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Registered participants for the headline performance are welcome to enter Reid Hall from 6 p.m. Please note that access will not be permitted after doors close at 7:15 p.m.
This event will be held in English and French.
Co-sponsored by the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
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Celebrating Neighbors, this year’s Nuit de l’Imagination is hosting events for children and adults that explore what it means to live together. Throughout the afternoon, Reid Hall will host activities for children and families, including a concert, theater workshop, and an art exhibition presenting the work of children from local schools, and more, all exploring notions of migration and solidarity.
In the evening, the Nuit de l’Imagination will feature two events: a keynote address by the author and historian Marina Warner, followed by a collective musical experience created by Ursula Kwong-Brown and Daniel Erdberg. The Nuit will end with a reception catered by Les Cuistots Migrateurs.
Nuit de l’Imagination
Organized by the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, each year the Nuit de l’Imagination chooses a theme of global importance (Climate in 2023, Boredom in 2024, Neighbors in 2025) as a celebration of the work and collaborations that define Reid Hall.
Program
Activities | 3 – 6 p.m.
For families and kids (ages 5+)
A goûter will be provided, courtesy of the Reid Hall Caféothèque
- 3 p.m. – "Listen, Feel, Create" children's concert by the 1991 Project, supporting Ukrainian musicians. Performed by Daria Bilotserkivska and Hanna Voievodkina of the Pochaina Duo. Children will receive paper and pencils to express the emotions inspired by the music through drawing.
Program
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), Duet for two violins in G Major, Op.5, No.1, 1769
Reinhold Glière (1875 -1956), Six duets from 12 duets for two violins, Op.49, 1909
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Ten duets from 44 Duets for two violins, Sz. 98, Book III and Book IV, 1931
35. Rutén kolomejka (Ruthenian Kolomejka)
36. Szól a duda (Bagpipes)
A 36 Sz. Változata (Variant of No. 36)
37. Preludium és kanon (Prelude and Canon)
38. Forgatós (Romanian Whirling Dance)
39. Szerb tánc (Serbian Dance)
40. Oláh tánc (Wallachian Dance)
41. Scherzo
42. Arab dal (Arabian Dance)
43. Pizzicato
44. "Erdélyi" tánc (Transylvanian Dance)
Art exhibits | 3 – 8:30 p.m.
- Children’s work from local schools at the entrance to Reid Hall
- “Soliloques” Multimedia work by French artist Marie-Laurence Lamy, including drawings from her childhood in the Montparnasse neighborhood, at the Reid Hall Caféothèque
- “CONGO LOBI” work by Congolese artist Mega Mingiedi Tunga in the Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc
- “Sauver, Protéger, Témoigner” photo exhibition by SOS Méditerranée. Note: Activities take place in the Salle de Conférence from 3 – 6 p.m., with the exhibition best viewed from 6 – 7 p.m. or during the post-performance reception.
Headline performance | 7 – 8:30 p.m.
- Planting Signs, Building the Neighbourhood — In this illustrated talk, the writer Marina Warner will explore the idea of a neighbourhood and suggest ways of transforming a strange new place into a home. Taking a cue from Alfred Korzybski’s axiom, ‘The map is not the territory’, and giving examples from the work of the project Stories in Transit, she will reflect on ways that refugees, migrants and arrivants can develop storytelling and other imaginative strategies to foster neighbourliness, belonging, and community.
- The High Desert —This musical performance by Daniel Erdberg and Ursula Kwong-Brown is a collective sonic dream; a swirling cloud of sound, music and language fragments that kaleidoscope into an ephemeral vision in the space between listener and performer. Drawing on elements of ritual, the piece invites active engagement and shared reflection on our own otherness.
Venue
This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.
Reid Hall, the Columbia Global Paris Center, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination are not responsible for the views and opinions expressed by their speakers and guests.
