Mouse Ceramic Studio, 1012 Beverley Rd. Brooklyn, NY Please note: This workshop takes place at Mouse Ceramic Studio (1012 Beverley Rd. Brooklyn, NY) and is only open to a limited number of Casa Italiana Members. Please make sure to reserve. A one day hands-on workshop on the ancient art of pottery and vessel making in clay as practiced by ancient…
SAT—NOV 2—2 PM $12 (Free for ASF Members), Ages 5-10 Advance registration recommended Scandinavia House presents Saturday Art Workshops for children ages 5 and up! This fall, kids will explore themes related to our exhibition Cutting Edges, with artist-led workshops that each address one of the central themes of concrete art explored in the Gallery show. Pure forms, colors, and principles…
This season, Swedish pianist Per Tengstrand returns to Scandinavia House for the Music on Park Avenue concert series with a special presentation of famous piano concerti performed with musicians from Princeton chamber music group Opus 21. In today’s event, Tengstrand presents a solo performance of “The Goldberg Variations” by Johann S. Bach, consisting of an aria with diverse variations for harpsichord…
Join Antoine Vigne as he presents his latest novel, American Dreamer, just out in France with editions Courtes et Longues. Moderated by Jean Poderos. In American Dreamer, Juan is a young, undocumented Mexican man who lives in El Paso. Passionate about science and astronomy, he decides to pursue academia, but due to his clandestine status, he is forced to flee and…
On the Island of Rhodes, after the Shabbat, families gathered for the Havdalah, the ceremony that separates the day of rest from the beginning of a new week of work. After the recitation of the prayers over sweet wine and a bowl of spices, life resumed as before the pause of the sixth day. The women would seat in the…
"Daddy is a Hero" is a humorous, immersive story about a family: love between parents and a brother and sister who stick together even though they fight. Love helps them to overcome dragons, illnesses, and more. This performance also includes live music. The show is performed by an independent puppet theater company LokVar - two actors with large and small…
Italy's Migrant Detention Centers and Colonial Concentration Camps A lecture by Stephanie Malia Hom Followed by a conversation between the author and Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) Stephanie Malia Hom presents an excerpt from her new book, Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention (Cornell UP, 2019). Italy’s current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has…
Everyone knows Phil Rosenthal loves to eat. The star of the hit series, Somebody Feed Phil, and co-creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, travels the world to taste the best local cuisine. So, what will we feed Phil at the Center for Jewish History? With hundreds of vintage Jewish cookbooks here in the archives, we have a few recipes in mind.…
Screening of a Slovak documentary film “Spytaj sa vasich ’89” (Ask at Home ’89) that brings an insight into the lives of people in the former Czechoslovakia in the context of major social changes during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. The screening is followed by an interactive Q&A with the director Barbora Bereznakova, engaging audience in the conversation through…
A concert featuring the music of Dvořák, Smetana, Janáček, Martinů, Fišer, and an original composition "A Musical Tribute to Václav Havel" for cello and pianoby Lora Al Ahmad. Since 1999, Mannes has presented a year-long music festival every year. Each festival has a theme and a program of more than 20 concerts, performed by the Mannes School of Music's gifted…