BATTERY DANCE FESTIVAL
Battery Dance Festival, New York City’s longest running public dance festival, will feature -for the first time in Festival history – an Italian company: Enzo Celli’s VIVO Ballet.
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CONVERSING CONVERSION
The Greatest Poet in Italian History. The Eccentric Conversationalist of the Counter Reformation. The First Kiev-Rus Martyrs. What possible connections do they display? What lessons convey? Dante converses with the inhabitants of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. How do his conversations with sinners and saints lead him (and his readers) to “conversion”? His fellow Florentine, Philip […]
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Porcelain Raft (Album Release Party!)
Mauro Remiddi once ran away to join the circus. The circus was in Berlin and Mauro was 21 years old and at the time he was a street musician earning his living in Florence. Traveling with the circus he played accordion and percussion and violin while acrobats flew above the stage and magicians plied their […]
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CIMA CLOSING WEEKEND FESTA
CIMA invites you to a Free Open House to celebrate the closing weekend of the Medardo Rosso exhibition! The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) is a non-profit organization located in SoHo promoting Italian modern art through yearly exhibitions, fellowships and public programs. For the closing weekend of our Medardo Rosso exhibition we will host […]
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THE GHOST FREQUENCY North American Premier
LA FREQUENZA FANTASMA paints a portrait of a crumbling village nestled on the mountains of Calabria, in the south of Italy. It is the story of a place suspended in time and space, a place of sounds, smells, and numberless thresholds where the memory of a mythical past and the present are inextricably intertwined. It […]
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The flute in Contemporary Music:the Italian experience and the ‘Rome School’
Concert-lesson by:Gianni Trovalusci, flute Starting from the 50’s / 60’s took place a musical revolution, destined to change composition and interpretation and the very idea of the musical language in the fields of Contemporary Music, having as one of its important medium a musical instrument: the flute. In particular, during the first years of the […]
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ITALIAN – AMERICAN BOXING AWARDS-“A Tale Of Emigrants, Culture, Hope and Boxing”
The main tale starts faraway in distant New York City that was struggling through the Great Depression. Millions of people from around the World left their Country to follow the American dream, full of good purposes for better life conditions. Meanwhile, the U.S.A. was getting ready to intervene in the Second World War. In 1937, […]
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CINEMA, MAESTRO !
Documentary The documentary “Cinema, Maestro!” leads you into a tour of memories discovering the successful protagonists behind the cameras. The documentary want you to discover how in the last fifty years – from the Fontana Sister to Milena Canonero, from Carlo Rambaldi to Pietro Scalia – the Italian excellence and “hidden heroes” silently contributed to […]
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Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2015
For 14 years, Open Roads has proudly offered to North American audiences the most diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian film available. This year’s program strikes a satisfying balance between emerging talents and esteemed veterans—as well as (at least) one master: Ermanno Olmi, among the nation’s leading lights for over half a century. As […]
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The Invisible Cities Inas Al-soqi & Patrice Aphrodite Helmar Curated by G. Trabaldo Togna
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 3, 6 – 9 pmPanel Discussion: Tuesday, June 9, 6 – 8 pm BOSI Contemporary is pleased to present The Invisible Cities, a two-person show curated by Giulia Trabaldo Togna featuring works by Inas Al-soqi and Patrice Aphrodite Helmar. This exhibition, inspired by the homonymous book by Italo Calvino, presents a […]
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