Performance & Dance

ARTS

Dance, as an art form, reaches across centuries and cultures. Dance, like all forms of cultural expression, reflects the society in which it exists.

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To Arbëreshë in the Coming Times

Program

On June 12th, Albanian Institute hosted a virtual seminar convening the foremost contemporary scholars of Arbëreshë and Albanalogy, for a discussion on Arbëreshë culture, music, history, migration, heritage, and to encourage a better understanding and appreciation of values and time-honored traditions of the Arbëreshë people.

Albanian Institute has been awarded the LDB Public Medal

DESIGN

London, United Kingdom — Albanian Institute was awarded the London Design Biennale 2016 Public Medal, for the exceptional design contribution to the 2016 theme, Utopia By Design. London, United Kingdom — Albanian Institute was awarded the London Design Biennale 2016 Public Medal, for the exceptional design contribution to the 2016 theme, Utopia By Design.

Open Call 2020

Program

Albanian Institute has been awarded the London Design Biennale 2016 Public Medal

Hunting Flies — New York Premiere

Crossing — Book talk with author Pajtim Statovci

This Silence

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Film

Front to Confront

June 20, 2020

Front to Confront — a short dance film by Brigel Gjoka

Literary Arts

From the Refugee’s Suitcase

June 16, 2020

From the Refugee’s Suitcase: A Reading and Conversation with Xhevdet Bajraj and his Translators, Ani Gjika and Alice Whitmore.

Program

The Arbereshe: An Italian “Anthropological Miracle” In the Name of Scanderbeg

June 15, 2020

Why this title for my conversation tonight? Firstly, I’ll say that the subtitle, an “anthropological miracle,” is not mine, but rather is how this community had been defined by great Italian intellectual of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini.