September 2019
Wednesday 11 Sep
Vijay Seshadri on the Craft of Writing
Slonim Living Room / Stone Room
/ Wednesday
In this talk, writing faculty member Vijay Seshadri will elucidate sonic principles and ideas by means of both an analysis of texts and a brief historical summary of how we got to where we are now in our understanding of rhythm and melody in writing.
Durga Chew-Bose Craft Talk
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Donnelley Film Theatre
/ Wednesday
Durga Chew-Bose '09 is a Montreal-born writer and teh author of Too Much and Not the Mood.
Thursday 12 Sep
The Writing Institute Fall Open House
Barbara Walters Campus Center Room C
/ Thursday
At the fall open house, Writing Institute teachers will be on hand to chat with guests individually and discuss their classes.
Wednesday 18 Sep
Ted Chiang on the Craft of Speculative Fiction
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Donnelley Film Theatre
/ Wednesday
Ted Chiang's fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards, and has been featured in The Best American Short Stories.
Nicholas Muellner on the Craft of Nonfiction
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Donnelley Film Theatre
/ Wednesday
Nicholas Muellner is an artist who operates at the intersection of photography and writing. Through books, exhibitions, and slide lectures, his projects investigate the limits of photography as a documentary pursuit and as an interface to literary, political, and personal narratives.
Nicholas Muellner on the Craft of Writing
Slonim Living Room
/ Wednesday
Nicholas Muellner is an artist who operates at the intersection of photography and writing. Through books, exhibitions, and slide lectures, his projects investigate the limits of photography as a documentary pursuit and as an interface to literary, political, and personal narratives.
Tuesday 24 Sep
Dance Performance by Mary Armentrout '85
Performing Arts Center Bessie Schonberg Dance Studio
/ Tuesday
Mary Armentrout '85 is an experimental choreographer whose works employ a philosophical mode of questioning and listening.
Richard Morais '81 Book Signing and Q&A
Barbara Walters Campus Center Room C
/ Tuesday
Award-winning author and Sarah Lawrence alumnus Richard Morais '81 will return to campus to share his third novel, The Man With No Borders.
Wednesday 25 Sep
Mary Ruefle and Michael Burkard Poetry Reading
Slonim Living Room / Stone Room
/ Wednesday
Mary Ruefle is a poet, essayist, and erasure artist. Michael Burkard is the author of lucky coat anywhere, Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990, and Unsleeping.
The Interplay of Dance & Philosophy in Mary Armentrout's Performance Works (Lecture)
Barbara Walters Campus Center Room B
/ Wednesday
Join Mary Armentrout '85 in discussing the interweaving of dance, philosophy, and embodied thinking in her site specific performance installation works.
Thursday 26 Sep
The Japan Foundation Film Series Presents: Tremble All You Want
Titsworth Marjorie Leff Miller ’53 Lecture Hall
/ Thursday
The Japan Foundation, New York organizes an annual film series during which Japanese films are screened at educational and cultural institutions across the United States.
Saturday 28 Sep
Women's Tennis vs Mount Saint Mary
Campbell Sports Center Tennis Courts - ALL
/ Saturday
Women's Soccer vs Mount Saint Mary
Campbell Sports Center Soccer Field (Yonkers)
/ Saturday
October 2019
Tuesday 1 Oct
Science Seminar Series: How Hormones and Neurotransmitters Influence Calcium Channel Expression
Science Center 103
/ Tuesday
A discussion led by Dr. Jesica Raingo, professor of biology, Instituto Multidisciplinario de BiologÍa Celular, La Plata, Argentina.
Music Tuesdays: LAX with Glenn Alexander (faculty)
Performing Arts Center Reisinger Auditorium
/ Tuesday
Women's Volleyball vs St. Joseph's (L.I.)
Campbell Sports Center Full Gym
/ Tuesday
Wednesday 2 Oct
Joan Silber on the Craft of Fiction
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Donnelley Film Theatre
/ Wednesday
Joan Silber is the author of eight books of fiction. Her last novel Improvement won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and she recently received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She teaches in the Sarah Lawrence MFA Program.
Visual & Studio Arts Lecture Series: Ann Toebbe
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Screening Room
/ Wednesday
Artist Ann Toebbe has been the recipient of numerous grants including a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2005 and 2015, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant in 2015, and a Chicago Dcase and IL Council for The Arts Grant in 2017.
Women's Soccer vs Old Westbury
Campbell Sports Center Soccer Field (Yonkers)
/ Wednesday
Saturday 5 Oct
Women's Soccer vs Maritime
Campbell Sports Center Soccer Field (Yonkers)
/ Saturday
Monday 7 Oct
Tuesday 8 Oct
Women's Soccer vs Farmingdale State
Campbell Sports Center Soccer Field (Yonkers)
/ Tuesday
Wednesday 9 Oct
Screening and Discussion: Nadie/Nobody (Cuba, 2017)
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Donnelley Film Theatre
/ Wednesday
Nadie/Nobody (Cuba, 2017) is a documentary on the Cuban poet Rafael Alcides. Screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/producer Miguel Coyula and actor/producer Lynn Cruz.
Sponsored by Latin American and Latino/a Studies (LALS), Film History, Filmmaking and Moving Image Arts, the Office of Global Education and the Sarah Lawrence College program in Cuba.
Poetry Reading with Donna Stonecipher
Slonim Living Room / Stone Room
/ Wednesday
Donna Stonecipher is the author of five books of poetry: The Reservoir (winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series competition, 2002); Souvenir de Constantinople (2007); The Cosmopolitan (winner of the National Poetry Series, 2008); Model City (2015); and Transaction Histories (2018, cited by The New York Times as one of the 10 best poetry books of 2018).