Imagine FESTIVAL OF ARTS, ISSUES AND IDEAS
Sunday, August 29-Thursday, September 2. Complete schedule of citywide events at: www.imagine04.org. Free admission for most events.
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University present the following Imagine Forum Series and Film Screenings, as part of New York's first annual Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas.
The Imagine Festival, which coincides with the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, is hosting over 125 citywide events that mix artistic and educational activities through a series of concerts, performances, screenings, forums, town meetings and other extraordinary cultural happenings. From August 28 to September 2, 2004, we will come together to share our intelligence, creativity and passion at numerous venues throughout the city.
Imagine Forum Series AT THE NEW SCHOOL
FREEDOM - Real Homeland Security with Civil Liberties
Saturday, August 28, 12 Noon – 2:00 p.m. Free admission.
Location: The Graduate Center, CUNY – Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, 365 5th Avenue (34th - 35th St)
With the Five Borough Institute and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Can we have both freedom and security? How do we re-define the issues and the spirit of 9/11? What defined the response to 9/11? What have we learned? Poet Sekou Sundiata reads excerpts of The America Project with Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights; Roger Toussaint, President Local 100, Transport Workers of America; and Angelo Falcon, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. Singer/ songwriter Joe Travers performs Call it America, evoking the desire to re-claim our true idealism. Moderator: Mike Wallace, Gotham Center, CUNY.
Community - Impacting our Communities
Sunday, August 29, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Free admission.
Location: New School University, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street
Asif Ullah presents an excerpt from his film Military Myths, focusing on the aggressive military recruitment of minority youth and its impact on inner-city communities. Panelists will discuss the needs and realities of diverse New York communities. Panel will include: Asif Ullah, organizer/ media-maker; Betty Shamieh, author of Roar; and Clyde Valentin, Executive Director, Hip-Hop Theater Festival. Moderator: Bryan Pu-Folkes, Executive Director, New Immigrant Committee for Empowerment (NICE).
Democracy - Ancient Greece and Modern America (The Gods of Violence and Compassion)
Monday, August 30, 6:30 p.m. Free admission.
Location: The Library of the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza – enter at Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street
Panel follows an all-star staged reading of Sophocles’ Electra, as translated by Anne Carson. How has our idea and practice of democracy evolved since its birth in the Greek city-state? Panelists include Robert Thurman, President of Tibet House; Marisa Tomei and Kathleen Chalfant, actresses. Moderator: Lawrence Sacharow, director.
Justice - Defining Justice
Tuesday, August 31, 7:00 p.m.
Location: The Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
Tickets $15 nonmembers, $10 members, $7 students/seniors, www.asiasociety.org or (212) 517-ASIA
Viewed in an international context, how do we define notions of justice? How do we continue to remember? How do we move on? Panel to follow performance excerpts from Forgiveness, by Chen Shi-Zheng and Eve Beglarian; and Mourning, by Eiko and Koma. Panelists include Eve Beglarian, composer; Eiko and Koma Otake– dancers; Paul vanZyl, International Center for Transitional Justice; and Muzaffar Chisti, Director of the Migration Policy Institute, NYU School of Law. Moderator: Mary Zurbuchen, scholar, author, and former Ford Foundation representative in Indonesia.
Prosperity - Sharing our Wealth and Resources
Wednesday, September 1, 6:00 p.m. Free admission.
Location: New School University, Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue (between 13th and 14th Streets)
Do we share our wealth and resources? Could we do better? The health and well-being of our economy demands that we establish priorities in the allocation of resources. How do we, as a society, define, and implement, these choices? Playwright Marty Pottenger reads from her play Abundance; and joins Laura Flanders, journalist and host of the radio program Working Assets Radio; Aida Rodriguez, Faculty and Chair Nonprofit Management, Milano Graduate School; and Lewis Cullman, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Moderator: Martin Fisher, Writer / Filmmaker of the documentary On Borrowed Money.
Future - Imagining the Future of Democracy, Politics and Human Development
Thursday, September 2, 12 Noon – 1:30 p.m., Free admission.
Location: The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
In order to bring about a better future, we must first imagine what it could be. Painter Alexis Rockman shares images of his work on global warming, biotechnology, and the environment. He joins Andrea Valeria, Mexican astrologist; Margarita Gutman, Urban historian, architect, and Executive Committee member of New York 2050. Moderator: Andrew Zolli, Futurist at American Demographics and Popular Science.
IMAGINE FESTIVAL FILM SCREENINGS AT THE NEW SCHOOL
ABOUT BAGHDAD
Monday, August 30, 7:30 p.m. Free admission.
Location: New School University, 65 Fifth Avenue, Swayduck Auditorium
Directed by InCounter Productions. 2004, 90 minutes. In July 2003, Sinan Antoon, an exiled Iraqi writer and poet, returned to Baghdad to see what has become of his city after wars, sanctions, decades of oppression and violence, and now occupation. For more information, visit www.aboutbaghdad.com.
BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
Tuesday, August 31, 7:30 p.m. Free admission.
Location: The New School, 66 West 12th Street, Alice Rice Cook Lecture Hall, Room 404
Paul Chan, 2003, 51 minutes. Baghdad in No Particular Order is an ambient video essay of life in Baghdad before the invasion and occupation. The filmmaker will be present to introduce film and lead Q&A after the screening with Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness.
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University present the following Imagine Forum Series and Film Screenings, as part of New York's first annual Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas.
The Imagine Festival, which coincides with the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, is hosting over 125 citywide events that mix artistic and educational activities through a series of concerts, performances, screenings, forums, town meetings and other extraordinary cultural happenings. From August 28 to September 2, 2004, we will come together to share our intelligence, creativity and passion at numerous venues throughout the city.
Imagine Forum Series AT THE NEW SCHOOL
FREEDOM - Real Homeland Security with Civil Liberties
Saturday, August 28, 12 Noon – 2:00 p.m. Free admission.
Location: The Graduate Center, CUNY – Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, 365 5th Avenue (34th - 35th St)
With the Five Borough Institute and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Can we have both freedom and security? How do we re-define the issues and the spirit of 9/11? What defined the response to 9/11? What have we learned? Poet Sekou Sundiata reads excerpts of The America Project with Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights; Roger Toussaint, President Local 100, Transport Workers of America; and Angelo Falcon, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. Singer/ songwriter Joe Travers performs Call it America, evoking the desire to re-claim our true idealism. Moderator: Mike Wallace, Gotham Center, CUNY.
Community - Impacting our Communities
Sunday, August 29, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Free admission.
Location: New School University, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street
Asif Ullah presents an excerpt from his film Military Myths, focusing on the aggressive military recruitment of minority youth and its impact on inner-city communities. Panelists will discuss the needs and realities of diverse New York communities. Panel will include: Asif Ullah, organizer/ media-maker; Betty Shamieh, author of Roar; and Clyde Valentin, Executive Director, Hip-Hop Theater Festival. Moderator: Bryan Pu-Folkes, Executive Director, New Immigrant Committee for Empowerment (NICE).
Democracy - Ancient Greece and Modern America (The Gods of Violence and Compassion)
Monday, August 30, 6:30 p.m. Free admission.
Location: The Library of the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza – enter at Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street
Panel follows an all-star staged reading of Sophocles’ Electra, as translated by Anne Carson. How has our idea and practice of democracy evolved since its birth in the Greek city-state? Panelists include Robert Thurman, President of Tibet House; Marisa Tomei and Kathleen Chalfant, actresses. Moderator: Lawrence Sacharow, director.
Justice - Defining Justice
Tuesday, August 31, 7:00 p.m.
Location: The Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
Tickets $15 nonmembers, $10 members, $7 students/seniors, www.asiasociety.org or (212) 517-ASIA
Viewed in an international context, how do we define notions of justice? How do we continue to remember? How do we move on? Panel to follow performance excerpts from Forgiveness, by Chen Shi-Zheng and Eve Beglarian; and Mourning, by Eiko and Koma. Panelists include Eve Beglarian, composer; Eiko and Koma Otake– dancers; Paul vanZyl, International Center for Transitional Justice; and Muzaffar Chisti, Director of the Migration Policy Institute, NYU School of Law. Moderator: Mary Zurbuchen, scholar, author, and former Ford Foundation representative in Indonesia.
Prosperity - Sharing our Wealth and Resources
Wednesday, September 1, 6:00 p.m. Free admission.
Location: New School University, Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue (between 13th and 14th Streets)
Do we share our wealth and resources? Could we do better? The health and well-being of our economy demands that we establish priorities in the allocation of resources. How do we, as a society, define, and implement, these choices? Playwright Marty Pottenger reads from her play Abundance; and joins Laura Flanders, journalist and host of the radio program Working Assets Radio; Aida Rodriguez, Faculty and Chair Nonprofit Management, Milano Graduate School; and Lewis Cullman, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Moderator: Martin Fisher, Writer / Filmmaker of the documentary On Borrowed Money.
Future - Imagining the Future of Democracy, Politics and Human Development
Thursday, September 2, 12 Noon – 1:30 p.m., Free admission.
Location: The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
In order to bring about a better future, we must first imagine what it could be. Painter Alexis Rockman shares images of his work on global warming, biotechnology, and the environment. He joins Andrea Valeria, Mexican astrologist; Margarita Gutman, Urban historian, architect, and Executive Committee member of New York 2050. Moderator: Andrew Zolli, Futurist at American Demographics and Popular Science.
IMAGINE FESTIVAL FILM SCREENINGS AT THE NEW SCHOOL
ABOUT BAGHDAD
Monday, August 30, 7:30 p.m. Free admission.
Location: New School University, 65 Fifth Avenue, Swayduck Auditorium
Directed by InCounter Productions. 2004, 90 minutes. In July 2003, Sinan Antoon, an exiled Iraqi writer and poet, returned to Baghdad to see what has become of his city after wars, sanctions, decades of oppression and violence, and now occupation. For more information, visit www.aboutbaghdad.com.
BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
Tuesday, August 31, 7:30 p.m. Free admission.
Location: The New School, 66 West 12th Street, Alice Rice Cook Lecture Hall, Room 404
Paul Chan, 2003, 51 minutes. Baghdad in No Particular Order is an ambient video essay of life in Baghdad before the invasion and occupation. The filmmaker will be present to introduce film and lead Q&A after the screening with Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness.
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