Globally Connected @ FIT: Shibori, Cultures in Cloth
2025-05-06 13:00 - 13:45 (America/New_York) | Virtual event
Clockwise from top left: Wada, Osako, Kawamura, and Salama.
Join us for a virtual conversation featuring FIT Professor Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, the World Shibori Network Foundation’s Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada and David Salama, and FIT student Nana Osako.
Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada is a scholar, curator, artist, and exponent of traditional and contemporary textile art and design. She is the founder of Shi⧫Bo⧫Ri by World Shibori Network Foundation.
Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura is a professor of Sociology in the Social Sciences Department.
David Salama is an artist by training with a BFA in Graphic Design from Tyler School of Art and a deep interest in all the arts.
Nana Osako is currently enrolled in the Textile/Surface Design BFA program at FIT.
Globally Connected @ FIT is hosted by the Office of International Programs, History of Art, and the Cultural Fellows.
This virtual event is free and open to the public; register on the Globally Connected webpage.

The Future of Fashion: 2025 BFA Fashion Show
2025-05-08 19:00 - 20:00 | NY
The best work of students in FIT’s Fashion Design Bachelor of Fine Arts program is presented every spring in a professional runway show, selected by faculty and industry critics. Degree specializations include sportswear, special occasion, knitwear, and intimate apparel. Find out more at fitnyc.edu/fof.
Join the livestream at 7 pm.
The Future of Fashion is an invitation-only event; however, it will be streamed live.

FIT Theatre Club Presents: Spring Awakening
2025-05-08 19:00 - 22:00 | Haft Theater, Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, 10001, United States
May 8–10
FIT Theatre Club presents Spring Awakening, a groundbreaking rock musical that follows a group of teenagers in 19th-century Germany as they navigate the struggles of self-discovery, repression, and rebellion in a society that silences them. With a powerful contemporary score, the show explores the exhilaration and heartbreak of coming of age in a world that refuses to listen.
Content and Trigger Warnings: Spring Awakening contains strong language, mentions of abortion, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as depictions of violence, suicide and sexual content.
Performances take place on May 8, 9, and 10 at 7 pm in the Haft Theater; doors open at 6:30 pm.
This event is free for the FIT community; tickets for the public are “pay what you can.”
Members of the FIT community should RSVP for the May 8 show on CORQ/FITLink; members of the public must use this form to RSVP.

FIT Theatre Club Presents: Spring Awakening
2025-05-09 19:00 - 22:00 | Haft Theater, Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, 10001, United States
May 8–10
FIT Theatre Club presents Spring Awakening, a groundbreaking rock musical that follows a group of teenagers in 19th-century Germany as they navigate the struggles of self-discovery, repression, and rebellion in a society that silences them. With a powerful contemporary score, the show explores the exhilaration and heartbreak of coming of age in a world that refuses to listen.
Content and Trigger Warnings: Spring Awakening contains strong language, mentions of abortion, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as depictions of violence, suicide and sexual content.
Performances take place on May 8, 9, and 10 at 7 pm in the Haft Theater; doors open at 6:30 pm.
This event is free for the FIT community; tickets for the public are “pay what you can.”
Members of the FIT community should RSVP for the May 9 show on CORQ/FITLink; members of the public must use this form to RSVP.

FIT Theatre Club Presents: Spring Awakening
2025-05-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Haft Theater, Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, 10001, United States
May 8–10
FIT Theatre Club presents Spring Awakening, a groundbreaking rock musical that follows a group of teenagers in 19th-century Germany as they navigate the struggles of self-discovery, repression, and rebellion in a society that silences them. With a powerful contemporary score, the show explores the exhilaration and heartbreak of coming of age in a world that refuses to listen.
Content and Trigger Warnings: Spring Awakening contains strong language, mentions of abortion, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as depictions of violence, suicide and sexual content.
Performances take place on May 8, 9, and 10 at 7 pm in the Haft Theater; doors open at 6:30 pm.
This event is free for the FIT community; tickets for the public are “pay what you can.”
Members of the FIT community should RSVP for the May 10 show on CORQ/FITLink; members of the public must use this form to RSVP.
