On December 18 at LAMOTH, poet, memoirist, and essayist Carol Dine will read from and discuss her book, Orange Night, co-authored by artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak.  Inspired and accompanied by  Bak's affecting images, Dine's poems offer the reader an intimate confrontation  with history. In the words of National Book Award winner James Carroll, the work is  "...a fugue of echoes and melodies and afterimages all at the service of  a moving illumination of the human condition."  Carol has been a poet-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale,  and Virginia Center for the Arts. She currently teaches poetry at Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston, and her work appears in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. 

 

Seating is limited and RSVP is required to [email protected].

Sunday, December 20 & 27, January 3 , at 1:30 pm

Last week we were pleased to host a conversation with Woman In Gold director Simon Curtis and LAMOTH President E. Randol Schoenberg, moderated by Danielle Berrin of the Jewish Journal. The film chronicles Randy's legal battle to recover a collection of extraordinary Klimt paintings stolen by the Nazis from his client, Maria Altmann. Maria Altmann was played by Helen Mirren, a performance that earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination this week for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.  

"I like to speak about my experience during the Holocaust, because I believe that we need to make sure that people hear firsthand from Survivors." Tomas Kovar, born in Slovakia in 1936, will speak at LAMOTH this Sunday about his experiences during the Holocaust. Tomas' family was one of only three families from his home town of Zabokreky nad Nitrou that survived. Join us in learning about how his father's quick thinking and occupation as a farmer coupled with his mother's determination and courage kept the family alive during the Holocaust.