Zagami Jericho is one of the most promising talents of the Czech Republic at the tender age of 20. Her music is described as retro-futuristic with synth-wave, ambient, and drum and bass influences. Zagami Jericho emerged from the depths of internet in 2016 to manifest her cyber mind on her seven-piece EP City Is My Church. Her retro-futuristic universe might…
Speakers Duygu Demir, PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sonal Khullar, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Washington; and Hamed Yousefi, filmmaker and PhD candidate in art history, Northwestern University, will present their perspectives on artistic modernism in Turkey, India, and Iran, respectively, in the 1960s and ’70s. Exploring the political context…
Haunted by his father's portrait of his grandparents who vanished in the Holocaust, Joseph Koerner returns to Vienna to solve their mystery. Completed eighty years after the Anschluss, The Burning Child (2019, 113 min.) is a moving, visually-stunning journey through Vienna's urban and psychic interior to a buried past, where dreams of home became, for a city's most ardent homemaker's, an unimaginable…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the General Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York present a lecture by Marianne Birthler, former Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, on “30 Years on: Achievements and Challenges Since the Peaceful Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.” The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Marianne Birthler and David Gill, Consul…
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…
SPECIAL EVENT. Live virtuoso performance by legendary orchestra GYPSY DEVILS. This talented ensemble of Romani musicians from Slovakia plays original arrangements by combining classical pieces with musical genres such as jazz, ethno, flamenco and Gypsy. Together with interweaving styles, they add rhythmical and harmonic changes imbued with extraordinary brilliance. Performers: Ernest Sarkozi (cimbalom), Silvia Sarkozi (solo singing, cello), Stefan Banyak…
PRESENTATION OF PERFORMANCE PROJECTS, DISCUSSION. Engaging, behind-the-scenes glimpse at "Hungarian Acacia" and other performance projects conceived to address the public discourse in Hungary in a satirical way. Artists-directors Kristof Kelemen and Bence Gyorgy Palinkas will discuss their creative practice and working methods and show footage of Hungarian Acacia iterated as a live event as well as an onstage re-enactment of…
directed by Piotr Borowski at the REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH Theater Festival Saturday, September 28, 2019 7:30 p.m. Bohemian National Hall 321 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021 FREE and open to the public. Seats are limited, on first come, first served basis. Reserve your seat online at eventbrite. The production will be performed in Polish with English subtitles. There…
PLAY, TALKBACK, AND AFTERPARTY. Join us to experience TRUTH, an intriguing play by Piotr Borowski. TRUTH exposes a lack thereof: an existence fraught with the absence of the sacred, devoid of any mystery, purpose or metaphysical worth. While the main character of TRUTH is not present, the scene is preoccupied with striving for knowledge and new creation, as well as…
A book talk with Jasmin Hasićand Dženeta Karabegović, editors of the new volume Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Policy Since Independence(Palgrave Macmillan, March 2019). This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a post-conflict country with an active agency in international affairs. Bridging academic and policy debates, the book summarizes and further examines…