Great Evenings in The Great Hall: Electoral Politics
Multimedia event
Tuesday, May 19, 6:30pm
The Great Hall
7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
Free and open to the general public
For 150 years, thousands have come to Cooper Union's Great Hall to protest or promote political change in New York City and across the nation: from Theodore Roosevelt and Fiorello LaGuardia to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Reliving some of those momentous times in American politics, Great Evenings in The Great Hall presents "Electoral Politics", an exciting multi-media event and rare opportunity for the public to see notable New Yorkers such as author, journalist and political pundit Fred Siegel, CUNY professor Frances Fox Piven, actress Rutanya Alda and other well-known actors and writers reenact portions of these pioneering Great Hall speeches. The program includes the overthrow of Boss Tweed and the notorious Tammany Hall Gang, as well as Rutanya Alda reading the words of Bella Abzug, a pioneering feminist who mobilized women into American politics. The Great Hall has been and continues to be a catalyst for change and can be experienced live in "Electoral Politics." A musical performance and a montage of Great Hall political figures will be integrated throughout the evening's festivities, concluding with footage of President Obama, then a Senator from Illinois, marking his presidential run for the White House with an illuminating speech in the Great Hall.
Great Evenings in The Great Hall is an eight-part series running from April 2009-February 2010. Each of the eight programs in the year-long series will focus on one area of protest, reform, or education to be reenacted by notable New York actors, writers and historians.
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