Culture Counts in NYC

HR73 classmates and their guests are invited to join us in New York City for the Culture Counts kick-off weekend celebration. The weekend begins Thursday afternoon at the Jewish Museum for a tour led by our classmate and Jewish Museum Executive Director James Snyder, followed by a panel discussion around the arts, humanities, and suppression of free thought, and a festive dinner at the Museum's restaurant, LOX.

Friday morning we meet at the offices of PEN America, an organization at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression. There, a fiction and publishing panel will discuss the importance of storytelling and storytellers in promoting and defending humanistic values in a cultural climate bent on muzzling them. After lunch, enjoy a gallery crawl and in the evening, live music. On Saturday we will have a free morning and then enjoy an off-Broadway matinee.

Interspersed, we will find time for casual gatherings and meals.

You have the ability to register for three events:

1. The 4/16 evening and dinner at the Jewish Museum (this costs $125).
2. The 4/18 matinee performance of What We Did Before Our Moth Days, by Wallace Shawn (this costs $150).
3. Attending the 4/16 - 4/18 weekend (this is a free registration and does not mean you are committing to attending every event).

Tentative Calendar (subject to change):

Thursday, 4/16:

• 4:00pm: gather in the Salon at Jewish Museum
• 4:30pm - 5:30pm: Guided gallery tour with James Snyder '73
• 5:45 - 6:45pm: panel in Salon. This will be a panel of classmates discussing art and activism.
• 7:00pm - dinner in LOX at the Jewish Museum.

Friday, 4/17:

• 10:00am - 12:00pm: "Publish, Protest, and Protect: Storytelling and Storytellers in Defense of Humanistic Values" panel at PEN America
• Afternoon: Visit art galleries - more information TBD
• Evening: Music, with recommendations from Jerome Harris '73 - more information TBD.

Saturday, 4/18:

• 1:00pm: Matinee, What We Did Before Our Moth Days by Wallace Shawn, Greenwich House Theater.