Thirty-three years separate two one-act plays that are connected by absurd humor and the characters of Vanek and Stanek. What happens when two writers meet—one who is not allowed to write and the other who writes whatever he wants? What if the first one has a surprising proposal for the second one? And what if the two of them meet…
The first Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features Tuscan conductor Nicola Luisotti, on the occasion of his presence on the podium of The Metropolitan Opera, leading performances of Verdi's Aida, Rigoletto, and La Traviata. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo.
The Jordan Center’s Colloquium Series serves to introduce the most recent work of scholars within the Slavic field. Participants come from universities across the country and abroad, and work in disciplines ranging from history, political science and anthropology to literature and film. The colloquium discussion is based on a working paper which will be circulated prior to the event. On…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, from his recent novel Fremde Seele, Dunkler Wald, followed by a conversation with the acclaimed Germanist, writer and mastermind of @neinquarterly, Eric Jarosinski. About the book: Alexander leaves the small village he grew up in and joins the army. A restless soul, he pays…
Art at the Institute is pleased to present an exhibition of etchings by American artist of Lemko ancestry, Nicholas Bervinchak (1903-1978). Executed mostly during the Great Depression and into the following decade, these prints document the miners, tools, working conditions, and family life surrounding the isolated anthracite coal mining towns (also known as patches) of northeast Pennsylvania. Please join us…
About nine years before the fall of the Wall: Barbara, a doctor from Berlin, applies for an exit permit from the GDR. She is arrested and transferred to a provincial hospital after her release in the summer of 1980. While her lover prepares for her escape to the West via the Baltic Sea, Barbara works as a paediatric surgeon, under…
The play "Cezary Goes to War”, conceived and directed by Cezary Tomaszewski, deconstructs military ethos and pride to make the audience aware of their toxic dimensions and oppressiveness. The play draws on the author’s personal experience of having to appear before an army conscription committee. This memory serves as the vehicle for a funny, witty, and well-aimedcritique of nationalist war…
*Talk in French with English translation In the summer of 1933, in Paris, an 18-year old woman poisoned her parents and the crime became a great cause célèbre of the interwar era. This talk will present a new interpretation of a famous French patricide and further explore the writing of history from a judicial case: the social imaginary and its…
Renowned exhibit starts its US-wide tour in New York Exhibition through: 10/01/18-10/17/18 Monday-Friday, 10:00am - 6:30pm It has been on the road worldwide since 2016: Land of inventors - Research in Germany exhibition, designed by the Goethe-Institut, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and the Max Planck Society. At the start of the Year of Germany in October, the Goethe-Institut New York will be its first two-week-long…
Free Verse meets In Scena! Presented by Dave Johnson (Free Verse) and Laura Caparrotti (Kairos Italy Theater). Since 2014, In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY has brought Italian artists to the Free Verse Poetry Workshops in the South Bronx to collaborate. Hosted in the heart of the waiting room of the NYC Department of Probation, the Italian artists translate poems…