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Welcome to the Italian American Community Calendar.
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May 2 (Tuesday) 6:00 pm
Primi al Cinema Screening: LA STOFFA DEI SOGNI
Directed by Gianfranco Cabiddu. Written by Gianfranco Cabiddu, Ugo Chiti and Salvatore De Mola. Starring Sergio Rubini, Ennio Fantastichini, Teresa Saponangelo.
Loosely adapted from Eduardo De Filippo's Arte della commedia and a translation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island prison. In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles.
This 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. Followed by a Q&A with director Gianfranco Cabiddu.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street, Manhattan
Admission: General RSVP; Member Seat Reservation
Contact: 212-998-8739
casaitaliananyu.org
May 2 (Tuesday) 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Sandro Veronesi - Don't Tell (Non Dirlo)
- Il Vangelo di Marco/The Gospel According to Mark
By and with Sandro Veronesi. Produced by Teatro Metastasio di Prato in collaboration with Fosforo (Toscana). In Italian with English supertitles. The monologue is inspired by the order, NON DIRLO (Do Not Tell), that Jesus gives the faithful following his every miracle. Sandro Veronesi presents its text to the audience in all its vibrant contemporaneity.
RSVP:
WWW.INSCENANY.COM - Very limited seating
Organized by Italian Cultural Institute in New York in collaboration with In Scena!
Admission: Free
Cherry Lane Theater
38 Commerce Street, Manhattan
May 3 (Wednesday) 12:15 - 1:30 pm
Touching Italy: A Talk and a Taste of Italian Culture with Professor Fred Gardaphé
Of the many ways in which Italians have been stereotyped, the most prominent, besides the gangster, are as lovers of food. But this image is not of American origins. It goes back perhaps as far as the days of the Roman Empire against which
Christianity grew as an anorexic antidote to the sensual excesses of the infamous Roman decadence.
This talk gives an overview of the role that food plays in Italian and Italian American culture using research and personal anecdotes. Fred Gardaphé is a Distinguished Professor of English and Italian American Studies at Queens College/CUNY and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute/CUNY.
Queens College, CUNY
Remsen Hall 300
Flushing, Queens
Contact: Joseph Grosso 718-997-5769
[email protected]u
May 3 (Wednesday) 7:00 pm
Le Conversazioni 2017
Followed by a screening of the documentary Diversity directed by Carlotta Corradi and a reception offered by Giovanni Rana Restaurant. In ENGLISH.
Le Conversazioni is an international festival created by Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini that takes place annually on the Isle of Capri, in New York (at the Morgan Library and at the New York Historical Society), in Bogota and in Rome, with the participation of some of the leading lights in contemporary English literature and international culture.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street, Manhattan
Admission: General RSVP; Member Seat Reservation
Contact: 212-998-8739
[email protected]
www.CasaItalianaNYU.org
May 6 (Saturday) 9:0 pm
Tarantata: South Italian Trance Dance and Brazilian Rhythms
Featuring Alessandra Belloni and I Giullari di Piazza.This fiery "percussive journey" through the South of Italy and Brazil will explore the songs, dances and rhythms, magic rituals, and tarantellas used as traditional music therapy to cure the mythical "bite of the tarantula."
Mehanata Bulgarian Bar
113 Ludlow Street, Manhattan
Admission $10
[email protected]
www.mehanatanyc.com
May 7 (Sunday) 12:00 - 5:00 pm
AIAE 20th Anniversary Gala, Annual Awards and Scholarship Celebration
Distinguished guests: Min. Francesco Genuardi, Consul General of Italy in New York City; Mrs. Matilda Raffa Cuomo, Former New York First Lady and Chair of the New York State Mentoring Program; Msgr. Hilary C. Franco, Adviser, Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations; and from Italy the renowned sculptor Guido Dettoni della Grazia. Honoring Italian Americans whose achievements and contributions warrant the recognition of all. Tony LoBianco will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in Theater and Fine Arts.
Sponsored by Association of Italian American Educators, Inc.
Chateau Briand
440 Old Country Road, Carle Place, Long Island
Admission: $100, Students $65
www.aiae.net
May 10 (Wednesday) 6:30 pm
AdDRESSing Style: Fashioning the Ballet
Internationally renown choreographer Marco Pelle in conversation with Grazia d'Annunzio (U.S. Special Projects Editor, Vogue Italia). 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
May 10 (Wednesday) 7:30 pm
"Sneak Peek" Free Performance of L'Elisir d"Amore
A fully staged performance, of the tale of a shy bumpkin in love with a rich girl who hopes that a magic elixir will make her fall in love with him. Featuring several of Regina Opera's understudies. In Italian with English supertitles.
Presented by Regina Opera.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy of Brooklyn
5902 6th Avenue, Brooklyn
Admission: free; open to the public
Contact: Fran Garber 718-259-2772
[email protected]
www.reginaopera.org
May 12 (Friday) 5:00 pm
Annual Tribute for Mother's Day Weekend at the Mother Italy Statue
Location: Poses Park, Hunter College
East of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan
Award ceremony and reception to follow at 5:30 pm
Location: Consulate General of Italy in New York
690 Park Avenue, Manhattan
2017 Leonardo da Vinci Award Ceremony honoring: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, City University of New York, Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Dean; and The Columbus Citizens Foundation, Angelo Vivolo, President. With a special recognition of America Oggi.
Sponsored by The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York in cooperation with the Consulate General of Italy in New York.
Admission: Donation: $75 per person, in support of Italian Heritage and Culture.
RSVP by May 5, 2017. Space is limited. Guests must present a photo id. Please call for additional information.
Contact: 212-642-2094
May 13 (Saturday) 5:45 - 7:45 pm
The Italian American Writers Association 2nd Saturday Reading Series
Mark Chiusano, a columnist for
Newsday and
amNewYork, will read from
Marine Park, a collection of stories which received an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Paul Salsini, recipient of the Sons of Italy 2011 Leonardo da Vinci Award for Excellence in Literature, will read from
A Tuscan Series, which follows the characters from his first novel,
The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany.
Sponsored by The Italian American Writers Association.
Cornelia St. Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (Bleeker Street), Manhattan
Admission: $10 (includes one drink), open to the public
Contact: Maria Lisella 718-777-1178
May 13, 14, 20, 21(Saturdays and Sundays) 3:00 pm
L'Elisir d'Amore
A fully staged performance with orchestra. A shy bumpkin in love with a rich girl hopes that a magic elixir will make her fall in love with him. In Italian with English supertitles. Conducted by Gregory Ortega, with Stage Director Linda Lehr.
Sponsored by Regina Opera Company.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy of Brooklyn
5902 6th Avenue,, Brooklyn, NY
Admission: $25 - Adults; $20 - Senior Cit/College students under 25; Teens - $5; Children - free; open to the public
Contact: Fran Garber 718-259-2772
[email protected]
www.reginaopera.org
Saturday, May 20 (Saturday) 6:30 pm
Italian film: The Stuff of Dreams (La stoffa dei sogni)
Directed by Gianfranco Cabiddu. Starring Sergio Rubini, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri.
Art and life mingle amidst sun-kissed Mediterranean locales in this play-within-a-play Italian charmer, mixing Shakespeare's text with the L'arte della commedia by Neapolitan playwright Eduardo De Filippo. Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island prison. The Stuff of Dreams is an irresistible, Pirandellian play on illusion and reality.
In Italian with English subtitles.This is part of the 2017 edition of the Panorama Europe Film Festival.
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue (37 Street), Astoria
Admission: $15
Contact: 212-879-4242
[email protected]
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EXHIBITIONS AND ONGOING EVENTS
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May 1 - 15
IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY
Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, presents the fifth annual IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY. This fifteen-day festival will offer seven fully staged productions from Italy, special events, readings, among other events and activities. All are presented in Italian and English or with English supertitles, curated by Kairos Italy Theater. Performances run May 1-15, 2017; for a complete calendar of performance dates and venues visit:
This edition of In Scena! features shows about true stories of immigration (to and from Italy), the aftermath of WWII, discrimination of LGTB people under the Nazi regime, among others. The closing night of the Festival will serve as the Award Ceremony of the Mario Fratti Award 2017, which has been awarded to: Il paese delle facce gonfie--The Country of Swollen Faces, by Paolo Bignami.
May 4 (Thursday) 7:00 pm
MY IDEA. MEMORY OF JOE ZANGARA
Written and directed by Ernesto Orrico. First-person account of the life of Giuseppe "Joe" Zangara, an Italian immigrant who, having attempted to kill U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, could have changed the course of history. At age 33, on March 20, 1933, Zangara is executed in the electric chair. In ITALIAN with ENGLISH supertitles. Followed by a Q&A.
May 5 (Friday) 6:00 pm
SWEET HOME ALBANIA
Written by Aleksandros Memetaj. Directed by Giampiero Rappa. The communist regime has collapsed and thousands of people leave their very poor country with boats and ships in search of a better life in Italy. In one of these ships is six-month-old Aleksandros. In ITALIAN with ENGLISH supertitles.
May 5 (Friday) 8:00 pm
TEN
Written by Andrej Longo. Directed by Elena Dragonetti and Raffaella Tagliabue.Ten characters tell their stories in ten different monologues, uncovering the raw heart of the city of Naples. In ITALIAN with ENGLISH supertitles.
May 9 (Tuesday) 6:00 pm
THE INVENTION WITH NO FUTURE
Written by Federico Giani, Mauro Parrinello, Celeste Gugliandolo, Francesca Montanino.
Directed by Mauro Parrinello. The story of how Antoine Lumière (father of the two famous brothers) defined their new discovery: cinema. In ITALIAN with ENGLISH supertitles.
May 9 8:00 pm
RICCARDO AND LUCIA
Written by Claudia Lerro. Directed by Claudia Lerro. Inspired by the private diary of Riccardo Lerro, a poet and anti-fascist activist, in postwar Southern Italy. In ITALIAN with ENGLISH supertitles.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street, Manhattan
Admission: General RSVP; Member Seat Reservation
Contact: 212-998-8739
casaitaliananyu.org
May 1, 15, 24 7:00 - 9:00 pm
"Rhythm is the Cure" with Alessandra Belloni
An inspirational hands-on class featuring the powerful south Italian frame drumming and tambourine technique based on an ancient form of music & dance therapy known as "Tarantella" that can benefit both men & women.
Italian American Museum
155 Mulberry Street, Manhattan
Admission: $45 per class ($40 for more than one class)
Must preregister to: [email protected]
Contact: 646-322-4637
On display through June 29 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Maurizio Cattelan Art Installation: "America"
Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's bold, irreverent work skewers social complacencies and reimagines cultural icons. On the occasion of his 2011-12 retrospective at the Guggenheim, which featured virtually every work he had ever made suspended from the oculus of the rotunda, Cattelan announced his retirement from art making. Five years later, he returns from this self-imposed exile with a new, ongoing project at the museum. For "America" Cattelan replaced the toilet in this restroom with a fully functional replica cast in 18-karat gold, making available to the public an extravagant luxury product.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, Manhattan
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions
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
2017 Spring Semester, Instructional Program in Bespoke Tailoring
The Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University will be continuing to offer classes in Bespoke Tailoring with Master Teacher Sebastiano Montella. Classes will be held in the Costume Workroom of Stony Brook University's Theatre Arts Department on the Third Floor in the Staller Center Building.
Schedule for eight classes is: March 6, March 20, April 3, April 17, April 24, May 1, May 8, May 15; Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm. For additional information please contact Jo Fusco 631-632-7444.
Stony Brook University
100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY
Admission: $10 per class; open to the public
[email protected]
www.stonybrook.edu/italianstudies
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
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25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10036
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