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AREA EVENTS

FRENCH

Entre Amis - To find out more about this French discussion group based in Niskayuna, please contact Machteld Depoortere at mdepoortere@nycap.rr.com. They typically meet the first Wednesday of the month.

Le Café Francais - Wednesdays, around 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at the Gateway Diner on Central Ave in Albany. French discussion group.

Le Groupe litteraire - Fourth Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm meet to discuss selected works of French or Spanish literature at the Colonie Town Library, 629 Albany Shaker Rd, Loudonville, NY 12211-1196- (518) 458-9274 For details contact Hannelore Wilfert, wilfeh@verizon.net

ITALIAN

1/20/12 - Everyone Loves Italian The Schenectady Symphony Orchestra is a talented group of more than seventy musicians, working under the leadership of award-winning Music Director Charles Schneider. This seasons concerts explore the themes and ideas that inspire great composers and musicians, featuring soloists whose roots are in the Capital Region. Symphony No. 35, “Haffner” Mozart Clarinet Concerto Soloist Tom Gerbino Mozart Symphony No. 4, “Italian” Mendelssohn 3:00pm, (from Proctor's Theater) Schenectady NY, Box Office - (518) 346-6204

2/7/13-2/17/13- GE Theatre at Proctors - La Traviata music by Guiseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Piave Fully costumed and staged, sung in Italian with supertitles and a 22 piece orchestra! Verdi’s poignantly tragic La Traviata chronicles the ill-fated romance of Violetta Valéry and Alfredo Germont. Forced to decide between a tenuous independence and her true love, Violetta aims for the fairy tales. However, Alfredo’s father, Giorgio, brings a dose of sobering reality to the party which puts the faith of both lovers to the ultimate test. A new Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre production by Heidi Lauren Duke Conducted by Maria Sensi Sellner (from Proctor's Theater) Schenectady NY, Box Office - (518) 346-6204

POLISH

3/24/13 - Śląsk Polish Song and Dance Ensemble Śląsk Polish Song and Dance Ensemble was formed in 1953 by renowned composer, educator and writer Stanisław Hadyna. Slask’s debut performance in Warsaw in 1954 profoundly impacted the country, and as a touring show the ensemble still delights and amazes audiences all over the world. Śląsk specializes in presenting the secular Silesian folklore, whose characteristic rhythms, expressions, melodic phrases and texts culminate in a unique spectacular performance. The group has earned worldwide recognition and has performed in all of Europe’s capitals as well as major cities throughout Africa, United States, Australia, China and Japan. Running Time 120 min including intermission, 4:00 pm(from Proctor's Theater) Schenectady NY, Box Office - (518) 346-6204

RUSSIAN

The New Russia Cultural Center's fifth annual Russian Winter Festival Grand Finale celebration is 3/2/13 at the Italian Community Center of Albany, 257 Washington Ave Extension, 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM. The final day of the Festival is a day of traditional food, music, costumes, exhibits, films, performances and competitions. For full description of the Festival events with schedule, go here

FILMS

FRENCH

2/22/13 - The Future of Film Series: FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON [LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE], Film screening - This intercultural homage by a Taiwanese director to the beloved children’s film, THE RED BALLOON (1956), by French director Albert Lamorisse, made numerous top ten lists of the year. Writing in the Village Voice, J. Hoberman called it, “explicitly an outsider’s movie, full of odd perspectives and founded on dislocation,” and said, “In its unexpected rhythms and visual surprises, its structural innovations and experimental performances, its creative misunderstandings and its outré syntheses, this is a movie of genius.” 7:30 pm, Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus, Directed by Hsiao-hsien Hou (France/Taiwan, 2007, 115 minutes, color, in French and Mandarin with English subtitles) (from The Writers Institute)

GERMAN

4/12/13 - DESTINY [DER MÜDE TOD], Film screening — A dark fairy tale, DESTINY tells the story of a young woman’s bargain with the Angel of Death after he slays her lover. Death agrees to revive him if she can save at least one of three lives in peril in three different settings: medieval Persia, Renaissance Venice, and imperial China. The film influenced a succeeding generation of filmmakers, including Luis Buñuel, who said in his autobiography, “When I saw DESTINY, I suddenly knew that I wanted to make movies,” and Alfred Hitchcock, who cited it as a film that deeply impressed him as a young man 7:30 pm, Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus Directed by Fritz Lang (Germany, 1921, 105 minutes, b/w) SILENT with live accompaniment by Mike Schiffer. (from The Writers Institute)

RUSSIAN

2/8/13-The Future of Film Series: RUSSIAN ARK, Film screening - Widely acclaimed as both a technical masterpiece and a captivating spectacle, this tour of three hundred years of Russian history represents, in its entirety, the single longest continuous shot in the annals of cinema. Featuring two thousand actors and three live orchestras, the film follows an invisible narrator and a group of dead souls as they cavort through thirty-three rooms of the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg. Writing in the Village Voice, J. Hoberman called it, “Sublime…. blithely anachronistic and slyly achronological…. [a] dazzling dance to the music of time.” 7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov (Russia, 2002, 99 minutes, color) In Russian with English subtitles(from The Writer's Institute)

3/2/13 - The 5th Annual Russian Winter Festival 2013 The events slated for the nonth long festival included the Fine Art Show, Tchaikovsky Piano and Nadezhda Obukhova Voice Competitions, Russian Poetry Recital Competition, and Grand Finale - final day of the Festival on March 2nd 2013 at the Polish Community Center, located at 225 Washington Ave Ext, Albany, NY. 11:00 am - 4:00 pm - Admission: Adult: $7, Children: $3 from 5 to 12, children < 5 - Free - More information on all events available here