Di Zampogne, Partenze e Poesia A solo performance by poli-instrumentalist Giulio Bianco (Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino) presenting his latest project Di Zampogne, Partenze e Poesia, a collection of musical tales. The "narrator" is the Italian zampogna, an ancient instrument historically used by shepherds during livestock migrations, with a sound that evokes rural myths and legends. The music combines traditional southern Italian genres to…
Please join us on Tuesday, January 29th for “Russian Elites and Western Sanctions: A Political Economy Under Strain?”, a talk with Nigel Gould-Davies, Mahidol University (Thailand) and Chatham House. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Western financial and legal systems provide essential protection for Russian elite assets and…
Film screening and discussion with Giorgio Treves (filmmaker), Ernest Ialongo (Hostos Community College, CUNY) and Nina Valbousquet (Fordham University) 1938 – Diversi (2018), By Giorgio Treves Produced by Tangram Film/Roberto Levi and Carolina Levi, in collaboration with Sky Arte, Piemonte Film Fund, MiBACT, AB Groupe e AAMOD “Fascism can still return under the most innocent appearance. Our duty is to unmask…
Two mischievous adolescent boys embark on a journey of imaginative misadventure and coming-of-age self-discovery, in Olmo Omerzu's road-trip comedy celebrating the need to indulge the innocence, impulsiveness, and irrepressibility of youth. On a bright, wintry day, cherubic and ingenuous Heduš (Jan František Uher) catches doe-eyed friend Mára (Tomáš Mrvík) and his stolen car in his BB gun’s crosshairs. He spontaneously…
A Conversation with the Minds Behind "Maestro" This event is part of Giorno della Memoria under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy and in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. Additional information available at www.primolevicenter.org. On the occasion of the Off-Broadway run of Ensemble for the Romantic Century's theatrical concert Maestro, starring John Noble as Arturo Toscanini. Running January…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for the New York premier of The Leading Role (2016) directed by Serhiy Bukovsky. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and mediate the discussion. Russian language with English subtitles. In his latest feature documentary, Serhiy Bukovsky, paragon of Ukrainian documentary filmmaking, pays tribute to his mother and actress Nina Antonova. A natural…
(Peter Stastny, 2017) This event is part of Giorno della Memoria under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy and in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. Additional information available at www.primolevicenter.org. Redemption Blues (2017, Documentary, 84 min.) Directed by Peter Stastny Produced by Peter Stastny, Lucia Schrenk, Roland Hablesreiter – Transmitter Film Followed by a discussion between director Peter Statsny and Paola…
Join author and Harper’s Magazine publisher John R. MacArthur, author and n+1 co-founder Marco Roth, and author Catherine Cusset for a riveting conversation on Michel Houellebecq’s new novel, Sérotonine (Flammarion). The conversation will be moderated by Adam Hocker. Sérotonine is a darkly humorous and deeply cynical novel about the loss of desire and the despair of contemporary society written in Houellebecq’s inimitable style. In English. Free and open…
To RSVP, please click here. Set in late 18th-century France during the reign of Louis XVI, this comedy provides a fascinating glance into a time where a cruel rapier wit would take one further up the social ladder than gold, land, or birthright and where ridicule could drive a man to suicide.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Rosa Luxemburg, we are hosting a film screening of Margarethe von Trotta’s film Rosa Luxemburg(1986). The film depicts the life story of this thinker and activist of the international left, portrayed in the film by the great actress Barbara Sukowa. Amidst the growing militarization that preceded World War I, Rosa…
Please join us on Friday, February 1st for “Thugocracy: A Way to Think about Trump and Russia”, a talk with Nancy Ries, Colgate University . This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictments and other prosecutorial filings point to unprecedented and unusual interactions…
Free, 12-Hour, Overnight Event Featuring Music, Rare Films, VR, Puppets and More Than 60 Speakers and Performers For the third consecutive year, Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy will present the hallmark edition of A Night of Philosophy and Ideas, bringing philosophers, authors, artists, and musicians from around the world together with the New York…
“The Great Quintets” will feature Solomiya Ivakhiv, Juliette Kang, violins; Daniel Panner, viola; Sophie Shao, Thomas Kraines, cellos; Rieko Aizawa, piano. Franz Schubert String Quintet in C Major D. 956 Op. posth. 163. Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op.34. General Admission $25 Seniors and Students $10 UIA Members free.
Panel discussion of new book by Sheri Berman, in discussion with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Jack Snyder, and Alexander Stille. Welcome remarks by Adam Tooze. Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2018) explains how democracy actually develops, and how we should interpret the current wave of illiberalism sweeping Europe and the rest of the world. Sheri Berman is Professor of Political Science at…
Panel discussion of new book by Sheri Berman, in discussion with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Jack Snyder, and Alexander Stille, moderated by Adam Tooze To RSVP, please click here. Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2018) explains how democracy actually develops, and how we should interpret the current wave of illiberalism sweeping Europe and the rest of the world. Sheri Berman is…
As part of the CALA Spring 2019 Film Series “Crime and Punishment Around the World: Incarceration on Film,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the German film "Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage" (2005), directed by Marc Rothemund and starring Julia Jentsch. The film is a dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of…
A Conversation with "Gomorrah" Star Salvatore Esposito A presentation of: Non volevo diventare un boss (2016, Rizzoli) by Salvatore Esposito with Diego Nuzzo A conversation with author and actor Salvatore Esposito. Salvatore Esposito became famous playing the role of Genny Savastano in the TV series Gomorrah. But who lies behind those cold and heartless glances? Perhaps someone who grew up in…
On the occasion of the release of “The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics,” written at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron, Felwine Sarr, co-author of the report with Bénédicte Savoy, will discuss his research during a panel discussion on February 4, 2019 at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy at 6:30PM. Speakers will also include the following: Mr. Jason…
Annual event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day Welcoming remarks: Barbara Faedda Associate Director, Italian Academy, Columbia Speakers: Susan McGregor Assistant Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism; Assistant Professor, Columbia Journalism School Memes, Misinformation, and Antisemitism: Coded Communications on Social Media Michel Rosenfeld University Professor of Law and Comparative Democracy & Justice; Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights, Benjamin…
A documentary film about Věra Chytilová, a prominent Czech director and a creative force of the Czechoslovak New Wave in the 1960s. “Striving, with or without success… that is the pathos of the human existence” – Chytilová talks about her life endeavour, the rises and falls, the losts and founds and primarily, about creativity. Director: Jasmina Blaževič, 2004, 52 min,…
Please join us on Wednesday, February 6th for “Taboo in Russia: banned or suppressed issues“, a Q&A with Dmitry Bykov. This event is part of the Occasional Series, co-sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This event will be held in Room 405 The Silver Center for the Arts, 100 Washington Square Any political regime should…
A talk by Guillaume Faburel To RSVP, please click here. Metropolization implies ceaseless urban expansion and an ever faster-paced life. It transforms towns into entrepreneurial firms and generates economic exclusion, spatial segregation, and social suffering, all while fueling the environmental crisis, to the point that large cities are increasingly rejecting it, evidenced by various forms of resistance. From a turn toward…
A Novel by Antonio Monda Unworthy (Penguin Random House, 2018) by Antonio Monda English translation by John Cullen The author in conversation with Mary Karr and Fr. James Martin, S.J. “With storytelling finesse, Antonio Monda has written a compact and forceful book that might be a morbid erotic tale out of Boccaccio, exposing the tormented lust of the clergy.” –Philip…
Presenter: Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan) Respondent: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) Scholars have typically characterized Italy’s decolonization as abrupt and having little resonance in the peninsula at the time or subsequently. In this paper, I challenge this interpretation by demonstrating the visible and deeply felt impacts of repatriation by Italian settlers to the metropole at the time of events and…
Please join us for a talk with Milan Antonijevic, Executive Director, Open Society Foundation Serbia. Milan Antonijevic has been selected as the Open Society Foundation Serbia as the new Executive Director. Milan is a lawyer by training and has devoted his career to date to human rights protection, rule of law and European Union integration. Prior to joining OSF, he was the Director…
Join author Soledad Fox Maura, New Yorker journalist Jane Kramer, professor Vincent Crapanzano, and publisher Jeannette Seaver for a discussion on Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Jorge Semprún, a gripping, authoritative biography by Fox Maura in which the author reveals the tumultuous true-life story of the Oscar-nominated screenwriter responsible for Z and The War Is Over. A man of many faces, Jorge Semprún perfectly personified the struggles and successes…
New Directions in Scholarship On the occasion of the publication of: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed A Thinker for the Twenty-First Century (2018, Bloomsbury Academic) Edited by Luca Peretti and Karen Raizen This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of Pasolini today, probing notions of otherness in his works, his media image, and…
A film by Olivier Dion and Mélanie Laurent, 2015, 118 min. To RSVP, please click here. Film by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent. As mankind is threatened by the collapse of the ecosystems, Cyril, Mélanie, Alexandre, Laurent, Raphäel and Antoine, all in their thirties, explore the world in search of solutions that can save their children, and with them, future generations.…
Futures of French is a seminar series exploring new directions in French Studies and highlighting the work of early career scholars. Anna Rosensweig is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Rochester. Her work focuses on early modern literature and culture, the intersections of literature and political theory, and performance studies. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Tragic Opposition: Rights…
Music concert by Students of Columbia-Juilliard To RSVP, please click here. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program by the Maison Française and Department of Music Music concert by students of the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange Program. J.S. Bach Violin Sonata in C major, BMV 1005 I. Adagio II. Fuga. Alla breve Erika Hubbard, violin Chopin Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 1 Angela…
Lorena Luciano & Filippo Piscopo, 2018) It Will Be Chaos (2018, Documentary, 93 min.) In Italian, English, Arabic, and Tigrinya with English subtitles Directed by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo Followed by a Q&A with the directors, moderated by David Forgacs (NYU). Life in Southern Italy is thrown into a tailspin when refugees arrive by the thousands and the locals…
Recently, two conservators, Olha Yarema Wynar of the Metropolitan Museum Textile Conservation Department and Yuri Yanchyshyn of Period Furniture Conservation visited Ukraine on a Fulbright, introducing textile and wooden objects conservation approaches and techniques at various Ukrainian institutions. This presentation will focus on their experiences, while highlighting the little known art of Ukraine, and outline perspectives for preserving it for…
Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Nazar Kozak (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). An example of border art, a politically motivated mode of art production, which is staged directly in site on state borders or has them in its primary focus, Maria Kulykivska's endurance The Raft Crimea (2016) emerged as the artist's personal reflection…
Deutsches Haus at NYU, NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, and the American Council on Germany present "Managing an Exit: The End of the Merkel Era," a conversation between Joyce Mushaben (Curators' Distinguished Professor of Comparative Politics and College of Arts & Sciences first Professor of Global Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis), and Christian Martin (the current Max Weber Chair in…
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…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute will jointly present the conference "Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary: Reason, Religion, Humanism," to be held at Deutsches Haus at NYU, from February 16-17. Wayne Hudson and Reverend Eugene F. Rivers III will deliver the two keynote speeches. For a detailed conference schedule, please click here. Across the globe the liberal logic of…
Please join us for a talk with Serbian born photographer and architect Slobodan Randjelović about his photobook Lives in Transition: LGBTQ Serbia (The New Press), with a discussion moderated by Professor Tanya Domi (SIPA, Harriman). In June 2001, Serbia witnessed its first LGBTQ pride parade in Belgrade’s Central Square. It was a short-lived march, as an ultranationalist mob quickly descended on the participants, chanting homophobic slurs and injuring…
Please join us on Wednesday, February 20th, for a talk by Tatiana Smoliarova of the University of Toronto. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. “A clever machine, a wondrous linkage/ Of countless wheels, a product of the mind…” – Nikolai Karamzin used this mechanical image to describe the…
On Wednesday, February 20, join prize-winning writer Siri Hustvedt and French novelist Clémence Boulouque as they discuss Hustvedt’s compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Why is there such a wide chasm between the world of literary intellectuals and that of empirical scientists? In A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, Hustvedt, encouraged by…
A Conversation with Nadine Sierra The fourth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American soprano Nadine Sierra, performing this season at The Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's Rigoletto. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.
In this docu-fictional film, two Danish-Korean adoptees, Karoline and Thomas, separately return to the country they were born in to seek out answers about their birth parents, where they meet at a guesthouse for returning Koreans. As they each embark on their own personal quests for answers, they also begin seeking out the personal stories of fellow adoptees who they…
This concert is featured in The New York Times' "8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend" Marco Fusi, violin, viola d’amore Kukuruz Quartet: Philip Bartels, Duri Collenberg, Simone Keller, Lukas Rickli Guest appearance by Adam Tendler Salvatore Sciarrino: Fra sé Giacinto Scelsi: Xnoybis I, II, III Sciarrino: Capriccio di una corda John Cage: The ten thousand things…
The ‘permanent crisis’ narrative employed by destination countries in Europe, North America, and Australia, has allowed them to structuralise ‘exceptional’ measures as part of their domestic apparatuses of border control in their war against irregular migration. (…) These initiatives have a well-documented negative impact on the rights of ‘boat migrants’ and fail to address the root causes of displacement. Instead,…
Tambourine & Frame Drum Workshop Final Performance Final performance by the participants in the free workshop Rhythm Is the Cure Hands-On Tambourine & Frame Drum Workshop Taught by Internationally renowned singer and percussionist Alessandra Belloni REMO Signature Series Artist Based on her book & DVD Rhythm is the Cure with Mel Bay Publications The workshop takes place at Casa Italiana on: Wednesday,…
Fourteen years after his first solo album came out, he now brings out his new recording, entitled "Grace & Gratitude." The lineup whom he has invited to work with him in the studio is exceptional: John Patitucci on the double bass, Jon Cowherd on the piano and Nate Smith on the drums form a veritable “all-stars” team to whom the…
During the 1920s and 30s, the US deported thousands of Greeks, and the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations at Lausanne (1923) inadvertently aided in the process. But was the role of the postwar international system in this "second exchange" mere coincidence? This paper explores how the Treaty of Lausanne enabled the US to deport Ottoman Greek…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and NYU's Department of German present a spoken word performance of Esther Dischereit's "Flowers for Otello" with the author and current DAAD Chair of Contemporary Poetics, and Katharina Menschick. The performance will be followed by a conversation between Esther Dischereit and Ela Gezen, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director at UMass Amherst. About "Flowers for Otello:" "Flowers for…
With director Amandine Gay in conversation with art historian Sandrine Colard (African Art History, Rutgers), and poet/scholar Sylvie Kandé as respondent. African and African Diaspora writers and artists have met the 21st century with unprecedented new images and visions of Africa and the world. From Lagos, Johannesburg and Dakar to Paris, New York, London, or Berlin, writers and artists of African descent are mobilizing the resources…
50 Years from the Stonewall Uprising and of LGBTQ Liberation Rainbow Jubilee is a series of three events that Casa Italiana put together with its theater company in residence KIT to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The events will feature LGBTQ theater respectively from Italy (February 25th), the US (March 25th) and from the rest of the world…
Join us on February 26th, for a talk by Mikhail Kozyrev about the film “Brat 2”, especially with regards to his work making the score for the film. This event is sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Alexey Balabanov, famous Russian director, shot this movie in 2000. It was the sequel to “Brat” (1997), the story of…
Discussion in French with Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada To RSVP, please click here. Why is it so difficult to recognize Islamophobia as a racist phenomenon in France? The talk will explore the reasons for that denial and analyze the way the "Muslim problem" has been forged in the public space and the lack of scientific debate…
Discussion in French with Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada To RSVP, please click here. Why is it so difficult to recognize Islamophobia as a racist phenomenon in France? The talk will explore the reasons for that denial and analyze the way the "Muslim problem" has been forged in the public space and the lack of scientific debate…
Author Claire Messud will discuss her work, including her most recent novel, The Burning Girl, as well as how French authors such as Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, and Gustave Flaubert have impacted her writings, with Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States, Bénédicte de Montlaur. Follow the event on Facebook. Watch on Livestream on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 6:30PM EST.…
Reading "Monarchia" Presented with the NYU Department of Italian Studies and The Global Dante Project of New York Dante as Political Theorist: Reading Monarchia (2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) Edited and with an introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) Moderator: Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduction: Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University Presentation: Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU Conclusion: Alison Cornish, NYU Dante’s Latin treatise Monarchia…
A talk by Zuzana Rihova. With reading by Alex Zucker, translator The talk will present the unique Czech avant-garde writer Milada Souckova and her journey from a natural sciences scholar, to a young writer married to modernist painter Zdenek Rykr, participating actively in the vibrant literary scene in 1930s Prague, to her émigré life in the USA. ?íhová will focus…
Tony Judt (1948-2010) was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at NYU and the founding director of the Remarque Institute at NYU. One of the great historians of Europe in his generation, his many books include Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. He wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence…
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 taken place…
Ido de Haan, Beatrice de Graaf and Brian Vick, moderated by Adam Tooze To RSVP, please click here. After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of Europe aimed to establish a new balance of power. The 1815 Congress of Vienna ushered in the emergence of a genuinely European security culture. Securing Europe after Napoleon offers new insights into the military…
A lecture by Ron Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Why does Dante still speak to us with great urgency and power, and how is it that he remains accessible despite the seemingly-vast distance in time and culture between his world and ours? Ron Herzman is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at SUNY Geneseo and serves as the Director of Education and Outreach for the Dante…
Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. Demos Assembled (University of Chicago Press, 2018) provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that political order’s genesis, and sheds new…
J.S. Bach/Busoni: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 J.S. Bach: Aria variata alla maniera italiana, BWV 989 Debussy: Estampes (Pagodes, La soiree dans Grenade, Jardins sous la pluie) Schumann: Kinderszenen Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 60 R.A. Arjomand: Two Pieces for Piano (2017) Chopin: Polonaise, Op. 53 "Heroic" Polish-American pianist and…
This World Leaders Forum program features an address by European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, titled "United States and Europe must stand together to better defend our shared values", followed by a question and answer session with the audience. Contact Information World Leaders Forum 212-851-7421 worldleaders@columbia.edu
The series comes to an end with a conversation between two of the most renowned historians of our time: Carlo Ginzburg and Saul Friedländer. From: Wooden Eyes. Nine Reflections on Distance. by Carlo Ginzburg, Columbia University Press, 2004 The reader will find here nine essays, three of em previously unpublished, that I have written during the last decade. The “distance” referred…
Please join us for an evening with Val Vinokur(Chair of Liberal Arts and Director of Literary Translation, The New School) who will introduce and read from his new book, Relative Genitive (Poets & Traitors Press, 2018). In Relative Genitive, Vinokur translates two of the great Russian poets of the early twentieth century: the Acmeist neo-classicist Osip Mandelstam and the Futurist revolutionary Vladimir Mayakovsky. This…
Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) A film by René Clément, 1952, 86 min. To RSVP, please click here. A great classic film set during World War II: two children attempt to overcome the brutality of the surrounding world by creating a paradise of their own.
Celebrated in Catholic countries, the ancient ritual of Carnival came from Portugal to Brazil and over time became an otherwise forbidden outlet for the expression of the Afro-Brazilian culture. The Samba, Rio De Janeiro's famous carnival rhythm, actually traces its roots back to Bahia and the Maracatu from Pernambuco, some of many magical Brazilian rhythms derived from Africans and their descendants.…
Rupert Everett narrates this harrowing documentary about the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis based on an obscure paragraph in Germany’s penal code dating back to 1871. Dir. Robert Epstein/Jeffrey Friedman 2000, 81 min. From GOETHE-INSTITUT NEW YORK
Presenter(s): Anna Procyk, George G. Grabowicz, Oles Fedoruk, and Ostap Sereda. The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh-A), jointly with the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (UVAN), the Ukrainian Institute of America (UIA) and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), invites all to the 39th Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference. Anna Procyk, Learned Secretary of the Ukrainian Free…
In the context of MoMA’s “Carte Blanche: Mariette Rissenbeek on German Women Cinematographers” film series (March 1–12) and in cooperation with German Films Service and Marketing GmbH, Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation about "The Vision She Sees: A Conversation among Female Film Professionals" among Mariette Rissenbeek and cinematographers Daniela Knapp, Sophie Maintigneux, Jakobine Motz, Ulrike Ottinger, and Leah Striker, which will be moderated…
Live score and film screening of the silent classic East and West (1923) featuring the composer of the original score for the 1991 remastered film, Pete Sokolow, and musician Michael Winograd (Sandaraa), celebrating the 121st birthday of Molly Picon. Ticket Info: $15 general; $10 AJHS/CJH/YIVO members, seniors, students at bpt.me/3739449 or 800-838-3006; $18 at the door.