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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 -…

Spring Weekend: Urn on an Empty Stage

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

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival’s Spring Weekend presents a stage reading of "Urn on an Empty Stage" by Slovak playwright Martin Cicvak. In "Urn on an Empty Stage," Martin Cicvak brilliantly explores the dynamics between authoritative figures and their “victims,” particularly women. Using the Greek myth of Europa, the play challenges the issues of gender equality and the status of…

A reading of Magda Fertacz’s play Puppenhaus Treatment

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

In honor of Vaclav Havel, The Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival, presents Spring Weekend: a showcase of emerging Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak playwrights whose work grapples with the social and political issues of today. The plays have been translated into English and will be brought to life in staged readings by local New York performers and directors. The program…

Bach-Busoni

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

The German-Italian Connection What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of…

Il conformista

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

Alberto Moravia Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have…

Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna

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

Author Alessandra Belloni with Matthew Fox Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna (Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, 2019) by Alessandra Belloni Forward by Matthew Fox Renowned musician and healer Alessandra Belloni in conversation with best-selling author Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox. Followed by a concert of sacred music in honor of the Black Madonna featuring ritual drumming and healing chants…

A Lunch with Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala

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

In Conversation with Stefano Albertini Giuseppe Sala (Mayor of Milan) in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU). Giuseppe "Beppe" Sala was elected Mayor of Milan in 2016. A successful business executive, he was CEO of the 2015 Universal Exposition in Milan from June 2010 to December 2015. Mayor Sala is visiting the United States to illustrate Milan’s post-industrial transformation through governance and…