Forest Grove Concours d'Elegance: Celebrate the art of Italian cars, Ford Mustangs and the Pontiac GTO
Italy is known for its art. There's Michaelangelo's David. And the Ferrari 250GTO. The Trevi Fountain. And the Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato. The sculpted arches of the Roman Coliseum. And the sculpted lines of the Lamborghini Muira. Perhaps the Italian passion for art is the reason that so many designers in such a small nation produced so ma...
Viva La Festa Italiana
Jay King of Fridley is a third-generation Italian-American, on his mom's side of the family. When he joined the planning committee for the Festa Italiana, a relatively new festival that celebrates Italian heritage in Minnesota, "it was like coming home," he said. In fact, he found out that one committee member is a distant cousin, he said. ...
Tryptich "Motus"
Mandala Dance Company, a premiere Italian contemporary dance company, comes to Chicago for two world premiere performances! Founded by artistic director and choreographer, Paola Sorressa, Mandala will present "Triptych Motus," three works fused together by their highly physical and dynamic elements. Part Contemporary dance, part acrobatic,...
Italian culture and history: The Music of Apulia The Pizzica
WTI Magazine #42 2014 September, 3Author : italia.it Translation by: The Pizzica: A Tradition between Dionysus and the SaintsThe sultry heat, sand blowing in the morning air, and the parched land of Salento, a small subregion in Apulia. The women here, bent over to work in the fields, are marked by fatigue. A tarantula bites one of t...
Capitoline Museums in Rome to Join With University of Missouri to Catalog Artifacts
Beginning this semester, students at the University of Missouri will get a hands-on opportunity to study ancient artifacts through a pilot project with the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The museums have lent 249 Roman-era artifacts of black-glazed pottery to the university for students to research and catalog. Culled from the museums' cavern...
ILICA: 10 anni tra passato e futuro della cultura italiana. Ora spazio ai giovani
by Vincenzo Marra Era il 15 Aprile del 2004 quando, dopo un anno di preparativi, nasceva ILICA, l'Italian Language Intercultural Alliance, con la missione di capitalizzare sulla lingua e la cultura italiana la ricchezza di un gruppo etnico in crisi di identità. ILICA ha sempre dichiarato di voler essere complementare a chi, con tanto sacr...
NIAF - Regione Lombardia Global Economic Forum - 9 a.m., Friday, October 24, at Cannon House Office Building
SPONSOR: The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) WHEN: Friday, October 24, 20149 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Cannon House Office BuildingC Street SE, Caucus Room 345Washington, D.C. 20003 WHAT: To open the event, dignitaries from Italy will give an overview of 2015 World Expo in Milano and explore its theme "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life....
Fighting Paisanos: le storie degli italo-americani che hanno combattuto il fascismo
Chi di voi non ha passato l'infanzia o l'adolescenza accanto a un fuoco o davanti a un tavolo ascoltando le parole lontane e preziose dei nonni andati in guerra? Cappelli di paglia e mani rigate, occhi sempre lucidi e allegri. Gli occhi di quelli che hanno fatto la guerra si somigliano, malinconici e felici, perchè come dice Fred "la prima cosa che...
"Elizabeth Street" by Laurie Fabiano
Inside each of us is at least one great story. The challenge is to put pen to paper — or fingers to keyboard — and write it. In 2009, after a 20-year career that included marketing, event planning, AIDS activism, and serving as deputy mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, Laurie Fabiano self-published Elizabeth Street, a novel about her Italian immigrant f...
Italian-Americans celebrate Verrazano's 50th anniversary with party, fireworks at Casa Belvedere
By Kiawana Rich The Italian Cultural Foundation pulled out all the stops Friday, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge with a reception and dinner party befitting the bridge. It seemed appropriate for the celebration to take place in Casa Belvedere on Grymes Hill -- an organization dedicated to promoting, pr...
Manarola pronta alla festa per l'accensione del presepe di Andreoli
Domenica 7 dicembre e lunedì 8 dicembre 2014 grande festa a Manarola. Un'intera collina illuminata da centinaia di figure, nel presepe luminoso costruito e ideato da Mario Andreoli. L'uomo che da oltre 50 anni, ogni Natale, torna a far splendere la collina delle Tre Croci. Il presepe resta visibile fino alla Candelora. La collina che abbra...
Main Street Fairmont Hosts 'Feast of the Seven Fishes'
The Marion County community invited people to share its Italian heritage at the 9th annual Feast of the Seven Fishes festival. The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a centuries-old custom observed primarily by southern Italians, consisting of a seafood meal served on Christmas Eve. Local restaurants showcased their heritage ties, with cultural...