In an ever growing global community, it is not hard to find other people online who share similar interests. What is more rare, however, is meeting these people face to face. Luckily, each year in New York City’s Javits Centre, ReedPOP hosts its annual New York Comic Con (NYCC) where […]
Grammy Award winning reggae and international icon Buju Banton kicked off the first concert of his Long Walk to Freedom Tour on March 16th. Located at the National Stadium in Kingston Jamaica, the concert marks his first performance after serving eight years in prison for drug related charges. More than […]
The “Our Land” exhibition is comprised of photography and videography by artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and their diaspora as quoted in a statement by the exhibit and is curated by photographer and adjunct visual arts professor of Old Westbury Anthony Hamboussi. The first level of the exhibition […]
Watch Dr. Taylor’s Keynote Address: “Blaming Black Power for the Confrontation over Community Control in Ocean Hill – Brownsville.” Dr. Clarence Taylor (Prof. Emeritus of History Department at Baruch College) led a discussion in the Duane L. Jones Recital Hall as part of the “Once A Ghetto: The Worlds Created by […]
When the phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison, no one could imagine anything ever taking its place. People could listen to music at home, anytime they wanted to. For over 100 years, the phonograph record (commonly called “vinyl” today, named after the plastic used to make the discs) […]
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Here is the complete list of nominees for the 2018 MAC Awards! Join us at the Maguire Theater on Wednesday, May 2, to find out the winners. Check out all the #OWMAC nominees on MACAWARDS.ORG
The eleventh annual SUNY Old Westbury Student Media Arts Celebration will be held in the Maguire Theater on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018. In 2007, communications professor Joseph Manfredi had an idea for a student competition to promote the talents of SUNY Old Westbury students. He called it the MAC Awards […]
