The tradition of Sunday afternoon musicales continues as the spirited ArtsAhimsa ensemble returns for its ninth season with chamber works from the musical circle of Antonin Dvorak, exploring themes and variations originating from New York, Prague, and Vienna. The richly varied repertoire—ranging from solo instrument to quintet—will include Dvorak’s Humoresque Opus 101 nos. 1 and 7 (the latter arranged for…
Children’s book author Natalie Tual will read and sing her whimsical springtime story, Bulle et Bob au jardin. There’s lots to discover when Bulle and Bob garden together…an earthworm: yikes! Oh, a ladybug! Let’s play a game with the vegetables! After hearing this tale, you will never garden again without singing the radish salsa! From Albertine
A Roundtable with Antoine Ripoll, Head of European Parliament Liaison Office with US Congress (Washington DC) and Ryan Meilak, EPLO Public Diplomacy & Communications Officer 2019 marks the 9th elections of the European Parliament (May 23-26). The European Union is facing challenges from all directions and from within its own borders: Immigration, Brexit, Russia, uncertainties with its relations with the…
The German-Jewish family that built Macy’s into an iconic retailer also left an indelible legacy in American politics and society, from the philanthropic work of the Educational Alliance to Isidor Straus’s time in the United States House of Representatives. In his lecture, department store historian Michael Lisicky will discuss how Isidor Straus built the Macy’s empire while his less known…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU present a panel discussion about "Black and Brown in Berlin: Notes from the African Diaspora" among Brittany Hazelwood, Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, and Darryl Pinckney,which will be moderated by Christophe A. Koné. Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet Audre Lorde, who taught in Berlin from 1984 to 1992, recalled that, on the day the…
Rainbow Jubilee is a series of three events that Casa Italiana put together with its theater company in residence KIT to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The events will feature LGBTQ theater respectively from Italy (February 25th), the US (March 25th) and from the rest of the world (April 15th): three events of live performance to discover how much…
Stradella's "Susanna" What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of Underworld…
At the Crossroads of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-Speaking Worlds: A Three-Part Learning and Cultural Series on the Greater Sephardic Communities of the Former Soviet Union Back by popular demand, the American Sephardi Federation’s Young Sephardi Scholars Series is excited to once again host a 3-part learning and cultural series about the Russian-speaking Jewish (RSJ) communities of the Greater Sephardic world.…
Join German sociologist Oliver Nachtwey and Ajay Singh Chaudhary for a conversation on how neoliberalism is causing a social crisis in Germany and the rest of Europe. Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children…
Garth Risk Hallberg and Morten Høi Jensen discuss this sweeping 1904 Modernist masterpiece known as “the great Danish novel,” recently released in its first English translation. In this bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city, Per is a gifted young man who…