Robert Pinsky ospite della “Dante” di NY per la Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel mondo
É stata la Dante Alighieri di New York a invitare e portare lo scorso 16 ottobre Robert Pinsky alla Scuola Guglielmo Marconi di New York per la settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo e per le celebrazioni dell'anno della cultura italiana negli USA. Pinsky è uno dei maggiori poeti americani del nostro tempo. È stato nominato dal Congress...
Italian Club of Staten Island to honor Sen. Diane Savino, the Nicotras at 'Dinner Dance' (Inside Out column) – April 10
The Italian Club of Staten Island Foundation will host its annual "Dinner Dance" gala at 7 p.m. Friday, April 10, in Nicotra's Ballroom at the Hilton Garden Inn, Bloomfield. To be honored during the evening's fare are State Sen. Diane Savino and hoteliers, Lois and Richard Nicotra. It's interesting to note that The Italian Club o...
Book Presentation: DANTE AND HETERODOXY
APRIL 28, 2015 (06:30 PM )Casa Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011Dante and Heterodoxy. The Temptations of 13th Century Radical Thought(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). Edited and with an introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone. Conclusion by Teodolinda Barolini Dante and Heterodoxy:...
Festive Columbus Day Parade
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz (fourth from l.) applauds as Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, the Grand Marshal of the Howard Beach Columbus Day Parade, cut the ribbon to start the 10th anniversary edition of the parade on Cross Bay Boulevard on Sunday, September 27. The event was a festive celebration of Italian culture and heritage and...
Shakespeare and the Marionettes
When: Thursday, May 12, 2016 From 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Organized by : IIC NY - Entrance : Free Conference/performance by Eugenio Monti Colla and Piero Corbella The theatre of figure at large and the Company Carlo Colla & Sons in a special way have always paid great attention to the Shakespearian dramas, which never fail...
MEUCCI VS. BELL Who Invented the Telephone?
September 30 (Friday) 6:30 pm. MEUCCI VS. BELL: Who Invented the Telephone?. A presentation by Professor Louis Leonini on the life and work of Antonio Meucci, the overlooked original inventor of the telephone who first discovered how sound could travel on a copper wire when Alexander Graham Bell was just two years old. The presentati...
Buffalo Italian parish to build museum
The City of Buffalo is moving forward with their Lake Erie waterfront developments and as they proceed, Monsignor Fred R. Voorhes of St. Anthony's Church wishes to recognize the Italian heritage and ancestors who built the foundations of the City. St. Anthony of Padua parish, in downtown Buffalo behind City Hall, is taking steps to build a museum...
Call for papers - Annual Conference
MAFIAs: Realities and Representations of Organized Crime April 24-26, 2014 JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTEQueens College, City University of New York25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Manhattan The conference theme of "MAFIAs"--the first on the subject by this academic research institute--inte...
Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) Literary Reading Event
Featuring Paola Corso and Maria Terrone Saturday, June 14th (5:30–7:30) Sidewalk Café94 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009(212) 473-7373 www.sidewalkny.com$8.00 at entrance, includes one drink.Event kicks off with Open Mic readings of five minutes, followed by two featured writers. Read more Fonte: Magna Grece
Italian Futurist Design: From Furniture to Ceramics - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on June 24, 2014
Celebrated worldwide as one of the most noteworthy art museums and architectural icons of the 20th century, the Guggenheim Museum is all together an essential cultural center, an educational institution, as well as the heart of an international network of museums. Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic inverted ziggurat leads visitors through a serie...
Fresh Pond Road Italian Festival
September 4 @ 5:30 pm - September 7 @ 10:00 pm - FreshpondNew York, NY | Start Time: 17:30:00Website: http://fb.com/673928069329348 The Federazione Italo- Americana di Brooklyn and Queens for its Fresh Pond Road Festival on Thursday, Sept. 4, through Saturday, Sept. 6, from 5:30 to 10 p.m.; and Sunday, Sept. 7, from 2 to 10 p.m., along Fresh...
A Sculptor of Suggestion
by Karen Wilkin The Italian-born sculptor Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) is the proverbial "artist's artist." Controversial in his own day, "discovered" by the Abstract Expressionist generation, and now widely acclaimed in art-historical circles, he is an important figure to many contemporary practitioners. Rosso is still not familiar to the Am...