April 1 (Saturday) 9:00 pm
Zucchero: Black Cat Live Tour
Italian pop singer/songwriter Zucchero Fornaciari in concert.
Music Box at the Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey
https://www.theborgata.com/shows/event-details/zucchero-atlantic-city
April 2 (Sunday) 3:00 pm
Regina Opera Company 47th Anniversary Gala Concert
A two-hour concert of favorite opera and Broadway tunes, featuring Regina Opera soloists: Jennifer Greene Ribeiro - soprano; Alexis Cregger - soprano; Christina Rohm - soprano; Heejae Kim - tenor; Scott Lefurgy - baritone; Antoine Hodge - basso; and Richard Paratley - flutist; Victoria Ulanovskaya - pianist.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Auditorium
5902 Sixth Avenue (60th Street), Brooklyn
Admission: $13
Contact: Joe Delfausse 718-259-2772
[email protected]
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April 4 (Tuesday) 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
The American Italian Socio-historical Association 2nd Annual St. Joseph's Day Celebration Conference
The conference presenters will include professionals from universities and colleges, and the Italian community with expertise in Italian American studies. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Vincenzo Milione from the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, City University of New York. Dr. Milione will be honored for his outstanding work in Italian American studies. Dr. Milione will present his recent book entitled
Forty Years of Italian American Government Employment in New York State and New York City. The Association will also be honoring the memory of colleague and friend Dr. Lez Edmond for his lifetime work in human rights. A light breakfast, lunch and Italian pastries will be served. Please call for further information.
St. John's University
D'Angelo Center Room 128
Queens, NY
April 5 (Wednesday) 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Italy through Images, Words and Music: Award Ceremony and Concert
Live music show by the Laura Campisi Duo and Short video contest for students: "Adopt an Italian UNESCO Site" award ceremony. Please call for further information.
Sponsored by The Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies.
Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ
Admission: free; open to the public
Contact: Laura Campisi 917-348-2852
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http://www.montclair.edu/chss/inserra-chair/events/2016-17/concert/
April 6 (Thursday) 5:30 pm
Richard Nasti Lecture Series Event
Presentation by Professor Chiara De Santi, State University of New York at Fredonia. Topic: Eat First: Italian American Gastronomy and Family Values in the Films of Martin Scorsese. Several films by Italian American director, Martin Scorsese, are explored through the lens of gastronomy and the role of his mother in those films to highlight family and identity values.
Sponsored by Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University.
Frank Melville Memorial Library, Room E4340
100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY
Admission: free; open to the public
Contact: Jo Fusco 631-632-7444
[email protected]
www.stonybrook.edu/italianstudies
April 7 (Friday)
De vulgari eloquentia: Dante's Laboratory of Vernacular Speech
An International Symposium; The Global Dante Project of New York
Presented by New York University: Department of Italian Studies; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò; Medieval and Renaissance Center, in collaboration with Columbia University: Department of Italian; Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America.
Morning Session (9:00 am - 1:00 pm)
Italian Academy, Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue (south of 118th St), Manhattan
Afternoon Session (3:00 pm - 7:30 pm)
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street, Manhattan
http://italianacademy.columbia.edu/event/Global-Dante-Project-of-New-York-2017
April 7 (Friday) 6:00 pm
Pietro De Maria Piano Solo Concert
After receiving the Critics' Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1990), Pietro De Maria won First Prize in other prestigious international piano competitions, such as the Dino Ciani - Teatro La Scala in Milan (1990), the Géza Anda in Zurich (1994), and the Mendelssohn Award in Hamburg (1997). His repertory ranges from Bach to Ligeti and he is the first Italian pianist to have played Chopin's complete piano works in six public concerts.
Italian Cultural Institute of New York
686 Park Avenue, Manhattan
Admission: free
Contact: 212-879-4242
[email protected]
April 8 (Saturday) 5:30 - 7:30 pm
The Italian American Writers Association 2nd Saturday Reading Series
Poets Judith Vollmer and Stephen Massimilla will read from their latest works.
Vollmer is the author of five full-length books of poetry, including
The Apollonia Poems, winner of the Four Lakes Poetry Prize of the University of Wisconsin Press (2017).
Massimilla won the New England Book Award and a
US News Best Book Finalist Award for
Cooking with the Muse; A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry and Literary Fare (Tupelo, 2016).
Sponsored by The Italian American Writers Association.
Sidewalk Cafe
94 Avenue (6th Street), Manhattan
Admission: $8 (includes 1 drink); open to the public
Contact: Maria Lisella 718-777-1178
[email protected]
April 10 (Monday) 6:00 pm
Book Presentation: Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy
By Rhiannon Noel Welch (Rutgers University).
The author in conversation with David Forgacs (NYU) and Ann Morning (NYU).
Moderated by Ara Merjian (NYU) and Rebecca Falkoff (NYU). Vital Subjects reads cultural texts in a biopolitical key, arguing that the tenor of racial discourse was overwhelmingly positive, focusing on making Italians as vital subjects--robust, vigorous, well-nourished, and (re)productive. In ENGLISH.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street, Manhattan
Admission: General RSVP; Member Seat Reservation
Contact: 212-998-8739
casaitaliananyu.org
April 11 (Tuesday) 6:30 pm
Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin: A Conversation with Daniele Rustioni
This season features Daniele Rustioni, a rising young conductor from Italy, who makes his Met debut leading
Aïda in March 2017. He has already conducted at La Scala, the Royal Opera in London, in Florence, Pesaro, Bari, Munich, Washington and the Glimmerglass Festival, focusing on the master composers of the Italian repertoire.
In ENGLISH.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street, Manhattan
Admission: General RSVP; Member Seat Reservation
Contact: 212-998-8739
casaitaliananyu.org
April 18 (Tuesday) 6:30 pm
Lecture: Dante and English Romanticism: Voicing Freedoms
A lecture by Diego Saglia (Università di Parma). Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British culture saw a surge in the interest in Dante and his Divina Commedia. Writers, artists, translators and critics engaged with his figure and work with unprecedented intensity, thereby stimulating a widespread fascination with Dante that also inspired an increasing number of original works of fiction based on episodes from the Commedia.The talk discusses some of these rewritings by focusing on poems by liberal and radical authors such as Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt and Felicia Hemans, who remade Dante to promote ideas of political and social freedom and in the process confirmed his status as a crucial figure of modernity.
In ENGLISH.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street, Manhattan
Admission: General RSVP; Member Seat Reservation
Contact: 212-998-8739
casaitaliananyu.org
April 19 (Wednesday) 6:00 pm
Claudio Magris
On the occasion of the publication in the United States of Claudio Magri's latest novel,
Blameless, the world-famous Italian writer will be in conversation with Jamaica Kincaid and Norman Manea. Claudio Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every age and every country. A tale of one man's obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity's darkest atrocities in order to oppose them.Claudio Magris, professor emeritus of modern German literature, University of Trieste, is a recipient of the Erasmus Prize among scores of other literary awards.
Italian Cultural Institute of New York
686 Park Avenue, Manhattan
Admission: free
Contact: 212-879-4242
[email protected]
April 22 (Saturday) 11:30 am reception and silent auction; 1:00 pm lunch
National Organization of Italian American Women Annual Luncheon
Honoring: Vita Carulli Rabinowitz, PH.D. Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provist, The City University of New York, and Lori Ann Attivissimo, MD, FACP, Senior Medical Director, Northwell Health Hospice and Home Care Network. Receiving Friend of NOIAW Award, Joseph R. Ficalora, President & CEO of NYCB. Please call for further information. Gentlemen always welcome.
Presented by National Organization of Italian American Women.
The St. Regis New York
Two East Fifty-fifth Street (Fifth Avenue), Manhattan
Contact: 212-642-2003
[email protected]
April 26 (Wednesday) 6:30 pm
Primi al Cinema: Pecore in Erba This screening is part of Primi al Cinema, a new Casa Italiana series dedicated to debut films, American and New York premieres and other cinematographic novelties from and about Italy.
Pecore in Erba
(Italy, 2015, 87 min.)
Directed by Alberto Caviglia. Written by Alberto Caviglia and Benedetta Grasso, in collaboration with Paolo Cosseddu. Starring Davide Giordano.
Trastevere, the historic district of the Italian capital is put into turmoil by a sensational news story: Leonardo Zulliani has disappeared. The case becomes a true national emergency, but who's Leonardo? And what really happened?
In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles. Followed by a Q&A with director Alberto Caviglia. In ENGLISH.
Casa Italiana New York University
24 W 12th St, Manhattan
Admission: General RSVP; Member Seat Reservation
Contact: 212-998-8739
casaitaliananyu.org
April 27 (Thursday) 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Italy and the Euro-Mediterranean Migrant Crisis: National Reception, Lived Experiences, E.U. Pressures (joint event with Columbia University)
Screening of
Come il peso dell'acqua and Q&A with the director, Andrea Segre.
In line with the tradition of the theater of narration, the movie features actors who rely on storytelling, maps, and the display of objects to address a multi-faceted subject of socio-political relevance such as contemporary immigration.
Come il peso dell'acqua is a reminder that border closure policies are bound to fail: like water, migrants will continue to exercise pressure unless the European approach lends an ear to migrants; direct stories, as this film does.
Sponsored by The Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies.
Montclair State University, Lecture Hall, Room 101 in the Feliciano School of Business
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ
Admission: free; open to the public
Contact: Laura Campisi 917-348-2852
[email protected]
http://www.montclair.edu/chss/inserra-chair/events/2016-17/immigration/
