The International Schiller Institute is hosting an extraordinary online conference toward ending current conflicts in the world and achieving a global peace through development.

https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/for_a_new_peace_of_westphalia_20240615

The next six months will be of utmost importance for the continued existence of humanity: the NATO and SCO summits in July, the BRICS summit in Russia in October, the U.S. presidential election in November. During this time, we must succeed in placing on the international agenda the concept of a new global security and development architecture that takes into account the interests of all nations on the planet, if we are to prevent the extreme polarization of the world order into two separate and immovable blocks, to the point of its complete collapse.

The upcoming Schiller Institute conference will therefore bring together speakers and forces united in the intention of charting a path out of the crisis, by presenting a new paradigm for the next era in human development.

For more information, go to https://schillerinstitute.com/

“OPERA ITALIANA IS IN THE AIR” IS COMING TO WASHINGTON, DC, JUNE 1, 2024
"Opera Italiana is in the Air" is sponsoring free open air concerts across Italy, and in Miami, Washington, and New York.  Their mission is to bring opera to everyone.  There are no tickets or dress codes, just opera, in its "purest form," said Alvise Casellati, the founder.  In addition to the open air concerts they also frequently perform in hospitals.

The International Schiller Institute with host a full-day online conference on Saturday, April 13th, 11:00 am - 4:30 pm.
Register for free at www.schillerinstitute.com.

We urgently need an inspiring vision of a future in which the Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side.

On Friday, October 20, 2023, the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus received the Motif Awards Fine Arts Medal for Humanitarianism and Excellence in the Arts. 

The International Schiller Institute has issued a petition for artists to establish Friedrich Schiller's poem, "The Artist" as the "Standard for Overturning the Cultural Breakdown that Obstructs Peace and Drives Mankind to Global Nuclear War."

https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/petition_for_artists

Reginald Bouknight, a long-time friend and collaborator of the Schiller Institute, passed away on July 26, 2021. Wherever he sang with us, in Virginia, in Boston, in NYC, and other places, he brought a happy and moving spirit to the room. 

Eugene Thamon Simpson was a master musician, choral director, composer and arranger of Spirituals, and biographer of Hall Johnson. He was a personal friend and advisor of the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus and its founder, Diane Sare.

On his 88th birthday, May 11, 2021, Minister Farrakhan released for the first time his 2002 performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto.