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 began, 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 opens.
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 closes.
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 (place TBA), RSVP to info@nykcc.org
January 2, 2025: Book Club will meet to discuss The Kurdish Bike by Alexa Lightbourne.
For information about these events, please write to info@nykcc.org.
