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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.
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…