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SAF Fund for Performing Arts

SAF poster 2026

The Performing Arts makes awards to undergraduate & grad students to support performing arts projects from your Student Activities Fee. Past projects have included theatre productions, music recitals, film and media shoots, and dance performances.

If you are thinking about applying for an SAF grant, we highly recommend attending an Info session:
Weds., Sept. 16th | 4PM
Lang Auditorium (424HN) and Zoom
RSVP here
(Link for Zoom will be sent out ahead of the meeting.)

Info & Application : https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/office-of-performing-arts/student-activity-fund-grant/

Applications are due Sept. 29, 2026 by 12PM

For further information please email the Performing Arts Office (Baker 108/109) at: safpa@hunter.cuny.edu

Democracy and Development

Emergent City Roosevelt House - Kelly Anderson and Betty Yu

Democracy and Development:
Screening of Emergent City

Sept. 305:30PM | Roosevelt House
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Panelists: Prof. & Film & Media Chair Kelly Anderson & Prof. Betty Yu

Emergent City, a film by Prof. Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg.  Called “the best NYC documentary in a decade” by Hell Gate, Emergent City follows the decade-long redevelopment of Brooklyn’s Industry City. A microcosm of American democracy, this meticulously-crafted observational film offers a front row seat to the public and private spaces where the city is shaped. more info…

Christine Choy Retrospective

TWN (Third World Newsreel) presents the Christine Choy Retrospective: ten preserved and digitized films from a pioneering Asian American documentarian whose camera tracked labor, incarceration, immigration, and liberation for half a century. Oscar-nominated for “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and honored in the Library of Congress, Choy filmed the stories the record left out. This fall, they return to the screen:

September 9-13 at Anthology Film Archives
September 13-16 at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema
more info…