“IMPROV FOR INNOVATION” WORKSHOP

MONDAY, MARCH 28, 6:30 PM

Student Center Alumni Lounge – SC158

For students, faculty, staff, and the Ramapo community

This fun, interactive workshop introduces people to the art of improvisation as it’s used to facilitate ideation, storytelling, and innovation. It’s also a great way to alleviate stress.  improve communication skills, and ignite your creativity.

Heather Gonci, the workshop facilitator, teaches and performs improv in the New York Metropolitan area.

Lecture: Jimmie Durham: Matters of Life and Death

Elizabeth Hutchinson is an Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College. Her work focuses on the visual culture of a variety of North American groups and their viewers. Key issues motivating her work include comparative analyses of the visual culture of the United States and other colonial cultures.

Rain Date 10/23

Artist Matthew Jensen’s multi-disciplinary practice combines photography with walking, collecting and rigorous site-specific explorations of landscapes. His projects strive to connect people to places by expanding the traditions of landscape photography to include a range of mediums and actions.

Artist Talk 1:25-2:15 SC 156

Workshop 2:15-5:45 Walk to Work: Expanding the Photographic Practice

Susan Cheng, Wang Guowei, and a third member of their ensemble Music from China will present traditional and contemporary compositions of Chinese “silk and bamboo” music. Similar to the group’s workshop at Ramapo in Spring 2015, the workshop will focus on  he instruments, ensemble interaction, approaches to program music (instrumental music that portrays non-musical topics), contemporary and traditional compositions, and the significance of the music in contemporary Chinese culture. This time, however, student will be able to try some of the instruments and more time will be allocated to performance.

Sitarist Roopa Panesar and her accompanists will present two workshops about Hindustani classical music as well as a concert in the Sharp Theater (please see the Berrie Center event listing here for more details). The workshops will have students sing along with Panesar; she will also explain the instruments and her understanding of musical practice as spiritual meditation.

For more information contact Professor Marc Gidal.

 

Switzerland-based composer/violinist Jonathan Keren will run a workshop alongside Prof. Gilad Cohen. Praised by the New York Times for shifting between “tastes of sublime mysticism and catastrophic wildness,” Mr. Keren has built his career working in a wide range of musical genres including classical music, Baroque, Irish music, Arabic music, and Klezimer. At the workshop, which will host students of various courses including Song Writing and Music in Asia, Mr. Keren will talk about his music, play a range of selections with Prof. Cohen, discuss his various career paths, perform and give feedback to students’ original works, and discuss various topics that are relevant for Ramapo’s student’s including composition/songwriting, improvisation, intersections among genres, using strings in popular music, and having a career as a composer/performer/arranger.

For a short video of Jonathan Keren’s work please click the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkFxFsbNOxM

This event is open to the public.

This is a closed event.

Noh performer Elizabeth Down of the Noh Training Project engages our students in observation and experiential activity of the art of Japanese Noh acting. Students will be able to watch an expert performer use her body and voice to perform the difficult, ancient art of Noh and then have opportunities to learn movements and vocal methods as well.

This event is for students enrolled in THEA 232-History of Theater only.

MerKaBa for the Hoeteps

a Kemetic Yoga workshop with visiting artist Tabita Rezaire

Join in a meditative journey into Kemetic wisdom to awaken your light beings and reclaim your hoetep powers. In our times of ultra disconnection, ancient African teachings offer guidance to raise our vibrational frequency and tune into our energy source. The spiritual technology of Kimetic Yoga enable us to reconnect, remember and nurture our divine juice. Come turn your MerKaBa on.

Instructions for optimum experience: wear a comfortable power outfit, bring a yoga mat (if you have one) and water to stay hydrated.

Participation is free and open to all, but space is limited.

If you would like to participate please RSVP in advance, by April 18 to jpeffer@ramapo.edu

MerKaBa for the Hoeteps was first commissioned for the Berlin Biennial 09 and has since traveled to South Africa, The Netherlands, and Zimbabwe

Join us for a screening of “Linotype,” a film about typesetting in the old days and how it’s demise disrupted the design industry.

Ramapo COMM students who will be joined by 8-10 members of the Art Directors Club Design Education Council who will facilitate an informal discussion with the students on their experiences with the transition between the old typesetting and new. The council members are bringing samples of lead type, holders, and other typesetting paraphernalia and they’ll be demonstrating typesetting as it used to be done before the days of computerized type.

This event is open to all students.

 

Join us for a discussion on anime, manga, and controversy.

Presented by The Berrie Center Galleries and the Women’s Center