TONIGHT! Opening Event of the Park Communications Forum

By Patricia Zimmermann, January 31, 2023

Join us to celebrate a new Park School initiative and the move of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival to the Park School

These new public-facing initiatives celebrate the move of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) to the Roy H. Park School of Communications include the Festivals in Focus program running Feb 1-March 1.

From a newly launched public forum on communications to an expanded Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival internships course to a wide-ranging exploration of the world of festivals, the global arts and entertainment industries, and the environment, these new initiatives and pre-festival events extend the conversation about media, the environment, festivals, and emerging ideas and practices.

Bios, descriptions, topics and times here: https://www.ithaca.edu/finger-lakes-environmental-film-festival/park-communications-forum-festivals-focus-february-1-march-1

Park Communications Forum

FLEFF 2023 artwork and design by Patti Capaldi

The Park Communications Forum addresses current, unresolved, and unfolding developments and controversies across national and international media industries and academic research. It focuses on pressing issues and promotes critical analysis and public dialogues which contribute to the national conversation on the role of media in society.

A public-facing initiative, the Park Communications Forum features Park School faculty as well as faculty from other Schools at Ithaca College with a diversity of intellectual and disciplinary backgrounds to probe urgent and significant issues emerging in communications across its many disciplines, forms, and practices.

Inaugurated in 2023 by Dean Amy Falkner, the Park Communications Forum is housed, programmed, and supported by the Office of the Dean in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. This year, the Forum celebrates the move of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, now in its 26th year, to its new home in the Park School with the Festivals in Focus series in conjunction with a new Park course for FLEFF interns.