Gagaku is the classical Japanese court music and dance with over a thousand-year history, which was registered as the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO with its historical, and artistic values.
Solo of the Japanese traditional flute
by Mr. Anzai
(former chief conductor of the Music Department of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan)
Gosechi-no-mai dance
(accompanied by a traditional song and a dragon flute)
❖ April 25 | ‘62 Center Dance studio
Workshop: 4:00-4:45
Performance: 5:30-6:30
Reception to follow Continue reading »
Refiguring Loss: Jews Remembered through Arabic/Amazigh Cultural Memory is a daylong, public workshop that brings together scholars of literature and film from North Africa and the Middle East. Through their engagement with literary and cinematographic works that emerged the predominantly Arabic-speaking world, the participants will discuss how novelists and filmmakers from these areas depict the loss of their Jewish co-citizens in the last sixty years. Ranging from the loss of economic opportunity and cultural diversity to the loss of democracy and plural societies, Jewish emigration from North Africa and the Middle East has had far-reaching consequences, which the workshop will highlight and discuss for an entire day."
❖ Friday, April 26 from 8:30 am to 6 pm | Oakley Center Continue reading »
Slater Rhea, a singer, songwriter and TV personality in China with a following of millions, will mark the Chinese New Year with an evening of Chinese folk songs.
❖ Sat, February 9th, 2019, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Paresky Center, Auditorium Continue reading »
❖ Mountain Water: Poems of Tradition and the Environment in Southwestern China
featuring poet Aku Wuwu
4:00-5:00 pm, Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ Hollander Hall 241
❖ Poetry reading with Aku Wuwu
6:30-7:30 pm, Friday, March 8th, 2019 @ Williams Bookstore (81 Spring Street)
Aku Wuwu (Prof. LUO Qingchun) is a poet and academic of the Nuosu (Yi) ethnic minority group of Southwest China. Growing up in the Greater Cool Mountains of Sichuan province, Aku's powerful poems are regarded as "text books" of traditional lore and cautionary tales about human interaction with the environment. He will perform a number of poems in Nuosu and Chinese, accompanied by English translations. Continue reading »
This year’s French Film Festival begins with L’homme sur les quais / The Man by the Shore. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, who later went on to become the nation’s Minister of Culture, directed this drama that examines the violence and instability of his country’s darkest days, the 60s. The story follows an 8-year old girl, whose parents had to flee from the dictator Duvalier and the Tontons Macoutes. Left in the care of her grandmother, she creates a fantasy world of her own to escape the violence and tyranny that surrounds her. [In French with English subtitles.]
The French Film Festival 2019 continues on
❖ Feb. 11 with L’homme sur les quais (The Man by the Shore) (1993) by Raoul Peck.
In French and Kreyol with English subtitles. 106 mins.
❖ Feb. 18 , at 7 p.m.: with short film Maman(s)/Mothers(s) (2015) by Maïmouna Doucouré.
In French and Wolof with English subtitles. 21 mins.
Feb. 18 , at 7 p.m. (following Maman(s)): Tomboy (2011) by Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies, Girlhood)
In French with English subtitles. 82 mins.
❖ Feb. 25 with Polina, dansersa vie (Polina) (2015) by Angelin Preljocaj and Valérie Müller.
In Russian and French with English subtitles. 108 mins. Continue reading »
Performed by Haiyan Feng, certified tea master, guzheng performer, and healer
❖ Saturday, February 2nd., 2:00 - 3:30 pm | CenterStage, 62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Attendees are invited to sample teas and gourmet snacks after the presentation. Continue reading »
Come mark an important historical event in Korea - the centennial celebration of the March 1st movement and the establishment of the Republic of Korea. Learn about the significance of the March 1st movement and how it is celebrated today in Korea. Everyone is welcome.
❖ Wednesday, Feb 27th, at 6:30 P.M | Hollander 241
Traditional Korean snacks will be served. Continue reading »
A tv show inspired by Elena Ferrante’s novels
We will watch the premiere episode--with snacks!
❖ November 18 @ 8:30 PM | Schapiro # 241
Sponsored by Department of Romance Languages Continue reading »
A talk by journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher
Leta Hong Fincher is a journalist and scholar who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms. Magazine, BBC, CNN and others. Her latest book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso) was named one of Vanity Fair’s top eight political books of fall 2018.
❖ November 15, 7:30PM | Griffin 3 Continue reading »
A Documentary Film Screening followed by a concert by Tenores de Aterúe
and Q and A with the singers
Working from a YouTube video, four New England singers reverse-engineer an obscure Sardinian tradition of quartet throat-singing. When a video of their first performance goes viral in Sardinia, they set off on a quest to find the true heart of this deeply intimate, molecule-rearranging music.
❖ November 13, 2018 @ 7PM | Spencer Studio Art Building, room 212 Continue reading »
