Spring 2019 Academic Open Mic Night

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York, NY, United States

It’s time for Academic Open Mic night, where faculty members can showcase their projects and interests. Share your research, propose a project collaboration, pitch an idea, or display an artistic or performance-based talent. All faculty are welcome to attend to watch and support their colleagues at the mic; food and drinks will be provided. Cocktail hour […]

Film and Media Screening Series: ‘Beautiful Things,’ with Giorgio Ferrero

Film and Media Screening Room D207 Pomerantz Center, New York City , NY, United States

The Film and Media Screening Series will present Beautiful Things (2017) with director Giorgio Ferrero; he will participate in a Q&A after the film. Beautiful Things is a symphonic documentary journey into our obsessive consumerism. The film follows four men who work in isolation at remote scientific and industrial sites around the world. Like monks, they carry […]

Denim Day

For this event we ask that all members of the FIT community make a social statement with their fashion by wearing jeans on this day as a visible means of protest against the misconceptions that surround sexual assault. The information provided here is taken from denimdayinfo.org. “Denim Day is a worldwide initiative to prevent sexual violence […]

FIT International Dance Festival

Haft Theater Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, United States

In its ninth year, the International Dance Festival aims to showcase FIT’s dance and cultural curriculum to the community and beyond. The following performers are expected to participate: Masami Morimoto (Japanese musician) FIT Gospel Choir Gamin (Korean flute player) Aria Entertainment (Russian dance) Aliesha Bryan (flamenco dancer) Bahar Dance Ensemble (Persian group) PAKA (Passing Ancestral […]

SUNY’s Got Your Back, with Activist Zeke Thomas

Various locations on campus Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York City, NY, United States

SUNY’s Got Your Back provides the opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to create comfort kits for victims and survivors of violence, and to learn methods of better preventing and responding to violence, as together we work to build a New York where these bags are no longer needed. Join us on Thursday, April 25, […]