September 24 (Sunday) 4:00 - 6:00 pm - D'Angelo Center, 4th Floor - 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens. Author and Activist: The Daniela Gioseffi Story, a Documentary of Immigrant Italian American Life & Activism for Justice

This docu-drama, with a backdrop of recent American history, portrays Daniela's life-affirming struggle to make multi-media art about civil rights, democratic equality and climate justice. The film concerns Daniela's life being inspired by her tenacious immigrant father, who struggled to achieve the American dream, becoming a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Union College and Columbia University, and a chemical engineer inventor of softlight.

It follows Daniela's being among the first journalists to integrate Deep South Television in Selma, Alabama, 1961; and her abuse by the KKK; to her near death in childbirth; to her receiving recognitions such as: an American Book Award, the Ploughshare Fund Peace Award, presented at the UN, for Women on War: International Writings and on Predjudice Perspective: A Global Perspective; the AIAE Lifetime Achievement Award and the Literary Award from the NYSOSIA Grand Lodge.

Sponsored by St. John's University Campus, Italian Cultural Center. Admission: free; open to the public. Contact: Florentina Russo 516-850-7939. authorandactivist@gmail.com