—> He said he believed that the recent spate of activism on diversity was being propelled by two issues: a lack of state funding for public institutions that has led colleges to admit more out-of-state students, who tend to be more affluent and less diverse, and challenges to affirmative action laws in states like Michigan and California.
Read more in The New York Times.
So excited Making Movies gets to play the same festival as Grammy-winners La Santa Cecilia and much more! Read more via the Austin Chronicle.
It seems Tony-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (of ‘In the Heights‘ fame) is a Fordham fan. At the photo on the left, the Wesleyan alumnus wears a Fordham sweatshirt in a group photo. At right, he poses with two Fordham alumnae in their Fordham t-shirts. (The one on the right is Roz Baron, an alumna of Fordham College at Lincoln Center.)
Baron, a blogger, tells me the photo on the right was taken this past weekend (Feb. 23) at a special screening of West Side Story at the United Palace Theatre in Northern Manhattan (Washington Heights, of course!), where Miranda introduced the film and interviewed Oscar, Tony, Grammy, and Emmy-winning superstar, Rita Moreno. (She played the fiery Anita. Watch the great scene in which she performs “America” below.)
Audio visual mix by Norvis Jr. Enjoy:
<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/86947035″>By Such and Such presents: NorvisJR “Brooklyn Does Dream of Electric Sheep…”</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user7189986″>Bysuchandsuch</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Is Empathy Enough?
Racial Justice and the Moral Imagination in the 21st Century
Monday, February 24, 2014 at 6 p.m.
Pope Auditorium | 113 W. 60th St. | Fordham University | New York City
Racial justice remains elusive a half century after the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Where the law falls short, could an enriched culture of empathy produce the needed transformation in the American conscience?
Join us for a forum that mines the arts, history, and theology to explore the power–and weakness–of empathy as a force for social change.
FEATURING
Pun Bandhu
Award-winning actor who has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in TV and film;
founding member of AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition), an organization formed to combat racism in the entertainment industry
Rubén Rosario Rodriguez
Theologian and author of Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective
Ariela Gross
Historian, legal scholar, and author of What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial
in America
Aimee Meredith Cox
Department of African and African American Studies, Fordham University
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
RSVP: crcevent@fordham.edu | 212-636-7347
fordham.edu/ReligCulture
This forum coincides with Fordham Theatre Program’s Mainstage production:
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915
by Jackie Sibblies Drury | Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh
Performance Schedule
Wednesday through Friday, February 19 to 21, at 8 p.m.
Thursday through Saturday, February 27 to March 1, at 8 p.m.
Yes, yes, snow can be quite pretty (especially when falling) but it also gets dangerous, and most of all, UGLY. I shot these in my neighborhood of Jersey City (the Heights) and New York City on Feb. 14. Bleergh. Hurry up, Spring!
via Conrazón:
Continuing their tradition of putting out great free music and especially on Valentines Day aka #RakaLove – you’ve heard 2012’s Raka Love and 2013’s Lets Get It On (Pa’ Encima), right?? – Raka Rich and Raka Dun team up again with the Bay Area’s Mars Today, putting out a lush call for loving in new track “Tell Me”
#TellMeRakaLove
Get the song now: http://losrakas.bandcamp.com/track/tell-me-mars-today-ft-los-rakas
Two excellent Kansas City entertainment publications have written about Making Movies‘ five year anniversary as a band, which they’ll celebrate with two shows: one on Thursday, Feb. 13 (sign up for this secret show at their website), and on Friday, Feb. 14, respectively.
First up, in The Pitch:
“The foursome — Panamanian-born brothers Enrique and Diego Chi, Mexican-born Juan-Carlos Chaurand, KC-born Brendan Culp — are used to the confusion of new fans when they explain that their psych-rock and Latin-jazz fusion sprouted in decidedly unspicy Midwestern fields.” – The Pitch Kansas City magazine on Making Movies 5-Year Anniversary as a band. Read the Q&A w the band here: http://bit.ly/1fhUQUu
I also love this quote from the interview in The Pitch:
“I remember when we played the Buzz’s Homegrown for the Holidays show in November, and it was for an audience for all these kids that probably had never heard a band sing in Spanish. Maybe 400 people there had heard of us, but the other 1,200 had no idea who we were. We brought El Grupo Atotonilco [a traditional folk-dance group], and they went into their dance routine, and the look on these kids’ faces — you know, 96.5 the Buzz listeners, 18-to-23-year-old people who are just there to see an indie-folk band the Mowgli’s. And their faces light up. They don’t know what they’re seeing.” — Lead singer/songwriter, Enrique Chi
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The band also got a nice write-up in Kansas City’s Ink magazine:
“That’s kind of our mission: to breathe life into those old rhythms that are hundreds of years old. If one of my songs can’t sit on top of those old rhythms, then we have to move on. Those rhythms make almost any kind of person want to move. And the more authentic and legitimately we play those rhythms, the better it translates.” — Lead singer, Enrique Javier Chi in Ink Magazine Read the whole thing here: http://bit.ly/1g8ZCYk
Keep up with Zuzuka Poderosa’s happenings in her motherland, BRAZIL!! Click through to CONRAZON’s blog!
Earlier last month, Zu put out the banger “Baile Crunk” citing her inspiration in making it with Miami’s Burt Fox: “The idea of this track is about how South America meets the South of North America mixing the dirty south influence and the lyrics, traveling all the way to NY, making Baile Crunk. ” Rio the Janeiro, Atlanta, Miami, Rio De Janeiro , Tennessee & H- town!”
Spin Magazine picked the song as a “Rap Song of the Week” in mid-January and the song’s been making the rounds while we wait…
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I’m an extrovert and a people person for the most part, but some of these I can relate with. Mostly, why would anyone actually CALL ME on a phone when there is text, email, and social media? Ha.
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