Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo
Michael Schiavi, New York Institute of Technology East Harlem native Vito Russo (1946-1990) was a gay and AIDS activist best known as the author of…
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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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Reimagining White Ethnicity: Expressivity, Identity, Race
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Free -
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Reconciliation: Photographs by S. Billie Mandle
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036New York Foundation for the Arts Artists & Audiences Exchange Program Photographer and 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient S. Billie Mandle…
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Living with the Sacred: The Home Altar as Ex-voto
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Kay Turner, Brooklyn Arts Council/New York University Using Italian-American and Mexican-American examples from her research on Catholic women’s domestic altar traditions, folklorist Kay Turner will…
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Joseph Salvatore reads from To Assume a Pleasing Shape (BOA Editions, 2011)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In his debut story collection, Joseph Salvatore presents characters damaged and yet dignified, yearning for something that they seem unable to identify, much less to…
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Le Mamme di San Vito (2010), 65 min.; Gianni Torres, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In Bràs, one of the poorest districts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Nursery of San Vito provides day care and medical care for approximately 120…
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Lampedusa: cronache dall’isola che non c’é
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Two years ago Italy as a whole became aware of Lampedusa because of the landings of thousands of people from the coasts of North Africa.…
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Jonathan Galassi reads from Left-handed: Poems (Knopf, 2012)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Left-handed, a new book of poems by Jonathan Galassi, chronicles in three sections the painful yet liberating transformation the poet underwent when he discovered, as…
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Painting Rules (2012), 30 min.
Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno, dir.
The Poetry Deal: A Film with Diane di Prima (2011), 27 min.
Melanie La Rosa, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036These two films present Italian-American artists and focus in particular on their relationships with their creative works. Painting Rules provides an engaging look at the…
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Finding Joseph Tusiani: The Poet of Two Lands
Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York NYThis symposium takes its name from the documentary on Joseph Tusiani made in 2011 by Sabrina DiGregorio. A major voice in American and Italian letters,…
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Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l’Italia fece fuori il pi� grande clarinettista del jazz (I am Tony Scott. The story of How Italy Got Rid of the Greatest Jazz Clarinetist)
Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) Theater 2, 199 Chambers Street New York NY 10036Tony Scott (Anthony Joseph Sciacca, June 17, 1921 – March 28, 2007) was a jazz clarinetist known for an interest in folk music around the world. Born…
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