Welcome to the June 2020 issue of @barnlib. BLAIS full-time staff are working from as far north as Vermont and as far south as Georgia. From our homes to yours...enjoy!

We're excited to say that The Movement Lab's Virtual Moving Body-Moving Image Festival was an overwhelming success! 

Congrats to the Movement Lab's Guy de Lancey who has been nominated for Best Cinematography at the RapidLion 2020 Film Festival for his work on the film "Gat In Die Muur (Hole in the Wall)"

"Finding Fellini," directed and designed by the Movement Lab's Guy de Lancey and written and performed by Megan Metrikin, will be performed at The Kraine Theater February 21st, 23rd, & 25th! Guy's work on "Finding Fellini" won Outstanding Set Design and Outstanding Sound Design at MITF and Best Production Design at United Solo Festival. Tickets.

Join Movement Lab Faculty Director Gabri Christa in this symposium launching 100 Years | 100 Women, an initiative of Park Avenue Armory. Gabri will speak at the salon (4:00-5:00pm) entitled "Museum of Moving Image: Cinefemme Cypher" on Saturday, February 15th. Find the full schedule and event details on the Park Ave. Armory website

Gabri Christa, Director of the Movement Lab and Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Dance, will join Miami Light's Project, ScreenDance Miami as a panelist and Masterclass host January 12th-15th. The program highlights choreographers and directors working with emerging and new concepts in movement and dance on film and dance on camera.

Library Dean Jen Green's last day is Wednesday, December 18, 2019.

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The Livable Futures project will be in residency at Barnard’s Movement Lab January 13-17, 2020. Artist Norah Zuniga Shaw and her co-creative team will be working on interaction design for their Livable Futures: Climate Gathering transmedia performance rituals. Request to join an Open Rehearsal

Faculty Director of the Movement Lab, choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker Gabri Christa moderates a public conversation  with Sasha Alexander, Lozens Grit/ Noel Altaha, and Mildred Beltré on Saturday, October 26 from 9:30-10:30pm at the Brooklyn Public Library for Lay Down Your Sword and Shield. A free program of Til Victory is Won.