This Week in the OpenLab! April 8th Edition

Upcoming Event:  Literary Arts Festival 2014!

The annual City Tech Literary Arts Festival Approaches!

City Tech will host its 33rd Annual Literary Arts Festival on Thursday, April 10, 5:30 p.m., in Midway Auditorium, 240 Jay Street, Downtown Brooklyn. The poet Cornelius Eady will be this year’s guest speaker. The event is free and open to the public.

Eady is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Kartunes (1980), Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985; Lamont Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets), BOOM, BOOM, BOOM: A Chapbook(1988), The Gathering of My Name (1992; Pulitzer Prize nominee), You Don’t Miss Your Water (1995), the autobiography of a jukebox (1997), Brutal Imagination(2001; National Book Award in Poetry finalist), andHardheaded Weather (2008).  He is the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and NEA fellowships, as well as founder of Cave Canem Foundation, a nonprofit organization for black poets.

In addition to reading his work, Eady will perform with two members of his band “Rough Magic:” Concetta Abbate on violin and Charlie Rauh on guitar.

City Tech’s Literary Arts Festival is a long-standing tradition that celebrates student writing and features a special guest speaker, along with student readings and performances. For more information about the event, contact Professor Caroline Hellman at 718.260.4975 or chellman@citytech.cuny.edu. Join the Festival OpenLab site at https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/literary-arts-festival/.

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Featured Course:  LIB 1201 – Research and Documentation for the Information Age 

This week we’re featuring Ian Beilin’s Research and Documentation for the Information Age.  We’re particularly interested in how successfully Professor Beilin has gotten his students to be honest and reflective in their comments on their own research process.  “To be honest, I feel like my brain is about to pop,” one student writes–and then several students offer thoughts and advice, sympathizing and even drawing on their own lives to help!  It’s really wonderful to see:  Drawing students’ struggles with their own work into the course, making it a course subject, and watching them strategize potential solutions together is exactly what the OpenLab is about.

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Featured Club:  Philosophy Club!

Someone very smart and interesting here at the City Tech OpenLab has started a Philosophy Club–we’re not going to say we know who, but we will say that he or she knows tons about philosophy, and you all should join the club!