Two Free Cultural Events at Rutgers University – Newark
The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University presents two great, FREE events to be held at Rutgers University campus in Newark. But Where is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac will be held on Wednesday, September 17th and Cross-Currents: A Concert of Traditional & Contemporary Chinese Dance with Nai Ni Chen Dance Company will be held the following Wednesday on September 24th. Details are below:
But Where is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac
Wednesday September 17, 2014
6:00 – 8:00pm
Dana Room
Dana Library, Rutgers University-Newark
185 University Ave, Newark, NJ 07102
The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience proudly presents the distinguished historian and writer Rutgers Professor James Goodman in an interfaith discussion of the compelling and resonant story of God’s command to Abraham that he sacrifice his son, Isaac. It is a story that journeys from its Biblical origin to its important place in the world’s three monotheistic religions.Professor Goodman will be joined by Imam W. Deen Shareef of Newark Interfaith Coalition for Hope and Peace, Rabbi Clifford Kulwin of Congregation B’nai Abraham, and Dr. Gregg Mast, the President of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary.
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Cross-Currents: A Concert of Traditional & Contemporary Chinese Dance with Nai Ni Chen Dance Company
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
7:30 pm
Bradley Hall Theater
110 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Cross-Currents: A Symposium on Traditional & Contemporary Chinese Dance. On September 24, 2014, the Institute’s fall Dance Symposium will feature the renowned New Jersey ensemble, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. Nai-Ni Chen will present a full concert, choreographed by Ms. Chen, exploring both traditional Chinese dance and its influence on contemporary works.
Working with our community partner, the Boys & Girls Club of Newark, the Institute will also facilitate a class with Nai Ni Chen on the Chinese tradition of “Ribbon Dancing” for the center’s After-School program, as part of the Dance Symposium.
The dances of Nai-Ni Chen fuse the dynamic freedom of American modern dance with the grace and splendor of Asian art. The Company’s productions take the audience beyond cultural boundaries to where tradition meets innovation and freedom arises from discipline. Presented by some of the most prestigious concert halls in the United States , from the Joyce Theater in New York to the Ordway Center in Minnesota and the Cerritos Center in California, the Company has mounted twenty national tours and seven tours abroad.
Cross-Currents: A Concert of Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Dance With Nai Ni Chen Dance Company is presented by the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers-Newark. The Symposium is supported in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/ Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by the Essex County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs; by an ArtStart Project Grant from the Newark Arts Council; by the Rutgers Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes; and by the Cultural Arts Programming Fund at Rutgers-Newark.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
About the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at RU
The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University-Newark is an interdisciplinary academic center that, through public partnerships and programming, offers the Newark metropolitan area the finest thinkers and artists engaged with key issues of modern life. Through an array of lectures, fellowships, symposia, film screenings, performances, exhibitions, and other programs, we foster broad public discussion on the arts and culture; urban life and development; diversity and race relations; local, national, and transnational history; and education. The Institute promotes intercultural understanding, civic and historical empathy, and community engagement as crucial elements in the development of civic life in Newark and beyond.
