NYU Florence PROGRAMMING
Monday, March 15
Realities of Florence: Beyond the Renaissance. The Florence experience for the study away community is very different from the Florence experience for the homeless, undocumented immigrants and the Rom community. Come and learn about the struggles they encounter in this “city of art”.
Matrimonio Gay: A discussion about marriage equality in Italy. TBC
Wednesday, March 17
Visit to ANIMA after-school gym for children with disabilities. Since 1997, this local organization has provided physical and sensory therapy to children with disabilities. Staffed solely by volunteers, this ANIMA's motto is “a child left untreated is a child mistreated.”
Monday, March 22
Free HIV testing at IREOS, ta local LGBTQ organization, in collaboration with the Hospital of
Santa Maria Annunziata.
Ally Week Film Series
Monday, March 15
Tomboy
A family moves into a new neighborhood and a 10-year-old named Laure is introduced to the neighborhood children as a boy named Mikhael. This film follows his experiences with his newfound friends, his potential love interest, Lisa, his younger sister and his parents. It focuses in on the significance of gender identity in social interaction from an early age, the difficulties of being transgender and young, and how Mikhael navigates these in the background of childhood.
Tuesday, March 16
Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper plays Pat Solitano, a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents (Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver). Determined to win back his estranged wife, Pat meets recently-widowed sex addict Tiffany Maxwell (Jennifer Lawrence). She tells Pat that she will help him get his wife back if he enters a dance competition with her. The two become closer as they train and Pat, his father, and Tiffany examine their relationships with each other as they cope with their disorders.
Wednesday, March 17
Untouchable
Driss (Omar Sy), a Senegalese man living in a Paris slum, applies for a job as caretaker to a wealthy quadriplegic, but all he wants is to get his paper stamped so he can get benefits. Despite his lack of qualifications, he lands the job because of his attitude: Philippe (François Cluzet), the quadriplegic, wants a caretaker who will look at him without pity. As Driss reluctantly learns to move, feed, and clean Philippe, the two men discover a blunt but vital humor that not only bridges the cultural and class divide between them, but gives Philippe a renewed joy in life.
Thursday, March 18
5 Broken Cameras
When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born, Emad, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. In his village, Bil'in, a separation barrier is being built and the villagers start to resist this decision. For more than five years, Emad films the struggle, which is led by two of his best friends, alongside filming how Gibreel grows. Very soon it affects his family and his own life. Daily arrests and night raids scare his family; his friends, brothers and him as well are either shot or arrested. One camera after another is shot at or smashed, each camera tells a part of his story.
Movie synopses taken from imdb.com
Ally Week Ambassadors:
Joseph Solomita
Lyndsey Kaplan.
NYU Berlin PROGRAMMING:
Celebrating Diversity: The German/Berliner Way!
Monday, April 15th, 7 PM
Join us for a multicultural evening at the NYU Berlin Academic Center. We will celebrate and experience diversity with your favorite dishes from all over the world. This evening will also be an open house at NYU Berlin and offer NYU students the opportunity to meet a diverse group of German high school students from the district of Berlin Pankow (ages 17-19) who are presently working on a project on diversity and multiculturalism in Germany. We will decorate an olive tree with your "wishes for diversity" similar to the tree in the Jewish Museum Berlin and place it in the Student Lounge of the Academic Center as an ongoing project.
Wednesday, April 17th, 8 PM: Film Screening: "Milk" at the Student Residence
Thursday, April 18th, 1:45 PM: Students will have the chance to join Diversity Trainer Svenja Neupert for a hands-on workshop on “Diversity – Inside and Out.” The way we perceive the world is a mirror for our inner world. It influences our perspective, our identity and the way we interact with others. We will discuss the varied aspects of identity and the internal voices and impulses that drive our choices and behaviour.
NYU Shanghai PROGRAMMING
1. Monday, April 15, 2013, Movie Night
We'll play a movie called "Ocean Heaven"(海洋天堂), which is about autism in China.
2. Tuesday, April 16, 2013, Volunteer Teaching
We'll have the regular Tuesday migrant school volunteer teaching focus on the love and help theme for the class to the primary school students.
3. Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Renewal Center Visit
We'll have a group of students go to visit Renewal Center, a drop-in resource center and employment assistance initiative for Shanghai’s homeless population, and help with the showers and laundry service that day.
4. Thursday, April 18, 2013, Get to know you better
A speed meeting for NYU Shanghai and ECNU Chinese students to bridge the culture gap.
5. April 15-19, 2013, Ally Week Promotional Video
A promotional video providing students with information about Ally Week.
NYU Madrid PROGRAMMING
Tuesday, April 16th
Documentary Screening
Wednesday, April 17th
Documentary Screening
Ambassadors:
(1) Aidan D Young (ady212@nyu.edu)
(2) Brigette Marie Walters (bmw365@nyu.edu)
(3) Vialcary Crisostomo (vc621@nyu.edu)
Ambassadors are assisting with the Ally Photo Booth. They are also researching documentaries that reflect Ally Week’s pledge.
NYU London PROGRAMMING
1. Monday 15th, 10am-6pm, Academic Centre - Pledge signing & photo wall. All pledge signees will get a button and a piece of cake (if there’s any left).
2. Tuesday 16th, 7:45pm, meeting at Vauxhall Underground station – Outing to Bar Wotever at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern
3. Wednesday 17th, 7:00pm onwards, Byron Court Games Room – Screening of winning and highly commended short films from the Iris Prize Festival 2012, plus a discussion with one of the film’s directors. With pizza.
Performance night by the Queer collective Wotever World
(Bar Wotever (http://woteverworld.com/category/events/bar-wotever/)
Screening at the site of one or more of the winning and highly commended competing films from last year's Iris Prize Festival, which is the world’s largest festival prize for LGBT short films.
NYU Buenos Aires PROGRAMMING
1. Movie Night: “XXY” (4/15, 7 PM) – Optional, Free
2. HIV Testing: Who, Why and Where? (4/16, 1 PM) – Optional, Free
3. Photo Booth & Pledges (4/16, 6 PM) – Optional, Free
4. Build an Ally Flag Trivia Time (4/17, 11 AM) – Optional, Free
5. Photo Booth & Pledges (4/18, 11 AM) – Optional, Free
6. Film at BAFICI: “Una familia Gay”/”A Gay Family” (4/21) – Optional, Free (Students who are interested must get their tickets beforehand on the 3rd floor .. see e-mail for details)
NYU Prague PROGRAMMING
1. Pledge! Pledge stations in the library and in Richtruv Dum (includes a free button!)
2. A documentary screening of "Love Free, or Die", the story of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop. Free popcorn and movie goods provided!
April 15th, 6:30pm (Mucha Classroom, Richtruv Dum)
3.) “Mission:Impossible, individual and cultural identity search in the Czech Republic“, an informal lecture and discussion
with Salim Murad You write a simple why-I'm-an-ally paper, pose alone or with friends, then you get a free t-shirt!
April 16th, 4:30pm (Seifert Classroom, Richtruv Dum)
4.) Photo booth, Richtruv Dum – April 19, 1-4pm–> Write a simple why-I'm-an-Ally paper, pose alone or with friends, then you get a free t-shirt!
NYU Abu Dhabi PROGRAMMING
Semi-formal Dinner
Anchorage event
Pledge Booth and campaign -- possibly tying in Project Pay Attention
NYU Sydney PROGRMAMING
INFO COMING SOON
NYU DC PROGAMMING
TBA
Ambassadors:
Student life manager and adviser to NYU Washington DC student advisory board [will work with these students to figure out more Ally Ambassadors]
NYU Tel Aviv Programming
