Friday, May 17th: Loudspeaker: A Symposium for Extra-Normal Vocals
Loudspeaker: A Symposium for Extra-Normal Vocals The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium (41 Cooper Sq., Manhattan) 4-6:30pm Free with RSVP: rsvp@performa-arts.org Performa is pleased to announce Loudspeaker: A Symposium for Extra-Normal Vocals, a concert/symposium that considers the historic grounding of extended vocal technique as well as current developments within contemporary avant-garde performance. Pioneered by [...]
Tuesday, April 30th: Daniel Libeskind: The Art of Memory
Daniel Libeskind: The Art of Memory The Cooper Union, The Great Hall (7 E. 7th St., Manhattan) 6pm Free World renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, a 1970 graduate of Cooper Union’s architecture program, speaks at his alma mater. The master planner for Ground Zero and the architect of one of Europe’s most visited museums, the Jewish [...]
Thursday, April 11th: Where Are the Utopian Visionaries?
Where Are the Utopian Visionaries? Rose Auditorium at The Cooper Union (41 Cooper Sq., Manhattan) 6:30pm Free This panel discussion aims to showcase the work of contemporary architects, designers, and thinkers who continue to address one of the most poignant questions of our time: what is the role of social and community building in the [...]
Monday, April 8th: This Chair Rocks: How Ageism Warps Our View of Long Life
This Chair Rocks: How Ageism Warps Our View of Long Life Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium (41 Cooper Sq., Manhattan) 6:30pm Free Baby boomers once swore not trust anyone older than 30. But as they and other Americans who are living longer now find, ageism – internalized and in the culture at large – obscures all [...]
Free Art & Design Classes
Founded by alumni of The School of Art at The Cooper Union, Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU) is a learning experiment where artists work together to manifest creative, productive, resistant, useless, and demanding interactions between art and the world. BHFQU is offering 16 classes for Spring 2013, all free and open to the public. [...]
Friday, February 22nd: Using Fungi to Replace Plastics
Using Fungi to Replace Plastics The Cooper Union (7 E. 7th St., Rm. 215, Manhattan) 6pm Free Ecovative has spent five years developing an alternative to plastics that are grown using fungi and agricultural waste. Sam Harrington and Sue Van Hook of Ecovative will talk about the inspiration and thinking behind these materials from two [...]
Tuesday, February 5th: Divesting From Fossil Fuels: A Conversation with Bill McKibben of 350.org & NYC Students
Divesting From Fossil Fuels: A Conversation with Bill McKibben & NYC Students The Great Hall at The Cooper Union (7 E. 7th St., Manhattan) 7-9pm Free Climate change is the great moral issue since apartheid, and we need the same kind of tools to bring it to people’s attention.” – Desmond Tutu America’s colleges and [...]
Thursday, January 10th: The Future of Zone A: New York Neighborhoods on the Frontline of Climate Change
The Future of Zone A: New York Neighborhoods on the Frontline of Climate Change Great Hall, Cooper Union, Manhattan 7-9pm Free, RSVP required: rsvp@archleague.org Two Bridges Neighborhood Council in collaboration with the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design & the Architectural League of New York will convene a public discussion to explore issues and ideas [...]
Friday, April 20th-Sunday, April 22nd: This Is How We Do It: A Festival of Dialogues About Another World
The Foundry Theatre is bringing people to NYC from all over the world – people who are living and working within alternative practices of economics, safety, media/ communications, politics and more. Join us for a kind of ‘there-are-other-ways-to-do-things’ show & tell featuring these remarkable local, national and international innovators. Click here for more information & [...]
Tuesday, April 10th: Urban Planet: Emerging Ecologies
Urban Planet: Emerging Ecologies Rose Auditorium (41 Cooper Sq., Manhattan) 6-9pm Free For the first time in human history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities. The rise of urban growth over the last decade raises important questions for our planet’s future: How can we adapt to an increasingly urban planet? And what [...]
Thursday, January 26th: Shannon Jackson on Performance, Precarity and Social Engagement
Performance, Precarity and Social Engagement The Rose Auditorium at The Cooper Union (41 Cooper Sq., Manhattan) 6pm Free Shannon Jackson uses the perspectives of performance studies to recast questions about the role of cross-disciplinary art practice in a context of economic precarity. How has performance been understood across expanded visual art forms? How do the [...]
Tuesday, November 1st: ‘PHARMA’ Opening Reception
PHARMA The Cooper Union (41 Cooper Sq., Manhattan) 6-8pm Free Exhibition dates: November 1-December 3, 2011 The establishment of the pharmaceutical industry, especially in the mid-20th century, played a significant role in the evolution of graphic design and advertising. Herb Lubalin created some of his most influential work while working for Sudler & Hennessey, an [...]
Monday, October 17th: Educating Students to Lead in a Global Context
Educating Students to Lead in a Global Context The Great Hall at The Cooper Union (7 E. 7th St., Manhattan) 1pm Free In an increasing global society, how do we build a foundation to sustain freedom and preserve democratic values? What are the challenges and opportunities of educating citizens and future leaders to take their [...]
Friday, May 6th: ‘The Sustainable City’ Mayoral Panel with David Byrne
The Sustainable City The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 E. 7th St., Manhattan) 7-8:30pm $10, buy tickets here The sustainable city is the city with a future. Between greenwashing and scolding, it is easy to be cynical about admonitions to change our resource-consuming habits, but the fact is that our future depends on it—and [...]
Thursday, May 5th: The Heterogeneous City
The Heterogeneous City The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 E. 7th St., Manhattan) 1-3pm $10, purchase tickets here The heterogeneous city is the stimulating city: diverse complex, tolerant. The ideal heterogeneous city has a kind of dynamic equilibrium; the real one is frequently, if not constantly, involved in struggles over terrain and influence. A [...]
Sunday, May 1st: Identity, Gender and Sexuality in NYC & Morocco
In Conversation: Abdellah Taïa and Dale Peck The Cooper Union (Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Sq., Manhattan) 1pm Free Dale Peck, the controversial critic and daring author of queer novels such as Martin and John, interviews one of Morocco’s youngest and most talented novelists Abdellah Taїa (Le jour du roi). They’ll discuss identity, gender [...]
Sunday, April 24th: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’
Glengarry Glen Ross The Cooper Union (7 E. 7th St., Manhattan) 8pm $10 suggested donation As part of My Senior show, I am directing an experimental staging/filming of David Mamet’s famous play. We are incorporating both theatrical and cinematic techniques to provide a unique experience for the audience and performers involved, attempting to use the [...]
