Events http://www.york.cuny.edu These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. Yo Soy Latina http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/yo-soy-latina-mar25 Six “Latina” women of differing backgrounds meet in a classroom that becomes a forum for their life experiences, fears and dreams. This moving comedy/drama features a fascinating and diverse ensemble of Latinas and challenges perceptions of homogenization and cultural stereotypes.  March 19, 20, 21, 23 and 25.
Immediately following the performance on March 25, please join us, the playwright Linda Nieves-Powell, and a panel of other Latina artists for a talk back. Light refreshments will be served.

Cast of Characters:

  • Lisette Davila Rivera: 20-something wannabe actress/poet
  • Soledad Tejeda: Dominican; mother of three; divorced; late 30’s
  • Migdalia Rivera: Nuyorican; pregnant with second child; married to an African-American man; late 30’s
  • Jennifer Barriquena: 19 year-old Chicana college student
  • Alicia Blanca: Colombian; 20-something; B-List actress; the white Latina
  • Maria Elena Gonzalez: Panamanian; late 20’s; the black Latina
  • Louisa O’Brian: Cuban-Irish; corporate attorney; late 20’s
  • Casting Agent: Offstage character.
]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Performing and Fine Arts 2010-02-25T22:50:00Z Event Women in Mathematics Day http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/women-in-mathematics-day Women's History Month Event Organized by: Dr. Lidia Gonzalez and Dr. Rishi Nath.

blackboard ]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Mathematics Mathematics and Computer Studies Public 2010-03-01T17:52:26Z Event The Little School to the Strange House http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/the-little-school-to-the-strange-house From the Little School to the Strange House: A Mother/ Daughter Journey Writing against State Terrorism by Alicia Partnoy & Ruth Irupe Sanabria. No publisher miguelbernard Lecture Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Current Student 2009-03-07T00:25:00Z Event Susan M. Baer 'One Woman's Journey in the Aviation World" http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/susan-m.-baer-one-womans-journey-in-the-aviation-world Inaugural recipient of the "CUNY aviation institute award for outstanding achievement and leadership" Aviation FlyerDeputy Director/Chief Operating Officer, Aviation Department, of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Susan M. Baer is the featured speaker at the York College Executive Leadership Breakfast hosted by President Marcia V. Keizs and The CUNY Aviation Institute at York College Thursday, March 12, 2009,12:00pm - 2:00Pm, in the Faculty Dining Room, Academic Core Building, 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, NY. 

Baer is the first person to manage all of the airports for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the first woman to manage any airport. She is responsible for five Port Authority Airports – John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty International, LaGuardia, Stewart International and Teterboro Airports, which last year handled 110 million passengers on 1.5 million flights. She managed LaGuardia Airport from 1994 to 1998, Newark Liberty International and Teterboro Airports from 1998 to 2007 and John F. Kennedy International Airport from 2007 to 2008.

Baer is a 33-year veteran of the Port Authority. She began her career with the bistate agency as a management analyst. In 1985, she was promoted from manager of the Public Services Division of the Tunnels, Bridges and Terminals Department to manager of the Lincoln Tunnel. The following year she was named manager of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan, the world’s busiest transportation hub. She was the first woman ever promoted to those positions. She holds a bachelor’s degree in urban studies and anthropology from Barnard College and a master’s degree in business administration from New York University.

This event presented in conjunction with Women's History Month and the York College Chapter of Women in Aviation.

]]> No publisher Jonathan Hubbard Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Current Student Aviation Institute 2009-02-19T18:35:00Z Event Study Abroad Fair III http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/study-abroad-fair-iii-1 Get information on how to study in another country. Learn how to study abroad. Chose from over 20 countries.
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]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Student Development 2010-09-24T17:35:00Z Event Study Abroad Fair II http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/study-abroad-fair-ii-1 Get information on how to go and study in another country for a semester or more. No publisher Miguel Bernard Prospective Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Current Student 2009-09-16T22:38:45Z Event Study Abroad Fair http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/study-abroad-fair Get information on how to go and study in another country for a semester or more. No publisher Miguel Bernard Prospective Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Current Student 2008-11-24T17:40:49Z Event Storytelling Day http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/storytelling-day La soberbia culebra comes to York College. Performers:
  • Emely Grisanty
  • Xiomara Cintrón
  • Aída Alvarez
  • Sully Bonnelly

Live Music by: Carlos David Bernales

This event is organized by Prof. Margarita Drago and the students of Span 230 (Literature for Children and Adolescents)

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Current Student 2012-11-19T18:53:34Z Event Screening of "Bodies/Borders: The Journey" with filmamker Maria Viteri http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/screening-of-bodies-borders-the-journey-with-filmamker-maria-viteri Women's History Month Event. Organized by: Dr. Mark Schuller and Dr. Fabiola Fernandez Salek.

bodies border

 

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Public 2010-03-01T18:36:03Z Event Questioning the Veil: Open letters to Muslim Women http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/questioning-the-veil-open-letters-to-muslim-women Women's History Month Event. Organized by: Dr. Fabiola Fernandez Salek

questioning the veil ]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities 2010-03-01T19:43:42Z Event Poetry Contest http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/poetry-contest The Foreign Languages/ESL/Humanities Department cordially invites all students to participate in its Poetry Contest. Try out dates will be announced soon!

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Current Student 2008-11-03T16:19:27Z Event Poetry Celebration http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/poetry-celebration Event organized by the Foreign Languages Department No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities 2009-11-16T20:24:56Z Event Performance by Suki Guerrier http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/performance-by-suki-guerrier Women's Month Performance. Organized by Prof. Jasmine Narcisse and Dr. Fabiola Fernandez.

suki

Suki Guerrier

 

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Performing and Fine Arts Public Visitors 2010-03-01T06:20:34Z Event Living Poet - Nancy Morejón http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/living-poet-nancy-morejon Nancy Morejón is one of the most outstanding living poets of the Spanish language. Born in 1944 in Havana to a militant dock-worker and a trade-unionist seamstress, Morejón graduated from Havana University, where she majored in French. She was the first Black woman poet to publish widely and be accepted as a professional writer, critic, and translator. Morejón is a recipient, among many other prestigious national and international Literary prizes, of the Critic's Prize (1986) and Cuba's National Prize for Literature (2001), The Golden Wreath (Macedonia, 2006), and Rafael Alberti Literary Prize (Spain 2007). Currently, she is the President of the Association of Writers of UNEAC (Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas Cubanos). She has also collaborated with prominent musicians, playwrights, and actors, and recently extended her artistic talents into the visual arts.

Organized by: Sonia Rivera-Valdés and Fabiola Fernández Salek

Nancy Morejón

Nancy Morejón

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Public 2010-03-15T18:58:20Z Event Jazz at the Chapel http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/jazz-at-the-chapel Women's History Month Performance. Join the York College Big Band, CUNY's only undergraduate jazz ensemble, as it welcomes vocalist Diva Joan Cartwright to the new Illinios Jacquet Performance Space for an evening of jazz and blues March 4 at 7 p.m. Fresh from an appearance at Hope Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica, Joan Cartwright brings an international reputation as a jazz and blues storyteller to the intimate, new Illinois Jacquet Performance Space March 4 for the season's first Jazz at the Chapel concert. With the York College Big Band, Cartwright takes Jazz from the West Coast of Africa to the clubs of Harlem. Expect to hear a little Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday along with Duke Ellington and Fats Waller and original blues.

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Performance Visitors 2010-01-27T20:55:00Z Event