Mary Caponegro reads from All Fall Down (Coffee House Press, 2009)
Mary Caponegro’s experimental fiction blurs the line between fantasy and reality. In these stories of love and healing gone awry, we visit Rome and a…
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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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Zampogna: The Soul of Southern Italy (2010), 82 min. David Marker, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In a journey through Southern Italy, Italian American David Marker explores the zampogna, a Southern Italian bagpipe historically considered a shepherd’s instrument. Traditionally made by…
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Readings from Avanti Popolo: Italian-American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus (Manic D Press, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Avanti Popolo poetry anthology, edited by the Italian-American Political Solidarity Club, focuses on re-interpreting the glorification of Christopher Columbus in mainstream Italian-American culture. Instead…
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“The Power of What Comes After”: Italian-American Death Talk
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University Mary Jo Bona, author of By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America (SUNY Press,…
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In Altro Mare (2010), 56 min. Franco La Cecla, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Gloucester, Massachusetts, is home to over 6,000 residents of Sicilian origin, many of them from the town of Terrasini, near Palermo. In Altro Mare looks…
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Punks and Skinheads of the East Village, 1984-1987:
Photographs by Lilian CaruanaJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036On view October 27, 2010—January 7, 2011 Click here for full exhibition catalogue. Lilian Caruana’s photographs depict the forbidding and intimidating style of the punk…
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Average Community (2010), 86 min. Fred Zara, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Growing up in Trenton, New Jersey, in the mid-1980s, filmmaker Fred Zara went by the name Fred Fatal, played drums in a punk-rock band called…
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Hybrid Moments: Independent Music in Italian America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036How is it that an Italian-American grandmother’s gesture against the evil eye became the internationally recognized symbol for heavy metal music? What does the “Frank…
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Gioia Timpanelli reads from What Makes a Child Lucky (W.W. Norton, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Acclaimed storyteller Gioia Timpanelli presents her latest book, a novella of danger and survival in late nineteenth-century rural Sicily. After his best friend is killed…
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Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036William Issel, San Francisco State University William Issel, author of For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War…
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Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Special Guest Presentation Giorgio Bertellini, University of MichiganThe picturesque, once associated with landscape painting in northern Europe, came to symbolize Southern Europe through comforting views…
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Totó (2009), 128 min. Peter Schreiner, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Calabrian immigrant Antonio Cotroneo lives in Vienna with his Austrian wife and their four sons and works as an usher at the city’s famed Konzerthaus.…
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