POP Party!

GET EXCITED, YOU'RE INVITED!

The end of Year Power of Politics Pizza Party will be Tuesday May 5th, 9pm!!
Join us in the Goddard Classroom!!

The Good Negro

Join POP on Friday, April17th at 8pm at the Public Theater for:
The Good Negro

*Written by TRACEY SCOTT WILSON, Directed by LIESL TOMMY*
*With Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Francois Battiste, J. Bernard Calloway, Quincy
Dunn-Baker, Erik Jensen, LeRoy McClain, Curtis McClarin, Rachel Nicks, BrianWallace*

*Before there was change, there was Birmingham.*

Straight from a sold-out run during our inaugural season of Public LAB, this
gripping new play rips through the pages of history to uncover the human
story at the heart of the 1960's American Civil Rights Movement. In
the increasingly hostile South, tensions build as a trio of emerging black
leaders attempts to conquer their individual demons amidst death threats
from the Klan and wire taps by the FBI. Through personal and intimate stories inspired by political upheavals of thethe era, *The Good Negro*examines the human frailties behind the historic headlines. A co-production with Dallas Theater Center.

http://www.publictheater.org/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,141/id,960

*Note: There are ONLY 2 FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE AS OF NOW FOR EACH PLAY. If you are no longer able to attend, you MUST find a replacement or pay the full price of the ticket. The cost per ticket of each play is $60.*

*RSVP to me ASAP!!*

The Good Negro

Join POP on Friday, April17th at 8pm at the Public Theater for:
The Good Negro

*Written by TRACEY SCOTT WILSON, Directed by LIESL TOMMY*
*With Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Francois Battiste, J. Bernard Calloway, Quincy
Dunn-Baker, Erik Jensen, LeRoy McClain, Curtis McClarin, Rachel Nicks, BrianWallace*

*Before there was change, there was Birmingham.*

Straight from a sold-out run during our inaugural season of Public LAB, this
gripping new play rips through the pages of history to uncover the human
story at the heart of the 1960's American Civil Rights Movement. In
the increasingly hostile South, tensions build as a trio of emerging black
leaders attempts to conquer their individual demons amidst death threats
from the Klan and wire taps by the FBI. Through personal and intimate stories inspired by political upheavals of thethe era, *The Good Negro*examines the human frailties behind the historic headlines. A co-production with Dallas Theater Center.

http://www.publictheater.org/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,141/id,960

*Note: There are ONLY 2 FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE AS OF NOW FOR EACH PLAY. If you are no longer able to attend, you MUST find a replacement or pay the full price of the ticket. The cost per ticket of each play is $60.*

*RSVP to me ASAP!!*

Lunch With Michael Doran

A special invite for POP streamers & Goddardites: Lunch with Michael Doran after the event below :) 6 spots open! RSVP ASAP!

The Appeal of al Qaeda: Ideology and Identity in the "War of Ideas" with Michael Doran, Ph.D.

Thursday, April 2, 2009, 12:30pm -- 1:30 pm
The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor, Rudin Family Forum

The conflict with al-Qaeda is often described as a war of ideas, but what exactly does this mean? Visiting Professor Michael Doran will analyze the global appeal of al-Qaeda's ideology; discuss what the United States is currently doing to counteract it; and present suggestions for a more effective strategy in the fight against terrorism.

Michael Doran is an expert on US foreign policy and the Middle East. Prior to joining NYU, he served in the State Department, as Senior Adviser to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.

Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them

Join POP for:

Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them

Written by CHRISTOPHER DURANG
Directed by NICHOLAS MARTIN

With Amir Arison, David Aaron Baker, Laura Benanti, Audrie Neenan, Kristine Nielsen, John Pankow, Richard Poe

Back at The Public for another world premiere of a new play, Christopher Durang turns political humor upside down with this raucous and provocative satire about America’s growing homeland “insecurity.” Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them tells the story of a young woman suddenly in crisis: Is her new husband, whom she married when drunk, a terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? Is her father’s hobby of butterfly collecting really a cover for his involvement in a shadow government? Why does her mother enjoy going to the theater so much? Does she seek mental escape, or is she insane? Honing in on our private terrors both at home and abroad, Durang oddly relieves our fears in this black comedy for an era of yellow, orange, and red alerts.

Only a couple of free tickets left. RSVP to Suhaly at suhaly.bautista@gmail.com!!

POP Goes to the Public Theater

POP!

Get pumped! This is an opportunity you do NOT want to miss :) This spring POP will be hosting two trips to see not one, but TWO innovative political stagings at The Public Theater (the nation's foremost theatrical producer of Shakespeare and new work and winner of 40 Tony Awards, 141 Obies, 39 Drama Desk Awards, 23 Lucille Lortel Awards and 4 Pulitzer Prizes).

There are ONLY 10 FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR EACH PLAY. SIGN UP (by replying to this email) ASAP!

Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them

Written by CHRISTOPHER DURANG
Directed by NICHOLAS MARTIN
With Amir Arison, David Aaron Baker, Laura Benanti, Audrie Neenan, Kristine Nielsen, John Pankow, Richard Poe

Back at The Public for another world premiere of a new play, Christopher Durang turns political humor upside down with this raucous and provocative satire about America’s growing homeland “insecurity.” Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them tells the story of a young woman suddenly in crisis: Is her new husband, whom she married when drunk, a terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? Is her father’s hobby of butterfly collecting really a cover for his involvement in a shadow government? Why does her mother enjoy going to the theater so much? Does she seek mental escape, or is she insane? Honing in on our private terrors both at home and abroad, Durang oddly relieves our fears in this black comedy for an era of yellow, orange, and red alerts.
http://www.publictheater.org/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,141/id,961

The Good Negro

Written by TRACEY SCOTT WILSON
Directed by LIESL TOMMY
With Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Francois Battiste, J. Bernard Calloway, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Erik Jensen, LeRoy McClain, Curtis McClarin, Rachel Nicks, Brian Wallace

Before there was change, there was Birmingham.

Straight from a sold-out run during our inaugural season of Public LAB, this gripping new play rips through the pages of history to uncover the human story at the heart of the 1960's American Civil Rights Movement. In the increasingly hostile South, tensions build as a trio of emerging black leaders attempts to conquer their individual demons amidst death threats from the Klan and wire taps by the FBI. Through personal and intimate stories inspired by the political upheavals of the era, The Good Negro examines the human frailties behind the historic headlines. A co-production with Dallas Theater Center.
http://www.publictheater.org/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,141/id,960

Remember: There are ONLY 10 FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR EACH PLAY. Otherwise, the cost per ticket of each play ranges from $60-$70

This Week!!

Monday 3/9
Workshop with John Gershman
Negrill Village Restaurant
12:30pm-1:30pm

Tuesday 3/10
Documentary on Darfur: The Devil Came on Horseback
Goddard Classroom, 203, 6:30pm

Growing & Greening New York at MCNY

Museum of the City of New York
Growing and Greening New York
Friday, March 27th at 1pm
(RSVP Today! 10 Free Tickets Available)

Today 8 million New Yorkers daily get up, go out, and live their lives. By the year 2030, there will be a million more people living in New York City. And the city will have undergone a great transformation, becoming cleaner, greener, more responsible, and more robust--if the projections of PlaNYC2030 are correct, and if we take action on them now.

Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City, will make the complexities of greater environmental sustainability in New York City vivid, compelling, and understandable by bringing environmental concerns to life on an individual, human scale. Organized in terms of a typical day in the life of a New Yorker, the exhibition will explore six essential areas addressed by the Bloomberg Administration’s ambitious five-borough plan for sustainability by 2030: water; transportation; energy; open space; land; and climate change. The exhibition will feature architectural models, interactive displays, diagrams, renderings, photographs, hands-on examples of new materials, videos, and more, many of which have been created expressly for the exhibition.

Growing and Greening New York will consider issues, problems, and challenges facing New York while also documenting solutions proposed by architects, urban planners, scientists, industrial designers, engineers, as well as by non-profit organizations, advocacy groups, and other entities involved in the process.

The exhibition will take the visitor through the course of a day-7 a.m. through 2 a.m.-and link routine activities with information documenting their collective impact on the environment, while also offering alternatives for making these actions less harmful to our world and highlighting innovations that will lead to greater sustainability by 2030.

The complexities of the water system and strategies for reducing the impact of water use on the environment, for example, will be documented in the section of the exhibition that corresponds to 7 a.m., when many New Yorkers shower, prepare breakfast, and brush their teeth. Mass transit and traffic congestion will be addressed in the "8 a.m." area of the exhibition, in which the city's extensive subway system and its role in reducing vehicular traffic will be highlighted as an inherent urban advantage in the struggle to achieve greater sustainability.

The massive environmental impact of the city's commercial buildings will be documented in a section of Growing and Greening New York that will correspond to the 11 a.m. hour, in which forward-looking "building green" projects will be explored. Here, plans for new construction will be spotlighted as will innovative and beneficial solutions for existing structures. Further along-and later in the imaginary day, at 3 p.m.-the exhibition will focus on parks and the importance of open space, not only as a source of respite, but because of its healthful impact on water and air quality. Consumption will be spotlighted in the 6 p.m. section, where the advantages of buying local and buying green will be illustrated, as will strategies for reducing the city’s waste.

The 8 p.m. hour (in the context of the exhibition) will return the visitor to the home, where individual choices such as how to furnish a home, what type of lighting to use, and which appliances to buy will be linked to such global issues as solid waste, water quality, and climate change. The nighttime hour of the exhibition, 2 a.m., will showcase-while the city sleeps-an overview of environmental issues facing cities around the world. At any given "moment" in the exhibition, selected PlaNYC initiatives will be discussed and linked to larger environmental issues, updating visitors on the advantages and challenges of the proposals as well as on their current status.

PlaNYC2030 is an ambitious blueprint for New York City as it confronts the prospect of continued population growth and the urgency of protecting the city’s natural environment to improve urban life. Its 127 proposals range from planting more trees to designing better power plants to cleaning up brownfields to building new parks and housing across the five boroughs. Together, they suggest how the city might plan for growth while confronting issues of livability and global climate change.

Growing and Greening New York and PlaNYC will pose vital questions: How must New Yorkers change to make a sustainable future possible? How will the daily lives of all New Yorkers, and those who visit New York, be affected by sustainability initiatives at home, in the workplace, and in many of our public and recreational spaces? What might a more sustainable city actually look like?

Get It Off Your Chest

GET IT OFF YOUR CHEST
Feb 23rd, 8pm, Rm. 203
for the social activists who wanna look good & change the
world, too!! A t-shirt making affair: Express your dreams, desires, hates, fears, hidden thoughts and
plans to change the world in a message you can wear across your chest. Make your clothes say what
you want to tell the world!

Political Jeopardy!!

Think You Know Everything There Is To Know About Politics? The Obama Administration? Big Issues In Politics Today?

Then Come Play
POLITICAL JEOPARDY
sponsored by the Power of Politics Stream

When: Wednesday, Feb 4th, 7:30pm-8:30pm Where: 2nd Floor Classroom, Goddard Hall What: 2 Teams, 1 Jeopardy Board, 1 WINNING TEAM RSVP at the POP Wall on the 4th Floor!!!
(refreshments will be served)

Foreign Policy & The Obama Administration

Join Professor John Gershman & The Power of Politics Stream of Goddard Hall for a Discussion on:
Foreign Policy and the Obama Administration

When: Monday, Feb 2nd, 2009
Place: 7th Floor of Kimmel (meet in front of the elevators)
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
RSVP to: Suhaly at suhaly.bautista@gmail.com or at POP HeadQuarters, located on the 4th Floor

Inauguration Viewings at NYU this Tuesday, 1/20/09

Watching at NYU: Inauguration 2009
Save the Date-Tuesday, January 20, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

New York University will provide live-feed viewing stations throughout campus for the historic Swearing-In Ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama at the following locations:

The Kimmel Center for University Life--60 Washington Square South
» The Skirball Center
» Eisner and Lubin Auditorium