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On Michel Leiris and The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join Bruce Hainley, Wayne Koestenbaum and Christine Pichini for a conversation on Michel Leiris’s The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat published by Semiotext, and translated from the French by  Pichini. Written in 1981, toward the end of Leiris’s life, The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat serves as a coda to his autobiographical masterwork, The Rules of the Game, taking the form of both shorter fragments (poems, memory scraps,…

Documentary Theater: Mediterranean Migrant Monologues

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

The Mediterranean Migration Monologues (“Mittelmeer-Monologe”) tell the stories of Naomie from Cameroon and Yassin from Libya, who find themselves on a boat to Europe. It also tells of brutal coast guards, dubious sea rescue centers, and activists who fight against migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea. The activists are part of the project AlarmPhone as well as the German non-governmental…

Anthropologies Imaginaires/Imaginary Anthropologies

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here.  French Canadian Gabriel Dharmoo's musical practice defies easy pigeon-holing – and sometimes description – going beyond the limits of composition, performance, research, and vocal improvisation. His Imaginary Anthropologies is unpredictable, challenging, and amusing, floating in the fine space between satire and seriousness, between tradition and novelty, between cleverness and folly. In this solo vocal performance, Dharmoo…

Republication of Dorothy Macardle’s, Dark Enchantment

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was an Irish novelist, playwright, and popular historian. Her 1942 feminist Gothic novel, The Uninvited, was adapted for the screen by Hollywood in 1944. The editor of Tramp Press's republication of Dark Enchantment (1953), Caroline Heafey, will speak on the author’s work. Tramp Press was launched in Dublin by Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen in 2014.

The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia is an unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covering culture, religion, history, habits, language, and more. Readers will refresh their knowledge of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, the artistry of Barbra Streisand, the significance of the Oslo Accords, the meaning of words like balaboosta,balagan, bashert, and bageling. Understand all…

$15

Music On Park Avenue With Per Tengstrand & Opus 21 Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

THU—NOV 21—7:30 PM Pre-concert talk, 7 PM $25 ($20 ASF Members) Series Pass $125 ($100 ASF Members) 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. This evening, Tengstrand and Opus 21 musicians…

Holy Mass in Suffrage of Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò

Catholic Center NYU 238 Thompson Street, New York, NY, United States

at The Catholic Center at NYU (238 Thompson St.) Four years ago, our founder Baroness Zerilli passed away. Every day here at Casa, the institution she nurtured with love, wisdom, and boundless energy, we feel the profound sadness of her loss. However, we continue to feel the joy and honor of being the custodians of Casa's mission, as she had…

Lecture: Forgotten Geographies of Artistic Diplomacy w/ Sarah-Neel Smith

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Dr. Sarah-Neel Smith will discuss Turkey’s art world of the 1960s and ’70s through the lens of Abby Grey’s collecting activities, focusing on the intersection of art and international discourses about democracy in the wake of World War II.

Traveling with Adele (In viaggio con Adele)

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

N.I.C.E. Film Festival New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) Film Festival celebrates its 29th edition in the United States. In viaggio con Adele (2018, Italy, 83 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Alessandro Capitani Starring Alessandro Haber, Sara Serraiocco, Isabella Ferrari Adele, a young girl who suffers from a mental disorder, has never met her father and has always lived under…

The New Land /Nybyggarna Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

FRI—November 22—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 202 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. In this epic sequel to the 1971 film The Emigrants, Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow) and his wife Kristina (Liv Ullmann), having journeyed to America from Sweden, are now living in the wilderness of Minnesota. While building a farmhouse and clearing and farming their land, they must…