Co-Curator of the Cavafy Festival-Archive of Desire (April 28-May 6), a multi-sited series of events all over New York City, sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, where world-renown artists (poets, composers, filmmakers, visual and performance artists) performed new original work inspired by the Alexandrian Greek poet C.P. Cavafy.
Columbia University was one of the festival sites and produced a two-part event, Days of 2023 on May 1, 2023.
A morning workshop featured invited poets Orfeas Apergis, Yiannis Doukas, Phoebe Giannisi, Katerina Iliopoulou (Greece); Haytham al-Wardani, Iman Mersal (Egypt); Janlori Goldman, Robin Coste Lewis, Brenda Shaughnessy (US), as well as translators Susan Bernofsky, and Karen Emmerich, who will conduct round table conversations on the multiple ramifications of C. P. Cavafy as a 21st-century phenomenon. The titles of the panels are: “History and Politics of the Interstitial”; “Translation as a Poetic Act”; “Erotics and Poetics of the Undisclosed”.
That evening, in the Miller Theater at Columbia University, a music and poetry event featured the poets performing either Cavafy poems in Greek and/or Arabic or new writing prepared for the occasion, paired with music by Sofía Avramidou, Marcos Balter, Zosha di Castri, Stylianos Dimou, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Lena Platonos, and Georgios Poniridis, which will be performed by the National Sawdust Ensemble under the music direction of Jeffrey Zeigler, with Greek guest musicians Yiannis Palamidas (voice) and Stergios Tsirliagos (synths).
https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/cavafy-festival/days-of-2023