From Riot Grrrl to reproduction rights to a showcase of women in the arts – 92YTribeca celebrates women in all their creative and political achievements.
This Wed, Mar 3, Marisa Meltzer, author of Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music, will be joined by Emily Gould, author of And the Heart Says Whatever (to be published by Free Press in May 2010); Elizabeth Spiridakis “the lunatic behind the White Lightning website”; Sean Fennessey, Director of Merchandising for eMusic.com; and music by Supercute! for in-depth discussion at “What It Feels Like for a Girl”: Women, Music and the Girl Power Revolution. Tickets can be purchased here.
On Fri, Mar 5, 92YTribeca will screen Stephanie Daley, a film about 16-year-old Stephanie Daley (Amber Tamblyn) who hospitalized unexpectedly during a school fieldtrip while, in a nearby public restroom, a dead newborn is discovered. Director Hilary Brougher and Melissa Silverstein of Women & Hollywood joining the controversial conversation after the screening.
Also the weekend of Mar 5 and 6: Diamonds, Teeth and Yarn: Shara Worden Guest Curator Spotlight. Worden is known for her enigmatic performances with My Brightest Diamond and her collaborations with David Byrne, The Decemberists, and Sufjan Stevens, among many others. Over two nights, Shara hosts a tremendous cast of artists to showcase the different ways people create. Check out the full lineups here.
Such are the times we live in that a certain polemical power resides in the calm statement of historical facts: “Democracy is . . . neither new or strange to many Muslims.” Buruma’s elegant short book considers “Religion and Democracy on Three Continents” (US, Europe, Asia) and ranges from America’s first evangelical “great awakening” in the 18th century to Mao’s boasts of burying thousands of scholars and the “rush hour of the gods” in postwar Japan. Voltaire, De Tocqueville, Hume and Spinoza are set talking among themselves, watched over by the book’s éminence grise, Confucius.
Buruma’s guiding principle is secularism, informed by “a certain discretion about the religious beliefs of others”. Along the way, we witness a calm demolition of the scaremongering about “Eurabia” promulgated by certain high-profile cranks on both sides of the Atlantic, and throughout Buruma evinces a telling way with parenthesis – as when he refers to “what we now call ‘Enlightenment values,’ or ‘western values’ (as though these were identical)” – and an amiable attitude of ironical forbearance. Speaking of the rebel Christians of China’s Taiping movement, he writes, sagely: “But within a decade things began to unravel, as they usually do in godly kingdoms on earth.”
You can join Buruma for a discussion on these topics at 92Y on March 11.
Liev Schreiber: “It’s an honor to be asked to do something at the 92nd Street Y”
Broadway.tv brought their cameras to Broadway Talks last night for face time with actor Liev Shreiber and Jordan Roth, the President of Jujamcyn Theaters. Check out the video of Liev and Jordan Roth talking about upcoming actors who will be part of the Broadway Talks series and all the nice things they said about 92Y!
Upcoming Broadway Talks, an evening series of illuminating one-on-one discussions with Jordan Roth and Broadway stars, will feature Laura Linney, Sean Hayes, and Nathan Lane.
Update: BroadwayWorld.com has more information
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