“Cinema Sotto le Stelle” – Italian Outdoor Film festival
First annual summer Italian cinema series. Four evenings filled with Italian-style comedy, romance, suspense and drama. Films are in Italian with English subtitles. July 22:…
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Casa Belvedere, The Italian Cultural Foundation, Inc. 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island New York NY
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Italian Jews from Emancipation to the Racial Laws
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Cristina M. Bettin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Following the “Emancipation” of Italian Jews in the late nineteenth century, numerous youth movements, newspapers, and…
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Graces Received: Painted and Metal Ex-votos from Italy
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The works featured in the exhibition date from 1865 to 1959 and are from the collection of Professor Leonard Norman Primiano of Cabrini College. Within…
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Vincent Panella reads from Lost Hearts (Apollo’s Bow, 2010)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This powerful suite of stories begins in 1900 against a background of rural Sicilian class warfare. A young man kills his violent, adulterous father and…
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19 Arrests, No Convictions (2007), 29 min. Judy Irving, dir.
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009), 39 min. Richard Shepard, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036These two films portray extraordinary Italian-American personalities and their remarkable contributions. 19 Arrests, No Convictions is a documentary portrait of George Farnsworth, an Italian-American bar…
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Multimedia Performance: L’orda: Storie, canti e immagini degli emigrati italiani (The Horde: Stories, Songs, and Images of Italian Immigration)
St. John’s University – Manhattan Campus 101 Murray Street, New York, NY 10007, United StatesA multi-media show, in Italian with English subtitles. Renowned Corriere della Sera journalist, Gian Antonio Stella, will recount the stories of Italian immigration (1876-1976) from…
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The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi (2010), 118 min. Andrew Thomas and Toby Gleason, dirs.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi is a music-filled exploration of the celebrated composer who pioneered the crossover of jazz and pop. Vince Guaraldi’s accomplishments include…
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Panel Discussion: IDEA Publications
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Panelists to include: Silvana Mangione, Editorial Director IDEA Publications; Tiziano Dossena, author of Doña Flor, an Opera by Niccolò van Westerhout; Elizabeth P. Vallone, author…
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Umberto E (2011), 42 min. Anton Evangelista, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036A true lover of words, history and “patria,” Umberto E is the tender story of ninety-year old Umberto Evangelista’s own vivid recollections of his life…
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Round Table: La famiglia italiana in Italia e in USA e i diritti delle donne
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Participants include: Professors Gabriella Autorini and Pasquale Stanzione of the University of Salerno and jurists of the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino; Rocco Manzolillo, President,…
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Italian Immigrant Radical Culture
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Marcella Bencivenni, Hostos Community College Italian Americans possess a vibrant, if largely forgotten, radical past. In this presentation, Marcella Bencivenni, author of Italian Immigrant Radical…
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Italian American Mental Health: Research and Practice
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This afternoon symposium will explore research and treatment issues with Italian Americans. First, Dr. Donna Chirico will discuss her research on Italian American racial and…
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