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Join us for a special preview screening of the award-winning psychological horror fable, Nanny, on Tuesday, November 15, at 8pm, Cornell Cinema. A Q&A discussion with Keri Putnam (in person – former CEO & Executive Director, Sundance Institute; A.D White Professor-at-Large) and Nikyatu Jusu (virtual – Writer & Director, Nanny) will follow. This event is free and open to all.
Mini Locally Grown Dance (MLGD) is PMA's annual fall dance production. This event showcases choreography and performances that PMA students will present in their entirety at the March 2023 Locally Grown Dance. This year's MLGD is four works by faculty, students, and guest artist, Olive Prince.
Join us as students from PMA's film production courses screen their films in the Schwartz Center's Kiplinger Theatre.
A digital and print collection, co-edited by Karen Jaime, pays tribute to the late Miguel Algarín.
Save the Date! The Projects & Participation Kick-off for Spring 2023 is happening Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 7:30pm
Please join us for a screening of final films from the Environmental Film Production course of the Performing and Media Arts Department at Cornell. Student short films range in form and content, exploring ecological questions. At 5:30 we will have snacks and the screening will begin at 6pm.
Now showing as a loop on the digital screen above the box office in the Schwartz Center lobby are the short films students created for the PMA 1410 Media Production Lab - Fall 2022 course.
Llhuros – its relics, rituals, poetry, and music – as well as the academic commentary it inspired, "documents just one tiny little sliver of Cornell’s history. But it’s a fascinating one.”
Invitation to Propose a Student Project - We invite you to propose work that you would like to present for AY 2023-2024.
The Heermans-McCalmon Dramatic Writing Competition is open to current Cornell undergraduate students now until noon on Friday, January 27, 2023.
The 10th Annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is seeking submissions from talented student filmmakers!
Call for Actors - Spring 2023
Professor Kristen Warner responds to the 11 awards nominations for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with caution: "we are still on an incremental set of progressions that can still only favor one racial group at a time."
Dark Laboratory, a “humanities incubator” for digital storytelling with a special focus on Black and Indigenous voices, launched its first podcast episode, a crossover with the podcast “Get Free” by laboratory co-founder Tao Leigh Goffe, on Oct. 26.
Dotun Ayobade is an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He studies how embodied forms of popular culture shape the meaning of community, justice, and activism in late twentieth century West Africa. The title of Professor Ayobade's talk is Ethnographies of Serious Play: Sensing the Ludic in a Women’s History of Afrobeat Music February 17th, 3:00 p.m., Film Forum
A staged reading of a work in progress, Soul Mining is a short meditation on emotion, connection, and sensation as we consider the entirety of our lives and the eventual trajectory of the natural world. More of an allegorical or abstract representation than anything else, the work follows four unnamed characters as they puzzle over what they have been left with and what they have left behind. Written by John Colie. February 18th, 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theatre
Locally Grown Dance (LGD) is an annual dance showcase performed by PMA dance students. March 9th, 10th, and 11th, 7:30 p.m., Kiplinger Theatre
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American Studies Program, Literatures in English, Music, Performing and Media Arts