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Delectable Venice

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

Desiring and Encountering La Serenissima Through Cuisine and Cinema This event is organized and presented by Save Venice. A lecture by Pellegrino D’Acierno Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Hofstra University And Polo said: “Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.” – Italo Calvino The talk, dedicated to learning from Venice, will…

Pre-“Falstaff” Evening

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

For Students and Young Adults Only! Opera to the People is a group open to students or other young present and future audience members in order to delve into the world and language of opera, with the objective of fostering a new generation of attentive opera-goers. The group meets to watch and listen to recordings of a particular opera that…

Czech Women Filmmakers in New York

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

A screening of award-winning short films made by three brilliant Czech women filmmakers living in New York City: Marie Dvoráková, Bára Jíchová Tyson and Zuzka Kurtz. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Limited seating. RSVP recommended. Suggested donation $5.00 MARIE DVORÁKOVÁ , director and writer, born in Jablonec nad Nisou, is a graduate of the…

Pasolini After Dante

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

The "Divine Mimesis" and the Politics of Representation A lecture by Emanuela Patti, Royal Holloway, University of London In the early 1960s, Pier Paolo Pasolini started his rewriting of Dante’s Divine Comedy, La Divina Mimesis. The aim of the project was to make it a new contemporary Comedia, including circles, sins, and characters inspired by Dante. Yet the project was…

New Genre Emerging: Contemporary German Graphic Literature

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University of Cologne New York Office present a talk by Stefan Börnchen about "New Genre Emerging: Contemporary German Graphic Literature." By now, comics have taken their place alongside other recognized forms of literature, even in German-speaking countries. The renowned German publishing house Suhrkamp includes graphic literature in its program and comic festivals are organized by literary centers.…

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…