INTERNATIONAL REMEMBRANCE PROGRAM SERIES Film Screening
Film Screening: Oro Macht Frei Film Screening: Oro Macht Frei (2013) by Jeffrey Bonna and Catherine CampbellOpening remarks: Stefano Albertini. Post screening discussion: Catherine Campbell On January 27, 1945 the Soviet Army entered and liberated the extermination camp of Auschwitz. This date was chosen to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to promote the […]
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INTERNATIONAL REMEMBRANCE PROGRAM SERIES Book discussion
Book discussion: Primo Levi, The Friend by Bianca Guidetti Serra Book discussion: Primo Levi, The Friend by Bianca Guidetti Serra (CPL Editions, 2015)Opening remarks: Giorgio Van Straten (Director, Italian Cultural Institute) Discussants:Guri Schwarz (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Alessandro Cassin (Centro Primo Levi). Stella Levi (Centro Primo Levi) will read from the book. On January […]
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TRANSATLANTICO Emanuele Tozzi – CD Release Concert
Emanuele Tozzi – CD Release Concert For “Transatlantico” Emanuele Tozzi brings a modernistic touch of the Old World to New York City. His sound has been likened to a “Fellini soundtrack highlighted with chocolate notes,” combining jazz with fragments of traditional classic Italian melodies – Roma Cinecittà by way of the Manhattan Bridge. https://www.ticketprophet.com/events/10154/orders/new This […]
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GIANANDREA NOSEDA
In conversation with Harvey Sachs Italian conductors in New York Gianandrea Noseda is widely recognized as one of the leading conductors of his generation. He is Musical America’s 2015 Conductor of the Year. Gianandrea Noseda’s appointment as Music Director of the Teatro Regio Torino in 2007 ushered in a transformative era for the company matched […]
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Little world. Minimal stuff
Stories of extraordinary ordinary people told by Giovannino Guareschi and Enzo Jannacci An exhibit of videos, photos, sketches and comics, free entrance Tours: Friday, January 15th: 8:15pm Saturday, January 16th: 10:00am / 11:30am / 1:00am / 2:30pm / 4:45pm / 6:15pm / 7:15pm / 8:15pm Sunday, January 17th: 12:00pm / 1:30pm / 3:00pm / 4:30pm […]
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Marisa Merz
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Marisa Merz.The exhibition features painting, sculpture, and works on paper, highlighting Merz’s pioneering role since the mid-1960s as a central figure and the only female artist in the Arte Povera movement. Throughout Merz’s oeuvre, the figure of the face emerges at times in arabesque […]
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DANTE’S INFERNO. Silent film
With live soundtrack by Marco Castelli The Inferno, (1911) silent movie by Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan, produced by Milan Films, is the first feature film in history Italian cinema. Adaptation of the first cantica of Dante’s Divine Comedy, only available in copies damaged, mutilated or censore, was, 2011, painstakinkly restored to […]
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MOTUS . MDLSX
MDLSX STARRING THE KINETIC SILVIA CALDERONIis an 80-minute performance/monologue/ DJ set performed by the award-winning actress Silvia Calderoni, and directed by Motus founders, Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolo. MDLSX weaves autobiography and literary evocations in a wild and fervent paean to the freedom of becoming, to gender-blending, to a being that cannot be contained within […]
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Sculptures of maestro Dionisio Cimarelli
Maestro Dionisio boasts a wide international experience and is one of the most well known Italian sculptors exercising his artistic activity in China. After his first visit in 1986, he continued investigating, with passion and marked interest, the culture and art of this extraordinary country.The sculptures made in porcelain by Maestro Dionisio Cimarelli have been […]
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DANTE MARATHON
The Inferno: A Continuous Reading On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s birth, (1265-1321), the Italian Cultural Institute wishes to honor Italy’s greatest poet by holding a continuous reading of the Divine Comedy’s first Cantica, the “Inferno”.We wish to celebrate Dante not only as the father of the Italian language and literature […]
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