Events

At present, this talk will explore how risks can happen across genres and how such risks ––in one’s creative process and one’s identity––can serve as catalysts for thinking intimately about how voice and narrative engage us. Whether by stanza, sentence, or shutter speed, I’m interested in what is at stake for both author and audience when we are met by interdisciplinary experimentation. I’d like us to think about the relationship between text and images in this contemporary world and how this relationship has functioned historically in our own creative practices. I’ll try to encourage us all to think about how we see, and are seen, and how cultivating mindful attention to one’s inner life, and the politics of visibility beyond our own bodies, is a power that we deserve. There is also ever the notion of wonder, as a frame and form and voice, and how it confronts us in grief, joy, desire, and imagination. Perhaps wonder itself is what leads us to the edge of our pages and lives. Perhaps then we leap. Why do we leap and how can we craft our flight across genres?

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University.

His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, the Paris Review, Guernica, and Longreads. He was selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the National Book Foundation's “5 Under 35” honorees, is the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Purchase Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s work here.

Carolyn Ferrell ‘84 is the author of the novel, Dear Miss Metropolitan (forthcoming July 2021), and the short-story collection, Don’t Erase Me, which was awarded the Art Seidenbaum Award of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize program, the John C. Zacharis Award given by Ploughshares, and the Quality Paperback Book Prize for First Fiction. She has also received grants from the Fulbright Association, German Academic Exchange (DAAD), City University of New York MAGNET Program, and National Endowment for the Arts. Ferrell’s stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2018 andThe Best American Short Stories of the Century, among other places. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York with her husband and children. Purchase Carolyn Ferrell’s work here.

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Join us for a night of poetry highlighting the work of Sarah Lawrence Writing Program faculty Jeff McDaniel '90 and Suzanne Gardinier with special guest performances from SLC students and Yonkers Public Library Teen Poets.

This event is sponsored by the Yonkers Public Library, Sarah Lawrence College and a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Join us for a dynamic discussion of the disruptive effects of COVID-19 on the arts and cultural institutions moderated by John Jasperse '85, Dance Program Director, at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. The coronavirus has had a devastating impact on America's arts sector. How have theaters, museums, filmmakers, performing and visual artists adapted to survive the past year? As widespread vaccination gives us hope, how can arts and cultural institutions continue to apply the lessons learned over the past year and continue to prepare themselves for the future? Featuring: Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan '07, Director of Content Strategy, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Hannah Gottlieb-Graham '17, Founder and Director, ALMA Communications; Tiffany LaTrice Williams MFA '14, Visual Artist, Founder and Executive Director, TILA Studios; Samantha Stark '05, Director of "Framing Britney Spears", Director/Producer for "The New York Times Presents" documentary series on FX and Hulu; Jay Arthur Sterrenberg '05, Filmmaker and Co-Founder of Meerkat Media Collective.

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Join Dr. Christian Braneon, an urban climate expert and scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York for a discussion on how the current moment offers a unique opportunity to imagine alternative futures in which policies, infrastructure, governance, and value systems are recalibrated with equity and sustainability at the center.

The talk will address the deeply personal work of writing and bringing order to a book of poems, with references to Dickinson's process, Gregory Orr's notion of poetic temperaments, and how autobiography and my own writing process have converged.

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Join us for a virtual gallery tour curated by local artists Haifa Bint-Kadi, Evan Bishop, and Katori Walker. Followed by a discussion on the impact of public art in Yonkers with the artists and Sarah Lawrence faculty member Una Chung (Global Studies, Media Studies, Women’s History).

This event is presented by Sarah Lawrence College in partnership with the Yonkers Public Library through a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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A continuation of our series presented by “The Sarah Lawrence Interdisciplinary Collaborative on the Environment,” join us for students' presentations of their Climate Justice conference projects from varied disciplines across the college.

Join Dr. Michel Gelobter P’24 for a discussion on the history of climate justice as both a concept and a movement, particularly with respect to President Biden’s administration and more comprehensive, youth-led actions.

Arietta Slade ’73 Ph.D. is an internationally recognized theoretician, clinician, researcher, and teacher will center on reflective parenting, supporting the development of attachment and symbolization in young children and their caregivers.

West African drumming ensemble performs music inspired by festive dance rhythms, praise songs, and balafon melodic themes from Guinea; an exciting, uplifting experience. Student ensemble featuring master musician Famoro Dioubate and other guest artists. Andy Algire and Niko Higgins, directors. Performance at the Remy Theatre.