In Every Lesson a Legacy Lives on: Marie Palladino Traces the Stories That Shaped Us
The May 2025 Donna Distinta Award goes to Ms. Marie Palladino. Palladino is the Head of Education at New York City’s Italian American Museum, the first museum in the United States dedicated to Italian American history and culture. She received her Master of Arts in Museum Education from Tufts University in 2017, and Bachelor of Arts in Italian Stud...
From Rome to New York: Introducing American Friends of CASTRO Projects
CASTRO (Contemporary Art STudios ROme) is an experimental learning program based in Rome, dedicated to supporting Italian and international artists, curators, and researchers. By offering studio spaces and tailored educational activities, CASTRO fosters collaboration, experimentation, and peer-to-peer learning. In Italy, where public funding is lar...
Valtarese Foundation Awards 16 Scholarships to Italian-American Students
Surrounded by a crowd of financiers, entrepreneurs and longtime benefactors, the Valtarese Foundation celebrated its 35th anniversary by awarding college scholarships to 16 Italian-American high school seniors with family ties to Borgo Val di Taro in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. The foundation, rooted in the Italian immigrant story, has spent de...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Celebrating May Day at a Former Italian Union Hall
The latest episode of “Nuova York: Hidden in Plain Sight” tells the story of a pivotal place for Italians celebrating May Day in New York—the Italian Labor Center. Contributing to this chapter is Andrea Fiano, Editor at Large of Global Finance Magazine. Built over a century ago, at 231 East 14th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenue, the Italian Labo...
Inside a Tony Bennett “Family Dinner” with De Niro and Scorsese
I’m attending an Italian dinner in honor of Tony Bennett where the fellow guests include the likes of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. Could this be a red sauce-soaked fever dream? Did I overdo the Sambuca? No, this was all real. Or as Mr. Bennett would sing, I’m living “The Good Life.” The event, hosted at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on Manha...
Join Italian Charities of America and Arba Sicula
Saturday May 17th, 2025. Italian Charities of America - 83-20 Queens Boulevard Queens, NY. Join Italian Charities of America and Arba Sicula for an evening filled with Sicilian culture featuring a presentation of the Sicelitude Prize, a panel discussion highlighting the Sicilian language and a Sicilian musical performance. Refreshments will be serv...
Antonio Varacalli Day Saturday in Seneca Falls (NY): A celebration of heroes
Each year, Seneca Falls honors the legacy of Antonio Varacalli, an Italian immigrant whose courageous act on April 12, 1917, continues to inspire the community. Witnessing a woman in distress along the Cayuga and Seneca Barge Canal, he selflessly jumped into the water to save her — ultimately giving up his own life in the process. His heroism was l...
The Neverending Empire by Aldo Cazzullo – Book presentation
Wednesday, May 7 · 6 – 8pm. Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway New York, NY. Free entrance, RSVP HERE. International bestselling author and journalist Aldo Cazzullo presents his brilliantly researched history of the Roman Empire and its infinite legacy, followed by a signing. This event will be in English. “The only way to narrate over a thousand yea...
Geneva Sons and Daughters of Italy unveil new Heritage Room April 24
The Geneva (NY) Sons and Daughters of Italy Lodge 2397, in collaboration with Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Historic Geneva, is proud to present its new Heritage Room. The public is invited to attend the Grand Opening on April 24 at 5 p.m. at the Sons and Daughters of Italy Lodge, 31 Prospect Ave. The event will feature a panel discussion b...
Italian Scholars Chart the Course of the Immigrant Community in the United States
The departure, the journey on the steamship, the arrival in the other world. The awe in front of the skyscrapers, the hard work, the daily sacrifice. Little Italy reassembled in mutual aid societies, the white, red and green cockade pinned on the lapel of the jacket. Racism and the Black Hand. Fascism, anti-fascism. Integration and new citizens wit...
Brooklyn’s Italian communities hold Good Friday processions
On Good Friday, April 18, Bishop Robert Brennan will join parishioners at Sacred Hearts & St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church to process through Carroll Gardens starting at 7 p.m. Further south, several Bensonhurst parishes will join in a Good Friday procession starting at 7:30 p.m. The procession begins at the Shrine Church of St. Bernadette in Dyke...
“THE PATRON-IL MECENATE” by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory – Docufilm
Premiered in Venice as part of the events held on the occasion of the 81st Mostra Internazionale dell’Arte Cinematografica the documentary film Il Mecenate directed by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, tells the story of the first patron of the modernity: Galeazzo Arconati. Without him we would not have a history of great beauty. We would not all have t...
