San Vincenzo in New York City
The 113th Feast of San Vincenzo in New York City on Sunday Oct. 26th will be significant, marking either the last event held at St. Joseph's Church or a celebration of the church's continued operation. The Archdiocese of New York in evaluating their structure, anticipates announcing closings of some churches this Fall. Regardless of the de...
Help us Save a Staten Island Treasure!
by Casa Belvedere Dear Friends - Please partner with the Richmond County Savings Foundation to help us meet our $150,000.00 matching grant challenge by the end of this year. Your dollars, no matter the amount, will be specifically earmarked towards the restoration and expansion of the brick and mortar building. Help us save this State...
Musical Treasures from 17th Century Italy – 21 May, 6 pm
Chamber music for violin, viola, trumpet and organ by Girolamo Fantini, Biagio Marini, Dario Castello and Giovanni Battista Fontana. Info – Date: Thursday, May 21, 2015. Hours: 6PM. Venue: Italian Cultural Institute. 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065 Read more Source: http://www.iicnewyork....
Exhibition Opening May 28: Reframing Italian America
Thursday, May 28, 2015, 6pm - Reframing Italian America: Historical Photographs and Immigrant RepresentationsOn view May 28, 2015-January 8, 2016. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. Free, open to the public, and held at the Calandra Institute.RSVP by calling (212) 642-2094. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - Quee...
Miracolo italiano sulla 26ª Strada
di Liliana Rosano Quando nell'Aprile del 2014 era stata annunciata la chiusura dello storico punto vendita Rizzoli al civico 31 su 57th Street, tra Fifth e Sixth Avenue, a Manhattan, una folta schiera di scrittori, intellettuali, lettori e cittadini, sia italiani che americani, si mobilitò contro la chiusura della Libreria Rizzoli, un punt...
"Shot Down Over Italy" Author in Free Program Series
When: Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 10:00 amWhere: The Putnam Valley, Historical Society, PO Box 297 ♦ 301 Peekskill hollow Rd., Putnam Valley, NY 10579 On May 26, 1944, a B-25 Mitchell bomber with a seven-man crew was shot down over Nazi-occupied Italy. At the time, Italy was caught in a complex, controversial, drawn-out, and bloody war of a...
Primo Maggio at Barre’s Old Labor Hall
Primo Maggio (literally, the first of May) is the Italian version of an international observance. And, it may surprise some to learn that Primo Maggio memorializes an American event. May Day has, since the late 19th century, been International Workers Day, inaugurated to recognize the martyrs of Haymarket Square in 1886. It was brough...
Frank J. Guarini/NIAF Media Forum — April 3
NIAF is launching its 2013 series of the Frank J. Guarini/NIAF Media Forums on April 3, in New York City. The forum's panel of experts will address the subject of Italy's recently elected parliament, Italy and Europe's stability, and major challenges ahead. Italian correspondents, American journalists of Italian ancestry and NIAF Council m...
La latente follia di noi expat
By Maurita Cardone Vivere all'estero significa convivere con un continuo senso di alterità, ma anche sviluppare una grande capacità di adattamento. L'espatriato è un individuo dissociato. E va bene così. "È incredibile il modo in cui parli con le mani, tutti questi gesti che fai accompagnano e arricchiscono quello che dici" – osserva il t...
Con il ministro Kyenge l'Italia ricorda a New York l'11 settembre
"La Tavola del Silenzio" è ormai un appuntamento fisso nelle celebrazioni newyorchesi dedicate al ricordo dell'attacco terroristico alle Torri Gemelle di New York avvenuto l'11 settembre 2001. Domani alla Josie Robertson Plaza del Lincoln Center, e alla presenza del ministro italiano per l'Integrazione Cecile Kyenge, 100 ballerini delle miglio...
Italian modernism in the wake of the great war
On the occasion of Ara H. Merjian's newly published volume from Yale University Press, "Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris", this roundtable will address the relationship of Italy's modernist movements - from Futurism to the short-lived 'Scuola Metafisica"- to the cultural upheaval of World War One. P...
Riconoscimento del Gruppo Esponenti Italiani a Robert Viscusi con discussione polemica su l'italoamericano
by Riccardo Chioni A ricevere il "Gei Friendship Award" ieri nella Stella Room del ristorante Le Cirque è stato invitato il celebrato scrittore italoamericano Robert Viscusi, in occasione della presentazione della sua raccolta di scritti "ItaloAmericana: The Literature of the Great Migration". Ieri ad accompagnare l'intellettuale italoamericano n...