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August 1-31, 2017


August 4 (Friday)   7:00 pm
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)
Directed by Luigi Comencini. Based on the Carlo Collodi original novel.
Sponsored by Italytime.
Our Lady of Pompeii Theater
25/B Carmine Street (Bleecker Street), Manhattan
Admission:  free; open to the public
Contact:  Maureen Gonzalez 212-860-2983
maureen@italytime.org
www.italytime.org/contact


August 5 (Saturday)   2:00 pm
Movie: My House in Umbria
A train traveling gently through the rolling hills of the Italian Countryside explodes. In one carrier, there are four survivors, an elderly gentleman, an orphaned 8 year old girl, a young German and Emily Delahunty, an English novelist. Thrown together by misfortune, Emily invites them to her house while a concerned police detective tries to piece together the events. Starring Maggie Smith and Giancarlo Giannini.
Sponsored by Garibaldi-Meucci Museum.
420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island
Admission:  $10; open to the public
Contact:  718-442-168
slundegard@garibaldimeuccimuseum.org

 
August 11 (Friday)  7:00 PM
Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia)
Directed by Luchino Visconti. Composer Gustave Aschenbach travels to a Venice resort
to escape personal and artistic stress. He develops an interest on an adolescent boy, Tadzio, who represents his lost youth.
Sponsored by Italytime.
Our Lady of Pompeii Theater
25/B Carmine Street (Bleecker Street), Manhattan
Admission:  free; open to the public
Contact:  Maureen Gonzalez 212-860-2983
maureen@italytime.org
www.italytime.org/contact
 
  

EXHIBITIONS AND ONGOING EVENTS


On display July 1 through August 30
Exhibition: Elizabeth Sollazzo Presents Her Works of Art
Ms. Sollazzo is drawn to the elements that surround her in nature.The trees, flowers and the land both dry and of the sea capturing the transparency of color and of shapes that draw you in to appreciate your surroundings.
Sponsored by Garibaldi-Meucci Museum.
420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island
Contact:  Carol Berardi 718-442-1608
slundegard@garibaldimeuccimuseum.org


On display through August 13
Paradise of Exiles: Early Photography in Italy
This exhibition focuses on Italy's importance as a center of exchange and experimentation during the first three decades of photography's history from 1839, the year of its invention, to 1871, the year Italy became a unified nation. Paradise of Exiles highlights the little-known contribution of Italian photographers to the development of the new medium through some 35 photographs and albums drawn from The Met collection, along with 11 loans, including rare daguerreotypes and photographs related to the Risorgimento, the period of modern Italian unification.
The Met Fifth Avenue
1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
Contact:  212-535-7710


On display through August 31   11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Exhibition: Breaking Walls an emigrant/immigrant journey through Southern Italy: Paintings and Ceramics by William Papaleo
"Over twenty years ago, William Papaleo, a third generation U.S. American with ancestors from Italy, moved to Naples to practice the art he had learned in the U.S. Papaleo is different from most Italian American artists who use Italy to set up a sense of the past and reconnect to it through travel. Their art, more oſten than not focuses on the family and their own reactions to retiring to the home of their ancestors. What you find in Papaleo's art is something new, something all other Italian Americans have not dealt with, and that is the role of the immigrant in today's Italy. It is through art like this work, that we can reach beyond the real, and sometime we even achieve the impossible." --from Distinguished Professor Fred Gardaphe's exhibition catalogue essay.

John D. Calandra Italian American Institute/CUNY
25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan
Contact:  212-642-2094



On display through August 31
Love in Venice
This exhibition examines the literary, artistic, musical, and cultural aspects of Venice's seductiveness, including its beautiful courtesans, lavish festivals, lively carnivals, and libertine counterculture through diverse works that range from etchings by Tiepolo and a letter from Lord Byron recounting his amorous conquest, to wedding poetry and pop-up books that reveal the undergarments of Venetian prostitutes.
Presented by The New York Public Library.
The New York Public Library
476 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
Admission:  free; open to the public
Contact:  917-275-6975
www.nypl.org


John D. Calandra Italian American Institute  |  Queens College, CUNY 
25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10036 
212-642-2094   |  calandra@qc.edu   |  www.qc.edu/calandra  

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