New York State Writers Institute

Join us 4:30 p.m. this Sunday for this special concert.

Edward Schwarzschild, NYS Writers Institute Fellow and director of Creative Writing at @UAlbany, interviews Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the final video event with writers who spoke with Ed's "Contemporary Writers at Work" during the Spring semester. @hmhbooks UAlbany Alumni Association https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org//a-conversation-with-w

Hey filmmakers. ICYMI, check out our Albany Film Festival conversation with Hollywood veteran & award-winning film producer/director/screenwriter Glen Trotiner and University at Albany, SUNY Professor Shira Segal. https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org//so-you-want-a-career- Cool fact: Glen is a UAlbany alumnus! UAlbany Alumni Association

120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated in the US in the early years of WWII. Please read this Q&A by our graduate assistant Kaori Otera Chen with conceptual artist Setsuko Winchester, creator of "Freedom from Fear/Yellow Bowl Project." https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org//asian-american-and-pa @SetsukoWinches1 #AAPIHeritageMonth

Writing friends and youth encouragers of the world: do you know any talented 18-to-35-year-olds whose work could fit this Award for Social Impact Writing? $5,000 prize award. (h/t to Julie C Phillips for posting this reminder on her page.)

Join us for a month-long series of programming from community partners (New York State Writers Institute, Center for Law and Justice, Albany Times Union, Justice Center of Rensselaer County, All Of Us, Youth FX, Amnesty International USA and more) that confronts systemic racism, seeks justice, and reimagines society. Then, at 9 p.m. Monday, October 26, watch a special edition of New York NOW titled The Time for Reckoning: Confronting Systemic Racism, Seeking Justice and Reimagining Society." nynow.wmht.org/timeforreckoning #TimeforReckoningNY

Watch a preview of a special edition of WMHT's statewide public affairs program New York NOW - The Time for Reckoning. The full program airing - this Monday, O...ctober 26 at 9pm - is the culmination of a two year campaign by the Center for Law and Justice to demand those in power do their part to destroy systemic racism in the Capital Region. In the time of a national conversation on systemic racism - and on the eve of the most important presidential election in recent US history, listening to the eloquent demands of Albany residents and the direct responses given by the elected officials is essential. This panel is true democracy in action, the words shared speak volumes not soundbites. We encourage residents in the Capital Region and beyond to tune in on Monday evening to listen to voices united in a conversation that has been building since 1619 towards a time of reckoning. Join us this week for part of the program, and then catch the whole symposium next week on WMHT-TV or stream it online. https://bit.ly/30Hndgt The Time for Reckoning is a special project produced by WMHT Public Media in partnership with the Albany Times Union, the Center for Law and Justice, the New York State Writers Institute, All Of Us, and other partners.

An important event for our community.

Albany community members discuss systemic racism and its impact on the community, how police departments can work to improve relationships with the community, h...ow policing could be reformed, and how to hold officers of the law accountable for their actions. Hear the full discussion with Shawn Young, Jamaica Miles, Paul Collins-Hackett, and Morgan Jones-Marinia. https://bit.ly/30Hndgt #TimeforReckoningNY See more

Something new for you. (And thanks, Andy Warhol!) We launched our "Artist to Artist: Addressing This Moment" series begins today. We're bringing together three artists -- a visual artist, a writer and a performer -- whose work has been previously presented at UAlbany for conversations about the arts in this time of the coronavirus pandemic, a reckoning on systemic racism, and civil unrest. The series addresses an urgent need for social and cultural dialogue.... Watch it at www.youtube.com/NYSWritersInstitute Today's featured guests: Baseera Khan is a Brooklyn-based artist and Muslim American who sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture in order to map geographies of the future. Nassim Soleimanpour is an Iranian playwright, theater maker, performer and artistic director of a Berlin-based theater company whose works have been translated into more than 30 languages and performed globally in over 50 countries. His play "White Rabbit, Red Rabbit" had a nine-month off-Broadway run. Damon Young is a journalist, humorist and author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker, a memoir about surviving in a world where existing while Black is an extreme sport. He is also senior editor for The Root and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine, VerySmartBrothas. The Artist to Artist series is presented by the UAlbany Art Museum, Performing Arts Center, and the NYS Writers Institute. Support provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Sunday night: Robin DiAngelo, author of "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" Premieres 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, http://youtube.com/user/NYSWritersInstitute Free and open to the public. ... Join us for this conversation with Robin DiAngelo and Alice Green, executive director of the Center for Law and Justice in Albany. See more

Cool facts for Friday: Poet Louise Glück, who was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday, has been a regular guest at our New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College, participating in nearly every one of its 34 summer sessions! And... the last American woman to win the Nobel Prize was Toni Morrison, who received the honor in 1993 when she was a professor at the University at Albany. Watch videos of Louise Glück reading her poetry and and listen ...to her early morning phone interview with a Nobel Prize staffer. Can you relate to her first remark, "I really have to have some coffee... " :-) https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org//congratulations-to-ou

Watch a presentation on "Community Policing and Police Reform," the first of many events in our monthlong The Time for Reckoning project. Video premieres at 7 p.m. tonight. You can watch later at your convenience. https://bit.ly/3dei5Wj