Our 2025 Events
January 2: Our Book Club met to discuss The Kurdish Bike by Alesa Lightbourne. 7pm ET via Zoom.
January 5: Rojava Film Series double feature. Screening of Love in the Face of Genocide by Şero Hindê and Jinwar (2024) by Nadia Derwiş. Followed by a Q&A with Derwiş (remote from Rojava). 7pm at the Woodbine Center, 585 Woodward Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens. Admission free.
January 15: Kurdish Cinema Talks, a new podcast series, begins. Episode 1: Mano Khalil.
February 2: Rojava Film Series. Screening of Neighbours (2021), directed by Mano Khalil, who will appear in person for a Q&A. 7pm at the Village East by Angelika (theater 2, lower level), 181-189 Second Avenue, New York. Get tickets here.
February 7: The Book Club will not meet this month because we are reading a long novel, Letters from a Kurd by Kae Bahar.
March 4: The Book Club will meet to discuss Letters from a Kurd by Kai Bahar.
Our 2024 Events
January 7: Our Kurdish language class for adult beginners resumed, meeting weekly on Sunday mornings.
February 6: Book Club met to discuss Stone and Shadow by Burhan Sönmez. The author was present at our meeting.
February 25: Kurdish Cinema Talks was initiated as a monthly event.
March 5: Book Club met to discuss Honor by Elif Safak.
March 1-31: Kurdish Heritage Month. For the schedule of events, click here.
March 31: Kurdish Cinema Talks hosted Shilan Saadi to discuss two of her short films, a fiction and a documentary, An Alley Behind Our House (2010) and My Granma’s Daughter (2014).
March 31: Kurdish picnic in Central Park
April 2: Book Club met for a social event.
April 16: Book talk and signing by renowned Kurdish author Burhan Sönmez, president of PEN International. Admission free, 7pm-9pm. Co-sponsored by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s New York Office.
April 27: Children’s Theater Gathering
April 28: Kurdish Cinema Talks discussed I Flew You Stayed (2012), a film by Mizgin Müjde Arslan. The director was present for the discussion.
May 7: Book Club met to discuss Whispering Walls by Choman Hardi
May 10-12: The New York Kurdish Film Festival was featured on CUNY-TV Presents.
May 17-19: Extended engagement! The New York Kurdish Film Festival was featured on CUNY-TV Presents.
June 1: The window for submissions to the film festival opened.
June 4: Book Club met to discuss Lojman by Ebru Owen; the co-translator was present.
June 30: Kurdish Cinema Talks hosted Ali Kemal Çinar, the director of Genco and In Between
June 30: The window for submissions to film festival closed.
July 2: Book Club met to discuss My Father’s Rifle by Hiner Saleem
September 3: Book Club met to discuss The Smell of Wet Bricks by Chiya Parvizpur
October 1: Book Club met to discuss Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa
October 12-19: New York Kurdish Film Festival, 8th edition
November 6: Book Club met to discuss Mountain Language by Harold Pinter. Special guest: Aysel Cürukkaya.
December 3: Book Club will not meet.
December 14: Şeva Zistane celebration, West 56th Street, New York. RSVP to info@nykcc.org
For information about these events, please write to info@nykcc.org.
