The Festival of New

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

91% of Wikipedia editors identify as White and 77% identify as men. This edit-a-thon offers editing training to create and improve upon Wikipedia articles about Black artists. A list of suggested artists to add or edit will be provided, with particular focus on Black artists who have worked within or are local to The New School’s community and are currently under-documented on Wikipedia.

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

Learn about the creative process behind some of the most influential social justice artworks of our time and design your own with the help of Amplifier's Deputy Director, Cleo Barnett. Get inspiration from the strategic framework of Amplifier's media experiments and join a conversation about the power of art to shift culture.

All making materials will be provided along with light snacks and beverages. All experience levels welcome. 

Some of the most costly mistakes people make are the result of forgetfulness.

Every day, we’re sprinting to catch up with new technology, new people, new ideas. We live in a world of constant change — at school, at work, even in our personal lives. You may feel overwhelmed by the growing data overload and the need to learn and recall huge amounts of information. How can you stay on top and deal with it all?

In this session, Jim Kwik, a leading memory and brain performance expert, will share simple proven strategies that will allow you to succeed and thrive in the face of information overload. He will show you how to retain the ideas and insights you will be exposed to at this event.

Develop the ability to:

• Remember the names of everyone you meet 
• Master any subject or skill more quickly
•  Eliminate mental fog, fatigue, and forgetfulness to improve your performance and increase your productivity 

In today's fast-changing knowledge economy, a top competitive advantage is the ability to remember. Get ready to upgrade your brain in a memory training you will never forget.

Learn about the creative process behind some of the most influential social justice artworks of our time and design your own with the help of Amplifier's Deputy Director, Cleo Barnett. Get inspiration from the strategic framework of Amplifier's media experiments and join a conversation about the power of art to shift culture.

All making materials will be provided along with light snacks and beverages. All experience levels welcome. 

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

91% of Wikipedia editors identify as White and 77% identify as men. This edit-a-thon offers editing training to create and improve upon Wikipedia articles about Black artists. A list of suggested artists to add or edit will be provided, with particular focus on Black artists who have worked within or are local to The New School’s community and are currently under-documented on Wikipedia.

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

Have you ever failed? Well, if so, you have something in common with the most creative people in the world. Over the last seven years, Parsons faculty John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have interviewed creative practitioners to see how they manage the inevitable failures involved in their work. Their secret? Iteration. Or in the words of Samuel Beckett, learning to "fail better.”

Join Macklin and Sharp in a hands-on creativity workshop to imagine a better future through failing better. The workshop will use techniques learned from a variety of fields and practitioners—from chefs to skateboarders, filmmakers to winemakers, and toy designers to comedians.

What steps can be taken to (re)design our lives and careers? Through small group interactive sessions, led by Open Campus faculty, attendees re-envision their lives and evaluate their career goals.

This workshop led by nationally recognized professional educators will introduce or re-enforce concepts of experiential learning using archival documentation from the Rockefeller Archive's dossiers on refugee scholars, many of whom accepted teaching positions at The New School for Social Research after the University in Exile was founded in 1933. Participants inhabit the role of philanthropic foundation officials reviewing applications for academic asylum in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. The Rockefeller Foundation financially supported endangered European scholars and made what became the Graduate Faculty of The New School possible. More info: https://rockfound.rockarch.org/refugee-scholar-program. Appropriate for undergraduates and novice researchers through experienced historians and educators.

Listen to WSNR New School Radio's feature on The Refugee Scholars Project here!

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

Join artist Lucia Cuba to make your own garment emblazoned with a slogan or story addressing the issues most important to you.

This workshop led by nationally recognized professional educators will introduce or re-enforce concepts of experiential learning using archival documentation from the Rockefeller Archive's dossiers on refugee scholars, many of whom accepted teaching positions at The New School for Social Research after the University in Exile was founded in 1933. Participants inhabit the role of philanthropic foundation officials reviewing applications for academic asylum in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. The Rockefeller Foundation financially supported endangered European scholars and made what became the Graduate Faculty of The New School possible. More info: https://rockfound.rockarch.org/refugee-scholar-program. Appropriate for undergraduates and novice researchers through experienced historians and educators.

Listen to WSNR New School Radio's feature on The Refugee Scholars Project here!

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

Make something new out of something old—literally! Visit The New School Archives and make a zine out of repurposed, duplicate,and weeded archival materials dating back to the 1950s.

While supplies last. There will be a special skills workshop on Tuesday, October 1 led by The New School graduate Ari Spool. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited to 15 participants per hour so be sure to signup!

The Museum of Capitalism seeks donations of objects, documents, and other artifacts from the era of capitalism, or other items of historical interest, to be considered for inclusion in the museum’s exhibitions and related programming. Individuals who possess items related to the history or memory of capitalism, or tied to a personal experience that could help others to understand or feel how life was lived under capitalism, are invited to come forward and share their stories with museum curators.

Artifacts may be printed materials, three-dimensional objects, or entire collections, and may consist of documents, correspondence, diaries, clothing, uniforms, and textiles, photographs and moving images, advertisements, trade publications and promotional materials, currencies, receipts, and other elements of consumer exchange, and samples of raw materials, finished products, or fragments of capitalist production.
All participants who submit an item for consideration receive photographic documentation of their item, whether or not the museum wishes to catalog the object for its collection. Donors are asked to complete a short questionnaire about their donations, and museum curators and volunteers will conduct short interviews with selected participants.

Those who make an appointment or bring in items are under no obligation to donate the items, and the personal preferences and privacy of donors will be respected at all times.
Please note: The Museum of Capitalism cannot accept unsolicited donations through the mail or in-person without prior acknowledgement and approval by museum staff, and reserves the right to dispose of unsolicited items. The Museum of Capitalism is unable to answer queries regarding the authentication and appraisal of artifacts.

Drop-in hours are 4 – 6pm on Friday, October 4, 2019. To ensure museum curators and staff have time to give items proper consideration. Advance appointments are strongly recommended. To book an advance appointment, please visit our website or email collections@museumofcapitalism.org.

This event is part of the exhibition Museum of Capitalism at The New School, which appears at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, from October 30 – December 11, 2019. More information on the exhibition and related programming can be found at the Museum of Capitalism New York City page.

The Museum of Capitalism’s appearance in New York City is supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School for Social Research, Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts at The New School, and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design. Part of a year-long collaboration between the artist collective FICTLIS and faculty and students at The New School, the museum’s programming includes an exhibition, film screenings, workshops, talks, and other events. Find out more at museumofcapitalism.org.

Interested donors who cannot make the in-person appointment times in New York may still participate by using the Artifact Inquiry Form on the museum’s website.

Join us in Strand's Rare Book Room for the writing time you've been waiting for! Writers of all levels are invited to sit and submit original works in response to prompts provided by some of our favorite authors. This will be uninterrupted writing time, surrounded by decades of treasured stories. Participants are invited to submit their works for a chance to be featured on Strand's blog and win a Strand gift card.

Additionally, Moleskine will be present with a personalization machine! Free personalization + Strand tote bag are available with purchase of a moleskine notebook for all your writing, drawing and creative needs!

Friday afternoon drinks provided.

The intangible space of the internet has propelled the most significant cultural shift of the twenty-first century producing, consequently, viral fashion imagery becoming treasured design objects. A cross-disciplinary workshop on using critical design to generate new perspectives on the ubiquitous Internet’s influence on fashion expressions, representations and creativities. It aims at generating alternative future possibilities on the seemingly unavoidable trend of  self-digitization.

Participants of various creative disciplines are to be recruited to engage with the issues creatively in a fashion context. Apart from getting a taste of using fashion to contest realities, the last part of the session will be focused on the fusion of all disciplines. Participants will be encouraged to infuse elements from their disciplines from the curatorial, the spatial, the interactive, the performative and so on as an extension of their creative visions.

Collaborators: Marie Genevieve Cyr, Assistant Professor of Fashion Design, Parsons School of Design, and Carrie Chan, Design Trust / Royal College of Art Fellow in Design Curation