October 24th
9pm
Swayduck Auditorium (GF building at 5th ave and 14th St., 1st floor - it's to your left just as you enter)
Clinical sexologist and New School counselor Eric Garrison will be answering all your sex-related questions while saving you the embarassment of asking by letting you write them down on index cards. There'll also be free condoms and probably free food, so how can it get much better?
Oh, yeah, Erik is pretty much the funniest person ever. That's how it gets better.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Ad Hoc Art and The Archive in Bushwick, Bluestockings in LES
Thought you all might want to know about Ad Hoc Art. It's a gallery in Bushwick, about 20 steps from the Morgan L stop, at 49 Bogart St. It's a great place where they host art exhibitions, screen movies and offer classes (i.e., they're offering a screenprinting class Tuesdays in October). You can also volunteer or intern there. Next door is one of my favorite coffee shops, The Archive, open until 11 everyday and a great place to study. They have free wi-fi, good iced tea and a delicious little pasta dish.
www.adhocart.org
Bluestockings Bookstore is also a great place to study and meet people. You may be especially interested in it if you're politically active and/or have radical political interests. They have events every night, many of which are free, and offer a comfortable space for those interested in political activism, writing and literature. It's all volunteer run, too, and I think a number of New School students volunteer there. They're located in the Lower East Side on Allen St., between Rivington and Stanton, just south of Houston (1st Ave. becomes Allen St.). You can take the F/V there (double check that, it may only be one of them that stops there).
www.bluestockings.com
www.adhocart.org
Bluestockings Bookstore is also a great place to study and meet people. You may be especially interested in it if you're politically active and/or have radical political interests. They have events every night, many of which are free, and offer a comfortable space for those interested in political activism, writing and literature. It's all volunteer run, too, and I think a number of New School students volunteer there. They're located in the Lower East Side on Allen St., between Rivington and Stanton, just south of Houston (1st Ave. becomes Allen St.). You can take the F/V there (double check that, it may only be one of them that stops there).
www.bluestockings.com
Global Feminisms Remix at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Over the summer, the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened a feminist art wing. They started with the exhibition "Global Feminisms," which I went to and thought was extremely good. They're now showing a selection of works from that exhibition. Also on display is an exhibiton of contemporary Caribbean art. I highly recommend the Brooklyn Museum. It's a great place and worth the trip. It's out in Park Slope, but you can make a day of it by going to the Botanical Gardens, Prospect Park, and exploring nearby Park Slope, which has lots of restaurants, stores, coffeeshops, etcetera. A New Yorker friend of mine once told me Park Slope is where all the Williamsburg hipsters go once they turn 30, so if that's your thing, enjoy, and if not, beware. You can take the 2 or 3 there. They're closed Mondays and Tuesdays, open 10-5 on weekdays, 11-6 on weekends, and 11-11 on the first Saturday of each month. It's $4 with student ID, and if you want to go to the Botanic Gardens also, you can buy a double ticket for $7.
Description of the exhibition:
"August 3, 2007–February 3, 2008
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor
This exhibition of forty recent works was selected from Global Feminisms, the international survey of contemporary art that inaugurated the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Like its widely praised predecessor, this new presentation seeks to offer an alternative that moves beyond the Western brand of feminism. Many of the artists are from countries that seldom figure in the discourse about contemporary art, such as Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, Thailand, Korea, and India. Their works, in a wide range of media, deal with racial and gender identity, politics, and oppression.
In her video White House, for example, Afghan artist Lida Abdul shows herself whitewashing a building in bombed-out Kabul. Similarly, in her performance videotape Who Can Erase the Footprints, made in memory of murdered Guatemalan women, Regina José Galindo leaves a trail of bloody footprints from the Guatemalan Court of Constitutionality to the country's National Palace. Japanese artist Ryoko Suzuki contributes a mural-sized installation of three photographs in which her face is bound by pig intestines and she is bullied into mute, anonymous submission. Australian artist Tracey Moffatt's Love is a twenty-one-minute video montage of brief clips from Hollywood films showing women in encounters with men ranging from the classic kiss to brutal confrontations.
Among the other artists represented are Ghada Amer (Egypt), Arahmaiani (Indonesia), Pilar Albarracín (Spain), Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland), and Adriana Varejão (Brazil).
The specific works have been chosen by Co-Curators Maura Reilly, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
(http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/global_feminisms_remix/)
Description of the exhibition:
"August 3, 2007–February 3, 2008
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor
This exhibition of forty recent works was selected from Global Feminisms, the international survey of contemporary art that inaugurated the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Like its widely praised predecessor, this new presentation seeks to offer an alternative that moves beyond the Western brand of feminism. Many of the artists are from countries that seldom figure in the discourse about contemporary art, such as Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, Thailand, Korea, and India. Their works, in a wide range of media, deal with racial and gender identity, politics, and oppression.
In her video White House, for example, Afghan artist Lida Abdul shows herself whitewashing a building in bombed-out Kabul. Similarly, in her performance videotape Who Can Erase the Footprints, made in memory of murdered Guatemalan women, Regina José Galindo leaves a trail of bloody footprints from the Guatemalan Court of Constitutionality to the country's National Palace. Japanese artist Ryoko Suzuki contributes a mural-sized installation of three photographs in which her face is bound by pig intestines and she is bullied into mute, anonymous submission. Australian artist Tracey Moffatt's Love is a twenty-one-minute video montage of brief clips from Hollywood films showing women in encounters with men ranging from the classic kiss to brutal confrontations.
Among the other artists represented are Ghada Amer (Egypt), Arahmaiani (Indonesia), Pilar Albarracín (Spain), Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland), and Adriana Varejão (Brazil).
The specific works have been chosen by Co-Curators Maura Reilly, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
(http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/global_feminisms_remix/)
Michael Haneke Film exhibition at the MoMA, Oct. 3-15
The MoMA is screening a bunch of films by Michael Haneke this week, and if you show your NewSchool ID, you get in for free! Here's the description from the MoMA's website, and you can go to their website for a list of screenings.
"Michael Haneke is one of contemporary cinema's most provocative and incisive filmmakers. The most comprehensive U.S. presentation to date, this exhibition includes all of Haneke's theatrical features and the North American premieres of eight Austrian-German television productions. Born in 1942 in Germany, and raised in his current home of Austria, Haneke studied philosophy, psychology, and drama at the University of Vienna before becoming a screenwriter and director of opera, theater, and film. Much of his early work—based on his own writing or adapted from modernist and postmodern literature by Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Rosei, and others—centers on the historical amnesia of Old Europe and its wartime past, and on the loss of identity and individuality, whether during the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (The Rebellion, 1993), in the decade following World War II (Lemmings - Part 1 - Arcadia [1979] and Fraulein [1986]), or in the present day (Three Paths to the Lake [1976], Lemmings - Part Two - Injuries [1979], Variation [1983], and Who Was Edgar Allan? [1984]).
More recent films, including his masterful collaborations with Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher [2001], Time of the Wolf [2003]), and Juliette Binoche (Code Unknown [2000], Caché [2005]), are elliptical, Rashomon-like narratives, told with exquisite precision and in riveting detail, that shock viewers out of their willful indifference to the suffering of others and challenge their unquestioning acceptance of mediated reality.
In a style at once musical and mathematical, Haneke's films treat themes of alienation and social collapse; the exploitation and consumption of violence; the bourgeois family as the incubator of fascistic impulse; individual responsibility and collective guilt; and the ethics of the photographic image. Haneke will introduce the screenings of Code Unknown on October 13 and Funny Games on October 15. The exhibition is also presented at Harvard Film Archive and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (October 11–November 3). All films directed by Haneke."
(http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=6152)
"Michael Haneke is one of contemporary cinema's most provocative and incisive filmmakers. The most comprehensive U.S. presentation to date, this exhibition includes all of Haneke's theatrical features and the North American premieres of eight Austrian-German television productions. Born in 1942 in Germany, and raised in his current home of Austria, Haneke studied philosophy, psychology, and drama at the University of Vienna before becoming a screenwriter and director of opera, theater, and film. Much of his early work—based on his own writing or adapted from modernist and postmodern literature by Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Rosei, and others—centers on the historical amnesia of Old Europe and its wartime past, and on the loss of identity and individuality, whether during the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (The Rebellion, 1993), in the decade following World War II (Lemmings - Part 1 - Arcadia [1979] and Fraulein [1986]), or in the present day (Three Paths to the Lake [1976], Lemmings - Part Two - Injuries [1979], Variation [1983], and Who Was Edgar Allan? [1984]).
More recent films, including his masterful collaborations with Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher [2001], Time of the Wolf [2003]), and Juliette Binoche (Code Unknown [2000], Caché [2005]), are elliptical, Rashomon-like narratives, told with exquisite precision and in riveting detail, that shock viewers out of their willful indifference to the suffering of others and challenge their unquestioning acceptance of mediated reality.
In a style at once musical and mathematical, Haneke's films treat themes of alienation and social collapse; the exploitation and consumption of violence; the bourgeois family as the incubator of fascistic impulse; individual responsibility and collective guilt; and the ethics of the photographic image. Haneke will introduce the screenings of Code Unknown on October 13 and Funny Games on October 15. The exhibition is also presented at Harvard Film Archive and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (October 11–November 3). All films directed by Haneke."
(http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=6152)
Health Services Information
Several of you missed last week's class when we listened to a presentation on drug and alcohol safety. Information about the school's health services can be found at www.newschool.edu/studentservices. They provide a range of services which can be very useful, including counseling (you get 12 free sessions during your Lang career), gynecological exams, immunizations, free HIV and other STD testing, prescriptions and medications, etcetera. It's way (WAY!) cheaper than most medical services.
Women in the class be alerted that they also offer Gardasil, the new vaccine against certain types of HPV, some of which can cause cervical cancer. It's only $20/shot, in contrast to about $200/shot at some medical facilities (there are a total of 3 shots). Considering the fact that the American Social Health Association estimates that about 75% of sexually active women will get HPV in their lifetime (Wikipedia), this is something you should seriously consider.
If you have any medical or psychological concerns, you can call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and speak to a nurse at 212.229.1671.
STS is located in Loeb Hall, 135 E. 12th St., on the first and second floors
The phone number for Medical Services, Counseling Services, Health Education and Student Health Insurance is 212.229.1671. Medical and Insurance Services are open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, and Counseling is open Monday-Thursday until 7pm, and Saturday 9am-1pm. They have walk in hours, but you'll have to call to find out what they are. Note that HIV testing is only available Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-5:30pm.
They also have a program called the "Peer Health Advocate Program," which some of you may be interested in. Here's the description, quoted from the Student Health Services pamphlet which those of you who attended picked up and which I assume is available somewhere on campus (well, on "campus"):
"All degree seeking students are eligible to join the Peer Health Education team as a peer health advocate, either as a volunteer, work-study student or an intern Students will be trained in health education, communication skills and facilitation programming For more information...call 212.229.5687 or stop by the Health Education office located at 55 W 13th Street, First Floor."
Women in the class be alerted that they also offer Gardasil, the new vaccine against certain types of HPV, some of which can cause cervical cancer. It's only $20/shot, in contrast to about $200/shot at some medical facilities (there are a total of 3 shots). Considering the fact that the American Social Health Association estimates that about 75% of sexually active women will get HPV in their lifetime (Wikipedia), this is something you should seriously consider.
If you have any medical or psychological concerns, you can call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and speak to a nurse at 212.229.1671.
STS is located in Loeb Hall, 135 E. 12th St., on the first and second floors
The phone number for Medical Services, Counseling Services, Health Education and Student Health Insurance is 212.229.1671. Medical and Insurance Services are open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, and Counseling is open Monday-Thursday until 7pm, and Saturday 9am-1pm. They have walk in hours, but you'll have to call to find out what they are. Note that HIV testing is only available Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-5:30pm.
They also have a program called the "Peer Health Advocate Program," which some of you may be interested in. Here's the description, quoted from the Student Health Services pamphlet which those of you who attended picked up and which I assume is available somewhere on campus (well, on "campus"):
"All degree seeking students are eligible to join the Peer Health Education team as a peer health advocate, either as a volunteer, work-study student or an intern Students will be trained in health education, communication skills and facilitation programming For more information...call 212.229.5687 or stop by the Health Education office located at 55 W 13th Street, First Floor."
The answers to your questions, coming straight to you from Bertha herself
Q. What's the difference between Writing the Essay 1 and Writing the Essay 2 and are both required?
A. Both are required. Writing the Essay 1 focuses on the formal aspects of writing, whereas Writing the Essay 2 focuses on research.
Q. Who do I talk to about IB/AP scores?
A. Brandon Graham. His email is grahamb@newschool.edu and he's located at 64 W. 11th Street, Rm. 106. He's a particularly helpful and friendly person at the school, and much more easily reached in person than via email.
A. Both are required. Writing the Essay 1 focuses on the formal aspects of writing, whereas Writing the Essay 2 focuses on research.
Q. Who do I talk to about IB/AP scores?
A. Brandon Graham. His email is grahamb@newschool.edu and he's located at 64 W. 11th Street, Rm. 106. He's a particularly helpful and friendly person at the school, and much more easily reached in person than via email.
Tips for collegiate reading and writing
We discussed this in class, but here are some general tips:
Read everything more than once.
Ask questions in class.
Talk to the professor outside of class. He/she may be able to give you extra help unpacking a text, such as guiding questions or suggestions as to what to look for while you read, and ideas of what to think about while you're writing.
Draft and edit! Everything you write should go through multiple rewrites. Edit it for clarity, concision, structure, content, grammar, spelling - everything. You may want to have a peer edit your papers, or go to the Writing Center at 65 5th ave., room 105:
"The University Writing Center helps students become better writers through individual tutoring sessions that cover every phase of the writing process. Students meet with tutors to brainstorm ideas for a paper, develop a rough draft, or discuss how to approach and organize an assignment. Students are encouraged to meet with tutors early in their writing process, and are asked to bring to the tutoring session the relevant assignment sheet and syllabus.
Individual conferences with writing tutors support students’ development as writers through critical feedback, guidance, and provision of educational material. Tutors and students work collaboratively to improve student writing and develop academic writing skills. Tutors do not alter students’ work by proofreading or editing."
(http://www.newschool.edu/admin/writingcenter/)
Read everything more than once.
Ask questions in class.
Talk to the professor outside of class. He/she may be able to give you extra help unpacking a text, such as guiding questions or suggestions as to what to look for while you read, and ideas of what to think about while you're writing.
Draft and edit! Everything you write should go through multiple rewrites. Edit it for clarity, concision, structure, content, grammar, spelling - everything. You may want to have a peer edit your papers, or go to the Writing Center at 65 5th ave., room 105:
"The University Writing Center helps students become better writers through individual tutoring sessions that cover every phase of the writing process. Students meet with tutors to brainstorm ideas for a paper, develop a rough draft, or discuss how to approach and organize an assignment. Students are encouraged to meet with tutors early in their writing process, and are asked to bring to the tutoring session the relevant assignment sheet and syllabus.
Individual conferences with writing tutors support students’ development as writers through critical feedback, guidance, and provision of educational material. Tutors and students work collaboratively to improve student writing and develop academic writing skills. Tutors do not alter students’ work by proofreading or editing."
(http://www.newschool.edu/admin/writingcenter/)
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