Cinema & Politics: Machuca at 20 with Roberto Brodsky
Monday December 02, 2024 6:30 PM - December 02, 2024 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
In honor of its 20th anniversary, a screening of the internationally acclaimed fiction film Machuca (2004) that takes place in a boarding school during the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allendes presidency and the uprising of fascism and Pinochets r...
Wafa Ghnaim, Tatreez Resistance: The Traditional Art of Palestinian Embroidery in the Diaspora
Wednesday January 22, 2025 6:30 PM - January 22, 2025 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
Wafa Ghnaim, curator for the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C. and Senior Research Fellow for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Ancient Near East, intertwines memory, history, politics and embroidery in sharing traditional ...
David France, Staying Alive: Art & Activism in the Time of AIDS
Monday March 31, 2025 6:30 PM - March 31, 2025 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
Award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker David France speaks on the achievements, in the midst of terrible necessities, of AIDS activists in art and politics.
Anne Anlin Cheng, Women on Walls: Architecture, Projection, and Envy
Tuesday April 08, 2025 6:30 PM - April 08, 2025 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
This talk by cultural theorist, Princeton Professor of English, and historian Anne Anlin Cheng takes a collage made by the early 20th-century architect Eileen Gray (collage TR168801, MoMA, circa 1935) as a springboard from which to examine the su...