Beauty of Rome Comes To Boston in Stunning Clarity With Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition Opening October 13
Rome arrives in Boston with the internationally acclaimed and visually stunning Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition. The museum-style exhibition showcases the awe and wonder of one of the world’s greatest artistic achievements featuring Michelangelo’s 34 renowned frescoes from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, reproduced in a format that allo...
Inaugural Italian-American Heritage Month in Stamford Celebrates History and Stories
They built, by hand, stately downtown office structures, roads, bridges, the Merritt Parkway, railroad tracks, and their houses. They opened grocery stores, restaurants, bakeries, tailor shops, barber shops, butcher shops, pharmacies, and dentist’s offices. They were skilled carpenters, electricians, masons, plumbers and mechanics. They worked in t...
Columbus Day Festival returns to Federal Hill
The 31st annual Columbus Day Festival filled the streets on Federal Hill on Saturday. Federal Hill Commerce Association President Rick Simone said the four-day festival goes from Dean Street to Sutton Street and includes food, art, and retail vendors alongside games, three stages for live entertainment, and a parade on Sunday. He added that his fav...
State Rep. Charles Ferraro Named West Haven's Italian of the Year
Mayor Nancy R. Rossi and the West Haven Italian Heritage Committee will honor Republican state Rep. Charles J. Ferraro as the city’s “primo italiano” at the 24th annual Italian Heritage Celebration. Ferraro, a world-class martial artist and an ambassador of his proud Italian heritage, will receive the Italian American of the Year award at noon Frid...
Springfield officials to raise flag for Italian Heritage Month
Officials will be joining the Italian Cultural Center of Western Mass Inc. to raise the Italian Flag to honor Italian Heritage Month. During this month, we celebrate the Italian-American culture and spread the word about the traditions that come with it, according to the National Day Calander. Italian-American Heritage Month was first celebrated in...
Efforts underway to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The public spoke out at the Massachusetts State House on Tuesday on legislation to change the name of the state Columbus Day holiday to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Many of those who spoke included sixth graders from Amherst made their way to the Boston to testify. The renaming of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day across the commonwealth is a con...
Everett Celebrates Italian American Heritage Month
The City of Everett hosted a ceremony to raise the Italian flag at City Hall and continued the celebration at Meadows Park on Saturday, Sept. 30, with a community event for all. The event kicked off with a flag raising ceremony at Everett City Hall that included remarks from Mayor Carlo DeMaria; Arnaldo Minuti, consul general of Italy in Boston; St...
Italian Heritage Parade Oct. 8 to add 'a little bit of Italian culture' to Worcester
The Shrewsbury Street Italian Heritage Parade, slated for Oct. 8, is being pitched as an event for everyone. "It's just to have a little bit of fun," said Maria Stella Fiore, president and chairwoman of the parade. "Adding a little bit of Italian culture to the diversity of Worcester. I just want to keep the heritage and culture alive." The grand m...
Once defaced, Christopher Columbus statue finds a new home
A statue of Christopher Columbus that became the subject of contention in Providence has a new home on an island in Johnston, where surveillance cameras will be used to protect it from vandalism. Cleaned of the red paint that covered the statue twice in recent years, the statue was hoisted onto a pedestal Tuesday morning by a volunteer crew using a...
Boston City Council recognizes October as Italian-American month
Boston City Council announced a proposal on Wednesday that would recognize October as Italian-American month in Boston. The proposal was introduced by city councilor Gabriela Coletta and accepted by City Council during their weekly meeting. In her presentation of the resolution, Coletta — who represents East Boston, the North End and Charlestown —...
How women played a bigger role in the Renaissance and beyond
The Italian Renaissance did indeed produce Renaissance men—architect-goldsmiths, sculptor-painters, statesmen-patrons and the like—but they were only part of the story. From the perfecting of perspective in 15th-century Florence to the peninsula-wide triumph of the Baroque two centuries later, women were distinguishing themselves in the arts as eve...
Everett To Celebrate Italian American Heritage Month
Mayor Carlo DeMaria is pleased to announce the City of Everett will host an Italian American Heritage Month Celebration event on Saturday, Sept. 30. The event will begin with a flag raising at City Hall, 484 Broadway, from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Immediately following the flag raising, attendees will parade from City Hall to the Tufts Ave. entrance of...