In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY A night dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, featuring a special presentation and performance of the three finalist 10-minute plays from Kairos Italy Theater's competition (April 15, Casa Italiana). In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.
Deutsches Haus at NYU, in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland New York and SALA (Swiss American Lawyers Association), presents a screening of the Swiss documentary Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Rahel Grunder, the film's director, will be present and speak about her film and the life of Emilie Kempin-Spyri. About the film: Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Written and directed by Rahel Grunder. Switzerland, 2015, 52. min, in German with…
SOLOMIYA IVAKHIV, violin • CAROL RODLAND, viola YVES DHARAMRAJ, cello • GILBERT KALISH, piano FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45; JANÁČEK: Violin Sonata; BOHDAN KRYVOPUST: Duma for String Trio (2018).* *World Premiere. Commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America in celebration of the 30th anniversary of MATI. Admission $25; Students & Seniors $10; UIA Members free.…
A Solo Exhibition at Casa Italiana and Magazzino Italian Art Foundation Renato Leotta April 30 - June 12, 2019 Mondays-Fridays 10-6 Magazzino Italian Art Foundation (2700 U.S. 9, Cold Spring, NY) NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (24 West 12th Street, New York, NY) Curated by Vittorio Calabrese, Director, Magazzino Italian Art Foundation Magazzino Italian Art Foundation and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and Archipelago Books present the book launch of Robert Musil’s Intimate Ties (“Vereinigungen”), and a conversation among the acclaimed author and translator of Intimate Ties, Peter Wortsman; the literary scholar and translator Kathrin Holzermeyr-Rosenfield; Fatima Naqvi, professor of German and Film Studies at Rutgers University; and moderated by the writer and translator Tess Lewis. About the…
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…
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY A Cottage of One’s Own (Un Cottage Tutto Per Sè) Written & Performed by Natalia Magni Directed by Sonia Barbadoro Presented by Magnitudo Nove Orsetta, a 40-year-old single woman, pressed by her mother and worried friends, decides to make her dream come true: move to a country cottage with a husband and children, to…
Presented by the OREL Foundation in partnership with USC Thornton School of Music’s Polish Music Center Vienna University’s exil.arte Center and Polish Cultural Institute New York Daniel Wnukowski, piano HANDEL Keyboard Suite Vol. 1, No. 7 in G minor, HWV 432 RATHAUS Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 20 CHOPIN 24 Preludes, Op. 28 Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski makes his New…
Willing to investigate his personal past, as well as to contribute to a broader national remembrance duty, Philippe Apeloig took on the challenge to photograph the street plaques that commemorate the Parisian victims of WWII. Their presences remind us of an act of courage, a tragic destiny, or a sacrificed life. On Saturday, May 4, at 4pm, join Philippe Apeloig…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How do we endure the memories of war, from whose ravages neither people, animals, nor the earth itself can escape? How do we reclaim what is left after war has destroyed lives, communities, buildings, and landscapes? How do we rebuild ourselves in the wake of ignominious battlefield defeats? Laurent Gaudé (Hear Our Defeats, trans. by Alison Anderson, Europa Editions), Sinan Antoon…
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…
Panorama Europe 2019 Film Festival. Director: Abigail Mallia, 2017, 115 min, Malta. A human story of a family grappling with the discomforting notion of a delusional parent who believes he has what it takes to run for the Malta's Prime Minister. Panorama Europe 2019, the eleventh edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, co-presented by Museum…
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY The Last Day of Sun (L’Ultimo Giorno Di Sole) Text & Music by Giorgio Faletti Directed by Fausto Brizzi Performed by Chiara Buratti Produced by Orlantibor A "novel on stage" by the late writer/actor Giorgio Faletti. Seven monologues and eight songs. The story of a woman who, before the end of the world, returns…
Crisis after crisis has beset the European Union in recent years––Greek sovereign debt, Russian annexation of Crimea, unprecedented levels of migration, and the turmoil created by Brexit. From Paris to Berlin, London to Athens, European leaders have had to improvise on issues––problems of identity, sovereignty and solidarity––that the Union was never set up to handle and which threaten to engulf…
Crisis after crisis has beset the European Union in recent years – Greek sovereign debt, Russian annexation of Crimea, unprecedented levels of migration, and the turmoil created by Brexit. From Paris to Berlin, London to Athens, European leaders have had to improvise on issues – problems of identity, sovereignty and solidarity – that the Union was never set up to…
With Antonio Monda Antonio Monda (NYU) announces the theme of the 2019 edition of Le Conversazioni. Followed by a screening of the documentary Happiness directed by Francesco Zippel about the previous edition (2018) with Ian Buruma, Dave Eggers, David Mamet, Helen Oyeyemi, Benjamin Taylor, and Vendela Vida. Le Conversazioni is the international festival created by Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini that takes place annually on…
The Ukrainian Institute of America is delighted to invite you to a special book talk and signing by The New York Times bestselling author Adam HigginbothamMidnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster The Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street (at Fifth Avenue) New York, NY 10075 Admission: $15 | UIA members: $10 BUY TICKETS The first…
The launch party for Al Andalus in New York, a zine produced by Molly Crabapple and students at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center, will feature a performance by rapper Omar Offendum, speeches by Molly Crabapple, filmmaker Assia Boundaoui (The Feeling of Being Watched), professor Hisham Aidi (Rebel Music), and readings by workshop participants. This will be followed by a panel discussion…
Liberal democracies are fraying: fresh ideas and policies are needed to formulate a New Social Contract to ensure that peace and democracy survives and thrives. What moral, social and political ideals can guide us through these troubled times and into the future? Patriotism has reemerged as a rallying cry towards rebuilding a national consensus and restoring acceptable social and political…
with author Chiara Marchelli La memoria della cenere (NN Editore, 2019) by Chiara Marchelli The author in conversation with journalist Maria Teresa Cometto and Monica Rossi (CUNY) Elena is a writer who knows how to read stories on peoples faces. One night, she suffers an aneurysm in her New York home. She survives and, together with Patrick, decides to move…
1st Floor] A special, Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival’s Spring Weekend pre-festival benefit party. The Spring Weekend Soiree at Manhattan’s Bohemian Spirit Restaurant will feature discussions with directors of the upcoming stage readings, Adrian Alea, Edward Einhorn, Simona Maicanescu, Michael Piatkowski and Zishan Ugurlu, as well as short excerpts from the plays themselves. Guests will also enjoy the vibrant music…
Czech fans welcome! Come and see our skaters in the live transmission at Bohemian National Hall. From the Bohemian National Hall.
A conversation with Daniel Blaufuks, Catherine Filloux, Tanisha Ford, and Domenico Starnone. Moderated by Ulrich Baer. Nations share their official narratives through anthems and textbooks, websites and monuments—but a country’s glorious public story often diverges from the events remembered by its citizens. How do countries shape their evolving histories, and how are the true tales of terrible national tragedies obscured? How…
A conversation with Inês Pedrosa, Isabella Hammad, and Felicity Castagna. Moderated by Arwa Mahdawi. What happens when the sense of place that anchors our identity falls away? In this timely discussion, a talented trio of writers examine how political upheaval challenges notions of place and self. Inês Pedrosa’s In Your Hands portrays the journeys of self-definition undertaken by three generations of Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship. Isabella…
Join us for the Spring Weekend's presentation of three stage readings - Audience, The Meeting, and Infiltration – centered on Ferdinand Vanek, a classic character in Vaclav Havel’s plays and his fictional alter ego, who, like the late playwright-turned-statesman Havel, worked in a brewery before being jailed as a political dissident. Program: Audience by Vaclav Havel, translated by Jan Novak…
A conversation with Pénélope Bagieu, Brian Keith Jackson, Elif Shafak, and Takis Würger. Moderated by Rebecca Falkoff. Personal reinvention is a constant and mysterious journey. A trip overseas, a disruption in the culture of our home country, or the impact of a powerful book can shift our views. How do new discoveries and unfamiliar settings cause us to (re)examine and (re)interpret our inner…
A conversation with Jennifer Clement and Willivaldo Delgadillo. Moderated by Oliver Laughland. As rage surrounding America's southern boundary intensifies, fresh visions emerge from writers whose unique experiences span both sides of the border. Jennifer Clement's novel Prayers for the Stolen exposes the horror of women kidnapped and trafficked by drug cartels south of the border, while her Gun Love dives into…
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.…
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…
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…
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 -…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Who Were They? Presented by the American Italian Cultural Roundtable Commendatore Aldo Mancusi, President In association with The Enrico Caruso Museum The Etruscans Who Were They? A presentation by Francesco Bonavita, Ph.D. Who were the Etruscans? Come listen to Prof. Francesco Bonavita, a linguist, educator, lecturer and author talk about the people often labeled as enigmatic, gluttons, and bon vivants,…
Through the Evolution of Homo Sapiens A lecture by Jonathan Fargion, Landscape Designer Focusing on the concept of landscape design and gardens through the evolution of Homo sapiens, from the agricultural revolution, through the need of expressing religious thoughts, to the rise of the magnificent ornamental gardens that reigned for a long time in history in the homes of the…
Our popular dance party is back! Come out and spend the evening with us as we dance the night away - this time dressed in all white. Ballroom dance music with popular Paul Errico Band, Latin, Chacha, Fox Trots, Tango, Waltzes, Swing. Dress code: all white. Food buffet, wine bar, and dance show by Alexandra & Stefan. Advance tickets for…
Join us on a journey back in time to 1990s Prague with its decaying facades, unexplored commercial opportunities, and the cultural scene that was resurging after forty years of oppression. The neuroscientist and entrepreneur André Fenton, the speechwriter and strategic communications advisor for IBM Rob Lewis, and Maura Griffin, co-founder of The Globe Bookstore & Coffeehouse and a former Prague…