Long Island Ambasciatore Awards - Call for Nominations
2016 Ambasciatore Awards Ceremony and Dinner. ** Submit a Nominee by November 30, 2015 ** Honoring Outstanding Italian American Leaders and their Italian American Organizations. Sunday, January 24, 2016 - Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, NY. The Italian American Museum will host the Long Island Ambasciatore Awards on Sund...
Italian American Alliance to Save Our Lady of Loreto Church
Monday December 19 6-7 pm EST. The Italian Charities of America - 83-20 Queens Blvd, Elmhurst, New York 11373 Mario Toglia from Brownsville Coalition will be giving a presentation of the initiative to save this 1907 Italian American Church from demolition. He will explain the importance, the obstacle of the Councilman and Council not givin...
A theatrical Italian extravaganza
Incanto Productions in collaboration with the Italian American Committee on EducationpresentAMERICAN DEBUT – LIMITED RUNTHOUSAND OF KIDS WILL LEARN ITALIAN THROUGH MUSIC IN THETHEATREQueens Theatre, New YorkMarch 19-20-21, 2013The leading Incanto Productions, LLC, based in Queens, enthusiastically announces the American debut of the new bilingual s...
To de Blasio, City Hall Shouldn’t Be All About Manhattan
by Michael Barbaro Bill de Blasio drives a gas-sipping Ford hybrid and cultivates tomatoes and peppers from his backyard in brownstone Brooklyn. He works out at the socially responsible Y.M.C.A. and opted for the all-hands-on-deck rigors of the Park Slope Childcare Collective. His wedding was a multicultural billboard for the...
An Italian American Christmas in New York
Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa and the Italian American Museum We are proud to announce In Co-Sponsorship With Arthur Piccolo Cordially invite you to "An Italian American Christmas in New York" - Wednesday, December 18, 11AM - 8PM. Please join us anytime during the day to celebrate the Christmas Season. A new Italian tradition continues following a...
New York - Dal 20 giugno in scena street art italiana
Dieci artisti contemporanei per una panoramica della street art italiana: la mostra "From Street to Art" andra' in scena a New York dal 20 giugno. Ad ospitare i lavori sara' l'Istituto italiano di cultura che dara' spazio ai nomi e ai percorsi artistici che hanno determinato la scena street art in Italia durante gli ultimi vent'anni. Lo sc...
Mezzo secolo di IMR and CMS: Intervista con l'Arcivescovo Silvano M. Tomasi
Presso lo studio legale Fried, Frank, Harris & Jacobson di New York si è tenuto un importante simposio internazionale per celebrare il 50mo anniversario del Center for Migration Studies (CMS) e della International Migration Review (IMR). Entrambe iniziative furono ideate e fondate mezzo secolo fa a New York nel clima di rinnovamento de...
Our Lady of Mount Carmel to remain as an independent parish administered by the Claretian Missionaries
The Archdiocese of New York has made a proposal to merge our parish church and terminate the celebration of masses and sacraments at the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 92 So. Lexington Avenue, White Plains, New York. Please help us save our parish church which the Archdiocese of New York proposes to close and not allow our parishioner...
Gates' Little Italy fest may be prelude to bigger plan
by Jim Mandelaro The town of Gates will be loud and proud mid-June, as the first Little Italy Festival runs June 12-13 in Gates Memorial Park, 160 Spencerport Road. There's music, food, a disco party, fireworks and even a lifetime achievement award to Don Alhart, the longtime WHAM-TV news anchor. And a $1,000 prize to the winner of a "Miss L...
1 Place for Italian-American Actors to Call Home
By Molly Eichel Carlo Fiorletta is the president of the Guild of Italian American Actors, the only ethnic acting union in the United States. The GIAA may not be as big as SAG-AFTRA or Actors' Equity—although GIAA members automatically qualify for the latter—but Fiorletta is just as dedicated to protecting the actors he works with, represen...
Celebrating San Hennaro: New York's Little Italy through the years
Little Italy was once a vibrant immigrant community, but a lot has changed for the historic downtown neighborhood that used to represent a different Italian region on every block. The area is steeped in rich tradition and history. With the annual Feast of San Gennaro street party in full swing, take a look back at Little Italy through the...
"Lingue Migranti: The Global Languages of Italy and the Diaspora" Conference
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd street, 17th floor, Manhattan For more information: 212.642.2094 or www.qc.edu/calandra Lingue MigrantiThe Global Languages of Italy and the Diaspora