Friday January 10th at 7:30pm at The Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY! Three fun-yet-informative visual presentations about our music pathology, Man vs. Machine and Rabbit holes. We hear from Dr. Táhirih Motazedian, Associate Professor of Music Theory at Vassar College, Kevin Maher, Host of Kevin Geeks Out, a long-running variety show, and Emily Menez, Slackjaw Editor and Writer for CBS, Funny or Die, McSweeney’s and The New Yorker.
With fun music, libations and guaranteed good company: Doors at 7pm.
THE SPEAKERS
Táhirih Motazedian Your Generation’s Music is The Worst: The NeverEnding Story of Music Pathology
Táhirih Motazedian is an Associate Professor of Music at Vassar College. Her book, Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film (University of California Press, 2023) explores how key and pitch relationships in film soundtracks tell a story. Before her career in music theory, Táhirih was a planetary scientist at NASA.
Kevin Maher Now is the Winter of our Cheap Content: Creating Art in the Time of A.I.
Kevin is a writer, filmmaker, comedian and producer who has worked at over 100 jobs: creating everything from award-winning poetry and guided meditations to kids’ TV shows, theme park rides and fast-food commercials. He’s the host of Kevin Geeks Out, a long-running variety show/ spiritual sibling to Nerd Nite. www.LoveKevin.com
Emily Menez Rabbit Holes!
Emily Menez has written for The New Yorker, CBS, Funny or Die, Nike, and McSweeney’s, amongst others. Her original plays and sketch shows have been performed throughout NYC, including “Slackjaw: LIVE” and “Screen to Sketch Comedy,” which both ran at Caveat.
Join us for a screening of the 1997 Jodie Foster film CONTACT. Based on Carl Sagan’s 1987 book, we speak with Reverend Amanda Wagner and Professor Clara Sousa-Silva, a quantum astrochemist and molecular astrophysicist and then go on Robert Zemeckis’ epic journey of science & faith (with popcorn & beer)
Welcome to Nerd Nite Hudson Valley! We’re New Yorkers who appreciate the outdoors, a good local brew and learning a thing or two. We are Nerd Nite (like TED Talks but better). It’s casual, wacky, entertaining and educational. Grab a libation, listen to some good tunes, sit back and chat with fellow nerds as we talk tech, space, science, weird history, film and more.
Nerd Nite Hudson Valley premieres Friday November 15th at 7:30pm at The Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY! Three fun-yet-informative visual presentations about our modern grammar, hijacking airplanes and amphibian migrations. With fun music, libations and guaranteed good company: Doors at 7pm.
THE SPEAKERS Caroline Eisner For All Intensive Purposes, I Could Care Less…English Grammar: When It’s So Bad, It’s Good
Tables are for eating customers only. Pinned to the wall, Rudy read the note. And the note said that no grammar is incorrect. Getting academic, the Rhetorical Triangle, along with grammatical choices, syntactic flexibility, and rhetorical effects, will be discussed.
Brendan Koerner Havana Here We Come: An Introduction to the Golden Age of Hijacking
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine in the United States. Once a week or more, some desperate soul armed with a revolver, stick of dynamite, or jar of acid would commandeer a commercial jet and turn their fellow passengers into hostages. We’ll explore the skyjackers’ motives and techniques, the airlines’ bewildering decision to accept regular hijackings as a mere cost of doing business, and the reasons why this bizarre criminal epidemic finally came to an end.
Nadia Azizi & Marjorie Lewit Real Life Frogger
An “indicator species,” frogs are going extinct at an alarming rate. Here’s what you can do to help.
