Diana Balmori is a noted landscape scholar, author and design principal of the landscape and urban design firm Balmori Associates, NYC. Her latest book, A Landscape Manifesto, includes discussions of urban ecology, environmental conservation, and environmentally beneficial building techniques. So it probably isn’t much of a surprise to learn some of her favorite websites include Architizer, BLDGBlog and Urban Omnibus.
Those websites are only part of Diana’s media and culture diet. Learn more below, in the 92Y Culture Klatsch Q&A with Diana Balmori, and stop by 92nd Street Y on November 15 when she’s here with MoMA’s Peter Reed.
Film: Le mort du rat, Chicken Real and Ukiah: Is film an art or an industry? This program of shorts looks at the filmmaker’s role as outsider or insider on either end of this spectrum.
Thu, Oct 20
Daytime: Rodgers and Hammerstein at Noon: Join us for a celebratory look at one of Broadway’s and Hollywood’s most prolific partnerships—composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein.
Comedy: Sideshow Goshko: Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Sirius XM, WNYC) invites some of New York’s top writers and storytellers to share true, bizarre tales about their lives.
Comedy: An Evening with the Onion: Writers and editors from America’s Finest News Source abandon the newspaper and Onion News Network web videos for the evening to perform a mix of stand-up and storytelling.
Music: Sonic AfterHours: Innovocal. An evening of young singer/songwriters who blur the lines between pop and art song.
Film: Miracle Mile with actor Anthony Edwards and director Steve DeJarnatt in person for post-screening Q&A, moderated by Rumsey Taylor.
Music: Mark de Clive-Lowe’s CHURCH: The world-renowned DJ, producer, composer and musician Mark de Clive-Lowe brings his hugely successful Church series to New York for the first time.
