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St. Valentine’s with Czech Fashion Designers

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

Fill your Valentine's Day with Czech fashion, block printing workshop and a documentary about Manolo Blahnik. Enjoy a documentary about Czech-Spanish fashion designer Manolo Blahnik, a fashion exhibition with a pop-up shop by Czech-Australian demi-couture designer Iva Pfeiffer, and a block printing workshop with Czech-American artist Petra Valentová. 7 PM in the Cinema : Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for…

Zemlinsky, Janacek, Dvorak and Their Muses

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

Performance by Zemlinsky Quartet, illustrated talk by Nicholas Chong. Love, requited or otherwise, can spark the creation of great music. In 1865, Antonin Dvorak’s feelings for Josefina Cermakova inspired the song-cycle Cypresses. His love was unrequited, but years later he arranged some of the songs for string quartet, creating a set of exquisite miniatures. Leos Janacek was sixty-three when he…

Rose Désert: A Conversation with Violaine Huisman and Omar Berrada

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

Join Violaine Huisman and Omar Berrada as they discuss Huisman’s second novel, Rose désert, just published in France by Gallimard. In Rose désert, Violaine, depressed and approaching thirty, decides to cross the desert from Morocco to Sénégal. Throughout this unlikely and perilous journey, she reflects on loss and control. She mentally revisits her love affairs and explores her romantic and sexual awakening with…