Please join Columbia University's Program in Hellenic Studies for a workshop at the Heyman Center for the Humanities with poets and translators who will discuss the complex dimensions of C. P. Cavafy as a 21st-century phenomenon. For the program and link to register, click here. 

This program is part of the Onassis Foundation's Archive of Desire: A Festival Inspired by the Poet C. P. Cavafy (April 28-May 6), a multi-venue, multidisciplinary celebration of the world renown Greek poet, curated by composer Paola Prestini.

In the evening, there will be a performance at the Miller Theater (116th & Broadway) of original musical works, based on Cavafy's poetry by the National Sawdust Ensemble under the direction of Jeffrey Zeigler. The event is free, and ticketing information can be found here.

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A symposium for poets from New York, Egypt and Greece was held at Columbia University and led by professors Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia) and Karen Emmerich (Princeton), both members of the Cavafy Academic Committee that advised on the digitization of Cavafy’s archive. The title, "Days of 2023", referenced Cavafy’s many works named “Days of,” with the year of their writing, or a date of reflection. That evening, in the Miller Theater at Columbia University, a free 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 was performed by the National Sawdust Ensemble under the music direction of Jeffrey Zeigler, with Greek guest musicians Yiannis Palamidas (voice) and Stergios Tsirliagos (synths). See a recording of the evening performance here.