What does a Latin American favela have to do with an old workers’ settlement in Dessau? What is the connection between a Jewish socialist in a rural commune and the children in a school class in Stockholm? All of these stories concern visions and the practical attempts to make them come true. Nearly a hundred years ago, a radical artistic utopian…
Daphna Mor (voice, winds, percussion) and Kane Mathis (oud) return to Los Corassones Avlan with an intimate acoustic musical performances inspired by the tradition of families, women and neighbors sitting together to make music, on Saturday night in Rhodes. The crossover of melodies includes Turkish, Greek, Judeo-español, Balkan and Mediterranean as well as liturgical hymns – Piyutim -from the Synagogue…
HEART AND SOUL Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. SUSAN LORETTE DUNN, soprano SOLOMIYA IVAKHIV, violin • CHRISTINE GROSSMAN, viola YVES DHARAMRAJ, cello • CHRISTINA DAHL, piano DVOŘÁK: Gypsy Songs, Op. 55: No. 1 Mein Leid ertönt, ein Liebespsalm, No. 4. Als die alte Mutter, No. 5. Reingestimmt die Saiten; PREVIN: Four Songs for Soprano, Cello, and Piano (1994);…
A part of the new family program series, families will work together to discover the untold stories of Union Square through this activity-based walking tour! Ticket Info: $10 per family at bpt.me/4309884 or 800-838-3006
Screening of a film from Karel Gott’s concert at Carnegie Hall and a performance by Czech swing singer Jan Smigmator, to honor the late pop singer Karel Gott , a romantic Czech crooner whose popularity behind the Iron Curtain helped earn him the nickname “Sinatra of the East.” Karel Gott (July 14, 1939 – October 1, 2019) won the Golden…
Join us for a talk with Iver B. Neumann, incoming Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, on the book he co-authored, The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE–2017 CE (Cambridge University Press, June 2018). Neumann and Wigen counter Euro-centrism in the study of international…
Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben was among the first journalists to sound the alarm about the perils of climate change over 30 years ago, and he has continued to be a leading voice in raising awareness about climate disruption and a leader in launching an international climate movement as founder of 350.org. Marie Toussaint is a jurist and French member…
The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse array of things—from spoons to tanks—to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians. Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals,…
For RSVP, please click here. The seminar Critique 13/13 in 2019-20 returns to brilliant texts in critical theory: Adorno, Althusser, Arendt, de Beauvoir, Du Bois, Fanon, Foucault, Freire, Horkheimer, Lorde, Said, Sartre, and others, in order to examine the current state of critical theory and ask how contemporary critical thought and practice function in these troubled times. The idea, in essence,…
From 1900 to Today On the Italian Stage is a series of lectures conceived and led by Laura Caparrotti that journeys into the history of Italian Theater to explore its language, and its contribution to Italian society and world theater. This lecture will focus on Italian dialect theater from the 20th century to present times, especially in the ouvre of…