Adele Chatfield-Taylor - A Brief History of the American Academy in Rome Through the Lens of Historic Preservation
President and CEO Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR'84, will reflect on the history and preservation strategy that were key to the rebuilding of the American Academy in Rome, as she prepares to step down after 25 years at the helm. Adele Chatfield-Taylor, President and CEO of the American Academy in Rome, is an historic preservationist. She was directo...
NYU's arts season debuts at Villa La Pietra in Florence
The stunning 15th-century Villa La Pietra in the Montughi hills of Florence will be open May 28 through August 7 to host readings with contemporary Italian and American authors, concerts and theater performances organized by New York University Florence. The 10th edition of NYU's The Season, a city-wide annual event, will debut with the first of f...
Staten Island's Sundog Theatre seeks upbeat take on inventor Antonio Meucci; play opens June 21
Very few innovators had the kind of bad luck that dogged Antonio Meucci (1808-1889), the longtime Rosebank resident who invented a telephone — but never received credit or royalties. Still, sad times won't be the whole story of "Meucci's Messages," a new play premiering this month in a Sundog Theatre presentation at Casa Belvedere: The Ita...
IAWA at the San Gennaro Feast
The upcoming San Gennaro Feast is the largest and most visible annual Italian cultural expression in New York City. The Lt. Joseph Petrosino Lodge, through the auspices of its Chaplain Msgr. Sakano, has been able to host a cultural table during the Feast for the last two years on the block of St. Patrick's Church on Mulberry Street between Prince S...
Un piccolo grande eroe nascosto. Gino Masi da Mola di Bari a Brooklyn
"Gli italiani che hanno fatto l'America" è un argomento che da decenni produce articoli e pubblicazioni in quantità considerevole, che generalmente si soffermano a parlare di personaggi più o meno famosi e che hanno avuto una vita avventurosa. La GRANDE STORIA invece, nei suoi archivi silenziosi e segreti, ha immagazzinato nel tempo innumerevoli p...
Book Presentation: L'AMORE INVOLONTARIO - OCTOBER 07, 2014 (06:00 PM )
The day Riccardo receives a phone call, his sister - Irene - is only a bothersome thought, a memory angrily chased away. He has never forgiven her for writing about him in the novel that made her famous. Now, Irene is in a coma and Riccardo finds himself having to spend time by her side. It is the story of a man's transformation, a tale of...
I grandi del Rinascimento italiano in mostra negli Usa
Appuntamento con i grandi nomi del Rinascimento italiano negli Stati Uniti dove nei prossimi giorni verranno inaugurate due importanti mostre, a New York e Williamsburg. Ad aprire i battenti domani sara' "La scultura all'epoca di Donatello: i capolavori del Rinascimento dalla Cattedrale di Firenze", fino al 14 giugno ospite al MOBIA, il Museum of B...
Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America
OCTOBER 26, 2015, 06:00 pm - 07:30 pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036. Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America, by Kenyon Zimmer, University of Texas at Arlington From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of firs...
NOIAW Founder & Chair Emerita, Dr. Aileen R. Sirey, Appears on We The Italians Panel
Aileen Riotto Sirey, Ph.D., NOIAW Founder and Chair Emerita, appeared on a panel at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute on May 3, 2016 as part of a presentation on the new book We The Italians: Two Countries, One Heart, by author Umberto Mucci. Other panelists included Cav. Anthony J. Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Inst...
An Evening with Sophia Loren
September 10 (Saturday) 8:00 pm. An Evening with Sophia Loren. Synonymous with grace, beauty and artistry, Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren will captivate audiences with an intimate onstage conversation and Q/A. The prolific career of this legendary star spans over five decades earning a remarkable array of notable accolades, including...
Votive Mass of San Gennaro at the Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood
On Saturday, September 24, at 10:00 AM the Society of St Hugh of Cluny will be sponsoring a Solemn mass at the Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood at 113 Baxter Street/109 Mulberry Street, New York. It will be a votive Mass of San Gennaro with a commemoration of the Ember Day. The Society continues its annual September "Italian Herita...
Peekskill Pageants Seeking Candidates to Compete for the Miss Italia Peekskill Crown
Peekskill Pageants is pleased to announce the Miss Italia Peekskill 2013Competition (formerly Miss Festa Italiana Peekskill). The competition is open to young ladies who want to compete for the Miss Italia Peekskill crown, who meet the following criteria:• Must be of Italian descent• Must be single and never married or have had a child• Must b...