Staten Island families to attend annual Feast of St. Rocco
Salvatore Sciandra, 8, of Eltingville, who experienced what his family regards as a miracle cure, will be among the Staten Islanders making the trek into Lower Manhattan on Aug. 18 to honor the patron saint of the sick at the 124th Feast of St. Rocco. "It's a real miracle," said Salvatore's grandmother, Louise Fioriello of Westerleigh, reg...
A New York le preziose "trasparenze" di Carlo Scarpa 1932-1947. Arte vetraria del novecento al Metropolitan Museum
Dopo il grande successo di pubblico e critica, la mostra Carlo Scarpa. Venini 1932 – 1947 a cura di Marino Barovier si trasferisce al Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York, e con il nuovo titolo di Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa: The Venini Company, 1932 – 1947, che rimarrà aperta al pubblico dal 5 novembre 2013 al 2 marzo 2014. La mostra...
Italian Traditions: St. Joseph’s Day!
The celebration of St. Joseph's Day, in honor of the Feast Day of the Patron Saint of the Working Person, is a long-standing tradition in the New York State Legislature. St. Joseph's Day is also the day when the swallows are traditionally believed to return to Mission San Juan Capistrano after having flown south for the winter. This year t...
Presenting Italoamericana: Italian-American Literature in the United States, 1880–1943
Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880–1943, edited by Francesco Durante (Fordham University Press, 2014), brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of writings by Italian immigrants in the United States. Containing work originally published in Italian, this groundbreaking anthology presents long-i...
Ad East Harlem una strada per Vito Marcantonio
Il Vito Marcantonio Forum (VMF), che ha di recente commemorato la morte Vito Marcantonio, membro del Congresso americano per sette legislature (dal 1934 al '36 e dal 1938 al '50), fa passi avanti verso il riconoscimento di questa importante figura politica e allo stesso tempo si impegna per rivendicare un ruolo centrale nell'arena locale e nazional...
Book Presentation: "Partisan Diary" by Ada Gobetti - October 29, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Partisan Diary A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance BY Ada Gobetti and Translated and edited by Jomarie Alano First account available in English of an Italian woman's participation in the Italian Resistance (Resistenza) that covers the entire period between September 1943 and April 1945. Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. &...
Love Angels By Don Marcello Stanzione - November 13, 2014 at 6:30pm
Don Marcello Stanzione, Jacques Coret, and Marco Gionta willl present their first book published in English: The Highway to Heaven/A closer walk with God in the Company of The Celestial Beings-Angels published by Publisher Sign. The presentation will be accompanied by the screening of the documentary Love Angels. The documentary tells the...
Cultural Italian American Organization to host Christopher Columbus Testimonial Dinner
The Cultural Italian American Organization announces it will honor His Excellency Bishop Salvatore Matano, the ninth bishop of the Rochester Diocese, at its second annual Christopher Columbus Testimonial Dinner. The bishop is also the first Italian-American bishop in the history of the Rochester Diocese. The testimonial dinner is set...
Entrepreneurship Opens The Door To Heritage and a Dual Life
By Beth Connolly Is New York the most Italian city in the United States? For over one hundred years her harbors and airports have accepted (though not always welcomed, at first) millions of Italian immigrants who settled in enclaves across Brooklyn, the Bronx, and all of the boroughs, establishing restaurants, bakeries, and grocery stores that suc...
Italian-Americans outraged over Mayor's plans for Columbus Circle art project
Hey, show a little respect for Christopher Columbus! Italian-American activists are outraged over a new plan to place an art installation around the statue of the explorer that stands in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The planned installation, by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi, is supposed to give New Yorkers a new perspective on Chris by enclosing hi...
Altamura Center For The Arts
Inter-Cities Performing Arts is a New Jersey/New York-based, philanthropic arts company founded for the purpose of improving ethnic, social, professional, and cultural relations throughout the world. It grew out of the Altamura School for the Fine and Performing Arts, which served many students with financial needs in and near in Union City, NJ. It...
IAM presents the traditions of Saint Joseph
The Italian American Museum will present, "The Traditions of St. Joseph" on Thursday, March 13 at 6:30 PM, a talk and pastry-making demonstration that will examine the centuries-old celebrations that honor the patron saint of Italy. IAM president Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa will offer a historical perspective of St. Joseph's Day, and the evening'...