July 15, 2010. The Mantle's Meet & Greet. New York City.
The next Meet & Greet is upon us! Time once again for The Mantle's contributors and friends to come together for an evening of cocktails, exchanges, laughs, and to celebrate 
summer in the Big Apple.
Come one, come all, and bring friends.
Me Bar http://mebarnyc.com/
14th Fl. of La Quinta Inn
17 West 32nd
between Broadway and Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10001
7pm - whenever
Note: This is not an open bar
March 26, 2010. Emerging Voices from The Mantle and CONTEXTS Journal. New York City.
Video now available here!
The Mantle & CONTEXTS Journal present an evening with emerging voices from the next generation of intellectuals, writers, artists and critics.
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 6-8pm
ROOM CHANGE! The New School University, 6 E. 16th St, Rm 906-913.
Wine and food and tunes to be served. Free and open to the public. info@mantlethought.org
The Emerging Voices:
Eric Anthamatten: Pedagogy of the condemned: on teaching philosophy in prisons.
Alison Desir: On Dominicans of Haitian descent living in the DR, and some of the complications this presents.
Corinne Goldenberg: On reclaiming the film review in the name of social and political critique.
Tanushree Isaacman: Recalling her travels in Nicaragua via public transportation, she finds it's the journey, not the destination, that matters.
Sarah D. Schulman: On digitally created artwork.
Aarti Virani: Fifty years after her family's migration, Aarti finds home can be many places.
March 27, 2010. The Mantle's One Year Anniversary Party. New York City.
Hard to believe, but The Mantle as an idea--and now a reality--has been around for one year! This anniversary party is a chance for us to celebrate our accomplishments thus far, and to toast to many more fruitful years. Come learn more about The Mantle, meet our growing cadre of writers and bloggers, and have fun!
Dj Chew Rocks (a.k.a. The Mantle's Horn of Plenty blogger, Matthew Young) will be spinnin' and mixin' throughout the night.
Saturday, March 27 - 8pm - whenever
Luca Lounge - 220 Avenue B (btw. 13th and 14th St.)
Note: This is not an open bar
Space is limited, you must RSVP!! Bring friends! info@mantlethought.org
March 19-21, 2010. The Mantle is reporting from Left Forum. New York City.
Representatives of The Mantle will be attending and reporting from Left Forum, 2010 at Pace University. Look for blog posts, interviews, Tweets, and more from bloggers Ed Hancox (The 101) and JK Fowler (Passages on the Verge) and Editor Shaun Randol.
About this year's forum: The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Noam Chomsky, internationally-known crusaders for social justice and peace, will be keynote speakers at this year’s edition of North America’s largest and most comprehensive annual gathering of progressive thinkers and activists.
This year’s theme, "The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination" will serve as a platform and point of dialogue for 700 speakers and 3,000 participants. Coming at a time when "“the Democrats have squandered their identity as the party of hope and change, and the tea baggers have exploited this crisis of identity, what is emerging here," says Seth Adler, the Left Forum's coordinator, “is a Left that is broader than ever before."
Learn more about Left Forum at leftforum.org.
If you are there, look for us!
UPDATE: Full coverage of Left Forum 2010 from The Mantle can be found here.
March 4, 2010. Politics and the Burmese Artist. New York City.
The Mantle's founding editor, Shaun Randol, will interview Burmese political artist Chaw Ei Thein at Adelphi University (Manhattan Campus). “Politics and the Burmese Artist” is part of the Human Rights Speaker Series hosted by the Levermore Global Scholars Program in collaboration with freeDimensional.
Thursday, March 4. 6-8pm. 2nd Fl. of Adelphi's Manhattan Center - 75 Varick St., New York City.
To RSVP, please email Yana Kusayeva at kusayeva@adelphi.edu.
Adelphi's press release.
On Chaw Ei Thein: As the co-founder and director of the Sunflower Art Gallery in Yangon, Myanmar, Ms. Ei Thein organizes exhibitions and fairs for children and psychiatric patients in Myanmar and Cambodia. She was recently awarded the Elizabeth J. McCormack and Jerome I. Aron Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council (ACC), and will be an artist-in-residence with the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) this year. She has also spoken at a number of universities, including School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC), Brown University, and the Open Society Institute (OSI) in New York, among others. She received an LL.B. from Rangoon University, Burma in 1994.
Chaw ei Thein's blog; Review of her current exhibit, Transformed Conversation.
November 25, 2009. Meet & Greet - KGB Bar, New York City.
all photos by Laura Thies
