November 12, 2009

Barnard College

Immigrants Negotiating "Illegality"

12:00 PM

West 117th Street and Broadway, 101 Barnard Hall, Manhattan

As part of the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s lunchtime lecture series, Jacqueline Olvera, term assistant professor at Barnard, examines how migrants, who are socially invisible yet physically present, negotiate the illegality in their everyday lives. Olvera garnered the Russel Sage Foundation Award for her studies on ethnic identities.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 854-2067 or visit

www.barnard.edu/bcrw

The New School

The Internet as Factory and Playground: A Conference on Labor in the Digital Age

5:00 PM

The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue, Room 101, Manhattan

This 3-day conference at The New School seeks to advance the conversation about digital media beyond technological advances and commercial applications to touch upon vital issues facing the future of Internet users, including social participation, exploitation of online play, data-lock, access across race and class, the working conditions.

FREE For more information, please visit

www.digitallabor.org

Poets House

A Reading and Conversation with Angela Jackson and Patricia Spears Jones

7:00 PM

Poets House, 10 River Terrace, Manhattan

Chicago writer Angela Jackson joins poet Patricia Spears Jones for a reading and conversation about their respective writings, including Jackson’s new novel "Where I Must Go." Cosponsored by Cave Canem.

Admission: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members and Cave Canem Fellows. For more information, please call

(212) 431-7920 or visit

www.poetshouse.org

*Brooklyn College Department of Theater

Caryl Churchill’s “Top Girls”

7:30 PM

Gershwin Theater, 2900 Campus Road, Brooklyn

Brooklyn College presents “Top Girls” by Caryl Churchill and directed by Mary Beth Easley. In this production lost souls collide in a Bronx bar where the jukebox is out and the plants have all died. Delve into the hearts and dreams of five memorable characters desperately seeking deliverance.

Admission: $15; $6 for students. For more information, please call

(718) 951-4500 or visit

www.Brooklyn.CUNY.edu

*Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning

Son De Madre

7:30 PM

153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Queens

With members from Cuba, Argentina, Israel, Puerto Rico and the United States, Son De Madre is a Latin band with an international flavor. The band’s style is based on Cuban music (son, chachacha, mambo, bolero, timba) infused with other influences (jazz, funk, brazilian). Reservations are required.

FREE For more information, please call

(718) 618-6170 or visit

www.JCAL.org