Gail Holst-Warhaft

Events

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Upcoming Events

  • March 24, 2026
    Belfast, United Kingdom，
    At the residence of Kathryn Baird, an independent television and film producer,
    Three of Ireland’s most esteemed musicians—Donal O’Connor, Ruadhrai O’Kane, and Kyron Bourne—will accompany Gail as she reads from her book, My Father and the Silver King. Following the reading, they will present a program of Irish and Greek songs.

  • March 19, 2026 from 6:30 pm to 8 pm
    Bush House North Wing, King’s College London, London, England.
    Gail Holst Warhaft and Anthony Hirst present GHW’s new book: My Father and the Silver King, in Bush House (NE). link

Past Events

  • September 27, 2023
    Athens, Megaron Mousikis.
    Panel of speakers on Mikis Theodorakis: His Music and Politics, by Gail Holst-Warhaft.
    Panelists: Stephanie Merakos, Asteris Koutoulas, Yorgos Demerdzis, Tatiana Papageorgiou, Maria Farandouri.

  • September 13, 2023
    Paxos Music Festival.
    “Buried Treasure: The Avant Garde Chamber Music of Mikis Theodorakis” (with the Athens String Quartet). In English.

  • September 10, 2023
    Solomos Museum, Corfu, Greek.
    “In the Beginning Was the Word: The Marriage of Music and Poetry in the Work of Mikis Theodorakis”

  • November 11, 2022, 7 PM
    Book Presentation: The Greek edition of Holst-Warhaft, Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature
    Location: Bookstore Books +
    There will be a performance of polyphonic laments by Nota Kaltsouni and Antigoneia.

  • November 8, 2022, 7 PM
    Nostalgia for the East: The Bitter-Sweet Poetics of Loss
    Location: ASCSA Cotsen Hall - Hybrid Lectures, Anapiron Polemou 9, Athens 106 76
    Register Here

  • July 2nd, 2022
    Solomos Museum/ Durrell Library, Corfu, Greek.
    The Oriental Strain: Poetry, Music, and the Maternal Inheritance

  • June 27, 2022
    Paxos Festival, Paxos Island.
    Laments in Modern Greek Literature.

  • June 2022
    Serafeio Cultural Center Athens.
    Presentation of A Journey into the Rembetika for Young and Old

  • May 13, 2022
    Holy Trinity Cathedral, New York City.
    The Poetry and Music of Mikis Theodorakis. (lecture and translations)

  • May 1 2022
    Symphony Space, New York City.
    Theodorakis: A Musical Tribute (Narrative and Translations)

  • November, 2021
    “The Black Duck,” Athens.
    Presentation of Nisiotika

  • May 6, 2021
    Two readings in Ithaca’s Spring Writes Festival.
    Watch Here

  • February, 2021
    “Odysseys”: a series of virtual readings by Ithaca-based writers.
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  • May 4, 2020
    Ithaca Spring Writes Festival
    Panel: "Expression as Freedom: Ithaca City of Asylum and Amnesty International panel on expression under dictatorship and in prisons"
    GLH speaks on poetry written in prison and exile

  • April 16, 2019, Yale University
    Yale Hellenic Studies Program: “Greek Ethnomusicology: Where and What is the “Ethno” in Ethnomusicology?”

  • April 15, 2019, Yale University
    Modern Greek Studies Programs: “How Productive Pain is: Weaving, War, and the Work of Mourning in Greek literature, ancient and modern.”
    Yale Directed Studies Colloquium

  • The Out of Bounds Radio Show with Tish Pearlman (Listen online)
    • Sat Dec 15, 2018 at 3:30pm ET WEOS-FM
    • Sun Dec 23, 2018 at 11:30am ET WSKG-FM

  • Nov 16, 2018, 3:00 pm
    Reading at Buffalo Street Books,
    215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY
    Lucky Country

  • October 24, 2018, 8:00 pm
    News University of Crete (video)

  • September 16, 2018, 2:00 pm,
    Macculloch Hall Historical Museum. Morristown, NJ
    Poets in the Garden
    $10 per adult, FREE for members

  • Mar 22, 2018, 7:00-9:00 pm
    Literati Bookstore, 124 E Washington St. Ann Arbor, MI 48140
    The Fall of Athens, a reading by Gail Holst-Warhaft

  • May 21, 2017, 6pm
    Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC
    A Reading with Music

  • March 7, 2017, 5pm
    Burlington, VT
    Farrell Room, St. Edmond’s Building, St. Micael’s College.

  • November 4, 2017, 1:00-2:45 pm
    Stockton Seaview Hotel, 401 S. N York Rd, Galloway, NJ.
    Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium
    Special session “Contemporary writing from, to, and about Greece”
    Featuring works by 4 authors including The Fall of Athens

  • February 20, 2017, 4:30 pm
    Reading at Yale University.
    Program in Hellenic Studies, Luce Hall 203.

  • December 4, 2016, 2:00 pm
    Reading at Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY