2026 SHOWS WITH LIVE MUSIC BY DONALD SOSIN (unless otherwise indicated),  JOANNA SEATON and others

May 13 Gorlitz Germany Synagogue, THE MAN WITHOUT A WORLD (Donald and Alicia)

May 14 Chemnitz, Germany TBA. (Donald and Alicia)

May 15 Cinémathèque Leipzig, Germany, EAST AND WEST (Donald and Alicia)

May 17 Brotfabrik Theatre, Bonn Gerrmany THE MAN WITHOUT A WORLD (Donald and Alicia)

June 13 4pm Edmond Town Hall, Newtown CT, SPEEDY (Donald and Joanna and violinist Alyce Bertz, presented by Waterbury Symphony)

August 15 Millerton NY Library Annex Laurel and Hardy shorts (Donald and Joanna)

August 22 Music Mountain Falls Village CT, THE GENERAL with Buster Keaton (Donald, Joanna and violinist Alyce Bertz)

Previous events:

Mar. 25 SUNY New Paltz NY, EAST AND WEST (Donald and Alicia)

Mar. 26 Aiken High School, Aiken SC, Raise Your Voice Songwriting Workshop with students (Donald and Joanna)

April 6 Pearlstone Retreat Center Reistertown MD EAST AND WEST (Donald and Alicia)

April 12 Bryn Mawr Film Center, PA, THE ANCIENT LAW (Donald and Alicia)

April 17 JCC, Sherman CT, EAST AND WEST (Donald and Alicia)

April 21 JCC San Francisco CA, EAST AND WEST (Donald and Alicia)

April 23 Ashland International Film Festival, Ashland OR, The Man Without a World (Donald and Alicia)

April 25 Ashland International Film Festival, Comedy shorts Feb. 15 Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, THE GENERAL (Donald and Joanna)

Jan. 24 Temple Sinai, Marblehead, MA THE ANCIENT LAW (Donald and Alicia)

Jan. 31 MoMA, Animation program 

2025

Oct. 25 Tulane University, New Orleans, workshop for film and music students (Donald and Joanna)

Oct. 25 Tulane University, French, Italian, and Jewish film excerpts (Donald, Joanna, and Alicia Svigals)

Oct. 26 Temple Sinai, New Orleans, EAST AND WEST (world premiere of new score with restored film, Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Oct. 31 Yale University, New Haven, NOSFERATU (Donald and Joanna)

Nov. 1 AFI Silver Spring MD PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Donald and Joanna)

Nov. 1 AFI Silver BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Donald and Joanna)

 Nov. 2 AFI SILVER SALLY IRENE AND MARY (Donald and Joanna)

Nov. 5 Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival EAST AND WEST (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Nov. 6 Congregation Beth David, San Luis Obispo CA EAST AND WEST (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Nov. 8 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. MAN WITHOUT A WORLD (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Nov. 9 Santa Cruz, CA EAST AND WEST (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Jan. 25 Bellport Long Island private event with Isabella Rossellini (Donald and Joanna)

Jan. 27 University of Pittsburgh, PA CITY WITHOUT JEWS (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Jan.30 MoMA, Manhattan Chaplin's SHOULDER ARMS and THE BOND 

Feb. 1 Rockland Conservatory of Music, Pearl River NY CITY WITHOUT JEWS (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Feb. 2 Riverdale, NY Riverdale Neighborhood House MAN WITHOUT A WORLD (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Feb. 6 PUT A YID ON IT festival Winnipeg, Canada MAN WITHOUT A WORLD (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Feb. 11 Center for Jewish History, NYC CITY WITHOUT JEWS (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Feb. 13-14 University of South Carolina, Columbia CITY WITHOUT JEWS and workshop (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

2024

Jan. 13 THE WESTVILLE SYNAGOGUE, CT: THE CITY WITHOUT JEWS, (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Jan. 16 MoMA, Manhattan: MAN, WOMAN, SIN

Feb. 13 Jewish Theological Seminary, Manhattan: THE CITY WITHOUT JEWS, (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Feb. 23 Kansas Silent Film Festival, Topeka: THE FLYING ACE with Donald

Feb. 24 Kansas Silent FIlm Festival, Topeka: THE ANCIENT LAW, (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Mar. 8 AFI Silver, Silver Spring MD  CRAZY TO MARRY and SENSATION SEEKERS

Mar. 15 Brown University Granoff Center, NASTY WOMEN program with Joanna Seaton, voice and percussion

April 10-13 San Francisco Silent Film Festival: THE BLACK PIRATE, OH WHAT A NURSE and a LAUREL and HARDY program

April 15 Film Scene Iowa City

April 16 Grinnell College THE ANCIENT LAW (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

April 20 Ball State University, Muncie IN (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

May 20 UCLA (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

May 22 Hall of Nations, San Diego (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

May 23 Yale University HANDS OF ORLAC (Donald and Joanna)

June 8 Barrymore Center, Fort Lee NJ THE ANCIENT LAW (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

June 20 Transilvania International Film Festival  CITY WITHOUT JEWS (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

June 21 Transilvania International Film Festival D.W. Griffith program (Donald and Joanna)

June 22-30 Cinema Ritrovato Bologna, Italy (Donald)

July 28 Gunnarps Community Center, Sweden MAN WITHOUT A WORLD (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

July 29 Tokalynga Festival, Sweden CITY WITHOUT JEWS (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

July 30 Tokalynga Festival, Sweden Buster Keaton program (Donald and Joanna)

July 31 Ravinnen, Båstad, Sweden CITY WITHOUT JEWS (Donald and Alicia Svigals)

Aug. 3 Museum of Modern Art, NY DANCING MOTHERS (Donald)

Aug. 6 Museum of Modern Art, NY THE INFORMER (Donald)

2023

Sept. 23 Denver Silent Film Festival, John Ford's UPSTREAM, with Joanna and Donald

Sept. 23 Denver SIlent Film Festival, MORAL, with Joanna, Donald, Todd Reid and students from U. Colorado

Sept. 24 Denver Silent Film Festival, CITY WITHOUT JEWS, with violinist Alicia Svigals and Donald

Sept. 26 Stephen Sondheim Center, Fairfield IA  CITY WITHOUT JEWS with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Sept. 29 Bantam Cinema, Bantam CT, Harold Lloyd's SAFETY LAST, with Joanna and Donald

Oct. 3 Baruch College Performing Arts Center, Manhattan, CITY WITHOUT JEWS with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Oct. 4 Dix Hills Library, Queens CITY WITHOUT JEWS, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Oct. 7-14 Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy, TBA with Donald and friends

Oct. 25 Oberlin College, CITY WITHOUT JEWS, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Oct. 29 Cornell Cinema, Ithaca NY  PETER PAN, with Joanna and Donald

Nov. 4 AFI Silver, Silver Spring MD three shows TBA, with Donald and Joanna

Nov. 5 AFI Silver, Silver Spring MD, TBA, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Nov. 8 Dairy Arts Center, Boulder CO MAN WITHOUT A WORLD, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Nov. 11 Glimmerglass Film Days, Farmer's Museum, Cooperstown SAFETY LAST, with Joanna and Donald

Nov. 13 U. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC , THE ANCIENT LAW, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Nov. 15 Emory University, Atlanta GA, CITY WITHOUT JEWS, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Nov. 19 York University, Toronto, THE ANCIENT LAW, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Nov. 24 Dewey Hall, Sheffield MA, Harold Lloyd's SPEEDY, with Joanna and Donald 

Nov. 28 Temple Beth Torah, Melville NY, CITY WITHOUT JEWS, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Nov. 29 Special event at CUNY, Manhattan, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Dec. 3 EYE Museum, Amsterdam, CITY WITHOUT JEWS, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Dec. 5 Musee d'Art et d'histoire du Judiasme, Paris, France,  THE ANCIENT LAW, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Dec. 6 Austrian Cultural Center, Bratislava, Slovakia CITY WITHOUT JEWS with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Dec. 7 Cinema Lumière, Bruges, Belgium, THE ANCIENT LAW, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Dec. 9  Beth Sholom Liberal Jewish Community, Munich, Germany, CITY WITHOUT JEWS, with Alicia Svigals and Donald

Dec. 16 Moviehouse, MIllerton NY PETER PAN, with Joanna and Donald

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