and the Comic Finale 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…
Maria Anto, Magda Moskwa, and Ewa Juszkiewicz Through the presentation of works by Maria Anto (1936-2007), Magda Moskwa (1967) and Ewa Juszkiewicz (1984) at Frieze Art Fair 2019, local_30 gallery from Warsaw aims to highlight Surrealist motifs in the work of these artists, and refute the claim about the absence of Surrealism in Polish art. Maria Anto’s work represents the…
Please join the European Institute and the Harriman Institute for a talk made possible by the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Click here to register. Susann Worschech Assistant Professor, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Tsveta Petrova Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science, Columbia University Is populism a symptom of democratic crises? What is its relationship…
Please join us on for a talk by Eugene Finkel of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, on Wednesday, May 1st. This event is part of the NYU Department of Politics, Comparative Politics Speaker Series and is co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Event location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217 Focusing on…
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming…
The Palermo Sketches Multimedia Project Da Qui a Palermo The Palermo Sketches Multimedia Project Giancarlo Mazzù, guitar, voice Luciano Troja, piano Blaise Siwula, clarinet, alto sax Rocco John Iacovone, soprano sax, alto sax Visuals: 3112HTM feat. Fortyone Pictures Paintings: Denise Fusco Iacovone World Première Produced by Almendra Music Giancarlo Mazzù and Luciano Troja have played together since 2002. Their music…
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY In honor of the new OnStage! Festival & Award, which premiered in Rome, Italy this past January, In Scena! features a special reading of the first OnStage Award winner for New American Plays: The Girlfriend Written by Leland Frankel Directed by Carlotta Brentan With Rob Glascott, Victoria Ratermanis and Carlotta Brentan Olivia "Liv" Hughes…
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY A Passion (Una Passione) Written by Valentina Diana Directed by Vinicio Marchioni Performed by Marco Vergani Presented by Anton An actor appears on an empty stage. The blockbuster production he’s in has been canceled, and no one has told him. He has always been an extra and tonight, alone, he will perform for you…
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY This panel is part of the 2019 In Scena! Italian Theater Festival. This year, the festival is presenting a series of conversations on the topic of Gender. What does Gender mean in 2019? How do different groups of people (youths, women, the LGBTQ community...) feel about the term? Is there a 'gender issue'? Prior to a…
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY What Remains On Mobbing, Shocking, and Other Amenities (Quel Che Resta– A proposito di mobbing, shocking e altre amenità) By & With Monica Faggiani Assistant Director Silvia Soncini Presented by Teatro dell’Allodola – Le Irriverenti A story of “ordinary madness” concerning mobbing and other power dynamics, told by a woman. With self-irony, the protagonist tries…