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23RD NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

Lights, Camera, Action! The NYSJFF showcases contemporary voices steeped in the history, traditions, and rich mosaic culture of Greater Sephardic communities. This year’s festival includes premiere film screenings, intriguing stories, evocative documentaries, powerful narratives, Q&As with filmmakers, as well as special honorees, dignitaries, and diplomats. The Pomegranate Awards Ceremony celebrates Sephardi excellence in the arts. In partnership with YUM, ASF…

Book Talk: Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City

Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad, exploring the furthest reaches of the globe, Persian travelers from Iran and India travelled across Russian and Ottoman territories, to Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe and beyond. Remapping the world through their travelogues, Reversing the Colonial Gaze offers a comprehensive and transformative analysis of the journeys of over a dozen of…

Phantastica: The Untold Story of Psilocybin Mushrooms

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

Join Stéphanie Chayet and Fabrice Nadjari as they discuss Chayet’s book, Phantastica: ces substances interdites qui guérissent, which explores the forgotten history of mescaline, LSD and psilocybin mushrooms and how they could have revolutionized mental health, had history played out differently. In the early twentieth century, psychedelic drugs made their first appearance in Western science under the name phantastica. Chayet claims…

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy Presented with NYU Department of Italian Studies and The Colloquium in the Humanities Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy (Brill, 2019) by Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduced by Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU In Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage, Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of the prayerful phenomenon in Dante’s Commedia and considers…

Music On Park Avenue With Per Tengstrand & Opus 21 The Grieg Concerto

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City

This season, Swedish pianist Per Tengstrand returns to Scandinavia House for the Music on Park Avenue concert series with a special presentation of famous piano concerti performed with musicians from Princeton chamber music group Opus 21. Tonight, Tengstrand and Opus 21 musicians Haeun Jung and Fumika Mizuno (violin), Noah Pacis (viola), and David Kim (cello) perform Edvard Grieg’s “Piano Concerto in…

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Remembering Viktor Perelman’s Vremya I my

International Affairs Building Columbia

Join for a panel discussion dedicated to the late journalist and publisher Viktor Perelman (1929-2003), the creator and sole editor of the Russian-language literary and political magazine Vremya i my (Time and We). Beginning in 1975, 152 issues of Vremya I my were published over a span of twenty-five years in several countries: first in Israel, and then in France, the United States, and…

Echoes of Ji.hlava Film Festival: Fonja (Madagascar, Germany)

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York

Fonja is a film made by the youngest and possibly most exceptional filmcrew of Madagascar. Over the course of a four months film production workshop, ten detainees from the male youth prison of Madagascar’s largest detention center in the capital Antananarivo discover the camera for the first time. Fonja (2019). Directors: Ravo Henintsoa Andrianatoandro, Lovatiana Desire Santatra, Sitraka Hermann Ramanamokatra,…

Concert: French Impressions, Debussy & Chausson

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York

Grace Park (violin), Gilles Vonsattel (piano) and The Calidore String Quartet will perform Claude Debussy — Violin Sonata in G minor, and Ernest Chausson — Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op.21. This concert is part of the Aspect Chamber Music Series, established to introduce and promote a novel concert format, ‘Music in Context’, which gives the audiences an…