This sports drama explores the turbulent history of basketball in the former Czechoslovakia amid the social turmoil caused by various dictatorships. In this environment, fair play gets thrown out the window. Golden Sting takes us back to the period before World War II to the year 1938, and leads up to the year 1951 when Czechoslovakia was ultimately and firmly…
This event will recur Every Day until Dec. 7, 2019 Tisch Drama Stage in collaboration with the Camargo Foundation presents a festival of new readings on the African experience. Camargo Foundation’s Cultural Diaspora Playwrights Residency was conceived and curated by award-winning Minneapolis-based playwright Carlyle Brown and theater director Chuck Mike. The residency’s goal was to bring together mid-career and established…
Please join us for a book talk with Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (Public Affairs, August 2019). This talk is supported by the University Consortium and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Perhaps the most important global trend of the last few years has been the rise—and transformation—of information warfare. In the digital age,…
When the hardboiled late 19th-century rancher Zandy (Gene Hackman) decides to take a mail-order bride, he isn’t especially interested in love; instead, he wants a woman who can bear his child and aid him in the daily struggles of country living, whether tending cattle or fighting off grizzly bears. But when his new bride Hannah (Ullmann) arrives by stagecoach from…
Join visual artist, writer and scholar, Marcelline Delbecq, and photography curator and cultural director of Magnum Photos in New York, Pauline Vermare, as they discuss Camera, Delbecq’s latest book, just out in the US with Ugly Duckling Presse. Camera stitches itself together from a constellation of inquiries into photography as a practice of intuition and enigma. Delbecq interlaces works of film,…
To RSVP, please click here. After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love. My Life as a Zucchini is a Swiss-French animated film winner of the César Awards in France for the Best Animated Film and nominated at the…
Czech and Slovak artists, professionals, students and scholars are challenged to introduce the subject of their project, research or studies in a short presentation limited to six minutes. In English. Moderated by Christopher Harwood, PhD, Columbia University Presenters: Kanala Bolvanská ( UN Relief Program assistant/ meditation instructor), Eva Derman, PhD (Jewish history, SHCSJ), Nicole Hubka (student at Marymount Manhattan College…
Misha Keylin (violin), Zlatomir Fung (cello), and Pavel Nersessian (piano) will perform works by Anatoly Lyadov — Pieces for piano, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka — Trio Pathétique, and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50. Illustrated talk by Stephen Johnson. "I have known love only through the unhappiness it causes," wrote the 28-year-old Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich…
Cristina Pato is the 2019 / 2020 King Juan Carlos Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. This round table and poetry recital will focus on the idea of cultural sustainability through the experience of three mayor editors of Galician, Catalan, and Basque literature. Francisco Castro, writer and director of Editorial Galaxia (Galicia),…
Join your fellow ASF Members for an exclusive holiday celebration at Scandinavia House with glögg, treats, and holiday music, including a special Saint Lucia procession! During this annual party for the entire family, the Children’s Center will also be open, and a holiday ornament workshop for families will take place in the library. The gallery will also be open for you to view the…