Friday, April 20, day two of Live Ideas 2018: Radical Vision looks into the role of the press, what it means to be a journalist in an endangered liberal democracy, and what obligations the press has today. Opening the day will be visual artist Huiying B. Chan, who will read words by legendary activist Grace Lee Boggs, followed by author and journalist Moustafa Bayoumi's reading of works by Edward Said and a presentation of speeches by Muhammad Ali read by journalist Greg Tate. The readings will start at 4 pm. Admission is free.
An annual interdisciplinary humanities festival, Live Ideas is a high point of the New York Live Arts season. This year's festival, Live Ideas 2018: Radical Vision, presented April 18-22, 2018, at New York Live Arts, will offer five days of activity designed to imagine the future and understand the past of an open and democratic society. Through public forums, performances, readings, and workshops, the festival will offer a forward-looking, critical appraisal of four key democratic institutions: the press, big tech, the criminal justice system, and our electoral process. Bringing together artists, activists, journalists, and scholars, Live Ideas 2018: Radical Vision is co-curated by culture creator Brian Tate, president of The Tate Group, and presented in partnership with the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College with curatorial input from Roger Berkowitz, the Center's director.
David Marshall Grant's 1998 hit play Snakebit has been reimagined thanks to a collaboration with the Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting students at the School of Performing Arts of the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University.
Opera Atelier's 2017-2018 season opens with The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart's hilarious tale of love, betrayal and forgiveness in a world on the brink of revolution. American bass-baritone Douglas Williams will be making his Opera Atelier debut in the title role. Sung in English, The Marriage of Figaro runs at Toronto's Elgin Theatre (189 Yonge Street) Oct. 26 - Nov. 4, 2017.
Six new films from Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) will premiere on public television's WORLD Channel in conjunction with Hispanic Heritage Month 2017 (September 15-October 15).
Leading the way in high quality unscripted programming, Bravo Media unveils a diversified slate of six new and 18 returning unscripted series, it was announced today
Calling all Trekkies - Set your transponders to Atlantic City for the East Coast Premier FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK, produced by David Zappone and directed by Leonard Nimoy's son, Adam Nimoy.
Bravo Media's TOUR GROUP returns to a new night on Today, May 10 at 10PM ET/PT. The luxury travel docu-series follows “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and “Below Deck Mediterranean,” which airs immediately before at 8PM ET/PT and 9PM ET/PT, respectively.
Bravo Media's TOUR GROUP returns to a new night on Tuesday, May 10 at 10PM ET/PT. The luxury travel docu-series follows “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and “Below Deck Mediterranean,” which airs immediately before at 8PM ET/PT and 9PM ET/PT, respectively.
Bravo Media is bringing the thrill of the high seas to the streets of New York City and across digital platforms in celebration of BELOW DECK MEDITERRANEAN premiering tonight, May 3 at 9pm ET/PT.
Bravo Media expands one of its most lavish franchises by hitting the high seas once again with the new installment, BELOW DECK MEDITERRANEAN, premiering Tuesday, May 3 at 9pm ET/PT.
Bravo Media expands one of its most lavish franchises by hitting the high seas once again with the new installment, BELOW DECK MEDITERRANEAN, premiering Tuesday, May 3 at 9pm ET/PT.
HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program proudly presents March of the Puppets, taking place March 11 - 19. March of the Puppets features three unique events: "Puppet Parlor 2016" (March 11 & 12), "The Joshua Show" (March 13) and "Steve of Tomorrow" (March 16 - 19). Performances, detailed below, take place in the Dorothy B. Williams Theater at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue).
On the 25th of October, in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, the team that created Tiny Dancer by A Song For Lily-Mae in 2012, the second biggest selling charity single in Irish chart history, second only to the 1985 smash hit, Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas, recorded a brand new charity single. Check out photos from the performance below!
For its 31st annual film festival, Oakland University's Women and Gender Studies program will pay tribute to Grace Lee Boggs, the Detroit-based writer and social activist who first gained prominence in the labor, civil rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s.
