Columbus Day Parade Kickoff Party July 12
By Rachel Ettlinger Paul Criscuolo, President of the Columbus Day Committee of Greater New Haven, has announced this year's Columbus Day Parade Kickoff Party will be held on Sunday July 12. The party will be hosted by the East Haven Italian-American Club at the club's facility, 509 Laurel St. in East Haven. The event, which will featu...
The 2015 Gaetano Salvemini Colloquium in Italian History and Culture
THU, OCT 22, 2015 AT 5:30 PM. Center for European Studies - Harvard University, Cambridge, MAOn the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Italy, by the Resistance and the Allies, in this year's Salvemini lecture Professor Portelli will discuss the complex relationship many partisans had with the inevitable use of violence in th...
Rehumanizing the immigrant experience in Maine
By Kelley Bouchard It's a bold statement that rings true when measured against history. "There are no new immigration stories," said Tilly Laskey, outreach curator at the Maine Historical Society. Irish immigrants were barred from many jobs in the 1800s. Japanese families were placed in internment camps out West during World War...
Carnevale Project by Pascal Gangi
For the Fisherman's Feast in the North End in 2016, the artistic group is currently working in bringing a little taste of the Carnevale tradition from Sciacca to the North End. The Carnevale in Sciacca calls for the parade of the float accompanied by its traditional music, Dance group and a Comedia dell' Arte group. Just like the actual tradit...
DellaVecchias will be honored with mass at Italian Festival
During the annual Italian-American Festival that fills downtown Southington with the scent of sausage and peppers and pasta fagioli, festival-goers take a break from visiting food and craft vendors on Sunday morning when an outdoor crowd gathers at the festival's main stage, for a full Catholic mass. This year's mass will be held in memory of Arth...
Renzo Piano firma il museo delle Arti di Harvard, apertura per l'autunno 2014
Aprirà nell'autunno del 2014 la nuova ala del museo delle Arti dell'università di Harvard, che unirà per la prima volta sotto uno stesso tetto tre spazi espositivi sinora distinti. Si tratta del Fogg Museum, del Busch-Reisinger Museum e dell'Arthur M. Sackler Museum che, una volta uniti, andranno a costituire l'Harvard Art Museums. Lo spazio è sta...
Anthony V. Riccio's New Oral Histories Collection Illuminates Experiences of Italian American Working Women
In the first half of the twentieth century, Italian American women were born into a life of work. From as young as four or five years old, they were expected to assist in the house or on the farm, leaving school if necessary, to help support the family. The stories of these women, who could keep up with any man, have been mostly provided b...
A magical moment at St. Anthony’s Feast
A few years ago, I'd experienced Saint Anthony's Feast in Boston's North End for the very first time. Growing up Italian in Buffalo, I'd enjoyed summer Italian festivals before, as they're a regular annual fixture in most American cities. But nothing could prepare me for the sights and sounds of this, the largest Italian Religious Festival in New E...
Stamford gains another sister city, this time Rose, Italy
By Alex Gecan Mayor Mario Bria, of Rose, Italy, first visited Stamford in 1999. The city has changed a lot since then, he said. Bria spent an hour Tuesday with Mayor David Martin, trading gifts and pastries as representatives of a new "sister city" arrangement. Rose, which lies close to the southern tip of Italy in the Calabr...
Milly Buonanno. American television on the Italian (small) screen - November 19, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Cinema and Media Studies and the Department of Italian Studies welcomes Milly Buonanno, Professor of Television Studies, Department of Communication and Social Research at La Sapienza University of Rome. This lecture examines the shifting relationship between Italian and American broadcasting, focusing on television drama. American televis...
Italian Festa in Waltham, MA - May 30, 2015
The Regina Margherita di Savoia Mixed Lodge #1094 of the Order Sons of Italy in America will again host an Italian Festa on the Waltham Common on Saturday, May 30th, from 11:00 am – 7:00 pm; rain date is Sunday, May 31st. In addition to showcasing Italian heritage, the Festa is a fundraiser for the various charities which the Order supports, such a...
Fiercely vocal – Chiara Civello returns to musical roots with show in Boston
by Nicola Orichuia Chiara Civello doesn't know how to stay still. The young Italian singer-songwriter has been traveling the world ever since the age of 18, when she took her bags and left her native Rome to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. "It's a place that has given me so much," she tells us in an exclusive interview. ...