Calandra Institute

Three Poet Laureates: Lorraine LoFrese Conlin, Maria Lisella, and Robert Savino
2016-03-14 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
This event will bring together three Italian American New York poet laureates—each originally hailing from Jamaica, Queens—for an evening of verse and conversation. Poet Laureates Lorraine LoFrese Conlin (Collage, Local Gems Press, 2016) of Nassau County, Maria Lisella (Thieves in the Family, NYQ Books, 2015) of Queens, and Robert Savino (Inside a Turtle Shell, Allbook Books, 2009) of Suffolk County, will join us to share their writing as we celebrate this unique convergence of poetry, ethnicity, and region.

Book Presentation: Dr. Joseph Sciorra's Built with Faith
2016-03-08 18:30 - 20:00 | The Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theater, 365 Fifth Avenue New York 10016-4309
Over the last 130 years, Italian American Catholics in New York City have developed a repertoire of sacred spaces in their homes and neighborhoods. These ethnic traditions have been neglected by all but a few scholars. Joseph Sciorra spent thirty-five years interviewing these immigrant and U.S.-born Catholics and researching their community art forms. The result, Built with Faith, offers a place-centric, ethnographic study of religious material culture, written in an accessible style that will appeal to general readers and scholars alike. It is a unique study that explores the question of how value and meaning are produced at the level of everyday life.
The Graduate Center
Martin E. Segal Theater
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
P: 212-817-8460

The Heart and the Island: A Critical Study of Sicilian American LiteratureChiara Mazzucchelli, University of Central Florida
2016-03-03 06:00 - 19:30 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
In The Heart and the Island (SUNY Press, 2015), Chiara Mazzucchelli explores the bond between Sicilian American writers and the island of Sicily. Throughout the twentieth century, the sense of a distinct sicilianità—or Sicilianness—can be seen in texts that constitute an exquisitely Sicilian literary experience. Mazzucchelli argues that a parallel phenomenon—sicilianamericanità—has emerged in the United States. She examines ways in which Sicilian American authors derive inspiration from their ethnic milieu and lay out a recognizable set of Sicilian cultural markers in their works. The Heart and the Island is the first full-length study of Sicilian American literature, and it opens a space for new interdisciplinary discussions on what it means to be Italian on both sides of the ocean.

Dacia Maraini. Why do I write?
2016-02-22 18:00 - 20:00 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Join us for a conversation with the award-winning writer, Dacia Maraini, one of Italy’s most acclaimned contemporary fiction writer and essayst. She wil be joined by Lisa Sarti (Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY) and Laura Feola (CUNY Graduate Center).
This event takes place at Hunter College, Faculty Lounge, 8th Floor (Hunter West).
Sponsored by: The School of Arts and Sciences, Hunter College; The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute; Borough of Manhattan Community College; Italian Cultural Institute of New York

Il Ballo dei Giganti di Nola (2015), 90 min.Antonio Iorio, dir.
2016-02-22 18:00 - 19:30 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
For centuries the Feast of the Gigli has been celebrated in Nola, near Naples, every June in honor of Saint Paulinus. The feast features the “dancing” of the multistored gigli towers, which represent lilies and are lifted and carried by “crews” of local men. Each year hundreds of Nolani migrants and their families return for the occasion. Antonio Iorio’s film (in Italian with English subtitles) accompanies the Fraulillo family who visit from Northern Italy, where they live, to take part in the beloved feast. Their story is the framework for the film’s exploration of the self-discovery echoed in long-held sentiments by the participants of the annual giglio feast in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Post-screening discussion with the director led by Joseph Sciorra, Calandra Institute, Queens College, CUNY.

Exhibition OpeningAncient Inspirations: Paintings by Vincent Baldassano
2016-02-18 18:30 - 19:00 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
The paintings on exhibition were made in the summers of 2012, 2014, and 2015, during Vincent Baldassano’s tenure as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. These works were inspired by ancient sites that he visited, such as Ostia Antica, the Pantheon, and the ruins of Mithraic temples, as well as by the city’s historical churches and the visible and tangible evidence of centuries of Italian culture.
Baldassano uses, among other media, acrylic on linen and canvas. His pieces, often rendered in lunette and gable-end shapes, employ bold color and vivid structural shapes in exuberant compositions. The paintings recall abstract expressionist configurations, demonstrating a deeply personal and contemporary sensibility informed by historical technique and echoes of archetypal symbols.
In its totality, my work is a visual statement gleaned from my subconscious. It is an inventory of places I have lived in or traveled to; history, culture, and ancient themes are my inspirations.
Click here to see the full exhibition catalogue.
On view February 18, 2016–May 13, 2016
GALLERY HOURS: MONDAY–FRIDAY, 9AM–5PM
Exhibition Opening: Thursday, February 18, 2016, 6pm

Screening of Dinner Rush, performance of one-act play Five Years Later, followed by Q&A
2016-02-09 18:00 - 21:00 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Italytime and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute are pleased to sponsor this new venture of marrying cinema and theater this spring semester. This pairing of cinema and theater is the brainchild of Italytime, the notion that both creative formats share the common goal of representing life’s experiences on both the live stage and on the silver screen.
February 9, 6:00 PM, Italytime and the Calandra Institute will screen Bob Giraldi’s critically acclaimed film, Dinner Rush (2001). The film will be followed by a one-act play Five Years Later, by Paolo Tartamella (15 min.), inspired by Dinner Rush; father and son clash on the future of their relationship. The actors are Fulvio Della Volta (son) and David Donahoe (father), directed by Vittorio Capotorto.
The screening of Dinner Rush and the performance of Five Years Later will be followed by a Q&A with director Bob Giraldi.
Nota Bene: This event takes place at the following venue:
Italytime’s Theater, Our Lady of Pompeii Theater, 238 Bleecker Street (corner of Carmine Street)
This event is free and open to the public. You should reserve your free tickets at the follwoing url: http://buytickets.at/italytime/43364

Renzo De Felice's The Jews in Fascist Italy: An Historical Appraisal
2016-01-28 18:00 - 20:00 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
On the occasion of the paperback reprint of Renzo De Felice’s The Jews in Fascist Italy, this panel will explore the genesis of the book and its place in contemporary historiography. Commissioned by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities and published in 1961, it was the first study of the anti-Jewish persecution in Italy to reach a general audience. It was also a young historian’s first book on the Fascist era. This glance into a chapter of national history, that Italy had been quick to bury, set De Felice on a path to become one of the leading and most controversial scholars of Fascism. How was his attempt to capture an unsettling past received at the time of the book’s publication? What place does this book have in the current scholarship when many of its conclusions have been overturned after five decades of research on Italian state-sponsored anti-Semitism? And to which degree have the studies of Fascism and of the persecution of the Jews shed light on one another?
Panelists: Ernest Ialongo, Hostos Community College, CUNY (chair and moderator); Frank Hugh Adler, Macalester College; Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University; Alexander Stille, Columbia University School of Journalism; Guri Schwarz, University of Pisa.
This event is presented by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and Enigma Books as part of the program series co-organized in connection with “Giorno della Memoria” by the Consulate General of Italy, Centro Primo Levi, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò at NYU, the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York.
This event is free and open to the public, but please RSVP to 212-642-2094.

Book Presentation: Joey Nicoletti and Gil Fagiani
2016-01-20 18:00 - 20:00 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
We are delighted to present two books of poetry. Joey Nicoletti’s Reverse Graffiti (Bordighera Press) has been hailed as a collection of “powerful, heartfelt poems that bring an era to life” (Maria Mazziotti Gillan). And in his latest collection, Logos (Guernica Editions), Gil Fagiani doesn’t hold back in presenting the bitter truths as well as the glimpses of hope shared not just by addicts but by all humans in times of crisis.
Discussion moderated by Anthony Julian Tamburri

Mare Nostrum: prospettive di un dialogo tra alterità e mediterraneità (Bordighera Press, 2015)Antonio C. Vitti & Anthony Julian Tamburri, eds.
2015-12-17 18:00 - 19:30 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
This collection of essays contributes to the fundamental mission of the Mediterranean Centre for Intercultural Studies—founded in 2012 and located in Erice, Sicily—with the specific goal of creating a dialogue between those scholars whose intellectual work is dedicated to topics and themes related to any aspect of Mediterranean culture, in the broadest sense of the term. This volume also underscores our desire—and dare we say, necessity—to make readily available the best of work that emanates from the Centre’s annual meetings. The editors will be among the panelists. Books will be available at a discounted price.
“Il volume, ricco di riferimenti intertestuali e interdisciplinari, spazia dalla letteratura al cinema, dal teatro alla linguistica, ampliandosi fino alla storia politica passata e contemporanea, e diviene così uno strumento oltremodo utile, tanto allo studioso quanto al discente.” Carlo Coen in Italica

The Story of My People (Bordighera Press, 2015)Mario Mignone
2015-12-16 18:00 - 19:30 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
The Story of My People is a moving immigrant autobiography framed in the historical and cultural context of the 1960s and 70s. Reading this book one is persuaded even more by how great this country is as a land of opportunity. Eight immigrant children realize the American dream: three become physicians, one dentist, two university professors, and two teachers. Panelists will include Fred Gardaphé and Salvatore Rotella. Books will be available at a discounted price.
“The experience of immigration has never been exemplified in a story with such psychological depth, or placed in such a broad social and cultural context. There is human drama and the thrill of success. It is a book that deserves to be read.” –Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III (President, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury and Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York City)

Way Down in the Hole (2010), 40 min.Alex Johnston, dir.
2015-12-14 18:00 - 19:30 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Way Down in the Hole tells the harrowing story of Colorado’s Ludlow Massacre. In April 1914 a group of coal miners and their families were attacked by National Guardsmen and by henchmen at the behest of the Rockefeller family, owners of the mining company, to put down a union strike. The majority of the miners were immigrants, many from Italy. Some twenty-six people, including women and children, were killed in the violence, either by machine and other gunfire or when company men subsequently burned the strikers’ tents. The legacy of the strike and its bloody conflicts can be noted in testimony of present-day miners and locals interviewed for this movie. Indebted to both Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County USA, and Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, the film is a meditation on class struggle, national identity, and violent insurrection, played out across the wild frontier of the industrial American West.
Post-screening discussion with the director led by Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University.

A New Life with Bianca (Bordighera Press, 2015)Frank Polizzi
2015-12-07 18:00 - 19:30 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Frank Polizzi will provide an overview of his new book of sonnets, A New Life with Bianca, highlighting the important influences on this project. There will be a video with music that illuminates Michael McCurdy’s engravings, including the first line of each sonnet. Then Frank will read sonnets #2 & 3 in English, followed by Chiara Curtoni, who will read her Italian translations, and Nino Provenzano, who will read his Sicilian translations. Afterwards there will be a Q & A with the author and translators. Books will be available at a discounted price.

Mark Chiusano reads from Marine Park: Stories (Penguin Books, 2014)
2015-12-02 18:00 - 19:30 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Marine Park—in the far reaches of Brooklyn, virtually train-less and tourist-free—finds its literary chronicler in Mark Chiusano. Chiusano’s stories delve into family, boyhood, sports, drugs, love, and all the quirks of growing up in a tight-knit community on the edge of the city. In the tradition of Junot Díaz’s Drown, Stuart Dybek’s The Coast of Chicago, and Russell Banks’s Trailerpark, this is a poignant and piercing collectionannouncing the arrival of a distinct new voice in American fiction.
Filled with life stories we can all relate to. . . . [Chiusano] makes it seem like you’re hearing these stories from an old friend at a bar, venting about his life, his regrets and his lost dreams, over a couple of drinks.—The Boston Herald

Author and Activist: The Daniela Gioseffi Story
2015-11-18 18:30 - 20:30 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Preview screening of this documentary-drama on the life and work of Daniela Gioseffi, who became an author struggling to fight for civil rights in the Deep South during the fraught era of the Freedom Riders. More information and clips can be found at www.authorandactivist.com. Open to the public and free of charge.

Imagined Places and Fragile Landscapes: Italian American Presepi in New York CityJoseph Sciorra, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
2015-11-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, 310 Genesee Street Utica NY 13502
Reception and book signing follows in the Edward Wales Root Sculpture Court.
In New York and across the U.S., Italian Americans hold dear the cultural and religious traditions of their heritage, including the Nativity scene, or presepe. While the custom in Italy includes finely crafted miniature landscapes of Italian hill towns and figures of the Holy Family, modern presepi can also be elaborate homemade creations fashioned from unconventional materials, filled with personal narrative, and reflecting modern culture and influences.
Folklorist Dr. Joseph Sciorra has documented the elaborate and even fanciful presepi of New Yorkers and draws together his research on Italian American heritage in a brilliantly illustrated and evocative presentation. Following the lecture Dr. Sciorra will sign copies of his books, including the recently published Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City, available at the Museum Shop.
Free and Open to the Public
NOTA BENE: This event will NOT be held at the Calandra Institute. It will be held at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, 310 Genesee St, Utica, New York 13502.

"Meet the Archives:" Reframing Italian America: Historical Photographs and Immigrant Representations
2015-11-09 06:00 - 20:30 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
The Calandra Institute’s current exhibition Reframing Italian America brings to light 23 photographs from the Bernard Titowsky collection, images and artifacts of extraordinary value to the ongoing story of Italians in the United States. The collection is comprised of over 200 pieces; what about the numerous undisplayed items? Join us for this behind-the-scenes peek at the collection and get a close-up look at oversized artifacts like mounted photograph displays of California wineries, bound photo albums from now defunct macaroni factories, maps tracking Italians in New York City, and other never-before-seen holdings. This special event will be held in the gallery and, due to space limitations and the fragile nature of the photographs, is open to the first 12 people to RSVP by calling 212-642-2094.

ILICA Annual Gala
2015-11-07 18:00 - 23:00 | Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona NY
Annual Gala of the Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance. Contact: president@ilica.org, 718-262-2687

ILICA Annual Conference and Reception
2015-11-06 16:00 - 19:00 | John Jay College CUNY, Moot Court, 524 West 59th Street New York
This year’s conference topic is “Similarities and Synergies.” Co-sponspred by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and John Jay College. For more information, please contact: president@ilica.org; 718-262-2687.
Conference and reception will be held at John Jay College CUNY, 524 West 59th Street, Moot Court, Manhattan
Click here to read details about the Conference and Reception.

Symposium: Crisscrossing Cultural Borders--Reciprocal Influences among African Americans and Italian Americans
2015-10-28 14:15 - 16:30 | John Jay College CUNY, Moot Court, 524 West 59th Street New York
The speakers for this symposium will discuss the cross-cultural dialogues and debates that have taken place and continue to do so between African American and Italian American communities in the United States. Sponsored by John Jay College CUNY and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. Free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Janet Rubel 212-237-8500, jrubel@jjay.cuny.edu.

Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America, by Kenyon Zimmer, University of Texas at Arlington
2015-10-26 06:00 - 19:30
From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. In Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America (University of Illinois Press, 2015), Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, and actions. Zimmer focuses on Italians and Eastern European Jews in San Francisco, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Tracing the movement’s changing fortunes from the pre–World War I era through the Spanish Civil War, Zimmer argues that anarchists severed all attachments to their nations of origin but also resisted assimilation into their host society. Their radical cosmopolitan outlook and identity embraced diversity, extending solidarity across national, ethnic, and racial divides.

Book Presentation: Tomorrow-Land--The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America, by Joseph Tirella
2015-10-22 09:00 - 21:00
Queens College alumnus Joseph Tirella creates a portrait of Flushing Meadows and its fairgrounds that had little to do with the turmoil around it. The book examines how the World’s Fair was a flashpoint in the politics of the 1960s, as well as in pop culture, civils rights, and violent crime. Sponsored by the University of Calabria and the Calandra Institute. Free and open to the public. For more information, please call 212-642-2094.

"The Bridge" • Book Award
2015-10-20 18:00 - 20:00 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
The Casa delle Letterature of Rome Municipality and the American Initiative for Italian Culture, together with the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, proudly present the first edition of the book award, “The Bridge”. The winners for this first edition are: for fiction, Domenico Starnone for his novel, Lacci (Einaudi); for non-fiction, Quinto Antonelli for his study, Storia intima della grande guerra (Donzelli). Panelists include: Professor Francesca Parmeggiani, Fordham University, and Giorgio van Straten, Director, Italian Cultural Institute of New York. Moderators include: Maria Ida Gaeta and Anthony Julian Tamburri. Also present will be Anna Lawton, founder and director, New Academia Publishing.
The Book Award “The Bridge” is aimed to reinforce the mutual understanding between Italy and the USA by exposing the reading public to the best works of fiction and nonfiction recently released in the two countries. The Award is meant to be a “bridge” that connects two cultures.
“The Bridge” is structured in two sections, an American section and an Italian section, similar and opposite to each other. In the USA, new literary works by Italian writers, both of fiction and nonfiction, are judged by an American jury, consisting of university professors of Italian and other cultural experts; in Italy new books by American writers, both of fiction and nonfiction, are judged by an Italian jury consisting of university professors of American literature and other cultural experts.
The sponsors, organizers and administrators of the Award are: Casa delle Letterature of the Rome Municipality (founder and curator of the two sections, and sponsor of the fiction category for the American section); the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF, main sponsor of the nonfiction category for the American ), the American Embassy in Rome(main sponsor of both the fiction and nonfiction categories for the Italian section), and the American Initiative for Italian Culture (AIFIC, sponsor and administrator in the USA) and FUIS organization, Federazione Unitaria Scrittori Italiani. The Book Award “The Bridge” collaborates with the Embassy of Italy and Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, the American Academy in Rome, the Calandra Institute in New York, and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York.

Symposium: Italian Diaspora Studies and Internationalization: The Role of the University of Calabria and CUNY
2015-10-13 18:00 - 20:00
This symposium will revisit aspects of the Italian diaspora in North America in its numerous manifestations: anthropological, cultural, aesthetic, etc. The panel will also include a discussion on the internationalization of the university and the benefits to both the institution and its faculty and students. Speakers will include Dr. Gino Crisci, president of the University of Calabria and other members of UniCal’s faculty and administration, as well as scholars from the Calandra Institute and other CUNY colleges. Moderated by Calandra Dean Anthony Julian Tamburri. This event is free of charge and open to the public.

Raising the Italian and American Flags in Honor of Creativity: Celebrating 50 Years of Science and Technology
2015-10-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue New York NY
Raising the Italian and American Flags in Holonor of Italian Creativity: Celebrating 50 Years of Science and Technology; New York World’s Fair 1965-Expo Milano 2015
Location: The Mother Italy sculpture at Poses Park East 68th Street, between Lexington and 3rd Avenues, Manhattan
Uff. Joseph Sciame, president of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Inc., will officiate at the ceremony. Attending dignitaries will include Minister Natalia Quintavalle. For more information, please contact Joan Migliori 212-642-2094.

Italics: Special Episodes 2015
2015-10-08 09:00 - 21:00 | CUNY TV
Four special one-hour episodes will air on the following dates, in commemoration of Italian Heritage and Culture Month: October 8, 15, 22, and 29, at 9 a.m., 3 p.m., and 9 p.m. on CUNY TV

apneaPoetry reading in English and Italian by author Victoria Surliuga
2015-10-06 18:00 - 19:00 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Booksigning of Victoria Surliuga’s poetry volume apnea (Turin: disegnodiverso, 2015; Paola Gribaudo, publisher). Victoria Surliuga, Associate Professor of Italian at Texas Tech University, will read her poetry in English and Italian from the volume apnea. Artwork of Ezio Gribaudo illustrating the volume will be displayed.

Calabria guerriera e ribelle (Calabria, Warrior and Rebel)
2015-10-02 18:00 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Book presentation by author Giampiero Mele. Sponsored by Coni-Italian National Olympic Committee USA. Contact Mico Delianova Licastro 631-566-0257.

An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians, by Paul Moses, Brooklyn College, CUNY
2015-10-01 18:00 - 19:30 | John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Starting in the nineteenth century, Irish Americans and Italian Americans found themselves at odds: in the Catholic Church, on the waterfront, at construction sites, and in the streets. But after World War II the two communities made peace, via intermarriage on a large scale. In his book An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians (New York University Press, 2015), veteran New York City journalist Paul Moses unfolds this story of how two of America’s largest ethnic groups learned to live with each other in the wake of decades of animosity. Illustrative examples include the love affair between radical labor organizers Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Carlo Tresca; hero detective Joseph Petrosino’s struggle to be accepted in the Irish-run NYPD; and Frank Sinatra’s competition with Bing Crosby to be the country’s top male vocalist. With this engaging history, Moses demonstrates that Americans are able to absorb and be transformed by social change and conflict.

Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City
2015-09-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Leonard Library, 81 Devoe Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Folklorist Dr. Joseph Sciorra of the Calandra Italian American Institute will present his recent book Built with Faith, a 35-year ethnographic study documenting how artistry and religious practices shape the city. Sponsored by Leonard Library. Contact David Camara 718-486-3365 (dcamara@bklynlibrary.org). Free and open to the public.
NOTA BENE: This event will NOT be held at the Calandra Institute. It will be at the Brooklyn Public Library in Williamsburg, 81 Devoe St.
