For this weekend's talks and lectures in NYC, we're looking forward to a soap opera critique, a screening and conversation around the languages of twins, and a historical walk around a lesser-known part of the Bronx.
FRIDAY, JUNE 5
Join Poster House this week for a First Friday with free admission and extended hours. Explore the latest exhibitions, including Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen, and take advantage of a screening, tour, drop-in printmaking, happy hour, and even some line dancing.
Mull masterpieces with Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Carmen C. Bambach and a closer look at the once-in-a-lifetime current exhibition Raphael: Sublime Poetry.
In their newest book, cultural critics Charlotte Druckman and Mayukh Sen pay tribute to the stories and talent that have shaped the soap opera, including interviews with icons and analyses of the genre’s infamous tropes. The National Arts Club.
SATURDAY, JUNE 6
Ponder the mysteries of twins' languages and the role of cinema in society at an e-flux screening and conversation around Poto and Cabengo (1980) with its director, Jean-Pierre Gorin.
Join the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) New York Metropolitan Region as they welcome in Janeites for the talk "'A Young Lady of Spirit Happened to Be at the Playhouse': How Austen's Heroines Evolved from the Theatrics of the Eighteenth-Century Coquette" and a discussion with theatre-makers. Marymount Manhattan College.
SUNDAY, JUNE 7
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Stride through a lesser-known part of the Bronx as The Bronx County Historical Society hosts a walk around Longwood.
Grab some popcorn for a screening of Sabbath Queen, the story of Amichai Lau-Lavie, both a drag queen and the descendant of an unbroken line of 38 rabbis stretching back a thousand years. Crown Hill Theatre.
See our complete list of talks and lectures here.
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