Events

How does performance play into the construction of identity? How do we use performance to enact ideas of gender, class and power? What does it mean to perform different versions of ourselves – and how might that play into our understanding of what it means to be writers? In this craft talk, we’ll look at examples of performance in fiction, theater, dance and film. We will be doing writing exercises, so please come with whatever you need to write and fully participate.

Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Intimacies. One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021. In France, it won the Prix Litteraire Lucien Barriere, was a finalist for the Grand Prix de l’Heroine, and was longlisted for the Prix Fragonard. Her third novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of Gone To The Forest and The Longshot, both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Her work has been translated into 21 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena, and Jan Michalski foundations. Katie has written for publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

Register for the Zoom livestream HERE. 

Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Intimacies. One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021. In France, it won the Prix Litteraire Lucien Barriere, was a finalist for the Grand Prix de l’Heroine, and was longlisted for the Prix Fragonard. Her third novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of Gone To The Forest and The Longshot, both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Her work has been translated into 21 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena, and Jan Michalski foundations. Katie has written for publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Join the SLC Dance Program for an evening performance of original works choreographed and produced by our 2nd year MFA in Dance candidates.

Teaching the Environment is a place-based professional development program for small groups of teachers and educators in early childhood through high school settings, who are interested in further developing the environmental studies and science components of their work. This spring session is dedicated to the American eel migration!

For this in-person workshop, teachers have a special opportunity to come and learn about the anatomy, life cycle and migration pattern of these fish. Learn more.

Join the SLC Dance Program for an evening performance of original works choreographed and produced by our 2nd year MFA in Dance candidates.

Westchester Chamber Soloists presents a unique collaborative program involving works composed and conducted by Sarah Lawrence faculty and students at Reisinger Auditorium.

Catherine Berdie Whitman: "Let Me Burn"
(world premiere arrangement conducted by Sarah Lawrence College student composer)

Starbuck-LaRocca: "Empty Under Sky" (film, with WCS live orchestral soundtrack)
(film by award-winning Sarah Lawrence film faculty Robin Starbuck; music by Matthew LaRocca)
conducted by SLC music faculty member Martin Goldray

Artist Conversations: The Creative Process with Sarah Lawrence Arts Students & Faculty

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter")
Stephen Moshman, conductor

Join Dana-Ain Davis for a virtual talk on the way one Black woman’s laboring experience is shaped by obstetric racism. Thinking through her medical encounters, Davis considers how Black bodies are degraded and ushered toward mistreatment and how obstetric racism produces traumatic repercussions, including being cast as an “Anti-Body.” Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York, and the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center. In the last decade, Davis has focused on reproduction, race, and the technologies that assist reproduction. She has written several articles addressing issues of reproduction and racism, including The Politics of Reproduction: The Troubling Case of Nadya Suleman, Obstetric Racism: The Racial Politics of Pregnancy, Labor, and Birthing, and The Bone Collectors. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of five books, the most recent being Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth, which examines medical racism in the lives of professional Black women who have given birth prematurely. A zoom link will be sent to registrants within 24 hours of the event or email alum@sarahlawrence.edu.

REGISTER HERE. 

Join us for this brief virtual information session for practicing teachers with initial certification and degrees in early childhood and/or childhood seeking to add an extension certificate in Early Childhood Students with Disabilities through our new three-course, 17-credit program. Meet the program director and get your questions answered! REGISTER HERE. 

On April 10, we’ll host a 24-hour fundraiser for Sarah Lawrence — Giving Day. Giving Day gifts make the greatest impact for Sarah Lawrence students, because our generous trustees and other leadership donors will give the College $50,000 for every 100 participating donors. Last year, over 1,000 community members showed up and donated for Sarah Lawrence Giving Day.

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