Andrei's Pushcart Prize Poem Reading -- LiVE Mag! Event Honoring Barbara Henning
Feb
18
7:00 AM07:00

Andrei's Pushcart Prize Poem Reading -- LiVE Mag! Event Honoring Barbara Henning

Andrei is honored to have received the 2025 Pushcart Prize for Poetry for his poem How No Money Becomes Money appearing in issue 21 of LiVEMag!

Born on the stage of the Bowery Poetry Club, LiVEMag! celebrates this and presents its 9th Annual Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Barbara Henning

Join host and MC, Publisher Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Contributing editor and Designer Lori Ortiz and Deputy Editor Ilka Scobie at the legendary Bowery Poetry Club

A Free Event that features Luigi Cazzaniga | Andrei Codrescu | Monique Erickson | Anders Goldfarb | Uche Nduka | Lori Ortiz | Barbara Rosenthal | Bob Rosenthal | Jerome Sala | Ilka Scobie

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Film About Andrei - NYC Premiere: Fish Have No Psychiatrists: a day with Andrei Codrescu –  by Julian Semilian
Feb
4
7:00 PM19:00

Film About Andrei - NYC Premiere: Fish Have No Psychiatrists: a day with Andrei Codrescu – by Julian Semilian

interview | animation | bio | poetry | happenings

directed by Julian Semilian | produced by Clark Peterson

Director Julian Semilian’s documentary-collage centers around the life and times of.... From Dada to quadrupedalism, this ode to free-thinking and free-wheeling.is s a playful paean that counters all forms of functional fixedness

Julian and Andrei met in Italy in 1966 as both fled post WWII Romania – they actually arrived together in the US. If you get them together and give them a drink – they’ll regale you with stories of jumping from bridges, seductions by princesses and appearing in Pasolini films! It’s a pleasure to watch these two avant-savants meld on screen

Experimental filmmaker Julian Semilian is a film editor, teacher, poet, translator, and novelist. What he won’t tell you is that he learned his art from Bernie Gribble, legendary editor on a number midcentury films, including Death Wish. Julian is a very modest, fantastic director, producer, translator, and a well-loved professor of film. Learn more here

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Fish Have No Psychiatrists: a day with Andrei Codrescu

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Official Selection Cannes Film Festival & The River Run Film Festival 2024

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Wednesday, February 4th 7p | Bowery Poetry | 308 Bowery NYC

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A Carnival of Time  –  an operetta by Andrei Codrescu
Dec
10
6:30 PM18:30

A Carnival of Time –  an operetta by Andrei Codrescu

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Three centuries, three conspiracies, and the interring of Baby Napoleon


Directed by Tristan Codrescu · Music by w8ing4ufos · Produced by Constance Lewis

Event for the recently renovated Marigny French Opera House

Live Performance New Orleans, LA

Date/Time: December 10, 2025 7p

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TESLA’S OPERA – Book Launch & Reading with  Terry O'Reilly and Miriam Seidel
Oct
28
7:00 PM19:00

TESLA’S OPERA – Book Launch & Reading with Terry O'Reilly and Miriam Seidel

For fans of Electricity, Radio, Opera, Music, History, Theater, Dance, Pigeons and living

Andrei joins the group for a reading from his fiery introduction Miriam Seidel’s new monograph (Fomite Press, 2025) chronicling her visionary 2006 bio-opera Violet Fire –– itself based on Tesla’s Opera: The Real, Stranger-Than-Fiction Nikola Tesla, by Lewis Whittingham

Seidel work revisiting Tesla’s genius features Seidel’s libretto, musical collaborator Jon Gibson’s scores, and essays from collaborators exploring the nexus of art, science and revolution

Terry O’Reilly, a director and artistic collaborator of the legendary experimental theater Mabou Mines, staged Violet Fire’s lauded performances at BAM in 2006, and contributes to the Tesla collection as well

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Event registration (free) here

Tesla’s Opera~ The real, stranger-than-fiction Nikola Tesla Fomite Press 2025

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NYC DADA Extravaganza Sunday October 26 at Jefferson Market
Oct
22
1:00 PM13:00

NYC DADA Extravaganza Sunday October 26 at Jefferson Market

2025 NYC ¡DADA! DO – Official Launch of MAINTENANT 19
Sunday, October 26, 2025 | 1:30–4:30 PM
NYPL Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave, NYC
Free Admission

Join Three Rooms Press and the NYPL Jefferson Market Library for an afternoon of wild contemporary DADA poetry and performance celebrating the official NYC launch of MAINTENANT 19: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art.

The event features performances by leading NYC-area DADAists, including Andrei Codrescu, Bob Holman, Valery Oisteanu, Martine Bellen, and many more. Hosted by editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, the salon promises an exuberant mix of provocation, humor, and creative anarchy.

Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t.
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Forms of Fire - a theater work by Andrei Codrescu, Lynnea Villanova & Micah Ariel James
Sep
26
7:00 PM19:00

Forms of Fire - a theater work by Andrei Codrescu, Lynnea Villanova & Micah Ariel James

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"Forms of Fire" by Andrei Codrescu, Lynnea Villanova , and Micah Ariel James; Directed & Choreographed by Clove Galilee

A powerful, multimedia theater experience that intertwines the lives of three people—a scientist, a music teacher, and a dancer—each grappling with the long shadows of personal and collective trauma. Through a fusion of scientific exploration and artistic expression, the play delves into the fragile human psyche, asking how and whether we can truly rewire our minds to overcome the past. Set against the backdrop of experimental neuromodulation, the characters’ journeys are mirrored in kinetic sculptures that evolve as metaphors for their fractured identities and disparate quests for healing. With a chorus of dancers embodying their internal struggles, "Forms of Fire" offers a poignant meditation on memory, resilience, and the transformative power of connection.

This staged reading offers a first glimpse into the evolving piece, with immersive and staging elements prototyped in real time. The audience is not only witness but participant in the experiment.


MEET THE CREATIVE TEAM

Created by: Lynnea Villanova MD

Co-Authors: Andrei Codrescu, Lynnea Villanova, Micah Ariel James

Dramaturg: Micah Ariel James

Director/Choreographer: Clove Galilee (Mabou Mines)

Composer: Melvin Gibbs

Sound Design: Dean Parker

Installation Art: Jingjing Lin

Scientific Advisors: Boris Gutkin

Lighting Design: Cat Tate Starmer

Sculptors: Rosa Elling; Lute Breuer

CAST

Amanda - Meghann Reynolds

Edgar & Diego - Jack Pappas

Irene - Shauna Pinkett

Mila - Christianna Nelson

Sasha - Finley Rosser

Zeb - Felice Rosser

The Chorus - Nicola Bosco-Alvarez

Narration - Liz Colarte

This performance is presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute with additional support from TRICKSADDLEThe Rogovy Foundation, Mabou Mines, and Bowery Arts & Sciences Ltd. With additional support from LA MAMA.

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