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Sunday, November 16
Youth Movements Festival - French Music for Four Hands
3:00 P.M
Main Theatre, Performing Arts Center
$10 general public/$8 seniors & faculty-staff/$5 students
Presented By The Department Of Music
Contact: tickets@albany.edu or (518) 442-3997
Eighty musicians aged 5 to 75, including University students, alums, faculty and area piano students and teachers, converge for performances of works by Ravel, Debussy, Faure, Satie and Bizet.
Play: “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf”
7:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.
Campus Center Ballroom
$5 Donation Suggested
Presented by the African American Scholar Society & Friends and the Graduate Student Organization
A play about women, women of color, multicultural women struggles during the 1960's, looking for love in all the wrong places, only to find that the true love they were looking for was within themselves. Empowering, Exciting!!
Monday, November 17
Nilo Cruz
Pulitzer-winning Playwright – Seminar
4:15 P.M.
Recital Hall, PAC
Presented by NYS Writers Institute
Cosponsored by the Capital Repertory
Nilo Cruz, Cuba-born playwright, received the Pulitzer Prize for his 2002 play, “Anna in the Tropics.” Set during the Great Depression, the play tells the story of Cuban immigrants who have come to Florida to work as cigar-makers. Other plays include “Two Sisters and a Piano” (1998), “Lorca in a Green Dress” (2003), and “The Beauty of the Father” (2006).
Tuesday, November 18
Danish Film Festival: Babette’s Feast (1987, 103 mins)
7:00 P.M. – 9:30 P.M
Humanities 354
Sponsored by Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee seeks shelter in a Danish coastal settlement with 2 elderly daughters of the town's dead minister who take her in as a housekeeper. Their puritanical, harsh life clashes with a sumptuous feast prepared by Babette. The first Danish film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. By Danish writer Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), originally written in English then translated by the author into Danish.
Japan House Movie Night: Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) (1980)
7:00 P.M.
Standish Room (Science Library 3rd floor)
Sponsored by Japan House and International Education
“When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom” (IMDB). Directed by Kurosawa Akira.
Wednesday, November 19
Russian Film Festival
7:30 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.
Humanities 039
Sponsored by Languages, Literatures & Cultures
2 Films will be presented: The Cranes are Flying (1957, 95 min), by Mikhail Kalatozov (1903-73) and Ivan’s Childhood (1962, 95 min), Andrei Tarkovsky
LLC International Film Festival: Bamako (The Court) (2006, 115 min)
7:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M.
Humanities 354
Sponsored by Languages, Literatures & Cultures
While Mele and Chaka fight to save their relationship, a public trial is set up in their courtyard against the World Bank. This film is simultaneously a love story and a tale of globalization's effects on economic hardship in Africa while everyday life continues (directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, Mali/USA/France, in French and Bambara).
Saturday, November 22
Turkish Movie Night: “Karpuz Kabuðundan Gemiler Yapmak” (Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds) (2004, 97 mins)
8:00 – 9:30 P.M.
Campus Center Terrace Lounge
Sponsored by the Turkish Student Association
It is the story of two adolescents who live in a small village, work in temporary summer jobs in a small town near their village, and have a passion for cinema. One of the boys works in a barber shop, the other sells watermelons. Whenever they find time, they work on their old little machine to show motion pictures from disposed films they collect from the local movie-theater (IMDB). Refreshments will be served.