NYC Regional ScienceWriters Meeting

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NewsFlash: CUNY has reserved seats for the sold-out May 11 screening of Between the Folds especially for NASW members who attend the Regional ScienceWriters event that day . Select this option when you register online for the NYC Regional ScienceWriters event.

Special Student Rate: Full time students can register for the discounted rate of $5.

Registration for the NYC Regional ScienceWriters Meeting is open. Join us for an afternoon of Artists and Science Writers: Finding Common Ground. This event is co-hosted with the Science & the Arts Program of the CUNY Graduate Center, and will take place at their building on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, from 1 to 5 p.m on Monday, May 11. Space is limited and pre-registration is open until May 8. Spaces may be available at the door. Check NASW's web page after May 8 for availability.

Artists and Science Writers: Finding Common Ground

• CUNY Graduate Center
• Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, New York City
• Monday, May 11, 1-5 p.m.

At the door, if available (cash or check only, made payable to NASW)

• $18 for members
• $25 for non-members

Program details

The afternoon will consist of three acts, each one featuring a different artist in conversation with a science writer

• Act One — Arthur Giron, playwright, author of "Flight," "Moving Bodies," "Emilie's Voltaire," and other plays dealing with scientific themes, in conversation with Mariette DiChristina, Scientific American executive editor and NASW president
• Act Two — Justine Cooper, visual artist, creator of "Saved by Science," "Havidol," and other works of art inspired by science, in conversation with Lee Hotz, Wall Street Journal columnist and NASW past president
• Act Three — Liz Lerman, choreographer, creator of the dance "Ferocious Beauty: Genome" and a new work about the Manhattan Project, in conversation with Robin Marantz Henig, New York Times Magazine contributing writer and NASW board member

Come see demonstrations of these artists' work, and listen to them talk about the creative process, the challenge of conveying science concepts through an artistic medium, and the way the artist's approach is and is not like the approach taken by most science writers, who use nonfiction writing to convey similar ideas.

After a break for dinner on your own in the neighborhood, NASW registrants are invited to come back at 6:30 for the evening program: "Between the Folds," a new documentary about the art and mathematics of origami, followed by a talk by Erik Demaine, a mathematician and origami maven at MIT, and Vanessa Gould, the creator of the film.