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Offering a rich array
of dance, music, theater, poetry and art events, the Brooklyn Cmpus
of Long Island University has established itself as a cultural hub.
Open to the public, our cultural programs are carefully chosen to
appeal to the many different cultures that populate the campus community
and the surrounding area. The majority of these events are free,
enabling easy access for all of our neighbors.
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Afternoons
at LIU, sponsored by the LIU Brooklyn Dance Department,
exposes its audience to dance and music of various cultures,
allowing for both enjoyment and aesthetic appreciation.
Participating
artists present their works, then interact with their audience
during a question and answer period. Past participants
have included The Jose Limon Dance Company, Rod Rogers
Dance Company, and Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Theatre.
This program is
available to both the University and the general community.
Performances take place one Wednesday each month, at noon,
in the Triangle Theatre. There are also evening performances
scheduled. |
Brooklyn
Campus Galleries, administered by the Art Department,
offer lectures and demonstrations in conjunction with
exhibitions of emerging and established artists.
Receptions and
exhibitions are open to the public and are advertised in
the Gallery Guide. Artists and works shown on campus have
included Bob Blackburn's Artists of Color Print-Making
Workshop and Miranda Maher's drawings of Grafted Branches.
Additionally, the campus is known throughout the city for
its annual summer outdoor sculpture show. |
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Jazz Clinic
Series, sponsored by the Music Department, offers
live musical performances for Brooklyn Campus students
and faculty as well as for the surrounding community,
free of charge. The series is currently in its 12th year.
Musicians present
their works and interact with their audience. The performances
take place on Tuesdays at 4 pm in the Triangle Theater.
Past performers
have included Tito Puente, Kenny Baron, Joe Chambers, Manny
Albam, Donald Byrd, and Slide Hampton. |
Latin
American & Caribbean Studies Program: Conferences,
Seminars, Lectures, and Cultural Events.
The LACS program,
initiated in 1999, organizes conferences, seminars, cultural
events, and lectures each semester, bringing the richness
of the region’s politics, history, art, literature,
and languages to the LIU community. Themes of LACS
events have included the quest for human rights in post-dictatorship
societies; the Battle of Vertières and the Haitian
bicentennial; the Vieques crisis in Puerto Rico; the
U.S. intervention in Guatemala in 1954; the Dominican
crisis of 1965; the role of the university in Central
America; indigenous identity and rights; and an original
play entitled “Alma de Cuba” performed by
Teatro Milagro. LACS also has cosponsored readings
with Voices of the Rainbow.
Speakers have
included Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú,
the Guatemalan indigenous leader; Dominican journalist
and former government official Hamlet Hermann; and former
Guatemalan minister Alfonso Bauer Paiz.
LACS events have
drawn students, faculty, and administrators of LIU as well
as surrounding communities in New York. |
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High School Dance Workshop, sponsored By LIU Brooklyn
Dance Department, affords New York high school students
an opportunity to participate in a free workshop series
in dance technique. Twenty to thirty dance students from
New York City high schools participate each week. An audition
is required for entrance. Workshops are held on Saturdays
from 10:30 to noon in the Triangle Theater. Dance students
are provided with technical knowledge of dance and an opportunity
to meet students from across New York City and Long Island.
Participating schools include John Dewey High School, Sheepshead
Bay High School, Benjamin Cardozo High School, Erasmus
Hall High School, St. Joseph's High School, and Brooklyn
Technical High School. |
Voices of
the Rainbow: Celebrating the Oral Tradition, sponsored
by the English Department, is a poetry reading series
currently in its 4th year.
The series features
poets of various nationalities, racial, ethnic, and linguistic
backgrounds who are excellent at their craft as well as
talented, spirited performers. While the series is geared
toward Brooklyn Campus students, it also serves as a cultural
link between the campus and the urban, diverse community
in which it is situated.
Past program participants
have included Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, Amiri Baraka,
Nicholasa Mohr, Claude Brown, Yelena Khanga, Edwidge Danticat,
Kimiko Hahn, Cheryl Clarke, Yevgeni Yevtushenko and Paul
Keens-Douglas. |
| Women's Studies
Speakers' Series, sponsored by the new Program in Women's
Studies, just conclued its first year of thought-provoking
talks and presentations by faculty, administrators and
invited guests. Topics have included women and disabilities,
women in science, and African American women pioneers. |
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