on our website? Email sps.calastorytelling@nyu.edu

events

CALA film series (September 7, 2018 – December 2, 2018)

Searching for Sadia: A Story of Refugees, a Journalist, and Transformation (3/07/2019)

resources

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Know your rights

Understand your legal requirements

Telling stories is a dynamic process. Our courses, like the best stories, reflect a commitment to that process. We’ve sequenced our courses to help you to organize, mix, refine, revise, and polish your ideas, focusing on strategies and skills that can be built up over time and adapted to your individual needs. Wherever you are in that process, we have the right course for you.