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September 2018
Improv for Everyone
If you are new or want to tune your tools, our introduction to improv concentrates on connections and how to stay grounded. We’ll focus on character creation, object/environment work, and most importantly, working as an ensemble. We believe improvisation can be used in everyday life; whether you are performing on the stage, priming for an audition, or connecting with co-workers.
Read More…La Bruja
Nuyorican Poets Cafe at The Sheen Center presents Caridad de la Luz a.k.a. “La Bruja” (The “Good” Witch), Puerto Rican poet, actress and activist.
Read More…Jesuits & Jedi Episode II: The Dominicans Strike Back!
Join us as we return to “a galaxy far, far away” for a lively discussion about philosophy, faith and the Force.
Read More…October 2018
Alfred E. Smith: The Man Behind the Dinner
Join Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, and renowned authors, historians and professors, Terrence Golway and Robert Slayton in a panel discussion exploring the man behind the famous Alfred E. Smith Dinner.
Read More…reg e gaines
Nuyorican Poets Cafe at The Sheen Center presents poet, author, and playwright reg e gaines
Read More…The Great Books Series
Three outstanding Catholic novels, beginning with Graham Greene’s masterpiece, “The End of the Affair” continuing with Evelyn Waugh’s classic, “Brideshead Revisited”, and concluding with Walker Percy’s “The Thanatos Syndrome”
Read More…Third Time’s the Charm: A Night of Poetry with Sarah Kay, Anis Mojgani, Clint Smith and Hanif Abdurraqib
A night of poetry with Sarah Kay, Anis Mojgani, Clint Smith, and Hanif Abdurraqib—four incredible poets whose work covers the sadness, fears, anxieties, and joys of living in this wild world.
Read More…The John Courtney Murray, S.J., Lecture
Speaker: Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute
Read More…Author’s Night: Juan Williams
Join bestselling author, FOX News political analyst, and civil rights expert, Juan Williams, as he discusses his new book.
Read More…14th Annual African American Literary Awards Show
First presented in 2004, the African American Literary Award Show is an entertainment event production and marketing company with a focus on writers and authors. It produces an annual Literary Awards Show to recognize, honor, celebrate and promote the outstanding achievements and contributions that African-American authors and writers make to the publishing, arts and entertainment … Read more
Read More…Called by God: An Evening with Mother Dolores Hart
Join author Rachael Collins and former Hollywood actress Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B., for an evening celebrating the joyful journey of finding your purpose in life. Rachael Collins, the author of Called By God: Discernment and Preparation for Religious Life, will share how young people can discover their personal vocation through prayer, relationships, and work, and … Read more
Read More…John Patrick Shanley – NYC Workshop
Pulitzer Prize, Tony- and Academy Award-winning writer and director John Patrick Shanley in his very first New York workshop.
Read More…The 2018 Albacete Lecture on Faith and Culture
Freedom from Reality? A lecture by D. C. Schindler, on the essence of freedom and its forgotten origins
Read More…Page Meets Stage with Sharon Olds & Ocean Vuong
The iconic Sharon Olds meets one of her star former students at NYU, Ocean Vuong, and the two trade poems all night long. Hosted by Taylor Mali.
Read More…November 2018
Backstage Broadway: Come From Away
Chad Kimball, the Tony nominated actor who plays Kevin in “Come From Away,” will interview himself as Kevin tells his story of how Gander’s compassion, then and now, ignited a spirit of kindness that renewed Kevin’s spirituality and inspired a new tradition of an annual “giving back” day that has since spread.
Read More…December 2018
Annual Fulton Sheen Lecture
Come celebrate the life and legacy of Archbishop Fulton Sheen!
Read More…Author’s Night: Jonah Goldberg
With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture, two-time New York Times bestselling author, syndicated columnist, National Review senior editor, Jonah Goldberg makes the timely case that America and other democracies are in peril as they lose the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity.
Read More…Radical Love: Catholic Women Speak
Join authors Leah Libresco Sargeant; Eve Tushnet and Kerry Weber for a vivid discussion on the Church today.
Read More…Faith and Duty: The Role of Spirituality in Times of War
This panel discussion will examine the role that faith plays in times of war. Beginning the conversation with the rise of the chaplain corps during the First World War, a group of academics, religious, and current duty military will speak about the importance for caring for the spiritual well being of soldiers in the face … Read more
Read More…Civility in America: On Campus
Princeton Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West discuss the importance of freedom of speech in the search for truth, both on campus and in wider society
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