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Casi Desnudo: Film Screening and Book Presentation

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

The screening of Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko’s Casi Desnudo, a film about the Ukrainian-American avant-garde writer Yuriy Tarnawsky, will be followed by Mr. Tarnawsky’s reading from his newly-released books (Warm Arctic Nights, The Iguanas of Heat, Literary Yoga). He will be introduced by Prof. Maria Grazia Bartolini from University of Milan. * * * Yuriy Tarnawsky is a bilingual Ukrainian/English author of some three…

$15

Nordic Impressions: Panel Discussion with Marthe Thorshaug, Anneè Olofsson, and Dr. Klaus Ottmann

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Led by the exhibition’s curator Dr. Klaus Ottmann, a panel on Nordic Impressions: Contemporary Art from Åland, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden discusses the wide array of artistic expressions currently on view at Scandinavia House. Select artists will be present to discuss their unique expressions in the exhibition as well as the themes that hold a special place across Nordic culture: both historic…

$5

The Dumpster Ball with Marc Boutavant

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

World renowned French author and illustrator Marc Boutavant—creator of Mouk, Edmond, and All Aboard, among many others—will release a new book published by Enchanted Lions Books just before the Festival. Dumpster Dog, through its charmingly awkward canine protagonist “Chien Pourri”, shows kids that accepting differences is a key to better understanding one another. Commissioned for TILT 2019, the artist will lead a special event on Saturday,…

Daniela Roma, piano

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

Music by Clementi, Rendano, Liszt, Skryabin A recital by Daniela Roma, piano Program: Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) Sonata in G minor, op. 7 No. 3 Alfonso Rendano (1853-1931) Variazioni sopra un tema calabrese Valse Triste Tarantella Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Isoldens Liebestod (From Wagner's Tristan und Isolde) Rossini's La Danza, Tarantella Napoletana Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915) Sonata Op.68 n. 9 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOfiTbahfR0] From the Casa Italiana…

Book Talk. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan by Sarah Cameron

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Please join us for a talk with Sarah Cameron (University of Maryland). The Hungry Steppe (Cornell University Press, 2018) examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine—a quarter of Kazakhstan’s population—and the crisis transformed a territory the size of continental Europe. Yet its story has remained mostly hidden…

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

A Conversation with Jamie Barton The fifth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, who will be singing the role of Fricka in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung at the Metropolitan Opera. Jamie Barton appears courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo. 

The Last Family

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

Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple’s aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in…

Labor in the Amazon Era: Heike Geissler in Conversation with Stephen Squibb

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

German novelist Heike Geissler will discuss Seasonal Associate, a literary account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center, with critic and author Stephen Squibb. In Seasonal Associate, Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig when she is no longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income. But the job, intended…

Dance through Time: Antiquity and the Ballets Russes – Illustrated Lecture by Clare Fitzgerald

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Clare Fitzgerald Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Director, ISAW This lecture, presented at La Maison Française, is held in conjunction with the exhibition Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, on view at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 15 East 84th St., from March 6 to June 2. In English Co-sponsored by the Institute…

The Nordic Model: Finland and Education Chairman’s Lecture Series

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In this new series, speakers at Scandinavia House will explore the reasons why Nordic countries lead surveys of societies with high levels of trust, happiness, gender equality, and quality of life. By many measures, these countries are among the most successful societies worldwide. In these lectures, we’ll look at how individual countries have successfully addressed certain issues that confront all societies.…