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The Alchemy of Italy

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

Exploring Italy's Cultural DNA Presented by the American Italian Cultural Roundtable Commendatore Aldo Mancusi, President In association with The Enrico Caruso Museum The Alchemy of Italy Exploring Italy's Cultural DNA A presentation by Carla Gambescia Author of La Dolce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A to Z Please note: This event is only open to members…

Film: Sometimes in April

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here.  Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) offers a soul-shaking account of the Rwandan genocide as seen through the eyes of a Hutu man fighting to save his Tutsi wife and children as the unstoppable tide of violence encroaches. Steadfastly refusing to sentimentalize or sugarcoat any aspects of the story, Peck dares us to look away, making…

THE PARTING GLASS: A NOVEL, GINA MARIE GUADAGNINO

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Gina Marie Guadagnino's debut novel, The Parting Glass (Simon & Schuster, 2019) is a story that explores identity, social class, and sexuality in the Irish diaspora of New York in the 1830s. Praise for The Parting Glass “In this delectable debut, Guadagnino uses romance and thwarted desire to vividly recreate the class and ethnic conflicts of early-19th-century New York City. “…

Concert: Zagami Jericho

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

Zagami Jericho is one of the most promising talents of the Czech Republic at the tender age of 20. Her music is described as retro-futuristic with synth-wave, ambient, and drum and bass influences. Zagami Jericho emerged from the depths of internet in 2016 to manifest her cyber mind on her seven-piece EP City Is My Church. Her retro-futuristic universe might…

DISCUSSION: MODERNISMS IN NATIONAL CONTEXTS: PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN ART FROM TURKEY, IRAN, AND INDIA

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Speakers Duygu Demir, PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sonal Khullar, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Washington; and Hamed Yousefi, filmmaker and PhD candidate in art history, Northwestern University, will present their perspectives on artistic modernism in Turkey, India, and Iran, respectively, in the 1960s and ’70s. Exploring the political context…

Film: The Burning Child Screening and Discussion with Joseph Leo Koerner

Department of Cinema Studies 721 Broadway, Room 674, New York, United States

Haunted by his father's portrait of his grandparents who vanished in the Holocaust, Joseph Koerner returns to Vienna to solve their mystery. Completed eighty years after the Anschluss, The Burning Child (2019, 113 min.) is a moving, visually-stunning journey through Vienna's urban and psychic interior to a buried past, where dreams of home became, for a city's most ardent homemaker's, an unimaginable…

30 Years on: Achievements & Challenges since the Peaceful Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the General Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York present a lecture by Marianne Birthler, former Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, on “30 Years on: Achievements and Challenges Since the Peaceful Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.” The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Marianne Birthler and David Gill, Consul…

Pre-“Macbeth” Evening

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

For Students and Young Adults Only! Opera to the People is a group open to students or other young present and future audience members in order to delve into the world and language of opera, with the objective of fostering a new generation of attentive opera-goers. The group meets to watch and listen to recordings of a particular opera that…

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Gypsy Devils (Slovakia)

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

SPECIAL EVENT. Live virtuoso performance by legendary orchestra GYPSY DEVILS. This talented ensemble of Romani musicians from Slovakia plays original arrangements by combining classical pieces with musical genres such as jazz, ethno, flamenco and Gypsy. Together with interweaving styles, they add rhythmical and harmonic changes imbued with extraordinary brilliance. Performers: Ernest Sarkozi (cimbalom), Silvia Sarkozi (solo singing, cello), Stefan Banyak…