Events

This four-session participatory workshop is for teachers of all grades, when we, and those we teach, are given the opportunity to explore, the many qualities and marvels of knowing, that is the natural world, through our own ability to imagine, to play, and express the very wonderment of our shared lives - within, all that is alive.

This series is being underwritten by The Touchstone Center for Children. Sarah Lawrence is an Approved CTLE Sponsor and offers 6 CTLE hours for this program. Registration Fee: $20.00 for the four sessions.

The talk will use the author’s novella trilogy THE LIES OF THE AJUNGO, as well as other works of fantasy, to discuss mythology as an effective tool for social criticism and the various ways it is used in contemporary fantasy literature.

Moses Ose Utomi MFA ’15 is a Nigerian-American fantasy writer and nomad currently based out of San Diego, California. He has an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and short fiction publications in Fireside Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and more. He is the author of the young adult fantasy novel DAUGHTERS OF ODUMA and the fantasy novella trilogy THE FOREVER DESERT. When he’s not writing, he’s traveling, training martial arts, or doing karaoke—with or without a backing track.

Fiction MFA alums Nicole Haroutunian MFA ’08 and Vanessa Lawrence MFA ’22 read from their recently published novels and discuss the evolution of their books from early drafts to post-MFA support and publication.

Nicole Haroutunian MFA ’08 is the author of the novel-in-stories Choose This Now (Noemi Press, 2024) and the story collection Speed Dreaming (Little a, 2015). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Story, The Georgia Review, the Bennington Review, Post Road, Tin House's Open Bar, and elsewhere. A Sarah Lawrence College MFA alum, she edited the long-running digital arts platform Underwater New York with three fellow SLC writers, Nicole Miller, Helen Georgas, and Nicki Pombier, and co-founded the reading series Halfway There with SLC writer Apryl Lee (who also narrates the Choose This Now audiobook). She works in museum education and lives with her family in Woodside, Queens in New York City.

Vanessa Lawrence MFA ’22 is a writer, editor, and native New Yorker. For nearly two decades she covered the arts, fashion, beauty, design, and New York society as a staff writer for publications including Women’s Wear Daily and W Magazine. She has a BA in history from Yale University and an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her debut novel, Ellipses, will be published by Dutton on March 5th. Ellipses has been chosen by Electric Literature as a "Queer Book You Need to Read" in 2024 and by Vogue as a "Best Book of 2024 (So Far)."

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Join the graduating MFA class of 2024 in a fusion of artistic research and practice. Throughout this year, students have engaged in a variety of generative formats, culminating in a festival of 30-minute original pieces. Each project, whether a solo endeavor or a collaborative effort, highlights our students embodiment of the full spectrum of their creative and production skills.

Thursday, March 21, 7 pm
Ghost Love by Nicki Miller
Love That Red by Maegan Murphy

REGISTER HERE.

Join the graduating MFA class of 2024 in a fusion of artistic research and practice. Throughout this year, students have engaged in a variety of generative formats, culminating in a festival of 30-minute original pieces. Each project, whether a solo endeavor or a collaborative effort, highlights our students embodiment of the full spectrum of their creative and production skills.

Friday, March 22, 7 pm
Heartstrings by Julia VanTrees Cowitt
Sunbeam by K Stanger

REGISTER HERE.

Join the graduating MFA class of 2024 in a fusion of artistic research and practice. Throughout this year, students have engaged in a variety of generative formats, culminating in a festival of 30-minute original pieces. Each project, whether a solo endeavor or a collaborative effort, highlights our students embodiment of the full spectrum of their creative and production skills.

Saturday, March 23, 3 pm
Heartstrings by Julia VanTrees Cowitt
Sunbeam by K Stanger

REGISTER HERE.

Join the graduating MFA class of 2024 in a fusion of artistic research and practice. Throughout this year, students have engaged in a variety of generative formats, culminating in a festival of 30-minute original pieces. Each project, whether a solo endeavor or a collaborative effort, highlights our students embodiment of the full spectrum of their creative and production skills.

Saturday, March 23, 7 pm
Ghost Love by Nicki Miller
Love That Red by Maegan Murphy

REGISTER HERE.

The Sarah Lawrence College Dancefilm Festival, celebrating its eighth year in 2024, includes short dance films in multiple genres by current students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Sarah Lawrence College. 

This year's festival features work by: Zenobia Abudu-Abrams '26, Conner Crosby '24, Alisha Desai '06, Kivarah De Luca '24, Mateo Dominguez '24, Jonathan González MFA '15, Asia Harris '27, Chia-Ying Kao MFA '12, Milla Matallana '27, Maggie McCullough '24, Carissa Sky '25, Alaina Wilson MFA '18, Yitong Zhu MFA '25

Screenings will be followed by a panel discussion.

The festival is organized and curated by students and staff. REGISTER HERE. 

Join us for the opening of Groundings, the final of four exhibitions on the theme of Care and Climate Justice, and a roundtable discussion with artists Shanequa Benitez, Emily Johnson, Courtney Desiree Morris, Sarah Rosalena, Laia Cabrera, and Isabelle Duverger. Through their diverse lenses, the artists will discuss ways of thinking, sensing, and responding to our environmental crisis beyond the registers of urgency and anxiety that dominate current discourse, and consider the ways that art relates to questions of care and justice under the conditions of racial capitalism and settler colonialism. Care in this sense includes practices of grief, remembrance, attention, slowness, kinship, and expansive imagination and Indigenous storytelling in anticipation of other futures. 

This series is co-curated by Sarah Hamill and Izzy Lockhart and presented by a Humanities For All Times grant from the Mellon Foundation to teach climate justice across the humanities at Sarah Lawrence and Bronx Community College.

REGISTER HERE.

Join us for a craft talk by Writing Institute instructor Margo Steines, author of Brutalities: A Love Story.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Co-sponsored by the MFA Writing Program and the Writing Institute. Register for Zoom livestream HERE. 

Join us for a reading by Writing Institute instructor Margo Steines, author of Brutalities: A Love Story.

Margo Steines will read from her debut memoir-in-essays Brutalities: A Love Story, followed by a brief audience Q&A. Books sales and signing to follow.

Margo Steines is the author of Brutalities: A Love Story from W.W. Norton. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Arizona and lives and writes in Tucson. Her work was named Notable in Best American Essays 2021 and has appeared in The Sun, Brevity, The New York Times (Modern Love), Slate, Airmail, the anthology Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us, and elsewhere.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Co-sponsored by the MFA Writing Program and the Writing Institute.

In conversation with Philipp Nielsen, history faculty and the Adda Bozeman Chair in International Relations, Jodi Rudoren, Editor-in-Chief of the Forward and bureau chief of The New York Times in Jerusalem from 2012 until 2016, will discuss the role of American media in shaping U.S. perceptions and politics towards the Middle East.