To celebrate Women's History Month, join us for a Gallery tour and Artist talk at the A.I.R. Gallery. You'll have the opportunity to walk through two exhibitions with a Gallery expert providing detailed descriptions of each work and a short talk on the history of the gallery. One of the curators of CURRENTS, Christian Camacho-Light, will talk about the process of their work.

 

A.I.R. Gallery (Artists in Residence, Inc.) was established in 1972 as the first not-for-profit artist-directed and maintained gallery for women artists in the United States. A.I.R. Gallery is a permanent exhibition space that supports an open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women arts in order to provide support and visibility. The space is intended to be focused on women, including transgender women and non-binary people.

 

The Gallery Tour will include two exhibitions:

 

S...as in Sylvia by Sylvia Netzer 

The works meditate on Netzer's sense of self as a woman, daughter, wife, artist, and educator. Netzer was born in NYC to observant German-Jewish parents who escaped the increasingly hostile and deadly Nazi regime to find succor as Palestine refugees in the mid-1930s. Reflecting on the relationship between self and history, Netzer's new works, with their repeated esses, are assertive and insistent declarations of presence, testaments to intergenerational strength and fortitude.

 

CURRENTS: Identity Politics 

The 7th edition of CURRENTS, a biennial open call exhibition series in which artists respond to current topics. This exhibition looks to the agency to be harnessed in unique lived and embodied experience, as well as in the co-conspirators with which our intersectional identities put us in relation and potential collective action. Through a broad array of media - including painting, sculpture, installation, video, and performance - the 12 artists included in the exhibition represent the range and rigor which contemporary visual artists are addressing timely issues of identity, coalition building, and intersectional analysis and action.

 

**Proof of vaccination and a valid I.D. is required for this event.

**Please note that all program fees are nonrefundable unless new Covid-19 restrictions are put in place that affect this event.

 

 

 

Why spend $30 or more on just another Yoga, Zumba, or Pilates class? Join us for an Irish Step Dance Fitness class as an entertaining and active way to stay fit! With St. Patrick's day just around the corner, there's no better time to give it a try!

 

The New York Studio of Irish Step Dance is excited to teach basic soft shoe dance moves to celebrate the Irish holiday with the One To World community. The school will host a 1-hour class in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Instructor, Sarah Lucie, will guide us through a lesson that consists of a basic overview of Irish step dancing, instruction of a lively soft shoe dance, and a Q&A discussion.

 

All participants must wear comfortable athletic apparel allowing them to move in a safe manner. Safe and comfortable sneakers or dance shoes as well as hair pulled away from face are required, with no baggy pants worn. Each participant should also have a water bottle as Irish dancing is a very aerobic exercise!

 

This will be a great chance to get your heartrate up while celebrating another culture!

 

*The Coordinator of Enrichment Programs will be joining interested participants in an optional meal after the class*

**Proof of boosted vaccination is required**

 

 

Please note that all program fees are non-refundable.

Are you interested in networking with professionals and other business-minded international students?

 

Join us for a discussion with two corporate leaders: Charles Elson, Chair in Corporate Governance and Founding Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, and the Executive Editor at Large for Directors and Boards and Martin Gelter, Professor of Law at Fordham University. They will discuss best practices for companies in communicating corporate governance issues, including shareholder activism, and you'll have a chance to offer your experiences and opinions to them in this open dialogue. This is a great chance to learn about an important issue that affects us all, while networking with a top professional in the corporate world! More details about the speakers below:
Charles Elson
Charles M. Elson practices in Holland & Knight's Tampa office in the areas of corporate and securities law. Mr. Elson has vast experience in corporations, securities regulation and corporate governance. He is currently first occupant of the Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair of Corporate Governance and the director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.
Martin Gelter
An expert in comparative corporate law and governance, Martin Gelter joined the faculty of Fordham Law School in 2009. He has been a Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University and University of Paris-II, a Considine Fellow in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bologna, and an assistant professor at the WU Vienna University of Economics. Martin has been an ECGI research member since 2006. Among other degrees, Martin holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.A. in Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences from Columbia University.
Attending this event is also an opportunity to qualify for a scholarship of up to $750!

To apply, please submit an essay of no more than 900 words answering the question: "What is the number one corporate governance issue in your home country and how would you address it?" You can email a PDF of your submission to me at [email protected] to be considered for a first-place prize of $750 and a second-place prize of $500, made possible by the Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust. Please also include your name, contact information, field of study, university, and home country.

 

The application for the scholarship deadline is: Monday, May 2nd at 10:00AM EST

Did you know that the U.S. federal government was founded in downtown Manhattan? Join us on a historic walking tour of the Financial District and lower Manhattan, and visit the:

• Site of America's founding
• Former House of Morgan (home of world capitalism in the 1920s)
• New York Stock Exchange
• Trinity Church (and the grave of Alexander Hamilton)
• Route of New York's famed tickertape parades
• Old Customs House (currently containing the National Museum of the American Indian)
• Fraunces Tavern, where a Black tavern owner was a key spy for Washington's army
• Gorgeous Woolworth Skyscraper
• Site of the notorious Five Points neighborhood
• Chinatown, and the oldest, most impossible tenement in New York

There's lot's to see, so bring your walking shoes!

Our tour guide Kevin Baker is a novelist, historian, and journalist, who has lived in New York for 45 years. A graduate of Columbia, he is the author of five novels, the author or co-author of six works of nonfiction and two graphic novels, and has written for many major periodicals and for television.

 

In the event of rain, this program will take place one day later on March 27th.

 

 

Please note that all program fees are nonrefundable.

School presentations, interviews, lectures - public speaking is a crucial skill in many aspects of your life. This virtual workshop, led by a professional instructor from New York Speech Coaching, Courtney Armstrong, will help you understand the fundamentals of public speaking and presenting that can be utilized both in person and virtually (video and phone interviews, online learning, etc.)

 

Courtney is an ASHA-certified and Virginia-licensed speech-language pathologist. Her specialized work in accent acquisition has awarded her both national and international recognition. She pursued an elective masters thesis in accent modification which was published internationally in 2020. Currently located in the Washington D.C. area, she earned a Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Sciences with minors in Cross-Cultural Communications and Spanish from Duquesne University.

 

Courtney specialized in accent acquisition, public speaking, and speaking voice enhancement for clients of all ages. She has worked with clients from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds including those from the International Language Institute.

 

This is a great opportunity to optimize your performance in the virtual world, while fine-tuning skills that will still be valuable in person. Courtney will ensure that all students not only reach their communication goals but also enjoy the process of doing so. With individualized feedback and practical methods, this highly interactive session will help you feel and speak confidently on and off the screen!

 

"One of my best experiences with One To World was the public speaking training. I believe that the workshop will have a significant impact on my career as it gave me the tools to improve both my confidence as a public speaker and my communication skills." 

-International Student from Madagascar 

 

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