Category: Communities

You are invited to the Nova Southeastern University Lifelong Learning Institute Fall 2020 Kickoff Week.  Live, interactive and free for the community.  Registration required.  Please email LLI@nova.edu, Subject line: Fall Kickoff

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This month, remember the life and legacy of the Freedom Rider and Congressman, Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree and the conscience of a nation – Representative John Lewis. Join audiences from across the country for a nationwide watch of the riveting new documentary “John Lewis: Good Trouble” followed by a live virtual panel featuring the film’s director and civil rights advocates.

Good Trouble: A Virtual Cinema & Online Panel Discussion

Mon, Sep. 21 | 7:00 P.M.

RENT THE FILM

First, rent the film here anytime now through September 21.
This rental allows you exclusive access to two other videos: Film of an interview Congressman Lewis gave to Oprah Winfrey shortly before his death earlier this year, as well as a one-hour panel, recorded in July, between the film’s director, Dawn Porter, and two of the other original Freedom Riders, Dr. Bernard Lafayette and Dr. Rip Patton.
Your rental also includes a $5 donation to the Broward Center’s
Road to Recovery Fund.

Then, join us for a live virtual panel on Sep 21 at 7:00 PM
with director Dawn Porter, Ras J. Baraka, Mayor of Newark, NJ, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project, and Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. US Senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker, will provide opening remarks.

Register for the live virtual panel here.
(Interactive Zoom session limited to 10,000 participants; if the panel is full,
you can still watch the discussion on our Facebook Live feed.)

Dr. Harry K. Moon, Nova Southeastern University’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, will be among a distinguished panel discussing the challenges that COVID-19 has created for education. “Education in a Pandemic: From Crisis Teaching to Distance Learning,” a virtual event hosted by national business law firm Greenspoon Marder, will bring together leaders of top companies to share their perspectives across industry lines. The panel discussion will be on Wednesday, September 30, from 1 to 1:45 p.m.

Joining Dr. Moon in this panel discussion will be Denise J. Ganz, a partner with Greenspoon Marder; Antonio L. Roca, director at Academica Virtual Education; John Edelson, Founder and President of Time4Learning; and Richard Moreno, President of BH Services, Building Hope.

The panel discussion is part of the Greenspoon Marder Innovation Summit, which runs from Tuesday, September 29 to Thursday, October 1. Register now at https://www.gmlaw.com/innovationsummit/

NSU is proud to partner with Hispanic Unity of Florida’s (HUF) 2020 Entrepreneur Summit. The learning and networking event showcases the variety of businesses that contribute to South Florida’s economy. In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s E-Summit will be conducted as a virtual event.

Components of this year’s E-Summit will be held every Wednesday in August from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale today announced the launch of the first phase of its new online collection catalogue that offers unprecedented access to over 2,000 of the 7,500 objects in its permanent collection. Now accessible on the NSU Art Museum website, nsuartmuseum.org, the online collection is part of the Museum’s efforts to enhance its digital resources and make them widely available to the public, scholars and students.

 “With our new online collection we are opening our doors even wider and inviting the world to explore the exceptional scope and depth of NSU Art Museum,” said Bonnie Clearwater, director and chief curator. “During the 1970s, the founders of the Museum sought to represent South Florida’s diversity in the art works collected and exhibited. The collection continued to grow with this goal in mind.”

 Today, NSU Art Museum is known for its significant collection of Latin American art, contemporary art with an emphasis on women, Black and Latinx artists, and African art that spans the 19^th to the 21^st-century, as well as works by American artist William Glackens, Danish artists who resisted German occupation during World War II and the international CoBrA group of artists that emerged in the war’s wake. The Museum draws from its collection for exhibitions exploring issues that resonate with the South Florida community and contribute to productive discussions that address identity, inequalities and injustices, encourage empathy and compassion, and inspire wonder.  

 The online site features a searchable database of a wide variety of media, along with curator notes, exhibition histories and bibliographic information. Visitors can submit their own search criteria or choose to browse among works displayed. They can also send queries directly from object pages to NSU Art Museum’s curatorial department. The Museum’s curatorial staff will continue adding entries to the online collection catalogue over the next two years.

 NSU Art Museum’s online collection is made possible thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sansom Foundation, Stanley and Pearl Goodman, Linda Marks, and Joan and Stephen Marks.

 Image credits (l to r): William J. Glackens, Sledding in Central Park, c. 1912. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; bequest of Ira D. Glackens. Philip Guston, Afloat, 1975. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Musa Guston. Mickalene Thomas, Portrait of Mama Bush 1, 2010. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; promised gift of David Horvitz and Francie Bishop Good. Wifredo Lam, Sans titre (Untitled), 1959. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; promised gift of Pearl and Stanley Goodman.

Book Club host Happy Hour for adventurous readers.

Grab your favorite drink or snack and join Sarah the Librarian for an entertaining hour of books and games. We’ll discuss a new book each month – from spooky ghost stories, to exciting space operas, to spicy romance novels, and more genres beyond your imagination. Cheers to a literary good time!

June’s book is Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.  Registered participants will receive a Zoom meeting invite via email prior to the event date.

 To join or learn more about the Book Club @ NSU Alvin Sherman Library, visit http://nsufl.libguides.com/bookclub

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