Wednesday, October 21
Event date: 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 21
Event address: Your computer screen via Crowdcast
Tickets may be purchased at www.portersquarebooks.com/NataliesFables
Your ticket includes a copy of Natalie Portman’s Fables -- or upgrade to the premium bundle to include both Natalie Portman’s Fables and Gregory Maguire’s A Wild Winter Swan.
Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman and Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and a 1976 UAlbany graduate. This event is brought to you in partnership with Porter Square Books, an independent bookstore located in Cambridge, Mass.
A NYS Writers Institute event in support of independent bookstores.
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Wednesday, October 21
Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All with Mindy & Robert Fullilove and Alice Green
Event date: 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 21
Event address: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV-AWfWFkik
Free and open to the public
A featured event of The Time for Reckoning month-long series addressing systemic racism.
Free and open to the public
Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All is available to order from The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza: https://www.bhny.com/book/9781613321263
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, is an American social psychiatrist who focuses on the ways environmental factors affect the mental health of communities. She is the author of Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All, which provides a framework for those who wish to see their communities revitalized and encourages us all to look both inward and outward to find the assets that already exist to create meaningful change.
Robert E. Fullilove, is the Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences and the co-director of the Cities Research Group at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.
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Thursday, October 22
Artist to Artist: Baseera Khan, Nassim Soleimanpour, Damon Young
Event date: 7 p.m. Thursday, October 22
Event address: tba
Free and open to the public
Baseera Khan is a Brooklyn-based artist and Muslim American who sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture in order to map geographies of the future. Khan exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2019 as part of the show ACE: art on sports, promise and selfhood.
Nassim Soleimanpour is an Iranian playwright, theatre maker, performer and artistic director of a Berlin-based theatre company. Soleimanpour’s works have been translated into more than 30 languages and performed globally in over 50 countries. His play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit had a nine-month off-Broadway run. It graced the stage at UAlbany with five performances in October of 2013.
Damon Young is a journalist, humorist and author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker, a memoir about surviving in a world where “existing while Black is an extreme sport.” He is also senior editor for The Root and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine, VerySmartBrothas. Young visited UAlbany in February 2020 as part of the Writers Institute’s Visiting Writers Series.
A featured event of the Artist to Artist series is presented by the UAlbany Art Museum, Performing Arts Center, and the NYS Writers Institute. This series brings together artists whose work has been previously presented at UAlbany for conversations about the arts in this time of the coronavirus pandemic, a reckoning on systemic racism, and civil unrest.
Support for the Artist to Artist series is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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