ROBERTO GATTO TRIO
Roberto Gatto, drums; Domenico Sanna, piano; Luca Fattorini, Bass. Born in Rome, Roberto Gatto attended the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and the Conservatory in L’Aquila. He holds the chair of jazz drums at Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. His professional debut dates back to 1975 with Trio di Roma (Danilo Rea, Enzo Pietropaoli). […]
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IN SCENA! -MARIO FRATTI AWARD
IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY announces the winner of the 2016 Mario Fratti Award: BUTTERFLIES by Emanuele Aldrovandi. Presented annually to an emerging Italian playwright, the winning play is translated into English and the playwright receives a specially commissioned lithograph by artist Victoria Febrer. The award is named after Mario Fratti, the internationally acclaimed […]
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SHAKESPEARE AND THE MARIONETTES
Conference/performance by Eugenio Monti Colla and Piero Corbella The theatre of figure at large and the Company Carlo Colla & Sons in a special way have always paid great attention to the Shakespearian dramas, which never fail to fascinate the audience with the emotions they stir: the fight for power, obsessive jealousy, tragic contrasted love, […]
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GIORGIO BASSANI 100
A round table on the occasion of the publication of GIORGIO BASSANI, New York Lectures and interviews, CPL Editions; a collection of the conferences and interviews held by the writer at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. And the publication of American Lessons of Giorgio Bassani, edited by V.Cappozzo, Giorgio Pozzi publisher. With the […]
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PANORAMA EUROPE FESTIVAL
OPENING NIGHT FILM & RECEPTION – Anna (Per amor vostro) With actress Valeria Golino in person New York premiere. Italy/France. Dir. Giuseppe M. Gaudino. 2015, 117 mins. In Italian with English subtitles. With Valeria Golino, Massimiliano Gallo, Adriano Giannini. A woman’s downward spiral is viscerally evoked in this fantastical and psychologically charged character study. Winner […]
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VALERIO PICCOLO-POETRY NOTES
Presentation of the concept album Poetry Notes, with special guest Rick Moody. Poetry Notes is a project that combines poetry and music. Nine American poets/novelists/singer-songwriters wrote nine poems that Valerio Piccolo put to music turning them into songs. A musical journey that narrates and presents – through song – North American poetry written by the […]
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REMEMBERING UMBERTO ECO
Live streaming video by Ustream A conversation to commemorate Umberto Eco (1932 – 2016) award-winning Italian novelist, essayist, literary critic, philosopher and semiotician.With the participation of Salman Rushdie, Siri Hustvedt, and Gianni Riotta.Readings by Edoardo Ballerini.Moderated by: Michael Moore In collaboration with PEN World Voices Festival Umberto Eco, (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) […]
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PREMIO NY/ NEW YORK PRIZE
Francesca Grilli and Letizia Calori & Violette Maillard are the winners of the 2015-1016 edition of Premio NY.The Premio New York brings promising younger Italian artists to New York for a residency at the ISCP Gallery (International Studio and Curatorial Program) in Brooklyn, with the support of the Italian Academy at the Columbia University, the […]
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VALERIO MAGRELLI The Condominium of Flesh.
Book Presentation A darkly humorous exploration of the human body and its various functions in poetic prose, Valerio Magrelli’s personal chronicle of clinical experience catalogues a life history of ailments without ever being pathological. Every sensation and malfunction is placed under the subjective microscope of the poet’s eye and examined in excruciating and obsessive detail. […]
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RIDENDO E SCHERZANDO-ETTORE SCOLA
Screening of the documentary film Ridendo e Scherzando, a tribute to the late director and screen-wright by his daughters, portraying an intellectual who has made delicate irony his way of looking at the world.With the participation of Silvia Scola and Antonio Monda, NYU professor and director of Rome Film Festival, and Larry Kardish, former Senior […]
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