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The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain
November 10, 2009
Tuesday at 7:00pm
Presented by Words without Borders and Open Letter Books in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
A book launch and reading for The Wall in My Head, an anthology of texts and images that combines work from writers and artists who witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain firsthand with impressions and reflections of those who grew up in its wake. Work by Mircea Cărtărescu, Zbigniew Herbert, Milan Kundera, Vladimir Sorokin, Uwe Tellekamp, and Dubravka Ugrešić is included. Authors Masha Gessen, Dorota Masłowska, and Dan Sociu will read at the book launch.
Idlewild Books
12 West 19th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
FREE
Information: 212-414-8888
www.idlewildbooks.com
www.PolishCulture-NYC.org
Playwrights Before the Fall: Eastern European Drama in Times of Revolution
November 16, 2009
Monday at 6:30pm
Presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
A book launch for the first multi-author international anthology of Eastern European plays to appear in English. Edited by Daniel Gerould, the anthology features plays by Sławomir Mrożek, Portrait (Portret); Karel Steigerwald, Sorrow, Sorrow, Fear, the Rope, and the Pit (Hoře, hoře, starch, opratka a jáma); György Spiró, Chickenhead (Csirkefej); Matei Vişniec, Horses at the Window (Caii la fereastră); and Dušan Jovanović, Military Secret (Vojna tajna). The presentation includes staged readings of excerpts from the five plays and a panel with authors and translators on the playwrights’ role in the theatrical revolution of the 1980s.
The publication is supported by the Czech Center New York, Hungarian Cultural Center, Polish Cultural Institute in New York, Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, and Consulate General of Slovenia.
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center / The Graduate Center CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street)
FREE
Information: mestc@gc.cuny.edu
www.TheSegalCenter.org
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