UPCOMING CONVERSATION

Cultural Power: Art

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
7:00 pm, The Amie and Tony James Gallery

The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
New York, NY 10016

Film maker Peggy Ahwesh and poet & novelist Eileen Myles launch the Great Issues Forum spring programs with an intimate discussion about the power of art. Peggy Ahwesh’s many experimental films and videos include The Third Body, The Star Eaters, and Martina’s Playhouse. She is Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College. Eileen Myles’s books include Cool for You (novel) and Sorry, Tree (poems). Her collection of essays on art, poetry and queer issues, The Importance of Being Iceland, is forthcoming from MIT/Semiotexte. The program will open with a short screening and reading.