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  • February 2020

  • Thu 20

    Joanne Mattera Reads from Vita: A Memoir: Growing up Italian, Coming Out, and Making a Life in Art

    February 20, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    In Vita: A Memoir, Joanne Mattera recounts her childhood in an Italian American family—the oldest of five and the only girl—as the repression of the…

    Free
  • March 2020

  • Thu 5

    Vado verso dove vengo (I’m Going Where I Came From)

    March 5, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Vado verso dove vengo (I’m Going Where I Came From) (2019), 63 minutes Nicola Ragone, dir. Vado verso dove vengo offers a complex meditation on…

    Free
  • Tue 10

    Italics: Women’s History Month

    March 10, 2020 @ 9:30 pm – 10:30 pm

    In commemorating Women’s History Month, Italics brings to you a one-hour program dedicated to the writing of African Italian women in Italy with the presentation…

    Free
  • Wed 11

    Pirandello Scholarship in the United States

    March 11, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Through a presentation of two recent books by Giuseppe Faustini, Professor of Italian at Skidmore College, the panel will discuss the state of affairs of…

    Free
  • Tue 17

    Bordighera Press Poets at the Bryant Park Reading Room Series

    March 17, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Kinokuniya Bookstore 1073 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, USA

    Four Bordighera poets will be featured on Tuesday, March 17 in the Bryant Park Reading Room series, held indoors in winter. Marisa Frasca (Wild Fennel),…

    Free
  • Wed 18

    Book Presentation: The Discovery of the Possible, by Eugenio Colorni

    March 18, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    The panelists will discuss the first two volumes of Eugenio Colorni’s writings published by Bordighera Press: Critical Thinking in Action: Excerpts from Political Writings and…

    Free
  • Fri 20

    Symposium: Devotion, Artistry, and the Cult of St. Joseph

    March 20, 2020 @ 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
    Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA, USA

    Interest in and devotion to St. Joseph the Carpenter—the Virgin Mary’s husband and Jesus’s foster-father—has been present among Christians since the earliest centuries of the…

    Free
  • Tue 24

    Celebrating the Genius of Dante: Poet, Philosopher, Political Thinker

    March 24, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    On the occasion of the 699th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Inc. (IHCC-NY, Inc.),…

    Free
  • Thu 26

    Singing the Songs of Sicily: Michela Musolino and Rosa Tatuata

    March 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
    Swinging Sixties Senior Center 211 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Michela Musolino is an internationally recognized Sicilian American singer. The granddaughter of Sicilians who immigrated to America, she explores her own cultural roots through the…

    Free
  • Tue 31

    Italian/American Women Playwrights

    March 31, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Join us for a fun and exciting evening of theater by Italian/American Women Playwrights. Featured are Denise Chiarella’s Nike and Mona; Nicole Pandolfo’s My Father…

    Free
  • April 2020

  • Mon 6

    Nadina LaSpina Reads from Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

    April 6, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Such a Pretty Girl charts Nadina LaSpina’s life from her childhood in Sicily to her adolescence and youth in the United States to her activism…

    Free
  • Wed 15

    Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America: The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia

    April 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Richard Moss Harrisburg Area Community College This work analyzes the “New Ethnicity” of the 1970s as a way of understanding the United States’ political turn…

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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

The Italian American Think Tank

25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10036

Phone: (212) 642-2094
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu

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