Film in French, with English subtitles. To RSVP, please click here. Director Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community that has vanished. A Berber Muslim born in Tinghir, Morocco and raised in France, Hachkar would return to Tinghir every summer with his family, but it would be years before he discovered that the town once had a thriving Jewish community.…
Oder: Viele, die eine Ahnung haben von ihren Möglichkeiten und Bedürfnissen und dennoch das herrschende System in ihrem Kopf akzeptieren durch ihre Taten und es somit festigen und durchaus bestätigen. 1974. Germany. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Hannah Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm, etc. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Effi Briest (1974) does not merely take up the setting, characters, and…
Reception for the artist: Friday, March 23 from 6:00–8:00 PM Please RSVP to attend. Art at the Institute is pleased to present Silence, an exhibition of paintings by Ukrainian artist Oleksiy Lytvynenko. Curated by Walter Hoydysh, PhD, director of Art at the Institute, this is the artist’s first solo exhibition with The Ukrainian Institute of America. Mr. Lytvyneko will be present at the…
This screening is part of the Center for Applied Liberal Arts' Spring 2018 Film Series From the Other Side: Foreign War Films. Click here for the complete calendar of screenings. La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow) (Italy, 2005, 116 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Written, directed and starring Roberto Benigni With Nicoletta Braschi, Jean Reno, Tom Waits Traditionally, war films tell only one…
Festival Neue Literatur brings New York audiences new writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States, as the first and only festival to spotlight German-language and American fiction. The 2018 festival invites our authors to tackle questions of identity and belonging in a fracturing Europe and beyond, using race, religion, immigration, status, politics, and even football hooliganism as lenses to…
Welcoming remarks: Consul General of Italy, Francesco Genuardi Alessandra Stanley, journalist, and former New York Times bureau chief in Rome and Moscow, Mario Calvo-Platero, writer and columnist for La Stampa, in conversation with the author, Alain Elkann and Giorgio Barba Navaretti on history, memory, and family. Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist Alain Elkann follows the flight from fascist Italy of an…
Sephardic music from the 16th to the 20th centuries, by Alonso Mudarra, Wolf Simoni, Alberto Hemsi, Roberto Pla, Zhul Levy, and Paul Ben-Haim, performed by Heather Buck, soprano; Janice Meyerson, mezzo soprano; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello; Lorne Richstone, piano; with commentary by Dr. Raymond Scheindlin. Ticket Info: $18 general; $12 ASJM/AJHS/ASF/CJH members; $9 seniors, students at www.smarttix.com or 212-868-4444 Tickets: Available online
Moravian folk artists from Breclav (Czech Republic), "malerecky" Marie Svigrova and Dagmar Benesova (a founder of Folk Academy), will discuss and present the art of traditional Easter egg decorating design and techniques. Please note that THIS IS NOT a classical workshop! But, we encourage you to bring your own supplies, paper, and markers to take notes. The artists will stop…
America is a land of opportunity or is it? Join writer Kirstin Valdez Quade, poet Lawrence Joseph and author and publisher John Freeman as they discuss Tales of two Americas: Stories of Inequalities in A Divided Nation. This collection of short stories, poems, autobiographical texts offers us a framework to look at inequalities in the US in different terms, from different…
FRÉDÉRIC BEIGBEDER Writer, literary critic, television presenter; author of Windows on the World (Prix Interallié); L’Égoiste Romantique; Au Secours pardon; Un Roman français (Prix Renaudot); Oona & Salinger in conversation with OLIVIER BARROT Writer, journalist, television producer and host, Un Livre un jour (France 3 and TV5); author of L’Ami posthume; Le Fils perdu; La Revue Blanche; Un Livre un jour, un livre toujours; Mitteleuropa; United States In French Books available for sale Florence Gould…