“The Bridge” • Book Award
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…
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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Book Presentation: Tomorrow-Land–The 1964-65 World’s Fair and the Transformation of America, by Joseph Tirella
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…
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Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America, by Kenyon Zimmer, University of Texas at Arlington
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…
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Symposium: Crisscrossing Cultural Borders–Reciprocal Influences among African Americans and Italian Americans
John Jay College CUNY Moot Court, 524 West 59th Street New YorkThe 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…
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ILICA Annual Conference and Reception
John Jay College CUNY Moot Court, 524 West 59th Street New YorkThis 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…
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ILICA Annual Gala
Queens Museum New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona NYAnnual Gala of the Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance. Contact: president@ilica.org, 718-262-2687
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“Meet the Archives:” Reframing Italian America: Historical Photographs and Immigrant Representations
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The 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…
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Imagined Places and Fragile Landscapes: Italian American Presepi in New York City
Joseph Sciorra, John D. Calandra Italian American InstituteMunson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute 310 Genesee Street Utica NY 13502Reception 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…
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Author and Activist: The Daniela Gioseffi Story
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Preview 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…
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Mark Chiusano reads from Marine Park: Stories (Penguin Books, 2014)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Marine 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,…
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A New Life with Bianca (Bordighera Press, 2015)
Frank PolizziJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Frank 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…
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Way Down in the Hole (2010), 40 min.
Alex Johnston, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Way 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…
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