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Welcome to the Italian American Community Calendar.
To list your event in this calendar, use this form.
For more information see the
Community Calendar
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For information about Calandra Institute events, go to
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June 1 (Thursday) 6:30 pm
Gusti e Vini D'Italia Dinner & Wine Pairing "Festival di Primavera - Featuring Spring Truffles"
Also a "new and improved" menu coupled with some great wines.
Reservations with pre-payment required. Seating is Limited.
Sponsored by Casa Belvedere.
79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island
Admission: Members: $75; Non-Members: $100
Contact: Tiffany Caputo 718-273-7660
[email protected]
www.casa-belvedere.org
June 2 (Friday) 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Wine Tasting at Banfi Vintners
Join NOIAW's Long Island Network for its popular wine tasting and tour at the beautiful Banfi Vintners, North America's leading wine importer. Founded in 1919 by John Mariani Sr., it is now owned and operated by his grandchildren. Guests will enjoy a presentation and introduction by a Banfi official, a tour of Banfi's beautiful headquarters, wine tasting, and refreshments. Gentlemen always welcome.
Advance registration required.
Sponsored by the National Organization of Italian American Women, Long Island Network.
Banfi Vintners
1111 Cedar Swamp Road, Old Brookville, NY
Admission: Members: $35; Non-members: $50
Contact: 212.642.2003
[email protected]
June 2 (Friday) 7:30pm
"No more beautiful dances"
Anabella Lenzu will show a 15 minute excerpt of a new choreographic study entitled "No more beautiful dances". "No more beautiful dances" wrestles with the ideas of exploration, introspection and reframing a woman after becoming a mother, and being an immigrant. Through real and fantastic characters, Lenzu's dance theater piece uses spoken word, music landscapes and photo projections to tell a personal vision of femininity, and what it means to be a woman today. Choreography and Dancer: Anabella Lenzu.
IDACO FESTIVAL in New York City
www.AnabellaLenzu.com
June 3 (Saturday) 12:00 - 4:00 pm
IASA/LIRC Annual Luncheon
The annual luncheon brings members and friends together to enjoy good food and conversation, and an entertaining program featuring romantic tenor Rinaldo, performing Opera, Broadway and Italian favorites with the accompaniment of Accordionist Dominic Karcic. Call Francesca for further information and reservations.
Sponsored by Long Island Regional Chapter, Italian American Studies Association.
Pompei Restaurant
401 Hempstead Avenue, West Hempstead, NY
Admission: $40; open to the public
Contact: Francesca Magliochetti 516 705-4696
June 5 (Monday) 7:00 pm
Meet the Author: Antonio Monda
Presentation of Antonio Monda's last novel
The Evidence of the Unseen by journalist Giampaolo Pioli, followed by the one-act play
Beth and Audrey by Paolo Tartamella, an imaginary dialogue for the stage inspired by the novel. Q&A with Antonio Monda to follow presentation.
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
[email protected]
www.italytime.org
June 10 (Saturday) 5:30 - 7:30 pm
The Italian American Writers Association 2nd Saturday Reading Series
Pushcart Prize nominated Olivia Kate Cerrone will read from her latest work,
The Hunger Saint, a historical novella about the child miners of rural Sicily.
Nino Provenzano, Vice President of Arba Sicula, will read in Sicilian and English from
Footprints in the Snow, his latest bilingual collection of poetry.
Sponsored by The Italian American Writers Association.
Sidewalk Cafe
94 Avenue A (6th Street), Manhattan
Admission: $8 (one free drink); open to the public
Contact: Maria Lisella 718-777-1178
[email protected]
www.iawa.net
June 12 (Monday) 6:30 pm
Free for Members: Chelsea Music Festival: Next Atlantis / Civilization Between Heaven and Earth
This concert features works that explore structural and architectural variations, from music to buildings and eventually civilizations, meeting their ultimate purpose. The great Italian composer Corelli is one of hundreds of composers over the centuries to explore the construct of the famous 16 measures of La Folia.This concert is part of the 2017 Chelsea Music Festival. Preceded at 6:00 pm by a private art viewing of the photographic exhibit Landscapes.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street, Manhattan
Admission: Members: free, Member Seat Reservation; Non-Members: $31.50
Contact: 212-998-8739
[email protected]
www.CasaItalianaNYU.org
June 16 (Friday) 7:00 pm
Neapolitan Music and Coffee
Italytime's KeyNotes Club presents an evening with young musicians Roberto Iriti Jit and Robin Daniele Grasso who will play the best Neapolitan classics and Italian songs.
Sponsored by Italytime.
Our Lady of Pompeii Theater
25/B Carmine Street (Bleecker Street), Manhattan
Admission: free; open to the publc
Contact: Maureen Gonzalez 212-860-2983
[email protected]
www.italytime.org
June 22 (Thursday) 11:00 am
"Taste of ltaly" Golf Outing
Honoring the memory of Corrado "Joe" Manfredi. Featuring several special guests: Jim Leyritz, Valerie Smaldone, Joe Causi, Michael Colameco, Gianni Russo, and Steve Schirripa. Enjoy an extraordinary day of golf, food tastings, bocce on the new Casa Belvedere courts, live music, and a fabulous dinner back at Casa Belvedere. Presented by Casa Belvedere. Please call for further information.
Silver Lake Golf Course in Staten Island, NY
Admission: $100 - $225; open to the public
Contact: Tiffany Caputo 718-273-7660
[email protected]
www.Casa-Belvedere.org
June 23 (Friday) 7:00 pm
Alessandra Belloni & I Giullari di Piazza
"The Voyage of the Black Madonna"
Celebrating The Black Madonna on the Summer Solstice uniting with the Divine to Heal Mind & Spirit. An Interactive performance with master of bansuri flutes Steve Gorn;
Wilson Montuori on guitar; violinist Mara Gerety and dancers Francesca Silvano and Peter De Geronimo.
New York Open Center
22 East 30th Street, Manhattan
Admission: $28/$33
Contact: 212-219-2527
www.opencenter.org
June 23 (Friday) 7:00 pm
Italian Short Readings
italytime's Literary Cafe presents the new program "Short Readings: Italian Plays, Poems and Stories" in honor of Luigi Pirandello's 150th birthday. The evening will include the reading of two one-act plays written by the Nobel Prize winner, followed by Q&A with Artistic Director Vittorio Capotorto. The event will be in Italian.
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
[email protected]
www.italytime.org
June 25 (Sunday) 4:00 pm
Book Launch: The Bells of Brooklyn
Author Catherine Gigante-Brown will be reading excerpts from her new novel, The Bells of Brooklyn. Revisit the Paradiso Family in this gripping sequel to The El. Set just after the end of World War II, the novel transports readers to a simpler time, where family is everything, love has no limits and dreams sometimes do come true. Please call for more information.
The BookMark Shoppe
8415 3rd Avenue (between 84th and 85th Streets), Brooklyn
June 28 (Wednesday) 7:30 pm
Napoli, Brooklyn
Roundabout Theatre presents the world premiere of Napoli, Brooklyn, the latest work from Meghan Kennedy. In 1960 Brooklyn, the Muscolinos have raised three proud and passionate daughters. But as the girls come of age,their paths diverge-in drastic and devastating ways-from their parents' deeply traditional values. When an earth-shattering event rocks their Park Slope neighborhood, life comes to a screeching halt and the Muscolino sisters are forced to confront their conflicting visions for the future in this gripping, provocative portrait of love in all its danger and beauty. Spaces are limited. Advance registration required.
Sponsored by the National Organization of Italian American Women, National Board of Directors.
The Laura Pels Theatre
111 West 46th Street, Manhattan
Admission: Members: $68; Non-members: $76
Contact: 212.642.2003
[email protected]
June 29 (Thursday)
Gusti e Vini D'Italia Dinner & Wine Pairing
Featuring the Region of "Campania"
Dinner will feature traditional Neapolitan fare, coupled with superb southern Italian wines. Traditional Neapolitan songs will be performed live by 'La Voce di Napoli,' Antonio Guarna.
Sponsored by Casa Belvedere.
79 Howard Avenue , Staten Island
Admission: $100; open to the public
Contact: Tiffany Caputo 718-273-7660
[email protected]
www.Casa-Belvedere.org
June 30 (Friday) 7:00 pm
Celebrating the Master: George Gershwin
Italytime's KeyNotes Club presents an evening with young musicians and guests who will have the chance to celebrate some of the Masters who contributed to the development of Jazz music. This first appointment will focus on George Gershwin. Prior to the event there will be an hour-long listening session of some of Gershwin masterpieces, after which the resident band directed by Robin Kevin Daniel will play a Gershwin inspired set. The jam session will start at 7:30 pm.
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
[email protected]
www.italytime.org
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EXHIBITIONS AND ONGOING EVENTS
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June 2 - 8
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2017
New Italian Cinema is the only screening series to offer North American audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films. This year's seventeenth edition again strikes a balance between emerging talents and esteemed veterans, commercial and independent fare, outrageous comedies, gripping dramas, and captivating documentaries, with in-person appearances by many of the filmmakers.
New Italian Cinema is co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà. Special thanks to: Italian Trade Commission; Italian Cultural Institute New York; Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò-NYU; Antonio Monda. Visit the website for a schedule of films: https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/open-roads-new-italian-cinema/
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street, Manhattan
Admission: Members: $9; Student & Senior: $11; General Public: $14
Contact: 212-875-5601
On display through June 16 Monday - Friday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Landscapes
Photographs by Giuseppe Di Piazza.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street, Manhattan
Admission: free: open to the public
Contact: 212-998-8739
[email protected]
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 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
Roving Classical Commedia University
Stanley Allan Sherman Mask Arts Company
Presents: 4 Summer workshops & lab
June 19 - 30 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
* Commedia dell'Arte characters, their movement, gesture, history of the characters, improvisation, and more, plus mask making at Mask Arts Studio. $1,100
July 10 - 14 8:30 - 11:30 am
* Mime - movement - rhythm are theater elements touching all areas that will be be explored. Mime for almost every area of stage, essential movement exercises and rhythm. $295
July 10 - 14 12:15 to 3:00 pm
* Neutral mask - metaphysical mask lab. Jacques Lecoq - Neutral Mask; Carlo Mazzone Clementi - Metaphysical Mask. Exploring and using both masks. Exercises from our two great movement theater pioneers. $280
July 16 - 21 8:30 am to 3:00 pm
* Creating original material Beyond devised theater; discover how to create bits, lazzi and a full original show. $660
Salon of Centro Espanol
239 West 14 Street, Manhattan
Contact: 212-255-2882
commediau.com
[email protected]
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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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