Events

Casting the attention on those fleeting moments when Zoom glitches happen, this play is a devised performance that will use dialog, poetry, movement, and multimedia to capture our daily experiences when ‘try to connect’ encounters with ‘disconnected’ on both Zoom land and physical world. Reflecting on the pandemic we are going through, this performance is keen to explore: How do the functions of Zoom reform our way of being together? How do we define ‘CONNECT’ in the world of past, present and future? Do the glitches and disconnected moments themselves can be formed into a performance? What can be generated from those glitching/disconnected moments: our love, fear, or loss?

Casting the attention on those fleeting moments when Zoom glitches happen, this play is a devised performance that will use dialog, poetry, movement, and multimedia to capture our daily experiences when ‘try to connect’ encounters with ‘disconnected’ on both Zoom land and physical world. Reflecting on the pandemic we are going through, this performance is keen to explore: How do the functions of Zoom reform our way of being together? How do we define ‘CONNECT’ in the world of past, present and future? Do the glitches and disconnected moments themselves can be formed into a performance? What can be generated from those glitching/disconnected moments: our love, fear, or loss?

This in-person event is open to current students, faculty, and staff. Other members of the SLC community are welcome to view the event on Zoom by registering here.

When you hear the word "storyteller," you probably imagine a man with a luxurious white beard, or a woman with elaborate robes and some kind of talking stick. Either way, they sit around a campfire and weave a spell with their words. But we all have a storyteller inside of us all the time — you probably told five stories so far today about little things that happened to you. In this talk, I walk you through how to recognize the storyteller inside of you, and to harness the way you naturally turn lived experience into narrative to make yourself a better writer.

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. She's also the author of Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, the Boston Review, Tor.com, Tin House, Teen Vogue, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, and other places. Her TED Talk, "Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" got 700,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

Join the inaugural SLCHGP Bookies reading group discussion, composed of bibliophiles who aim to read our way to new understandings about topics related to genetic counseling practice and education, to discuss "How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi. The first 10 registrants for this event will be sent a complimentary copy of the book. This event will be hybrid, with the option to attend in person or remotely and synchronously via zoom. Attendees are eligible for CEU credit. A zoom link to participate virtually will be sent to registrants 24 hours prior to the event.

Learn more about the Genetic Counseling Master's degree program at Sarah Lawrence College. Established in 1969, the program was the first of its kind in the United States. It remains the largest graduate program in genetic counseling in the world.

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. She's also the author of Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, the Boston Review, Tor.com, Tin House, Teen Vogue, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, and other places. Her TED Talk, "Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" got 700,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

SLCTheatre Program Presents

First Look Reading Series:

HELLO NEIGHBOR!
Wednesday, October 13th @ 7pm

By Laila Gerstmann
Directed by Leslie Huynh

Five contestants and a beloved host are about to start season twenty
one of a the hottest game show on TV: Hello Neighbor! The show is
filled with twists, turns, betrayals, drama, and mini challenges!
Who will give it their all, and possibly expose their personal lives,
for prize money? Which uncharismatic contestant will go home first?
And is everything what it seems to be?

There is often a false binary drawn between the writer and reader. The reader wants a confessional and the writer must excavate their lives in order to write an empathetic memoir. In this craft lesson we'll be looking at how do we find the balance between our painful narrative and protecting the reader? And what is our responsibility to our reader?

This craft talk will focus on the complexities of writing nonfiction, how to write trauma ethically, how to write trauma without cannibalizing one's experiences, and how to balance the craft of writing with the craft of writing trauma.

Anna Qu MFA ’12 is a Chinese American writer. She is the author of Made In China: A Memoir of Love and Labor, which The New York Times Book Review calls, "stunning." Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Lithub, Threepenny Review, Lumina, Kartika, Kweli, and Vol.1 Brooklyn, among others. Anna serves as the Nonfiction Editor at Kweli Journal, and teaches at the low res MFA program at New England College and Catapult. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College.

Please join The Writing Institute for a celebration of The Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship. We will announce the 2021 Gurfein Writing Fellow and honor last year's recipients and their mentors:

Mary Grace Colangelo and mentor Marian Thurm

Lori McLaughlin and mentor David Ryan

The Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College was founded in 2005 after Kathy Gurfein experienced first-hand the talent and dedication of Writing Institute students. "At the Writing Institute I found a group of serious, passionately dedicated writers. No matter what class I took, the writing was always of a high caliber. The environment was very nurturing, and so was everyone there—when you're around people with that kind of dedication, it sparks that same creativity. It inspired me to create the Fellowship."

This one of a kind fellowship provides a recipient, chosen by a select panel of judges, with a yearlong opportunity to work closely with a mentor on a writing project of their choice. Current and past judges have included Christina Adams, Mark Medoff, Lynda Sturner, Rachel Cohen, Barbara Gordon, Andrew Gross, Stephen Lang, Marian Thurm, and Jon Pessah. Previous Gurfein Writing Fellows have been signed by literary agents and published in newspapers, magazines, and journals.

Please RSVP here. 

For more information about the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, visit our website at slc.edu/writinginstitute.