Like an illustrated lecture run amok, Katia Louise's "Saving America's Horses: A Nation Betrayed" pours forth a torrential hodgepodge of statistics, superimposed graphics, songs and disturbing video to denounce the nation's equine slaughter industry.
The "Day" visual works are displayed in four sites throughout the city; the "Night" portion is a series of performances, concerts, films and lectures running every evening except Mondays.
'Great Decisions 2003' The World Affairs Forum has begun a free series of "Great Decisions 2003" lectures, running weekly at noon at the Ferguson Library in Stamford and at Christ Church Parish Hall, sponsored by the Greenwich Library, in Greenwich.
She says she's had to go from single-tasking student to parallel-processing professor whose days are divided across multiple endeavors preparing lectures, running a lab, writing proposals, editing papers, attending meetings, sitting in on thesis defenses for students who will one day follow in her shoes.
In addition, several works of Epicurus, including parts of his major treatise, On Nature (Peri phuseôs) — a series of lectures running to 37 papyrus rolls — have been recovered in damaged condition from the library of a villa in the town of Herculaneum, which was buried in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E.
The lectures run from noon to 1; admission is free; reservations are required.
The Institute and Festival, at Mannes College the New School for Music, is an annual series of workshops, master classes and lectures run by the pianist Marc Ponthus.
During the 2019 calendar year and in conjunction with the Zero-G and Outer Space courses, visiting artists will give lectures, run workshops, lead informal discussions with students about their research and host a movie screening with a Q&A.
It's all pleasurably ridiculous, as is the show's central stunt, which pitches Sweet into the unknown when, just as the Nottingham did, his lecture runs aground.
The free lecture series running through all three days of the fair offers the ideal promotional opportunity.
