What's Your Project? Italian American Coalition for Kids
Raising money to support families in Upstate New York going through financial hardships due to a child's serious illness is a never-ending pursuit for the Italian American Coalition for Kids (IACK). The holiday season is no different, and board member Jenna Knauf had an idea to launch an IACK Holiday Fundraiser campaign with a goal of raising $7,50...
L'appuntamento della Aiae. Parata di eccellenze italiane
In occasione del XVI appuntamento annuale della Association of Italian American Educators, tenutosi domenica presso lo Chateau Briant a Carle Place a Long Island, hanno fatto pervenire messaggi augurali il presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano, il governatore Andrew Cuomo, l'ambasciatore a Washington Claudio Bisogniero e quello alle Nazion...
Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora, Edvige Giunta and Joseph Sciorra
Thursday, November 13For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. The lives of these Italian women are woven into the artifacts of memory and imagination: embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting. Embroidered Stories (University Press...
Photo Exhibit, Mayor de Blasio's Italian Roots - 14 October at 5:00 PM
by Anthony J. Tamburri This past summer New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio returned to his maternal family roots in Italy. The Mayor's grandparents immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s: his grandmother Anna Briganti was from Grassano (Basilicata, Matera Province), and his grandfather Giovanni De Blasio from the town of Sant'Agata de'...
La commedia universale di Mario Monicelli a New York
di Chiara Barbo Film Forum, istituzione cinematografica tra le più prestigiose a New York e negli Stati Uniti, rende omaggio al grande Mario Monicelli. Non solo Neorealismo, possiamo finalmente dire. Sì perché spesso Neorealismo è sinonimo stesso di cinema italiano, di una stagione meravigliosa e lontana del nostro cinema: un cinema i...
Italian Scientific Migration to the United States after the 1938 Racial Laws
April 8, 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor - New York, N.Y. 10036 Italian Scientific Migration to the United States after the 1938 Racial Laws Alessandra Gissi, University of Naples "L'Orientale" The Fascist government's 1938 anti-Semitic Racial Laws prompted a major...
Dan Hurlin on Fortunato Depero’s puppet plays dramma plastico futurista
09 SEPTEMBER 2015 / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMRSVP REQUIRED! BOOK NOW!Center for Italian Modern Art - 421 BROOME STREET, 4TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10013 Following his 2014 visit when he spoke about the puppet theatre of Futurist artist Fortunato Depero, Dan Hurlin returns to CIMA to read his translation of DRAMMA PLASTICO FUTURISTA, four short puppet pla...
GIAN GIACOMO MIGONE "The United States and Fascist Italy”
Monday, April 11, 2016 at 6:00 pm Organized by : IIC in collaboration with : European Institute of Columbia University Entrance : Free. Book now! Location:italian Cultural Institute Originally published in Italian in 1980, Gli Stati Uniti e il Fascismo: Alle origini dell'egemonia Americana in Italia, is regarded. today. as a crucia...
Valerio Magrelli: the Condominium of the Flesh
Monday, April 25, 2016 at 6:00 pm. Organized by IIC. Entrance : Free. Book now! Italian Cultural Institute of New York. 686 Park Avenue. New York, NY 10021 - USA A darkly humorous exploration of the human body and its various functions in poetic prose, Valerio Magrelli's personal chronicle of clinical experien...
Dignitaries, elected officials gather to honor community activist Mary Sansone on her 100th birthday
By John Alexander On June 14, hundreds of guests gathered at the Dyker Beach Golf Club to celebrate Mary Crisalli Sansone's 100th birthday. In attendance were dignitaries, elected officials, such as Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and family members. Also present were Sansone's close friends, including Matilda...
Guido Cagnacci: Dying Cleopatra
Date: from Friday, December 02, 2016 to Thursday, January 19, 2017 Time: From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm In collaboration with : FIAC and Pinacoteca di Brera Entrance : Free Location:Italian Cultural Institute of New York Book now! Guido Cagnacci (1601–1663) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, whose works are characterized by the us...
Arrestato durante una protesta contro la chiusura di un ospedale a Brooklyn il candidato a sindaco Bill de Blasio
di Riccardo Chioni Gli agenti hanno ammanettato il public advocate Bill de Blasio mentre gridava assieme a centinaia di persone "Hell no, we won't go" durante un rally per cercare di salvare il Long Island College Hospital con un atto di disobbidienza civile nei pressi di Bryant Park a Midtown. Il gruppo di manifestanti si era riunito lun...