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April 2020
Screening/Discussion: Perfectly Normal for Me
Thursday April 23rd, 5-7 PM 20 Cooper Square, 2nd floor Commons Perfectly Normal for Me (Catherine Tambini, 2018, 50 min) Post-screening discussion: Director Catherine Tambini, producer Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, and dancers/protagonists Veronica Siaba and Kathleen Downes Alexandria, Jake, Caitlin and Veronica, ages 5 to 15, want to change the conversation. They reveal in their own words what it’s like to deal with the literal ups and downs of a challenged life. In this intimate verité documentary, four charismatic kids strive for…
Find out more »Reading/Book Talk: Nadina LaSpina, Such a Pretty Girl
Thursday 4/30, 4-6 PM, 239 Greene Street, 8th floor Commons Author and activist Nadina LaSpina reads from her recent memoir Such a Pretty Girl (2019), Followed by conversation with author/disability activist Simi Linton and author/disability scholar Jessie Male (NYU Gallatin) RSVP Co-Sponsors: NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU
Find out more »May 2020
Touch This Page: Closing Reception at NYU Tandon
EXHIBITION on view for the Spring 2020 semester. CLOSING RECEPTION 4pm to 5:30pm on 5/10. Bern Dibner Library, NYU Tandon (5 MetroTech Center) “Touch This Page! Making Sense of the Ways We Read” is an exhibition about multisensory experiences of reading. Its central objects are 3D replicas from historical books for blind and low-vision readers printed between 1830 and 1910. Join CDS, NYU Libraries, and co-curators Sari Altschuler and David Weimer for a tour of the exhibit, followed by a…
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