<blockquote what="official NYU Free Culture Club announcement" note="information about the movie is down the page a bit">
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:18:58 -0500 From: "Fred Benenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Free Culture @ NYU's list serv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [free-culture] Free Culture @ NYU Advances to Super Bowl XLII So we're back with a crazed vengeance matched only by the New York Giants (I don't really like football either, but I needed something to get this e-mail started, no?) -- First things first, our first meeting of 2008: * Monday, January 28th, 2008 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM General Meeting in Kimmel Center Room #907* There will be food. We'll be discussing the latest and greatest happenings in the world of free culture, Creative Commons, and Free software. We'll also be discussing our future plans for the semester including a Tisch film remix contest (complete with an iPod as the prize). Feel free to come even if we haven't seen you in a while, or if you've never been before! ~~~ Next is the OSA Club Fest. We'll be there and you'll be looking for free candy, so stop by our booth: * OSA Club Fest Wednesday, January 30th, 2007 11:30-3pm Kimmel Center in E&L Auditorium on the 4th Floor (60 Washington Square South). * ~~~ And, saving the best for last ... the really cool event to get the semester of Free Culture @ NYU goodness started: * Freedom of Expression Screening and Q&A with Creators *http://www.freeculturenyu.org/2008/01/21/kicking-off-2008-freedom-of-expression-screening/ In cooperation with the Media Education Foundation <http://www.mediaed.org/>and La Lutta <http://www.lalutta.org/>, Free Culture @ NYU is screening *Freedom of Expression(R): Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property *<http://freedomofexpression.us/>at 9pm on Thursday, January 31. Narrated by Naomi Klein, the film features interviews with Stanford Law's Lawrence Lessig, Illegal Art Show curator Carrie McLaren, Negativland's Mark Hosler, UVA media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Free Culture @ NYU co-founder Inga Chernyak, among many others. This 53-minute documentary will be preceded by selections from Negativland's new DVD, *Our Favorite Things*, and it will be followed by a Q&A with *Freedom of Expression*(R) author and director Kembrew McLeod and co-producer Jeremy Smith. * Freedom of Expression Screening and Q&A with Creators Sponsored by Free Culture @ NYU <http://www.freeculturenuy.org/>, NYU ACM<http://cs.nyu.edu/%7Eacmweb/>, and WiNC <http://cs.nyu.edu/%7Ewincweb/> Free and Open to the Public (bring ID if non-NYU) Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:00pm NYU's Courant Institute Room #109 251 Mercer Street b/w Bleecker and W. 4th* ~~~ See you soon! Fred Benenson President, Free Culture @ NYU </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
