ASIFA-East

MOCCA COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2018
2018-04-07 - 2018-04-08 | ink48, 653 11th Ave, New York, NY, 10036, United States
https://www.societyillustrators.org/mocca-arts-festival

The MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan’s largest independent comics, cartoon and animation festival, drawing over 7,000 attendees each year. With 400 exhibiting artists displaying their work, award-winning honorees speaking about their careers and artistic processes and other featured artists conducting workshops, lectures and film screenings, our Festival mission accelerates the advancement of the Society’s broader mission to serve as Manhattan’s singular cultural institution promoting all genres of illustration through exhibitions, programs and art education.
The 2018 MoCCA Arts Festival will take place April 7-8th, 2018 at Metropolitan West in New York City with programming mere steps away at Ink48 (653 11th Ave).

“MoCCA Arts Festival Announces 2018 Programming, featuring Roz Chast, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, Mike Mignola, Jaime Hernandez, Nicole J. Georges, Ann Telnaes, Anna Haifisch, Dominique Goblet, Yvan Alagbé, and more! The Society of Illustrators is proud to announce a robust and distinguished programming schedule for the 2018 MoCCA Arts Festival, taking place April 7-8. This year’s programming will take place at the beautiful Ink48 Hotel (653 11th Avenue at 48th street), steps away from our primary venue, Metropolitan West at 639 West 46th Street.

Organized by Best American Comics Series Editor Bill Kartalopoulos, this year’s programming includes spotlight sessions with all of this year’s MoCCA Guests of Honor: New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, Argentine cartoonist Liniers, MARCH co-creators Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, and Hellboy comics artist Mike Mignola.

Featured guest Jaime Hernandez will also take the stage in a spotlight session, alongside a pair of focused conversations among our distinguished international guests. Max de Radiguès and Anna Haifisch will discuss the international comics scene, and Yvan Alagbé and Dominique Goblet will trace points of connection in their recent work.

Focused panel discussions will address topics including a conversation about comics, community and career hosted by Nicole J. Georges with Jennifer Camper, Kat Fajardo, and Ariel Schrag, as well as a discussion of political cartooning and current events hosted by Marymount Manhattan College professor Kent Worcester with artists Steve Brodner, Mr. Fish, Ann Telnaes, and Eli Valley. Other panels will feature luminaries including Patrick McDonnell, Françoise Mouly, Gary Panter, Mark Siegel, Lauren Weinstein and more.

A programming schedule can be found online for Saturday, April 7 and Sunday, April 8, or may be downloaded here. Each programming event will last one hour, with a half hour break between programming events. Admission to programming is included with MoCCA Arts Festival admission. All seating is available on a first come-first served basis. Price of admission is $7 per day and will grant attendees access to the Fest including the Exhibitors Hall, on-site Gallery space, and programming. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door. Children under ten are free. More information about the Fest can be found here.

About the Museum of Illustration at the Society of Illustrators: Founded in 1901, the Society of Illustrators and its Museum of Illustration together comprise America’s longest-standing nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of illustration. The mission of SI/MI is to promote the art and appreciation of illustration and its history and evolving nature through exhibitions and educational programs.

The MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan’s largest independent comics, cartoon and animation festival, drawing over 7,000 attendees each year. With 400 exhibiting artists displaying their work, award-winning honorees speaking about their careers and artistic processes and other featured artists conducting workshops, lectures and film screenings, our Festival mission accelerates the advancement of the Society’s broader mission to serve as Manhattan’s singular cultural institution promoting all genres of illustration through exhibitions, programs and art education. The 2018 MoCCA Arts Festival will take place April 7-8th, 2018 at Metropolitan West in New York City with programming mere steps away at Ink48 (653 11th Ave).”

Credit: http://fanboyfactor.com/2018/03/announcing-the-2018-mocca-arts-festival-programming-schedule/

Drink and Draw Like a Lady!
2018-04-06 19:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | The Productive, 40 W 38th Street, New York, NY, 10018, United States
FACEBOOK INVITE HERE
It’s time for the best party of the year: the pre-MoCCA Fest Drink and Draw Like a Lady! http://drinkanddrawlikealady.tumblr.com/
This is our TENTH YEAR! We have come a long way and we’re excited to celebrate with you!
If you are a woman (or nonbinary person who leans toward female identity and/or expression) who writes, draws, colors, edits, markets, reviews, or enjoys comics, Drink and Draw Like a Lady is the party for you!
All ages are welcome; you must be 21 to drink.
Drink and Draw Like a Lady is organized by volunteers. Your donations help us to make the party as awesome as possible! We also welcome food, drink and cash donations at the party.
Donate here:
http://drinkanddrawlikealady.tumblr.com/
DDLL aims to be an inclusive event. We welcome all women as well as genderqueer, agender, and other non-binary people who lean toward female identity and/or expression or feel that a female-centric space is right for you. If you have any questions, please ask the hosts!
The main space is wheelchair accessible by elevator! The bathroom may be a little bit tight for larger mobility devices but does not have stairs.
Spread the word and see you soon!
Thank you to Megan Brennan of http://www.megan-brennan.com/ for this year’s amazing flyer art!
The Productive (http://theproductivenyc.com/) offers affordable coworking space in Midtown Manhattan for all kinds of workers.

Figure Drawing @ The Productive
2018-04-05 19:00 - 21:30, 2018-03-29 19:00 - 21:30, 2018-03-15 08:00 - 17:00 | The Productive, 40 W 38th Street, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Free for ASIFA East members $10 at the door otherwise.

Bring Your Own Animation feat. Titmouse
2018-04-03 19:30 - 22:30 | Scallywags NYC, 508 9th Ave, NY, NY, 10018, United States
Hosted by NYC ACM SIGGRAPH
FACEBOOK INVITE HERE
Come join us for the April installment of BYOA, featuring guest presenters Titmouse!
Here’s your chance to share what you’ve been working on with the rest of the NYC-area digital media community – and to check out what others have been doing. Come and meet other animators, exchange tips and ideas, maybe even find a future collaborator.
This month we will be joined by special studio guests Titmouse (http://www.titmouse.net/), who will give us a look behind the scenes of some of their recent work, and be on-hand to offer feedback on other presenters’ work.
We’ll be hooking up a laptop to the flat-screen so bring your work on a USB and we’ll play it. (We will not swap out the computer to play from another computer so make sure you can transfer it to our machine.)
We’ll be meeting in the room all the way at the back of the venue. Beverages and food will be available for purchase. If you do not have ID to prove you are 21 or older, you will not be allowed to purchase alcohol. College students between the ages of 18 and 20 are welcome to join us but anyone under the age of 21 that is found to be drinking will be asked to leave.

Cartoon Carnival 65: Bunnies vs. Ducks
2018-03-30 20:00 - 22:30 | Shoestring Press, 663 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11238, United States
It’s time to sit back and relax for another hefty batch of 16mm (no digital!) animated cartoons from the 1920s to the 1940s, straight from the Stathes Archives to the silver screen at Shoestring Press…
Program #65 takes place just in time for Peter Cottontail’s big day! It’s a fluffy feather-filled battle between some of the cutesy animal characters now associated with Easter—in this case, bunnies and ducks—for your attention and affection. Whether it’s Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, or any number of other one-shot and obscure characters…who will win? Hop on down and bring your fellow wascally wabbits out for a holy resurrection of ancient cartoon hoots and hollers.
Featuring live ragtime bunny hopping by Charlie Judkins for select silent-era shorts!
Show tix $10 at the door.
Light beverage refreshments available. BYO food, too!
Doors at 8pm; show starts promptly thereafter. ~Arrive on time for good seats~

Jackie Greene's Music Video Extravaganza!
2018-03-28 19:00 - 21:30 | SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
EVENTBRITE INVITE
Join musician Jackie Greene and animator Bill Plympton for the world premiere of their new animated short film, “The Modern Lives”, followed by a live performance by Greene and a Q&A with both artists.
This screening is free and open to the public. General Admission RSVPs via Eventbrite are appreciated, but not necessary, and do not guarantee admittance. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors will open approximately 30 minutes prior to the screening.
http://themodernlives.eventbrite.com/
http://svatheatre.com/events/jackie-greene-bill-plymptons-music-video-extravaganza/
It’s a perfect match of fiercely independent artists: Jackie Greene, the rocking singer/songwriter hailed by the NY Times as the “Prince of Americana” and Bill Plympton, the Oscar-nominated “king of indie animation.”
Greene has always had a knack for capturing the human experience in all its messy, emotional complexity in song, and Plympton is well known for coupling his hand-drawn animation and twisted sense of humor with explorations of adult themes, relationships and sexuality. Together they’ve created “The Modern Lives,” an animated short film that takes you on the road from a tripped-out alien invaded Times Square to the deep roots of the American South. Along the way there are encounters with Elvis, Satan, Willie Dixon, an Alabama Queen … and so much more!
The program will also feature Bill’s animated videos for Madonna, Kanye West and “Weird Al” Yankovic – and Jackie performing a couple of songs from the film and the EP that inspired it, “The Modern Lives – Vol 1”. A Q&A session with Bill and Jackie will cap off the night!

All the World's a Screen: CG in Projection & Experiential Design
2018-03-27 19:30 - 21:00 | NYIT, 6 W 61st Street, 11th Floor Auditorium, New York, NY, United States
The use of projections in theater was once exclusively the domain of the avant-garde. However, technologies have advanced and tastes have changed, and we now live in a world where every surface can be a screen.
For “All the World’s a Screen: CG in Projection and Experiential Design,” panelists from five leading-edge design groups will discuss the past, present, and future of these increasingly popular disciplines.
This event is jointly sponsored by NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and NYIT’s Department of Digital Arts & Design.
Panelists scheduled to present (as of March 12, 2018) include:
• Kevin Cunningham (3-Legged Dog)
• Victor Morales (3-Legged Dog)
• Caoyuxi (James) (3-Legged Dog)

• Robin Silvestri (Batwin + Robin)
• Adam Casini (Batwin + Robin)
• Matthew Haber (BeSide Digital)
• Phillip Gulley (BeSide Digital)
• Brian Tovar (LIVESIGHT)
• James Dick (R/GA)
• Natasha Saevo (R/GA)
Moderated by Mark Reynolds, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH.
Doors open at 7:00PM.
**This event is free. However, reservations are required to guarantee a seat. You can RSVP at the Eventbrite link below. Any open seats will be made available to walk-ins the night of the event.**

Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2026354657615567/

Awards Judging Night - Experimental Films, Commercials, and Music Videos Room 502
2018-03-27 19:10 - 22:00 | SVA Rm 502, 209 E. 23rd, new york, ny, United States
This will be a later start judging night as a class lets out at 7:10PM. We’ll be screening experimental films, commercials under and over 2 minutes, and music videos in room 502 in the main building. 5th Floor.

Funhouse, a New, Interactive Book Fair
2018-03-24 - 2018-03-25 | the drawing center, 35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013
Presented by Desert Island and The Drawing Center
On the weekend of March 24-25, Desert Island and The Drawing Center will present FUNHOUSE, a new, interactive book fair at which guests can make their own books in collaboration with resident cartoonists and illustration artists. FUNHOUSE guests will interact with resident artists to create unique pages for one-of-a-kind books to be assembled at the fair. The resident artists will also have their own publications available for purchase at General Store within the FUNHOUSE fair, with games of chance, author signings, special activities, and giveaways of artists’ books. A Sideshow of talks, lectures, and presentations will be organized by FORGE. art magazine’s Matthew James-Wilson. Additional spectacles, like life-size interactive cut-outs and funhouse mirrors will provide wacky fun and photo-ops galore!FUNHOUSE artists include: Gabrielle Bell, Lilli Carré, Rob Corradetti, Joanna Fields, Laura Perez-Harris, Abby Jame, Jeff Ladouceur, Sarah Lammer, Gary Leib, Richard McGuire, Ben Passmore, Oskars Pavlovskis, Monica Ramos, Jim Schleussler, R. Sikoryak, Whit Taylor, Matthew Thurber, Thu Tran, Mark Wang, Kriota Wilberg, Kelsey Wroten, Gina Wynbrandt, and JooHee Yoon. FUNHOUSE is organized by Gabe Fowler of Desert Island and Molly Gross of The Drawing Center. The logo was created by Richard McGuire.

A selection of FUNHOUSE artists from L to R: Thu Tran, Rob Corradetti, JooHee Yoon, Monica Ramos, Jeff Ladouceur. Sarah Lammer, Oskars Pavlovskis, Whit Taylor, and R. Sikoryak. Go to our instagram feed @funhousebookfair to see work by all the FUNHOUSE artist.FUNHOUSE Book FairMarch 24–25, 201811am–5pmTickets $10 via Eventbrite here.Sideshow Talk SeriesSaturday, March 24 & Sunday, March 25at 11:30am, 1:30pm, and 3:30pmSideshow will be programmed by Matthew James-Wilson of FORGE. art magazine. Details to come. kuš! Magazine Comic Zine WorkshopsSaturday, March 24 & Sunday, March 25, 12:30–4:30pmTickets $40 via Eventbrite here.kuš! comic zine workshop, lead by artist Oskars Pavlovskis from Riga, Latvia, will be a collaborative comic drawing experience suited for participants of any age and skill level. The workshop will focus on the creation of short experimental comic stories based around the FUNHOUSE theme. Together the participants will take part in creating a unique self-published comic zine, which will be printed and assembled during the workshop and each participant will receive a copy.

Awards Judging Night - Independent 2
2018-03-22 19:00 - 22:00 | SVA 3rd floor Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd, new york, ny, United States
We’ll be seeing you at the 3rd floor amphitheater!

Make Pictures Hosted by GIPHY Arts and bitforms gallery nyc
2018-03-21 - 2018-03-25 | bitforms gallery, 131 Allen Street, New York, NY, United States
Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/225305618027375/
Make Pictures: Wednesday March 21 – Sunday March 25
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM & Sunday 12 – 6 PM
bitforms gallery, 131 Allen St., New York, NY 10002
Opening Reception: Wednesday March 21, 6 – 8 PM
Casey Reas and Jeffrey Alan Scudder in Conversation: Saturday March 24, 2:30 PM
bitforms gallery is pleased to present Make Pictures, featuring four web-based drawing and animation tools commissioned by GIPHY Arts and curated by artist Jeffrey Alan Scudder. Works on view and available to use include Sketch Machine by Casey Reas, Extinctr by Harm van den Dorpel, Eyemall by Withering Systems, and Boopy by Andrew Benson. Pictures created by gallery visitors using the tools will be displayed in the gallery for the duration of the show.
Sketch Machine by Casey Reas is an open source software for creating freehand animations in real time or frame by frame. The user can draw with different colored points, lines, and planes and modify qualities of the animation such as jitter, speed, and playback. Animations can be exported as GIFs and circulated online. Sketch Machine is created within the tradition of direct animation works by Len Lye and Stan Brakhage and exploratory drawing software like Kid Pix and TURUX.
Extinctr is a pixel sorting algorithm and web tool by Harm van den Dorpel that accepts any image as input, and outputs an animated vertical decomposition of that image into a pixelated mound. The user can control the speed of the dismantling procedure (scatter) and record any duration of the process to export as a GIF.
The Eyemall is a toy by Withering Systems for creating an exquisite corpse from a curated, tagged selection of human body-part GIFs in GIPHY’s database. Hands, eyes, noses, sweaters, shorts, knees, lips, and other body parts come together to form an interactive marionette-like figure; a single body made from disparate GIF parts.
Boopy is a drawing tool by Andrew Benson developed in response to the question “What would it be like if, as you are drawing, the canvas was looping?” Boopy allows the user to build complex, layered, repeating patterns from different textured brushes. It also includes a webcam feature that allows a user to reveal their image by erasing a layer with animated strokes.
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Casey REAS writes software to explore emergent systems. His work brings together conceptualism, systems theory, experimental film and animation, and drawing. While software is at the core of his practice, his work spans installation, works on paper, and live performance. Reas has been featured in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, SF; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Eyebeam, New York, NY; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, and others. Reas is the co-creator, with Ben Fry, of Processing, an open source programming language and environment. The project was initiated in 2001.
Harm van den Dorpel lives and works in Berlin. Selected (group) exhibitions include the New Museum in New York, MoMa PS1 in New York, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam. In 2015, Van den Dorpel started Left Gallery, an online gallery that commissions, produces, and sells downloadable files.
Withering Systems is a small software label and umbrella for the collaborative projects of Katie Rose Pipkin and Loren Schmidt, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They aim to bring quiet and unusual digital experiences to the public in unlikely places, such as on social media, in printed material, or on the street. Past work includes inflorescence.city, the moth generator, luminous corridor, as well as many other small games, print projects, and plant-growth simulations.
Andrew Benson lives in Los Angeles, formerly San Francisco, and works primarily in time-based (often realtime) digital media. His practice incorporates 3D animation, experimental and process-driven video, software development, interactive technologies, web programming. He comes from a painting and music background and started working with experimental graphics and video as an outgrowth of performing at noise shows.
Jeffrey Alan Scudder, born in 1989, lives and works in Berkeley, CA where he spends his time programming and making pictures. Since 2017 he has presented 18 Radical Digital Painting lectures often in collaboration with other artists, at various venues including ZKM Karlsruhe, RISD, Harvard, Yale, Temple University, Rutgers, and UMASS. He has taught at UCLA and Parsons School for Design and worked at the design studio Linked by Air. Scudder received an MFA in sculpture from Yale University School of Art in 2013.
GIPHY Arts is a subsidiary of GIPHY, the GIF search engine. GIPHY Arts expands the prominence of the GIF as an artistic medium and format by directly engaging and commissioning artists, creating new distribution possibilities, and pioneering new technology. You can learn more by following @giphyarts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Awards Judging Night - Independent 1
2018-03-20 19:00 - 22:00 | SVA 3rd floor Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd, new york, ny, United States

Womanimation! MassArt Encore Edition
2018-03-17 15:00 - 17:00 | NY
Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/2119663338266987/
What is Womanimation? As the name implies, it’s a festival showcasing acclaimed animated films created by women from around the world, a celebration of the story-telling power of animation, particularly in the short form.
A special edition comes to Massachusetts College of Art and Design on Saturday March 17th at 3:00 pm in the Design and Media Center (DMC) Lecture Hall, on 621 Huntington Avenue in Boston. The event is free and open to students and the general public.
The special MassArt Encore Edition of Womanimation! features ten films from the 2017 festival along with the two award-winning films from the 2016 festival.
The program is diverse in its subjects, visuals, and geography. Nine countries are represented, in styles from traditional 2-D to stop-motion to computer animation, with themes from comic documentary to bittersweet personal drama to forays into the surreal. The festival features something for every taste.
A slideshow introducing the filmmakers will precede the program, and audience members will be given ballots to select their favorite films of the program. DJ Madame B will weave soundscapes created by women across the globe before and after the screening.

Awards Judging Night - Students 2
2018-03-15 19:00 - 22:00 | SVA 3rd floor Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd, new york, ny, United States

Awards Judging Night - Students 1
2018-03-13 19:00 - 22:00 | SVA 3rd floor Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd, new york, ny, United States

New York International Children's Film Festival
2018-02-23 08:00 - 2018-03-18 17:00 | NY
During four weekends in the month of March, the Festival invites families to explore the world without leaving NYC — and over 25,000 parents, children, and filmmakers are treated to the best new films for ages 3-18 at venues throughout NYC. Each year, we scour the globe to present a highly selective slate of the best animation, live action, documentary, and experimental film from over 2,500 international submissions.

Program at a Glance

100 new films from around the world, representing 30+ countries in 15+ languages
Programs for ages 3-18
75 film screenings
20 feature films
6 unique short film programs (our most popular!)
Premieres, parties, red carpet events

Engagement

Interactive Q&As with visiting filmmakers
Hands-on filmmaking workshops
Audience voting to determine the Festival Award winners
Film-Education field trip program for public school students

Quality
Since 1997, 35 Festival films have been recognized with Academy Awards® and nominations, and in 2011 New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival became an Oscar®qualifying event. As such, winners of our juried prizes are eligible for Academy consideration in the Best Live Action and Best Animated Short Film categories.

Illustrators 60 Opening Reception: Part 2: Book and Editorial Categories @ SOI
2018-02-02 18:30 - 21:30 | Society of Illustrators, 128 E 63rd St, New York, NY, 10065, United States
*This event is not hosted by ASIFA East*
The Society of Illustrators presents
Illustrators 60: Book and Editorial Categories
Opening Reception and Awards Presentation
6:00pm Cocktails
7:00pm Awards Ceremony
Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street
between Lexington and Park Avenue
Tickets
Members $30 | Non-Members $40 | Seniors/students $20 (Undergraduate with valid ID)
2 Complimentary ticket will be held at the door for each illustrator with work on exhibit.
1 complimentary ticket will be held at the door for each art director with work on display.
Exhibit Dates
January 31 – February 24, 2018
Learn more about the exhibit

ASIFA East's Post Holiday Party! *DATE CHANGED DUE TO WEATHER*
2018-01-18 19:00 - 22:00 | M 1-5 Bar, 52 Walker Street, New York, NY, United States

Call For Entries! ASIFA East Festival and Awards
2018-01-08 - 2018-02-16 | NY

Illustrators 60 Opening Reception: Part 1: Advertising, Institutional, Surface/ Product Design, Uncommissioned Categories @SOI
2018-01-05 18:30 - 21:30 | Society of Illustrators, 128 E 63rd St, New York, NY, 10065, United States
*This event is not hosted by ASIFA East*
The Society of Illustrators presents
Illustrators 60: Advertising, Institutional, Surface/ Product Design, Uncommissioned Categories
Opening Reception and Awards Presentation
6:00pm Cocktails
7:00pm Awards Ceremony
Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street
between Lexington and Park Avenue
Tickets
Members $30 | Non-Members $40 | Seniors/students $20 (Undergraduate with valid ID)
2 Complimentary ticket will be held at the door for each illustrator with work on exhibit.
1 complimentary ticket will be held at the door for each art director with work on display.
Exhibit Dates
January 2 – January 27, 2018
Learn more about the exhibit

Figure Drawing @ The Productive 7pm to 9:30pm
2017-12-21 19:00 - 21:30, 2017-12-07 08:00 - 17:00, 2017-11-30 19:00 - 21:30 | The Productive, 40 W 38th Street, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Quick nude gesture poses. 1 min to 10 min poses.

Free for members of ASIFA East and The Productive Coworking Studio. $10 for non-members.

Musical Movies @ MoMA
2017-12-16 12:00 - 13:00 | The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY, United States
Log Jam KJFG No. 5. 2007. Hungary. Directed by Alexei Alexeev. 2 min.
Three “professional” musicians—a bear, a rabbit, and a wolf—are practicing their art in the forest, but suddenly a hunter turns up on the scene . . .
Kuumba. 1978. USA. Directed by Bob Bloomberg and Jane Aaron. 8 min.
Using cutouts created by children, which were animated by adults, this is an origins tale from the island of Trinidad. Set on the evening of Carnival, which is known elsewhere as Mardi Gras, the film tells a delightful story of problem-solving and discovery.
Musical Max. 1993. USA. Directed by Virginia Wilkos. 9 min.
Based on the book by Robert Kraus, this film features a young hippopotamus who happens to be very musically inclined. Max can play any instrument and loves to practice. He likes to practice so much that his blowing, plinking, and banging annoys his father (and the neighbors too!). See what happens when Max decides to give up practicing.
The Day I Beat the Sky. 2016. France. Directed by Hughes Valin. 3 min.
While he is fascinated by every resonating thing, a boy must face his greatest fear: a storm. He’s then going to use his gift for rhythms and sounds to beat his phobia.
Begone Dull Care. 1949. Canada. Directed by Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren. 8 min.
This masterpiece of hand drawn animation features colors, shapes, and patterns painted directly onto clear 35mm film stock and set to the jazz music of the Oscar Peterson Trio.
Enjoy new and classic family-friendly short films, engaging discussions, and suggestions for follow-up activities in the Museum’s galleries. This program is for individual families of up to two adults and up to three kids.

View more Family Programs.
Tickets: Free tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 10:00 a.m. on the day of the program at the information desk in the Education and Research Building, at 4 West 54 Street.
Contact: (212) 708-9805 or familyprograms@moma.org
Accessibility: Sound amplification devices are available for all programs. All theaters are equipped with loop systems and are wheelchair accessible.

Figure Drawing @ The Productive 7pm to 9:30pm
2017-12-14 19:00 - 21:30 | NY

How To Read Nancy : The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden @ SOI
2017-12-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Society of Illustrators, 128 E 63rd St, New York, NY, 10065, United States
*This event is not hosted by ASIFA East*

Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden will introduce their new work, a unique meditation on the elements of comics as seen through the molecular deconstruction of the August 8, 1959 daily episode of Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy. Columbia University comics librarian Karen Green, will chat with Mark and Paul about the genesis of this decade-long project and the author’s quest to isolate the blood, sweat and tears that go into the making of a single comic strip.
How To Read Nancy is part encyclopedia, part history, part biography, part treatise, part humor theory, and part how-to-be-a-cartoonist-in-43-easy-lessons-sorry-folks-no-refunds!
A book singing and reception will follow the presentation.
Tickets
$15 Non-Members | $10 Members | $7 Seniors/students (Undergrad with valid I.D.)
“As one of the members of the first graduating class of How to Read Nancy, I can insure that anyone who wants to understand the mechanics of comics should snap up this thorough (and thoroughly entertaining) extended autopsy of Bushmiller’s genius. I learned more about reading pictures from it than I did from seven years of art school.” – Chris Ware
“A stirring examination of the perfect comic strip and a touching love letter to its creator.” -Dan Clowes
“Anyone who can come away from this book not understanding the complex thought that inhabits handcrafted objects, minimal abstraction, formalism, the hidden value of orchestration or Nancy should just give up on art as inscrutable and imponderable.” -Gary Panter
“How to Read Nancy details the agony involved in making comic strips. It is also a very funny book.” -Ben Katchor
“Professors Karasik and Newgarden want to take you to school. They throw down an inky gauntlet, and then back it up with almost absurd levels of elucidation. Filled with valuable lessons, this book is a tribute to the art of the simple, as exemplified by a master cartoonist.” -David Mazzucchelli
“A crazy idea for a book.” -R. Crumb
Paul Karasik
Paul Karasik is the co-author (with David Mazzucchelli) of the graphic novel City of Glass, adapted from the book by Paul Auster and chosen by The Comics Journal as one of the “100 Best Comics of the 20th Century”. His cartoons appear in the New Yorker. Paul teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Mark Newgarden
Mark Newgarden is a cartoonist and author of the book We All Die Alone, the co-creator of “Garbage Pail Kids”, and the co-author (with Megan Montague Cash) of the award-winning Bow-Wow series of children’s books. Mark teaches at Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design at The New School, and The School of Visual Arts.
Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller, the creator of Nancy, began working as a copy boy at The New York World at the age of 14. His career spanned the better part of the 20th century, paralleling the rise and fall of the American newspaper comic strip. At its height, Nancy was published daily in more than 900 newspapers worldwide. Bushmiller died in 1982.
Karen Green
Karen Green is Columbia University’s first Curator for Comics and Cartoons. She has served as a judge for the Eisner Awards, been a Pulitzer Prize juror, and is a member of the Society of Illustrators’ board of directors, while also speaking at universities and comics events across the country and around the world. She teaches a summer course at Columbia on “Comics as Literature,” which features the original “How to Read Nancy” essay.

The Secret of Kells @ MoMI
2017-12-09 11:00 - 12:30 | Museum of Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY, 11106
*This event is not hosted by ASIFA East*
Screening & Live Event
The Secret of Kells
Part of Family Matinees
Saturday, December 9, 11:00 a.m.
Museum of the Moving Image – Bartos Screening Room

Presented in collaboration with the Irish Arts Center
Dirs. Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey. 2009, 75 mins. 35mm. With the voices of Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson, Mick Lally. The Secret of Kells is a beautiful and colorful Oscar-nominated animated film set in medieval Ireland on the eve of a Viking invasion. A young boy, Brendan, becomes swept into an adventure when a master illuminator arrives asking for his help with a book filled with secret powers. Recommended for ages 9 and up.
Prior to the screening, which begins at 11:30 a.m., members of Darrah Carr Dance will present a fun, interactive Irish dance demonstration.
Tickets: $15 ($11 seniors and students / $7 youth (ages 3–17) / free for children under 3 and Museum members at the Film Lover and Kids Premium levels and above). Order tickets online. (Members may contact members@movingimage.us with questions regarding online reservations.)

Children's Media Association Holiday Party
2017-12-06 18:30 - 21:00 | Society of Illustrators, 128 E 63rd St, New York, NY, 10065, United States
*This event is not hosted by ASIFA East but by a proud promotional partner CMA*
Save the date for our 2017 CMA Holiday Party! More information and event registration to come.

Contact: CMA Events Team, events@childrensmediaassociation.org
