I miei giovani talenti alle prese con Boccaccio e uno spettacolo che speriamo di rivedere a New York
By Laura Caparrotti Diceva Eduardo: gli esami non finiscono mai. Lavorando nel teatro sembra doppiamente vero e mi chiedo se Eduardo non l'avesse pensato alla vigilia di qualche suo debutto. Gli esami non finiscono mai e in questi giorni di esami ne sto passando molti, a partire dal nuovo esperimento messo in atto con la compagnia giovani...
Back to the '80s: From Arte Povera to the Rediscovery of Nuovi Nuovi
Friday, February 6 – Monday, March 16, 2015Opening reception: Friday, February 6th, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm Ierimonti Gallery opens its new location in New York presenting an overview of the extensive and prolific Italian art panorama of the 1970s and the 1980s.While politics and economics underwent a profound transformation and culture tran...
Saving Radio City Music Hall
Please join us at the Italian American Museum, Friday evening, August 28th to hear the true story of how Radio City Music Hall, Art Deco masterpiece, iconic cultural landmark, and New York City's premiere tourist attraction for generations, was saved from demolition. Nearly four decades later and after years of intense research, Rosemary Novellino...
AIAE 2015 Breakfast invitation
by Josephine Maietta Dear Friends, You are cordially invited to attend the Association of Italian American Educators' Uniting Our Community Breakfast on Sunday, September 20, 2015 from 8:00am to 10:30am, in the Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, Room 246 at Hofstra University, Uniondale, New York. This year, the Breakfast is spons...
Frank Barbaro, legislator and judge, remembered
Frank Barbaro, a champion of the working class who rose from longshoreman on the Brooklyn docks to progressive state legislator to state Supreme Court judge, died surrounded by family members at home Sunday, Sept. 4, of congestive heart failure. He was 88. The 6-foot-4, barrel-chested son of Italian immigrants never stopped fighting against powerf...
The Twin Towers Rise Again
For Gaetano "Nino" Carbone, the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center were especially heart-rending. The Mahopac resident had once worked for an import/export office at 21 West St. in Manhattan, not too far from the twin towers, and often did business there. "[The World Trade Center] was just a stone's throw away from our office," Carbon...
L'ambasciatore Bisogniero al gala della Scuola d'Italia "G. Marconi" nell'Anno della Cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti
di Riccardo Chioni Serata da protagonisti per gli studenti, serata di gala per i genitori e ospiti sotto le volte di Cipriani at 42nd Street per festeggiare il 36esimo anniversario della Scuola d'Italia "G. Marconi", sotto gli auspici dell'ambasciatore a Washington Claudio Bisogniero, nell'Anno della Cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti. &n...
Postcards of the Mezzogiorno: A Photographic Essay of Southern Italy in the Bari Area
The Italian American Museum at 155 Mulberry Street (corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) in Manhattan will host "Postcards of the Mezzogiorno: A Photographic Essay of Southern Italy in the Bari Area." Joseph M. Calisi, an International Transportation Photojournalist retraced places visited in his youth to capture the sun-splashed beauty of a regio...
Behind the shadows
You are cordially invited to attend a reading of Susan C. Finelli's book, "Behind the Shadows" at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, February 27. About the book: Born into squalor, Raymond Nasco's quest for wealth and power shrouds two generations with deceit, murder, rape and illicit love.
Italian identity: a look beyond stereotype and into the living identity of Italian people
March 13, 6:30 pm — 7:30 pmWestchester Italian Cultural Center - 24 Depot Square , TuckahoeThe lecture provides an understanding of the common temperament and world view of those who are born and raised in Italy. Going beyond the factitious image of the "Bel Paese," it offers an insight into historical and socio-cultural factors which contribu...
JR's Haunting Murals Invade Ellis Island
On the long-abandoned walls and windows of Ellis Island's Immigrant Hospital, artist JR is reinterpreting American history. For UNFRAMED Ellis Island, the French multi-hyphenate has filled the iconic building with black-and-white tableaus of the Immigrant Hospital's former doctors and patients. With the support of Save Ellis Island (SEI) organizati...
Poet and Journalist Maria Lisella Selected as New Laureate for Queens
By Katie Honan The borough's newest poet laureate is a lifelong resident who has traveled the world as a journalist — but always found her greatest inspiration at home, she said. Maria Lisella was introduced June 9 at Borough Hall as Queens' sixth poet laureate, and was selected from dozens of applicants by a panel made up of writers...