Around the World: Upcoming Internationally Themed Events

By Troy Segal

Even if you’re not leaving town this summer, you can still get away — via a variety of talks, discussions, and activities evoking distant lands and foreign shores while you remain in New York City.

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The Rubin Museum of Art hosts a demonstration/lecture of the health benefits of Tibetan yantra yoga, whose positions are displayed in murals in one of the museum galleries — available for viewing after the event, July 9.

Vive la France! The French Institute Alliance Francaise’s Bastille Day on 60th Street, July 13, is a big block party that brings Gallic culture, crafts, music and food to the middle of Manhattan.

Plunge into a vivid recreation of World War II, and one man’s mysterious yet courageous defiance of the Third Reich’s “Final Solution,” at a screening of the film Schindler’s List at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, July 30.

Photo: Alice Gebura

The creators of a new Southern Indian dance piece, Song of the Jasmine — two choreographers and a jazz musician — describe their collaboration at the Asia Society on August 6, the night before the work’s NYC premiere.

Come summer, Lincoln Center’s performing halls are alive with the sound of the Mostly Mozart Festival — including a panel discussion about the Salzburg-born wunderkind composer’s operas at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, August 16.

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What’s for dinner? Food historian Mark Kurlansky (Cod) and his daughter Talia had a unique way of deciding: She’d pick a spot on a spinning globe, and that would dictate the sort of meal they’d have. The two discuss their Friday International Night tradition at the 92nd Street Y, August 19.

Faced with food shortages back in the 1990s, the people of Cuba began planting gardens in every nook of their towns — a farming lesson for the future? Hear more at this 92nd Street Y lecture, August 21.

The former Timbuktu was rich in literary treasures. How is this heritage being handled in contemporary Mali? Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and The New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson ponder the question at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 18.