2013 Bordighera Poetry Prize Reception
Reading and Book Signing with 2013 Winner: Joelle Biele, Broom 2013 First Runner-Up: Marisa Frasca 2012 Winner: Joanne Monte, The Blue Light of Dawn Hosted…
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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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Lo Studio dei Nipoti: Artists’ Talk
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Join us for an artists’ talk in conjunction with the exhibition Lo Studio dei Nipoti: Four Artists (on view September 12, 2013 through January 10,…
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Film Screening: The Peasant and the Priest
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Peasant and the Priest: A documentary by Esther Podemski Film screening followed by Q&A with the director and discussants. The Peasant and the Priest…
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Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy (2009), 77 min.
Roman Paska, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. While exploring the island’s…
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ITA Celebration & presentation of The Heart is the Teacher
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Join us for the 100 Year Celebration of ITA, Chapter of AATI, and the republication of Leonard Covello’s book The Heart is the Teacher.
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Migration and Development
United Nations 46th and 1st Avenue New York 10017Nearly every country is affected by migration. No society can consider its future without factoring in the effects of human mobility. Yet too often men and women cannot…
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“I giovani d’Italia”: Living Italy in New York
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Co-sponsored with ILICA (Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance), this panel will discuss the new phenomenon of the “Under 40” Italian in the United States, a new…
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Giorno della Memoria
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036During the two-week period surrounding January 27, the “giorno della memoria,” a annual series of events is scheduled for remembering Italy and the Holocaust. The…
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*CANCELLED* Michael Parenti reads from Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid’s Life (Bordighera Press, 2013)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This event is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Waiting for Yesterday details political scientist Michael Parenti’s youth in the 1940s in New York City’s East…
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Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism
Anthony Julian Tamburri, Calandra Institute, Queens College, CUNYJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Anthony Julian Tamburri’s volume Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) examines the current state of Italian-American…
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Finding the Mother Lode (2013), 104 min.
Gianfranco Norelli and Suma Kurien, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The experience of Italian immigrants in California has been markedly different from that of their compatriots elsewhere in the United States. Initially part of the…
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