Monthly Archives: October 2009

Tehran Bureau – the first episode of “The Week in Green with Hamid Dabashi” interviews.

Tehran Bureau first episode of “The Week in Green with Hamid Dabashi”. He interviews Iranian artist, Shirin Neshat, whose feature film, “Women without Men,” won the best director award at the Venice Film Festival.
This episode analyzes the role of art and artist in the Iranian civil rights movement.

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Peter Zummo Group – plays otherworldly songs while situated among nature-inspired exhibits at the Staten Island Museum.

Celebrate Halloween with the Peter Zummo Group. The natural and the supernatural collide as the musicians in Zummo’s ensemble plays his otherworldly songs while situated among nature-inspired exhibits at the Staten Island Museum.

Peter Zummo photo by Paul Grundl

Peter Zummo photo by Paul Grundl




Zummo’s compositions and the band’s performance style unmask time. They evoke the experience of traveling through an eerie, gradually changing landscape and remind the listener of natural processes evolving over time — from the erosion of rocks and the growth of plants to the migration of birds.

Peter’s show is a part of the Tracks in the Sand series, one of four concerts in the 2009 Staten Island Rocks series, produced by The Loris Bend Foundation, Inc.,

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THE GOETHE – INSTITUT NEW YORK PRESENTS: DANCING WITH THE BERLIN WALL

Nejla Yatkin

Dance performance

November 9, 2009, 6 pm

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Goethe-Institut New York presents Dancing with the Berlin Wall, a dance performance in public space, which was developed by internationally recognized dancer and choreographer Nejla Y. Yatkin. Dancing with the Berlin Wall is the last event of her Berlin Wall project, featuring a film (The Wall), a stage performance (Wallstories), and the on-site performance on November 9.

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