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Writing for Children Forum at the New School

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Writing For Children Forum: Getting Published Panel
March 31st at  6:30 p.m.

Experts in the field of children’s book publishing discuss how to get your work published. Featuring Alvina Ling, senior editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Ben Tomek, marketing associate, Reader’s Digest Children’s Publishing; and Anna Olswanger, literary agent, Liza Dawson Associates.

Moderated by Deborah Brodie, editor.

Location
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, room 510

Admission
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID

In-person ticket purchases
The New School Box Office
66 West 12th Street, main floor
Monday-Friday 1:00-7:00 p.m.

Reservations and inquiries can also be made by emailing boxoffice@newschool.edu or calling 212.229.5488.

Career Services events!

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Upcoming Parsons Career Services Events

The Fundamentals of Freelancing
 Friday, March 27, 6 PM to 8:30 PM
Parsons Kellen Auditorium (room N101), 66 Fifth Avenue, ground floor

Fundamentals of Freelancing:  Workshop and Alumni Panel Discussion on How to Negotiate Contracts and Start Your Own Business.
Event co-hosted by the School of Art, Media, and Technology and the Office of Career Services.

Art, Media and Technology Career Fair
Wednesday, April 15
10 AM to 1 PM
55 W. 13 St, Lang Student Center, 2 floor

Career Day for students in Art, Media, and Technology.  IDC and Design and Management students are encouraged to participate. Employers such as Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books, Click 3x, Conde Nast Publications, Eye Ball NYC, G2, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, and Razorfish will be meeting with graduating students to discuss job opportunities, give portfolio feedback, and offer career advice.
Students must bring a portfolio  and/or reel and several resumes to the event.

All events sponsored by Parsons Career Services, 2 West 13 St, room 511, parsonscareers@newschool.edu, 212-229-8940.  Students should be sure to have their resumes reviewed by Career Services prior to events they plan to attend.

Bonnie Gloris in “Everyone We Know”

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A sketchbook of Parsons Illustration Alumni Bonnie Gloris is included in the Sketchbook Project:  “Everyone We Know” .   This traveling group exhibition of sketchbooks organized by Art House (an artist co-op and gallery) is on tour February 27 – April 2, 2009.  And in fact, the tour stops in Brooklyn tonight!  Here are the details:

Mar 13, 2009
7:00 PM – 7:00 PM Brooklyn, NY

3rd Ward

195 Morgan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Over 2,000 artists from around the country were sent a small Moleskine sketchbook. Their task was to fill the book with “everyone we know”. Every book that we receive back will be on display. Visitors are encouraged to pick up the books and freely browse through them.

3rd Ward is a member-based artists’ co-op who has remarkable facilities available to artists as well as a great vibe. 3rd Ward’s views are so similar to Art House’s, that it is clearly a match made in heaven. We can’t wait for the show and especially to meet everyone at 3rd Ward as well as all of our New York participants!

Way to go, Bonnie! And if you’re in the Brooklyn area, stop by and see all this fantastic art.

Quick Hit: Ben Katchor at the Brooklyn Public Library

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Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 7 pm:
Brooklyn Independents: Graphic New York

Graphic novelists Ben Katchor, Dan Goldman and Youme Landowne explore  New York City through their work.  They will discuss their work and their artistic processes.

Brooklyn Public Library
Central Library
Dweck Center
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
tel. 718.230.2100

[illustration by Ben Katchor]

KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games

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KRAZY! will be New York’s first major show dedicated to the Japanese phenomenon of Anime, Manga, and Video Games—three forms of contemporary visual art that are exercising a huge influence on an entire generation of American youth. The exhibition, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, will be presented in an environment designed by cutting-edge architectural practice Atelier Bow-Wow, featuring life-size blowups of popular figures from the worlds of anime and manga within an intriguing sequence of spaces that evoke Tokyo’s clamorous cityscape. Co-curated by leading North American and Japanese specialists, KRAZY! will give visitors a direct experience of new forms of cultural production and offers fresh insight into the interdependence of three art forms of the future.

KRAZY!
The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games
Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery
Friday, March 13 — Sunday, June 14
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017 

Society of Publication Designers @ FIT Speaker Series

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DWI: Do It With Illustration
Under the Influence with Today’s Most Arresting Illustrators

Tuesday, March 3rd
7:00 – 8:30pm
FIT Katie Murphy Amphitheater
27th and 7th Avenue, Building D
Doors open at 6:30pm.
NOTE: A screening of the American Illustration 25th Anniversary Timeline video will be shown at 6:45pm, so come early.

Student Fee: $5 at the door
Professional Fee: $15 in advance or $20 at the door.
Make reservations on the SPD web site: http://www.spd.org/

The 6 presenting illustrators for the panel discussion and Q&A will include:

• Peter Arkle
• Juliette Borda
• Christopher Silas Neal
• Tim O’Brien
• Katherine Streeter
• Jillian Tamaki (Parsons Illustration Faculty)

Moderated by Mark Heflin, Director, American Illustration and American Photography

Sustainable Architecture: Communication through Art

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For over 30 years Development Workshop France (DWF) has promoted sustainable settlement and shelter development, respecting existing values and utilizing local skills and resources.  Current projects focus on vulnerability reduction and the resolution of human settlement difficulties in Africa and South East Asia-difficulties that result from wide-ranging changes to the way people live, whether climatic and environmental, socioeconomic and demographic, or as a result of man-made and natural disasters and war.

DWF is the only nonprofit organisation ever to win two World Habitat Awards: in 1998 for Woodless Construction in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso; and in 2008 for Prevention of Typhoon Damage in Vietnam.

On Monday March 2, the founder and president of DWF will present DWF’s recent work in Burkina Faso and in Vietnam, and discuss the role that illustration, animation, music, and drama have played in educating and training on the local level.  Please join us in Kellen Auditorium at 4PM for this truly interdisciplinary event. More details of DWF’s work are on their web site: www.dwf.org

This event is hosted by Parsons faculty members Carol Overby, Design + Management, and Nora Krug, Illustration

John Norton, founder and president
Development Workshop France
Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Avenue, ground floor
Monday March 2  4-6PM
Space is limited; RSVP overbyc@newschool.edu

David Polonsky at Society of Illustrators

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Tuesday, March 3rd at 6:30 at The Society of Illustrators (128 East 63rd) meet David Polonsky, the illustrator and art director of Ari Forman’s Waltz with Bashir. Polonsky will discuss the techniques that were used to make this unique animated documentary. The talk will be accompanied by clips from the film. A Q and A session will follow and a book signing for the release of a graphic novel based upon the film.

$10 members, $15 non-members.
RSVP to kevin@societyillustrators.org

Here’s a trailer for the movie if you haven’t already seen it:

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Felipe Taborda talk at the New School

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Felipe Taborda is a Brazilian designer, author and superstar.  He is a graphic designer from Rio de Janeiro. He studied cinema and photography at the London International Film School (England), Communication Arts at the New York Institute of Technology and Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts (USA). He is professor at UniverCidade/RJ and has had his own office since 1990, working mainly in the cultural, publishing and recording areas. His works appears in the recently released books Graphic Design for the 21st Century – 100 of the World’s Best Graphic Designers, published by Taschen (Germany); and World Graphic Design, published by Merrell Publishers (England).

On Wednesday, February 25th, he’ll be talking about his great new book Latin American Graphic Design.

He’ll also be discussing this workshop that he organized with teens in shanty towns of Rio, Salvador and Recife.

Wednesday, February 25th, 6:30 pm
Parsons, The New School for Design, Wollman Hall
66 West 11th St, 5th Fl (Enter at 66 West 12th St)
Free

Copies of his book will be available.