Tomorrow (Wednesday) — Free ARTReach Lunch and Service Trip Brainstorming Session

RSVP before the end of the day! (And just email the OSA if you don’t RSVP in time but still want to come.)
From the OSA: 

We’d like to invite you to an ARTReach Collaborative Lunch on Wednesday, December 13 from 1:00 – 2:00pm in Room 529. Lunch will be provided for you. All you need to bring is a willingness to engage in thoughtful conversation about how best to organize.

RSVP before the end of the day! (And just email the OSA if you don’t RSVP in time but still want to come.)
From the OSA:

We’d like to invite you to an ARTReach Collaborative Lunch on Wednesday, December 13 from 1:00 – 2:00pm in Room 529. Lunch will be provided for you. All you need to bring is a willingness to engage in thoughtful conversation about how best to organize.

Please RSVP here, so we can get an approximate headcount: https://goo.gl/forms/W6WvkhEQRgGuquuv2

Sing for Hope Volunteer Information Session (Dinner Served)

Year-round, Sing for Hope mobilizes artists in volunteer service in
healthcare sites throughout New York City. Opportunities include performing music at children’s hospital, creating an art project at a senior home, leading a sing-along at a cerebral palsy facility, and more! You have the power to use your talents and make the world a better place!

Juilliard students are invited to join us on November 29 to hear about this wonderful organization created by two Juilliard alumna, Monica Yunis and Camille Zamora, and how you can volunteer!

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/378597062558435/

Run The Citizen-Penguin

(if you want it)
Apply to be the next editor-in-chief of the student-run press at Juilliard by December 13

Position: Editor-in-Chief

Deadline: December 13, 2017, at midnight

Salary: Glory and low-level anxiety

To apply, write to editor AT citizenpenguin DOT com. The new editor-in-chief will be selected by electronic vote of all current students who have contributed material or assistance to The Citizen-Penguin. After that, the managing editor will be selected by the incoming and outgoing editors-in-chief (in the case of no consensus, the managing director will be selected by electronic vote of the aforementioned contributors). Together, the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor will delegate job functions of these positions: Social Media Editor, Events Editor, Contributing Editors, Media Editors.

What’s in the application?

Your name, division, and graduation year. (The only requirement: you must be a current Juilliard student.) Your application can be whatever you want—a photo essay, a paragraph, a sentence, a video, a novel, a dance, a snapchat. You can refer to the duties below, or not. (And regarding the duties below, they’re really just what I’ve done or attempted to do while Editor-in-Chief. You might do it differently.) Please make your application brief. We don’t have a lot of time, you know.

Editor-in-Chief job duties

  • Recruit your replacement (the most important part of your job)
  • Encourage peers to read, engage with and write articles & editorials on The Citizen-Penguin
  • Coordinate follow-through and deadlines with Managing Director
  • Stay informed of student and institutional issues
  • Recruit student editors and Coordinate contributors and editors
  • Connect students with similar concerns and investigate areas of concern outside your own
  • WordPress author on-boarding and final article preparation (contributors get final say in article content)
  • Stay informed of first amendment issues
  • Enforce libel/plagiarism requirements
  • Serve as liaison between The Citizen-Penguin and Juilliard’s legal and communications offices
  • Advocate for free speech at Juilliard

ChoreoComp 2017

Each fall, Juilliard dancers and composers have a unique opportunity to work together. During their third year, dance students who display promise in choreography are chosen to each create a work with a Juilliard composer that will be performed by second-year dancers; the composers are a mix of undergraduate and master’s students. ChoreoComp, the popular name of the Choreographers and Composers class, culminates in two days of performances.

Performances take place in the Wilson Theater. November 17th at 6 and 9pm, and November 18th at 2 and 8pm.

Women’s Empowerment Club First Meeting!

Feeling motivated to discuss issues pertaining to the treatment of women in our society? We have created a safe space to do exactly that! Come out this Sunday, October 29, from 6 to 7:30 pm in the SMR (room 105) for stimulating conversation, meaningful discussion, and of course pizza/snacks. ALL sexes are welcome to participate in Women’s Empowerment Club events. Come prepared to talk or listen; open up about past experiences if you’d like; scream, cry, laugh, everything! We hope to see you there.

Wednesday at 6:30pm — Spring Break Service Trip Brainstorm

New Orleans? Puerto Rico? Houston? Fundraising? Teaching? Habitat for Humanity? ARTreach? All of the above?
SERVICE BRAINSTORM, OCTOBER 11
WEDNESDAY 6:30PM, ROOM 304
Can’t go, but wanna help? Email Scout

New Orleans? Puerto Rico? Houston? Fundraising? Teaching? Habitat for Humanity? ARTreach? All of the above?
SERVICE BRAINSTORM, OCTOBER 11
WEDNESDAY 6:30PM, ROOM 304
Can’t go, but wanna help? EMAIL editor AT citizenpenguin DOT com

This isn’t an official OSA brainstorm, but the idea is that we come up with a plan or dream which we then bring to the OSA. Maybe this would be result in re-starting ARTreach, or something else entirely.

Photo: Daniel Davila. (Jasminn Johnson on a previous service trip to New Orleans.

RELATED: Save ARTreach and the NOLA Trip

Dare to Be Still

On October 4th at 10pm, over a dozen cellists from Juilliard with gather by the Reflecting Pool in order to reflect and to mourn the Las Vegas shooting, through music and through silence. You are invited to simply come. Remember that which is truly important as you dare to be still.

Tragedy sheds light on what we deem valuable. It rips us from the treadmill of daily life and forces us to acknowledge and remember that which is truly important.

And yet, despite the painful gut punch that tragedy delivers, the relentless pull of life all too often brings us back into our routine orbits before we have actually been able to truly understand the impact on both the world outside and the heart within. Our lives demand we keep moving, but our humanity pleads that we slow down, daring to be still and stand face to face with grief. Feeling pain is easy; stepping back into it is hard.

On October 4th at 10pm, over a dozen cellists from Juilliard with gather by the Reflecting Pool in order to reflect and to mourn the Las Vegas shooting, through music and through silence. You are invited to simply come. Remember that which is truly important as you dare to be still.

Student Council Opening Retreat

Sunday, October 1st, 5pm
Student Multi-Purpose Room (SMR)
Right past the security desk to the right of the lobby

FREE vegan-friendly dinner catered by Nanoosh – Mediterranean food

This retreat opens the school year activities of the Juilliard Student Council. Come to get involved, learn what projects we are working on this year, and find out about leadership opportunities. There’s already work happening around dining improvements, environmental sustainability, LGBTQ issues, racial justice organizing, and improvements to student lounge spaces in the main building. If you come, you can help us set our agenda for the year and share what projects YOU think are worth working on! Mostly, we’d love to meet you and build community together.