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IN DIALOGUE: POLISH JEWISH RELATIONS

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16th Street, NYC, New York City, NY, United States

This past year, tensions between the Polish government and the international Jewish community rose following a controversial law making it an offense for anyone to accuse Poland of participating in the Holocaust or other Nazi crimes. According to the U.S. State Department, this law “could undermine free speech and academic discourse.” In this context, exploring the history of Polish-Jewish relations…

Film: 3 Days In Quiberon

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

Price: $15 general admission $11/$9 seniors, students/youth Followed by a conversation with lead actress Marie Bäumer As part of Panorama Europe 2019, the Goethe-Institut is pleased to present the New York premiere of Emily Atef’s film 3 Days in Quiberon. Actress Marie Bäumer accomplishes an amazing feat in Atef’s engrossing drama about an extensive interview that Romy Schneider gave while staying at…

Film: Romy Schneider in Le combat dans l’île

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

Price: $15 general admission $11/$9 seniors, students/youth As part of Panorama Europe 2019, the Museum of the Moving Image presents Alan Cavalier’s Le combat dans l'île as a sidebar screening to Emily Atef’s 3 Days in Quiberon. Romy Schneider is at her best as the wife of an industrialist and right-wing extremist played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, in this rarely screened…

IBLA Foundation Winners

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

500th Anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's Legacy On the occasion of the IBLA Foundation Winners recital at Carnegie Hall on May 7: click here for more info. The IBLA Grand Prize International Music Competition has become one of the world’s cultural treasures. Held each year in early Summer in the magnificent southeastern corner of Sicily, in the quietly beautiful and charming Baroque…

Bauhaus in Balance – Exercises in Body and Mind Calibration

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU, in collaboration with the German Consulate General in New York, Bauhaus Stiftung Dessau, and Bundeskulturstiftung, presents a conversation among Torsten Blume, Jenny Brockmann, Jeanette Redensek, and Ursula Staudinger, which will be moderated by Meghan Forbes. In discussing what the fascinating material experiments and body exercises conducted at the early Bauhaus in Weimar tell us about the…

The Tightrope Walkers

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

In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY The Tightrope Walkers (Le Funambole) Adapted & Directed by Rosario Sparno Performed by Antonella Romano & Rosario Sparno Installation by Antonella Romano A project by Bottega Bombardini Produced by Associazione Casa del Contemporaneo - Centro di produzione teatrale Adapted from the novel Maruzza Musumeci by Andrea Camilleri, author of Montalbano, Le funambole is a story in which the sky…

Film: Mademoiselle Paradis

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

Panorama Europe 2019 Film Festival. Director: Barbara Albert, 2017, 97 min, Austria. A blind pianist living in Vienna in the 18th century forms an extraordinary relationship with the physician who is trying to restore her sight. Panorama Europe 2019, the eleventh edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, co-presented by Museum of the Moving Image and…

Czech Boys Choir Boni Pueri Concert

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

Founded in 1982, the Czech Boys Choir Boni Pueri is one of Europe’s leading ensembles, carrying on the tradition of a choir that has been active in the Metropolitan Chapter of St Vitus in Prague since 1252. The present choir, which has 200 members ranging in age from 4 to 19, has performed more than 3,000 concerts not only in…

Bathsheba Demuth-The Value of Blubber: Soviet Whaling and the Cold War

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

Please join us on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 for a talk by Bathsheba Demuth of Brown University. This event is part of the Elihu Rose Lectures in Modern Military History and is co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This talk traces the history of whaling in the North Pacific from the early 1930s until the…

“Too Playful”

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

Rossini's "Stabat Mater" 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…