Calabria in USA @ NYC
Please join us on Saturday, May 9, 2015, at the Calandra Institute for a series of presentations and entertainments examining and celebrating contemporary Calabrian culture. Poetry readings, historical and sociological discussions, and two film screenings are just a sampling of the schedule for a full day's immersion in all things Calabrese. L...
New national immigration museum at Ellis Island
by Nancy Trejos The United States, long a magnet for immigrants, is getting its first national immigration museum. On May 20, the Ellis Island Museum will officially become the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. The name change comes with the completion of the Peopling of America Center, which has been in development for sev...
Book Presentation: SIENA, City of Secrets
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 - NOVEMBER 17, 2015 - 06:00 PM. Siena: City of Secrets (2015, University of Chicago Press) by Jane Tylus The author in conversation with Millicent Marcus (Yale), Laura Biagi (Vassar College) and Mauro Mussolin (NYU Florence). Jane Tyl...
Jazz with a Sicilian Accent: Francesco Cafiso in New York
By George De Stefano "Everybody here speaks Italian, right?" Francesco Cafiso asked at the start of his June 9 concert at the Italian Institute of Culture in Manhattan. When no one contradicted him, the 27-year-old saxophonist from Vittoria, Sicily joked that he "spoke Italian very well." And then, whenever he addressed the audience durin...
William Castellana: Brooklyn & Botanicals
William Castellana is a Brooklyn-based Italian American photographer whose images are in the collections of over thirty-five museums and universities throughout the United States. Though he has spent most of his twenty-year career doing fine art still-life photography, Castellana recently turned his lens on the neighborhood surrounding his South Wi...
Sights & Sounds of Carnevale in Italy
A DVD Presentation by Anita Sanseverino, Joe Zarba & Lou Barrella This DVD presentation will include festive music, photographs and live video from a variety of Carnevale celebrations in Italy. Come experience the 474th anniversary of where it all started in Tuscany, the fabulous masks and balls of Venice, the street festival in V...
Paese Mio Bello: An Exploration of Early Italian-American Music Todd Cambio, Fraulini Guitar Company
In the early twentieth century, U.S. recording companies began producing records of music from the traditions of various recent immigrant groups. These recordings included folk music, topical songs rendered by popular singers, as well as instrumental pieces and audio from live theater performances. Paese Mio Bello is a collection of these early 78-...
Retrospettiva al MoMa per Bellocchio
"Parlo da non credente, ma penso che Bergoglio sia un Papa coraggioso anche se è chiaro che ci sono dei limiti che non può superare": dice Marco Bellocchio che il MoMa di New York celebra con una retrospettiva nel corso della quale verranno proiettati 18 dei suoi più celebri film, da 'I pugni in tasca' al 'Regista di matrimoni', da 'Buongiorno nott...
Italian Muralist Ozmo and New York Street Artist FoxxFace Take Their Talents to the Streets of Little Italy as Part of the "L.I.S.A. Project NYC"
The "L.I.S.A. Project NYC" was created by Wayne Rada to bring street artists from different places and walks of life together to create Manhattan's only mural district, thereby encouraging art lovers everywhere to come visit Little Italy and soak in the unique beauty. The most recent artists to grace Mulberry Street with their talents are...
A Moment in Time: The People of Little Italy in 1976
Photographer Stephen Nadler will be present at the Italian American Museum on Saturday August 8th and Saturday, August 15th to meet the public and to discuss his current exhibition, A Moment in Time: The People of Little Italy in 1976. The exhibit, currently on display in the Museum's gallery space, will remain on view through Labor Day, Monday, Se...
Giorgio Morandi opens October 9th!
CIMA is thrilled to announce its new season, dedicated to acclaimed Italian modern master Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964). The installation features some 40 paintings, etchings, and drawings and focuses on the artist's rarely seen works from the 1930s, the decade when Morandi reached full artistic maturity. Most of the painting...
Il Gala Aiae. Italoamericani tra presente e futuro
Applausi, sorrisi e abbracci. Si è svolta in questo clima di convivialità la diciottesima edizione della consegna dei premi e delle borse di studio organizzata annualmente dall'Aiae, l'Associazione degli Educatori Italoamericani, guidata dalla sempre grintosa e intraprendente presidente cav. Josephine A. Maietta, presentatrice ed organizzatrice del...