ScreeningFinding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California (2014)
Italians first went to California in large numbers in the 1950s with the Gold Rush. While most found little gold, they did find a mother lode in farming, fishing, commerce and making wine. Finding the Mother Lode documents for the first time the experience of Italian immigrants in California, which was markedly different from that […]
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A Personal Exploration of Pietrasanta as an International Arts Center
Moderator: Anna Mecugni Lecturer University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College A Talk with Ron Mehlman – artist and sculptor A Personal Exploration of Pietrasanta as an International Arts Center, by the sculptor Ron Mehlman, this years winner of the Pietrasanta International Sculpture Prize, “Fratelli Rosselli”. Ron will speak about Pietrasanta and its environs: its […]
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Carlo Grante: Masters of High Romanticism II
Carlo Grante, Piano“Masters Of High Romanticism” Concert II – Schumann: The Piano Sonatas The second in a three-concert series, “Masters of High Romanticism,” with each program devoted to a single Romantic-era composer. In this concert, Carlo Grante focuses on “Schumann’s unique contribution to the evolution of sonata-form, expanding it into a journey of heroic proportions.” […]
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Mythical Dances-including Nino Rota’s Dances from Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)
The program showcases the winners of The Respighi Prize (presented in cooperation with the city of Bologna, Italy). This event features the world premiere of Austrian composer Daniel Muck’s Oraculum Apollonis, and American soprano Stacey Mastrian in Respighi’s Deita Silvane and Richard Strauss’ Morgen. Also on the program is Respighi’s Serenata (from our latest Naxos […]
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Motus Nella Tempesta
Starting from the first lines of the play, the question of power and the loss of control explode violently: who can govern? Or better, is sovereignty needed at all? Where is the Master? This question bounces back and forth between Gonzalo and the Boatswain, while the boat is at the mercy of furious waves, against […]
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Embroidered Stories Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
JoAnn Cavallo (Columbia University) Joanna Clapps Herman (Manhattanville College) Edvige Giunta (New Jersey City University)Joseph Sciorra (coeditor) A Book-Presentation with Poem Readings: Phyllis Capello (poet)For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, […]
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Social World Film Festival
Short Films New York is the next stop for the Social in the World, the project of the Social World Film Festival that brings the efforts and dedication to Social Cinema and to the young in the world of the City of Vico Equense.This international show of Social Cinema of Vico Equense will be hosted […]
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La Bellezza Eataliana
Have you ever dreamt about getting locked in into our store for a night? Your dream is about to come true! On December 7th Eataly will open its doors from 10PM to 1AM for a night celebratingTutte le Cose Belle Italiane(All the Beautiful Italian Things) from food and wine to music. The renowned Teatro Regio […]
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LAST MAN STANDING By DAVIDE LONGO
A Book-Presentation with the Author Last Man Standing (Quercus Books 2013) Leonardo is a University Professor and a writer. Once quite famous his life unravelled when he had a sordid affairwith one of his students. His wife left him, taking their daughter. He is a man of Letters and recedes into a quiet lifestyle, watching […]
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New Literature from Europe 2014 – Crossing Borders: Europe Through the Lens of Time
http://newlitfromeurope.wordpress.com/ at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York Join us for a celebration of the most exciting voices in European Literature today, guided by some of America’s top writers and critics. Come on a European journey through the lens of time that takes us on a murder mystery in France, to Italy on the brink […]
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