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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…
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…
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…
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…
Annual Gala of the Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance. Contact: president@ilica.org, 718-262-2687
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…