Performance 'Worlds in Collision' and Screening of a Ukrainian Film: How to Spend a Weekend in New York (June 10-12)

What: Performance “Singing Mills”

When: Friday-Sunday, June 10-12

Where: Theater 71, NYC 152 W 71 Street, New York, NY 10023

More: The play "The Singing Mills" by playwright Roman Freud returns to New York again. Recognized stars of the Russian-speaking scene of New York take part in it.

The performance “Singing Mills” is an attempt to restore and comprehend the life and art of epic heroes whose fates were interrupted and whose memory was erased. This production is not about the cruelty of repression, but about life, love, creativity and the fate of artists. About eternal questions - about the secrets of inspiration and about the price you are willing to pay for inspiration.

Cost: $45

What: Exhibition of works by Matisse

When: Friday-Sunday, June 10-12

Where: The Museum of Modern Art, 1 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019

More: For many years, Henri Matisse's painting "Red Workshop" after its creation (1911) was met with bewilderment or indifference. Today, the canvas, which depicts the artist's workspace in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, is known as a seminal work of modern art and a milestone in the centuries-old tradition of studio painting.

This exhibition will feature both the iconic work of the artist and his other paintings and sculptures. A rich selection of archival materials, including photographs and letters, will reveal new information about the plot and history of the famous painting. The exhibition, among other things, explores the radical nature of the artist's work and presents recent discoveries about the process of creating his paintings.

Cost: $ 0-25

What: Taste of Times Square Festival

When: Friday-Sunday, June 10-12

Where: Times Square, New York

More: The Taste of Times Square is an annual event that brings together the incredible restaurants of Times Square in all their flavor and variety. It's a real al fresco dining and music festival spanning several blocks. In addition, it is one of the oldest food forums in New York, with about 40 local restaurants participating, including many residents of the famous Restaurant Row area.

Cost: From $ 0

What: Performance “Garden”

When: Friday-Sunday, June 10-12

Where: Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 W 37th St #501, New York, NY 10018

More: This performance depicts the fragile world of a family that opposes the end of their usual way of life. She is threatened with foreclosure of her beloved garden. Family members face unstoppable destructive forces that break their lives.

Cost: From $ 80

What: Exhibition-auction in support of Ukraine

When: Friday-Sunday, June 10-12

Where: Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street New York, NY 10075

More: A special exhibition-auction of forty-four posters created in response to Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine on February 24th. This unusual collection was created by the Kyiv group of commercial artists Pictoric. The presented posters cover the military, political and social history of our time.

Cost: $ 20-25

What: Screening of the Ukrainian film

When: Friday-Sunday, June 10-12

Where: Ukrainian Museum 222 East 6th Street New York, NY 10003

More: Irina Vihristyuk grew up near the Sasyk estuary on the Black Sea - this is the south-west of Ukraine. She was happy and healthy, as were her friends. Sasyk was an untouched lagoon full of life. This vast sandbar is teeming with exotic birds and fish. But a 14-kilometer concrete dam was built there, cutting off Sasyk from the sea. Salt water began to be pumped out, a channel was dug so that fresh water from the Danube would again fill this lagoon. Soon Sasyk's "fresh water" was supposed to irrigate farmland. But this never happened - the engineers could not desalinate Sasyk. Farm lands were destroyed. The residents have left. Fishing is closed. The algae are suffocated. The tourists have left. This film will tell the story of how a blooming place became a desert.

Cost: $25

What: Worlds in Collision performance in New York

When: Saturday-Sunday, 11-12 Jun

Where: ESSENCE Theater-Studio (Stage) 2653 Coney Island Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11223

More: Essence Theater presents the American premiere of Worlds in Collision.

The play was written by renowned Israeli playwright Ido Netanyahu, inspired by a series of meetings between Professor Albert Einstein and Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, as well as from their manuscripts and letters to each other.

About heroes:

Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979) - physician and psychoanalyst, creator of non-traditional theories in the field of history, geology and astronomy, in particular the author of the resonant books "Worlds in Collision", "Centuries in Chaos" and "revisionist" chronology, revising a number of provisions of ancient history .

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - theoretical physicist, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, public figure and humanist. Honorary doctor of about 20 leading universities in the world, a member of many academies of sciences lived in Germany, Switzerland and the USA.

About the Author:

Ido Netanyahu is an Israeli playwright, writer and physician.

“In creating Worlds in Collision, I tried to explore the limits of Man in his quest to reach the Supreme Perfect Knowledge, as well as the price that he has to pay for this. Einstein, one of the two characters in the play, made a real revolution in our understanding of the universe and achieved great recognition, while Velikovsky, the second character in the play, tried to do the same, but in a different direction, and remained infamy. Why such difference? This is one of those intriguing questions that are reflected in the play,” commented the author.

Worlds in Collision was first staged by Nabi Abdurakhmanov in 2015 in Tashkent. The performance was warmly welcomed by the audience not only on the native stage, but also at several representative international festivals.

The performance will be in Russian with English subtitles.

Cost: $35

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