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An exclusive event for Friends of Sarah Lawrence College. Learn more about joining the Friends!

An exclusive event for Friends of Sarah Lawrence College. Learn more about joining the Friends!

The Writing Institute has a diverse offering of workshops including fiction, memoir, nonfiction, poetry, essay, screenwriting, humor, book revision, writing a query, and self-publishing. Come to our Open House for your chance to pick a workshop and make friends as well. The community at The Writing Institute is friendly, special, and every one of us appreciates the chance to help you choose which class is best suited for you.

Kenneth Tam is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Queens, NY. His work often takes the form of video and sculpture and it's interested in reimagining the spaces and rituals that inform ideas about the male body and its performance. The work looks at ways in which hegemonic and normative forms of male subjectivity can be rearticulated to reveal spaces of intimacy vulnerability and even loss.

Join us for the open reception of Kenneth Tam's exhibit, "The Glass Ceiling."

In this talk, David Ryan will discuss ways of writing that navigate the margin of an idea rather than anything resembling its center—how the fluid, circuitous, evasive, and unstable route can produce viscerally charged work.

Join us for the open reception of Julie Abraham's exhibit, "Working Paper."

You've probably heard that owls have fantastic hearing, both in terms of detecting and localizing sound. However, we have surprisingly little comparative data on owl hearing, with most of the information coming from barn owls. In this talk I will discuss our recent work on the (very cute and fairly small) Northern saw-whet owls (Aegolius acadicus). We'll cover the morphological specializations of saw-whet ears; their ability to detect and process sounds that differ in frequency, rate, and onset; and how the location of the sound source in space affects their auditory sensitivity. Come learn about all the auditory specializations these little owls have that allow them to hunt in complete darkness!

Joel Zelnick has entertained five presidents, has been a pianist/bandleader for thousands of events, and has performed at concert venues in New York, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Japan, and Greece. He has recorded four CDs and also holds a B.A. from NJCU, and an M.A. (from Rutgers University). His latest recording, “Live At Steinway Piano Gallery” was performed on a Steinway Model D Concert Grand, released in Japan, and is now available in the US.

Led by writing faculty member Suzanne Gardinier, this talk will focus on Gardinier's friendship with Regina Arnold (1948-2006), founder 25 years ago of the Right to Write program, which links the College to the teaching of writing in Westchester County jails.

Moderated by writing faculty member Suzanne Gardinier, this evening's panel and discussion will celebrate the Right-to-Write program's 25th anniversary and the legacy of its founder Regina Arnold.

A lecture by Namiko Kunimoto, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University.