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Terrible Truths: Confronting History and Memory – Literary Mews / Pen World Voices Festival

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

A conversation with Daniel Blaufuks, Catherine Filloux, Tanisha Ford, and Domenico Starnone. Moderated by Ulrich Baer. Nations share their official narratives through anthems and textbooks, websites and monuments—but a country’s glorious public story often diverges from the events remembered by its citizens. How do countries shape their evolving histories, and how are the true tales of terrible national tragedies obscured? How…

Person, Place, And Politics: Rescuing Ourselves From States of Turmoil – Literary Mews/PEN Festival

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

A conversation with Inês Pedrosa, Isabella Hammad, and Felicity Castagna. Moderated by Arwa Mahdawi. What happens when the sense of place that anchors our identity falls away? In this timely discussion, a talented trio of writers examine how political upheaval challenges notions of place and self. Inês Pedrosa’s In Your Hands portrays the journeys of self-definition undertaken by three generations of Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship. Isabella…

Spring Weekend: Vanek Variations

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

Join us for the Spring Weekend's presentation of three stage readings - Audience, The Meeting, and Infiltration – centered on Ferdinand Vanek, a classic character in Vaclav Havel’s plays and his fictional alter ego, who, like the late playwright-turned-statesman Havel, worked in a brewery before being jailed as a political dissident. Program: Audience by Vaclav Havel, translated by Jan Novak…

Reinvent and Rediscover: A View From Elsewhere – Literary Mews / PEN World Voices Festival

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

A conversation with Pénélope Bagieu, Brian Keith Jackson, Elif Shafak, and Takis Würger. Moderated by Rebecca Falkoff. Personal reinvention is a constant and mysterious journey. A trip overseas, a disruption in the culture of our home country, or the impact of a powerful book can shift our views. How do new discoveries and unfamiliar settings cause us to (re)examine and (re)interpret our inner…

This Transfronterizo Life – Literary Mews / PEN World Voices Festival

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

A conversation with Jennifer Clement and Willivaldo Delgadillo. Moderated by Oliver Laughland. As rage surrounding America's southern boundary intensifies, fresh visions emerge from writers whose unique experiences span both sides of the border. Jennifer Clement's novel Prayers for the Stolen exposes the horror of women kidnapped and trafficked by drug cartels south of the border, while her Gun Love dives into…

I Sacri Musicali Affetti – Barbara Strozzi

The Church of St. Francis Xavier 46 W. 16th Street, New York, NY, United States

Please note: This event will take place at The Church of St. Francis Xavier (46 West 16th Street). Members of Casa Italiana will receive a special code via E-mail for free admission. Salon Sanctuary Concerts and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò present I Sacri Musicali Affetti Barbara Strozzi​ Jessica Gould, soprano Elena Biscuola, mezzo-soprano Paula Chateauneuf & Catherine Liddell, theorbo Christa Patton,…

Pen Festival & Words Without Borders present: Voices of The Silenced

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

Assault often fades into painful silence—but a group of pioneering authors have placed survivors at the center of their own narratives. Idra Novey’s Those Who Knewexamines a popular politician’s sexual misdeeds and the alarming quiet surrounding those brutal acts. Scholastique Mukasonga’s works of memoir and fiction address the genocide that ravaged her family and countless others across her native Rwanda.…

Spring Weekend: Sunflower

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

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival’s Spring Weekend free presentation of a stage reading of SUNFLOWER, a play by Hungarian playwright Andrea Pass. In SUNFLOWER, a young couple with a dysfunctional marriage and illness taking over their lives faces losing their home. Familiar situations, and scenes from contemporary life, become a series of revealing snapshots through the eyes of adults as…

New York Premiere of Fugue

Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York

directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska as a part of Panorama Europe festival Panorama Europe 2019, the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, co-presented by Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the members of European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) will include screenig of a Polish film, Fugue, directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska. Her debut film, The Lure, a…

Spring Weekend: I Hope I Wouldn’t Meet Myself Today

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

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival’s Spring Weekend presents "I Hope I Wouldn’t Meet Myself Today," a play by Romanian writer Herta Muller, Nobel Prize recipient, set in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lili, the main character, works in a Romanian factory making fine men's overcoats for export to Italy. Her love life is a mess -…