Visit the Italian Rooms at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York
Welcome to the "Stanze Italiane": a new web platform created by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. This project will feature new contributions on art, literature, music, design and landscape. The first "Stanza" is dedicated to Dante on the 700th anniversary of his death The promotion and dissemination of Italian culture in the world has no...
Bye-Bye Winter … Hello Spring!
Learn the best gardening tips for getting your garden ready for the season! In this short presentation, professional Landscape Designer and Garden Coach Carmen De Vito shares her best advice for preparing your garden for a successful growing season. Whether you have a small plot or an acre of space, you will learn gardening practices that will boo...
Virtual Conference April 5-21: Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters
Borders can be concrete parameters, and they can also be metaphorical markers. Either way, the border as a political, economic, cultural, and personal site, one to be policed, extended, breached, opened, celebrated, and/or erased, has long been of interest to those concerned with Italy. The areas of scholarly inquiry are as infinite as the varied I...
LIVE FROM ITALY - La Settimana Santa: Holy Week and Easter Traditions
A virtual event on Saturday, March 27 at noon, presented by Anne Robichaud. REGISTER HERE!! Join us live from Assisi to discover ancient traditions connected to Holy Week. Our virtual event begins at noon on Saturday, March 27 (9 am Pacific Time, and 6 pm in Italy.) In Assisi on Good Friday night, locals and clergy begin La Processione del Cristo M...
Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York Celebrates the Genius of Dante, the Great Italian Poet Who Unified Italy through Language Dante 700!
The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee - New York, Inc. (IHCC-NY) celebrates the genius of Dante Alighieri, the great medieval poet and philosopher. On the afternoon of March 25, a reading of excerpts from the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) will be presented at the Dante Statue at Dante Park, positioned in front of Lincoln Center at 63rd Stree...
Dante’s Adventures in Italian America
March 25, 4pm EST “Dante’s Adventures in Italian America”. Please register in advance for this event by clicking here. Martino Marazzi, associate professor of Italian literature at the University of Milan, is the author of Danteum: Studi sul Dante imperiale del Novecento (Franco Cesati Editore, 2015), Voices of Italian America: A History of Early I...
"... I Must Scream"
When: Tue, 04/06/2021 at 4:00pm - What: Dante and...Lecture on Zoom, In order to participate, RSVP and you will receive an e-mail with an invitation link by 3pm on April 6. If you don't receive the e-mail by then, contact us at casa.italiana@nyu.edu. Science fiction is a genre of screams. Not only the kinds of screams that horror media provoke in...
Staten Island cultural instition receives landmark grant
Casa Belvedere received a $35,000 grant from the City Landmarks Preservation. The Italianate, neo-Renaissance house dates back to 1908 and was the scene for a number of women's suffrage events. However the house needs a paint job on the original 13 windows and four sets of doors. The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere has been restoring...
IAP 180: Memorializing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire with special guests Mary Anne Trasciatti and Edvige Giunta
One hundred and ten years ago, on March 25, 1911, a conflagration engulfed the top three stories of a nondescript building in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, most of whom were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls. The aftermath of this event changed Americ...
La sfida di servire gli italiani a New York: Francesco Genuardi e la missione possibile
Francesco Genuardi era arrivato a Park Avenue nel 2016, prendendo il comando del Consolato Generale d’Italia quando New York era tutt’altra metropoli di quella che è invece diventata negli ultimi mesi dopo l’impatto della pandemia. Lo intervistammo ad un anno dal suo arrivo, e dal diplomatico italiano evaporava tanto ottimismo per la missione che a...
Felice Murale, owner of Fel’s Hair Creations, dies at 74
At his barbershop, Fel’s Hair Creations, Felice Murale, who was known as Fel, forged relationships with people throughout West Hempstead. Since he opened the shop with his father, Luigi, in 1974, it has become a fixture in the community. “People say that he should’ve retired, but he never looked at his work as a job to him,” said Murale’s niece Van...
Brooklyn in the 1970s: A Photographic Journey Presented by Larry Racioppo, Part of New Canaan Library's “One Author New Canaan” Community Read
During the month of March, New Canaan Library celebrates “One Author New Canaan” and the literary works of award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson with programming that relates to themes found throughout her work. Brooklyn, as it was in decades past and present, is the setting for a great deal of Jacqueline Woodson’s books. Join professional photog...