Lucilla Galeazzi Festa Italiana
Noted for her exquisite voice, Lucilla Galeazzi brings to life the old folk music of Italy, from Umbria to Calabria and Puglia. Her arrangements of Italian songs and dance melodies celebrate the beauty and vitality of the Mediterranean’s multicultural heritage with an ensemble that features fiddles, guitars, and percussion.Performers Lucilla Galeazzi, Vocalist Carlo Rizzo, Tamburelli, […]
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Symposium: DANTE AS A POLITICAL THEORIST: Historicizing Theology and Theologizing Power
Presented with the NYU Department of Italian Studies, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and the Medieval and Renaissance CenterIn collaboration with Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies and Department of Italian Dante as a Political Theorist: Historicizing Theology and Theologizing Power An International Symposium on “Monarchia” Launching The Global Dante Project of New York Directors: Maria […]
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Alberto Biasi-Unlimited PerceptionOpening reception: Thursday, April 16, 6-8 PM
NEW YORK, NY – De Buck Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition by acclaimed Italian artist Alberto Biasi,entitled Unlimited Perception. The exhibition marks Biasi’s debut atDe Buck Gallery, and his first solo exhibition in New York since 1971. The exhibition will be on view from March 26 through May 2, with an opening […]
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A Shared History: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire In Italian American And Jewish Memory
A commemoration organized by Edvige Giunta and Mary Ann Trasciatti On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York’s Greenwich Village killed 146 workers. Most of the dead were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women, some as young as 15 years old. Survivors, their families, and those who witnessed the […]
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Malastrana Film Series Presents: THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN!: GIALLO FEVER, PART 2
They are back in town! Armed with sharper knives, shinier leather gloves and even more deranged motives, “THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN! aka GIALLO FEVER Part 2” (20-29 at Anthology Film Archives) picks up where the first series left off, bringing 12 classic and under-screened Italian gialli to the Big Apple in rare 35mm prints. […]
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Good Bye My Love-Opening
A Journey of Italian Immigration to the US through the Eyes of the Lens Michele Petruzziello There is a new wave of Immigration from Italy to the US. Are young people immigrating for the same reasons that their grandparents did? How is this different from the turn of the century? Are the trades different or […]
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Alice RicciardiOPTICS CD Releaseat ShapeShifter Lab, NY
Italian Jazz singer and composer Alice Ricciardi just released her second album, OPTICS, on Greg Osby’s Label Inner Circle Music. Debut album “Comes Love” was released on Blue Note/EMI, acclaimed by critics and public worldwide. Alice has delighted critics and audiences alike around the world with her sensitive interpretations of standards and effortless sense of […]
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Magic Books – The Secret Art of Book Hacking
Presented by Mariano Tomatis Magic Books – The Secret Art of Book HackingWe tune up engines and hack computers to improve their performances. What if we tuned up a book? Altering its structure and content, magical things may happen: volumes with movable parts, pages offering cinematic experiences, images appearing with a blow, non-linear structures to […]
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7th Annual ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival
THE SPECIAL NEED Dir. Carlo Zoratti, 84 min, Italy/Germany/Austria/France, Italian/German, 2013, Documentary 29-year-old Enea is looking for love – physical love that is. But as Enea has autism, and lives in Italy where there are restrictive laws, finding love is anything but easy. So Enea decides to set out on a journey to Northern Europe […]
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The Day That We Could Not Pray In Our Language Anymore
This video tells the story through interviews to eyewitnesses that were part of the Italian Community of the small island of Lussino, Yugoslavia after the war and the difficulties they encountered. This story is emblematic of all linguistic and ethnic minorities on either side of the border. (15 minutes) The movie: Our American Days Will […]
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