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<section class="event-details"> <header> <h3>Arts</h3> <h1>Selected Shorts</h1> <h2>Premiere</h2> <h3 class="full-details">June 27, 2020 , <span class="time">22:00 - 23:00</span>, Online</h3> </header> <aside class="gallery-event"> <div class="image" style="background-image:url('/web/20200630021747im_/https://www.snfestival.org/media/5407/vardalos.jpg?center=0.46272493573264784,0.51883561643835618&mode=crop&width=1000&height=600&rnd=132354802420000000')"> <div class="caption"> <span class="text"></span> </div> </div> <div class="image" style="background-image:url('/web/20200630021747im_/https://www.snfestival.org/media/5401/selected-shorts_no-credits3.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=1000&height=600&rnd=132352371910000000')"> <div class="caption"> <span class="text"></span> </div> </div> </aside> <article class="event-detail"> <div class="events-btns"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200630021747/https://www.addtoany.com/share" class="share a2a_dd"><span>SHARE</span></a>  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In Selected Shorts, a highly popular series of fiction readings produced by New York鈥檚 Symphony Space, distinguished American theater, film, and TV actors read texts in front of a live audience.</p> <p><em>Selected Shorts</em> has been around for 30 years and is now an institution, broadcast by more than 150 stations in the U.S. and among the most popular podcasts on iTunes. Every night is a one-of-a-kind literary and artistic event, whether the text at hand is the work of a renowned author or a new artist.</p> <p>At the Summer Nostos Festival: <em>RetroFuture </em>Edition<em>,</em> actors Nia Vardalos, Kathleen Chalfant, Sam Underwood, and Valorie Curry present their chosen works exploring the complex relationships between humans and their creations.</p> <p>Hosted by Valorie Curry</p> <p>Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer<br/>Performed by Nia Vardalos</p> <p>There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury<br/>Performed by Kathleen Chalfant</p> <p>The Eyes of the Soul by Michel Faber<br/>Performed by Sam Underwood</p> <p>Sci-Fi by Tracy K. 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