YPA Arts Weekly | Oct. 1 - 7
Is sniffly cold season here? While we can’t promise reading poetry will help you beat a stuffy nose, research has shown that poetry has quite surprising effects on recovery and pain reduction, Read more below. We’re thrilled this week about the upcoming Mile Long Opera on the High Line and are looking forward to seeing some of you there and at other events in our Go section. Apply is full of positions sent to us by YPA members (thank you!).
READ
How Doctors Use Poetry—Nautilus
Why we should learn to embrace failure—The Guardian
How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity—The Atlantic
5 Creative & Innovative Experiments in Museum Membership—Cuseum
What Do Arts Leaders Really Need?—Hewlett Foundation
“Remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.”
GO
Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture (Center for Architecture), Mon. Oct. 1 | Free
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List (Barnes & Noble, UES), Tues. Oct. 2 | Free
Mile Long Opera (The High Line) Oct. 3 - 8 | Free (Standby Only)
Robert Moses vs. Everybody (Caveat), Weds. Oct. 3 | $10
First Fridays: Honoring Prince vs Michael Jackson Edition (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) Fri. Oct. 5 | $10
APPLY
Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellowship, 92Y—YPA Member
Full-Time Program Manager, Flamenco Vivo—YPA Member
Development Manager, The Playwright’s Realm—YPA Member
Marketing Associate, New Museum of Contemporary Art—NYFA
Visitor Services Manager, National September 11 Memorial & Museum—American Alliance of Museums
Imaging Production Assistant, The Metropolitan Museum of Art—LinkedIn
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