Calendar

Events in September, 2010

  • Friday Sep 24 2010

    Bare Witness: Fundraiser to Benefit the Journalists of Timor-Leste

    7:30 PM

    In Melbourne, Australia, a benefit performance of a new play about journalism and war.

    A performance of "Bare Witness,"  a new Australian play set in the Balkans, East Timor and Iraq, against the complex terrain of contemporary photojournalism, takes place Sept. 24 at the fortyfivedownstairs theatre in Melbourne. A question and answer session will follow the performance with the cast, Walkley Award-winning journalist Thom Cookes and East Timorese photographer Jorge de Araujo. The discussion will be moderated by Gary Tippet, senior journalist at The Sunday Age.

    DETAILS

    Friday, September 24 at 7:30 pm
    fortyfivedownstairs
    45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

    Tickets are $40; order them here. For more information, contact Cait McMahon, managing director of Dart Center Australasia, at caitm@optusnet.com.au.

  • Tuesday Sep 28 2010

    Panel: Covering Violence, Conflict and Tragedy

    7:00 PM

    At Columbia University in New York City, a panel led by Dart Center Executive Director Bruce Shapiro for incoming students at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism about the basics of covering violence.

    PARTICIPANTS

    Moderator: Bruce Shapiro

    Panelists: Liam Lowney, Chief of Victim Witness Services, Office Of Attorney General Martha Coakley; Phil Zabriskie, Independent Journalist, New York, NY.

    DETAILS

    Tuesday, September 28, 7:00 - 9:00pm

    Lecture Hall, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
    2950 Broadway (at 116th Street)
    New York, NY 10027

    Open to the public.