Dear Friends,
We hope you will enjoy the events as well as all the other offerings presented in our Community Calendar.
If a specific event listed below does not include a Zoom link, please contact the hosting organization.
The Yankees Italian Heritage Nights
Italian Heritage Cap Games, Summer 2023
The Yankees are hosting Italian Heritage Nights this summer! We are expecting these games to sell out fast. Get your tickets today!
The Yankees - Italian Heritage games from September 5th through September 10th! Each ticket comes with a hot dog, a drink (soda, water or beer) and a special Italian Heritage Yankees Hat! Tickets can be purchased through a special link. See website for information.
Sponsored by New York Yankees
This event will be held at Yankee Stadium
One East 161st Street, Bronx
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: From $45.00, price varies. Tickets can only be purchased through this link: https://offer.fevo.com/new-york-yankees-italian-heritage-cap-night-0372e0d?fevoUri=new-york-yankees-italian-heritage-cap-night-0372e0d%2F%3Fref%3DDALRYMPLE&ref=DALRYMPLE
Contact: Mack Dalrymple, Sales Associate, Group Sales and Service
Phone: (646) 977-8299.
Book Talk at CIMA with Author Raffaele Bedarida
Exhibiting Italian Art in the United States from Futurism to Arte Povera
May 1, 2023 (Monday) 6:00pm
Raffaele Bedarida demonstrates how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity for Italy by exporting—literally and figuratively—contemporary art to the United States in key moments between 1929 and 1969. From artist Fortunato Depero opening his Futurist House in New York City to critic Germano Celant launching Arte Povera in the United States, Raffaele Bedarida examines the thick web of individuals and cultural environments beyond the two more canonical movements that shaped this project. By interrogating standard narratives of Italian Fascist propaganda on the one hand and American Cold War imperialism on the other, his book establishes a more nuanced transnational approach. The central thesis is that, beyond the immediate aims of political propaganda and conquering a new market for Italian art, these art exhibitions, publications, and the critical discourse aimed at American audiences all reflected back on their makers: They forced and helped Italians define their own modernity in relation to the world’s new dominant cultural and economic power.
Sponsored by Center for Italian Modern Art
This event will be held at Center for Italian Modern Art
421 Broome Street, 4th Floor, New Floor
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $17.85 incl. tax & fees. Members and students free.
Reserve your tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibiting-italian-art-in-the-united-states-from-futurism-to-arte-povera-tickets-562500543267
Phone: (646) 370-3596
Web Address: https://www.italianmodernart.org/events-overview/
Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème
May 2, 2023 (Tuesday) 6:30pm;
May 6 (Saturday) 1:00pm; May 11, (Thursday) 7:30pm
May 14, (Sunday) 3:30pm; May 17, (Wednesday) 7:30pm; June 9, 2023
(May 2, 2023. The $124.15 ticket price for the May 2 event includes a balcony seat for La Bohème preceded by a 30-minute introduction led by one of our Italian Language and Culture instructors in English).
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Puccini’s timeless tragedy for the first time at the Met, leading soprano Eleonora Buratto and tenor Stephen Costello as the bohemian lovers Mimì and Rodolfo, and sopranos Sylvia D’Eramo and Leah Hawkins and baritone Davide Luciano as the on-again-off-again Musetta and Marcello. Later in the run, James Gaffigan takes the podium to conduct a second exceptional cast in Franco Zeffirelli’s beloved staging, with sopranos Susanna Phillips and Latonia Moore, tenor Charles Castronovo, and baritone Quinn Kelsey. The libretto sets the action in Paris, circa 1830. This is not a random setting, but rather reflects the issues and concerns of a particular time when, following the upheavals of revolution and war, French artists had lost their traditional support base of aristocracy and church. The story centers on self-conscious youth at odds with mainstream society—a Bohemian ambience that is clearly recognizable in any modern urban center. Bohème captures this ethos in its earliest days.
Sponsored by The Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center, New York
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $39.50 to $49.50; May 2nd, Balcony Seat + 30 min. introduction $124.15 incl. $9.15 Fee. Purchase tickets online at https://www.metopera.org/season/reserve/date-comparison/?perf=16994
Phone: (212) 362-6000
Email: metropolitanopera@metopera.org
In Scena! Italian Festival NY 2023
Theatrical Performances
We, Puppets
May 2, 2023 (Tuesday) 5:00pm
The story of a life shattered by racism. The puppeteer Saul makes the inhabitants of his town dream with the fairy tales he invents and stages for them. The advent of the racial laws of 1938 upsets his life and the lives of thousands of people, but his puppets continue to tell his stories to the people who flee and hide with him, offering them the opportunity to distract themselves, be moved, and smile. Despite the unacceptable reality that surrounds them. In Italian with English supertitles.
Organized by In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY
This event will be held at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo' NYU
24 W 12 Street New York.
Admission: Open to the public.
Fee: Free. Donate to In Scena! To reserve tickets $23.41 incl. $3.41 fee.
Web Address: www.inscenany.com https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-puppets-story-of-a-life-shattered-by-racism-tickets-599825352777?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Only Mozart Is Missing!
May 2, 2023 (Tuesday) 7:00–8:30pm
Marco Simeoli brings to the stage, with words and music, the many stories from his grandfather, founder of the most important, still open, music store in Naples, Italy: Musica Simeoli. Memories of the Belle Époque, the Second World War, the economic boom of the Sixties and the great illusion of the Eighties come alive together with the many famous clients of Musica Simeoli, such as Totò, Roberto Murolo, Renato Carosone, Riccardo Muti, Pino Daniele, and Massimo Troisi. In Italian with English Supertitles.
Sponsored by The New York City-based Kairos Italy Theater along with the Italy-based KIT Italia and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU.
This event will be held at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo' NYU.
24 West 12 Street, New York
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free. Donate to In Scena! To reserve tickets $23.41 when you donate to In Scena! You are entitled to a reserve seats! Purchase tickets online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/only-mozart-is-missing-tickets-599809996847?aff=odcleoeventsincollection.
Web Address: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/in-scena-italian-theater-festival-2023-1972889
Only Mozart Is Missing!
May 3, 2023 (Wednesday) 6:30–8:30pm
Marco Simeoli brings to the stage, with words and music, the many stories from his grandfather, founder of the most important, still open, music store in Naples, Italy: Musica Simeoli. Memories of the Belle Époque, the Second World War, the economic boom of the Sixties and the great illusion of the Eighties come alive together with the many famous clients of Musica Simeoli, such as Totò, Roberto Murolo, Renato Carosone, Riccardo Muti, Pino Daniele, and Massimo Troisi. In Italian with English Supertitles.
Sponsored by The New York City-based Kairos Italy Theater along with the Italy-based KIT Italia and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU.
This event will be held at Center for Italian Modern Art New York, NY
421 Broome Street, 4th floor, NY
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free, Donate to In Scena! To reserve tickets $23.41 when you donate to In Scena! you are entitled to a reserve seats! Purchase tickets online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/only-mozart-is-missing-tickets-599809996847?aff=odcleoeventsincollection.
Web Address: https://www.inscenany.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IS4-23-with-shows-724x1024.jpg
I Am So Much Better Live
May 5, 2023 (Friday) 7:00–8:30pm
TV, cinema, radio, and theater icon actress Paola Minaccioni’s characters appeared first on Italian media, offering an insight into our times. Her show is a surreal sequence of those characters that embody doubts, fears, and neuroses of today’s world. Minaccioni hides and reveals herself in these characters, guided by the notes of DJ Lady Coco. And yet, describing such a show is truly impossible as she is so much better in person. In Italian with English supertitles.
Sponsored and Presented by Stefano Francioni Produzione and Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo and The New York City-based Kairos Italy Theater along with the Italy-based KIT Italia and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU and the In Scena Italian Theater Festival NY
This event will be held at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo' NYU
24 West 12 Street, New York
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free. Donate to In Scena! to reserve tickets $109.05. When you donate to In Scena! you are entitled to a reserve seat! Purchase online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-am-so-much-better-live-tickets-599835282477?aff=odcleoeventsincollection.
Web Address: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/in-scena-italian-theater-festival-2023-1972889
Historical [Ph]allacies: Italian Americans between Fact and Fiction
A Book Presentation of A Politics of [Self-]Omission: The Italian/American Challenge in a Post-George Floyd Age.
May 2 (Tuesday), 2023, 6:00pm
Through a discussion of Anthony Julian Tamburri’s A Politics of [Self-]Omission: The Italian/American Challenge in a Post-George Floyd Age (Aracne 2022), this panel looks at how Italian Americans have negotiated their evolution in the United States from the days of mass migration from Italy to today’s United States of America. Panelists include Stephen Cerulli, PhD student in History, Fordham University; Donna Chirico, Professor of Psychology (York College, CUNY); and Fred L. Gardaphé, Distinguished Professor of English and Italian American Studies (Queens College, CUNY).
NOTA BENE: This event will take place at the Martin E. Segal Theatre, the Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue.
RSVP @ 212-642-2094 or email calandra@qc.cuny.edu.
For a New Religious History of Italian Catholic Immigrants in the United States (1854–1921)
Massimo Di Gioacchino, New York University
May 4, 2023 (Thursday) 6:00pm
The religious history of Italian Catholic immigrants in the United States (1876–1921) is in many ways a history of “deviance” from the Catholic religious canon. Unlike what has generally been documented by historians in the past about other places and periods, however, it is not a history of deviance from the “rule of faith” of the Church, but a history of political deviance from its ecclesial practice, its norms, and its laws. Massimo Di Gioacchino will present research that aims to correct and broaden the overall understanding of the past religious experience of Italian immigrants in America (1854–1921). In his talk he will shift the focus of attention from the devotion culture of the Italians―and the ideologically charged terms that have historically been used to describe it (pagan, popular, magic, etc.)―to the ways Italian immigrants have actually organized and practiced their ecclesiastical life in the US.
Giuseppe Verdi’s
La Traviata
May 3–6, 2023 (Wednesday–Friday) 7:00pm; (Saturday) May 6, 3:00pm
Set against a backdrop of the hypocritical underbelly of upper-class Parisian society, La Traviata chronicles the ill-fated love story of the courtesan Violetta and the bourgeois Alfredo Germont. This fully staged production centers on Violetta’s personal struggle during her last year on earth, offering an examination of the patriarchal system that treats her not only as morally “fallen,” but also as disposable. CLO’s production takes strong imagery from the play and novel upon which the opera was based, La Dame aux Camélias.
Sponsored by City Lyric Opera
This event will be held at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture
18 Bleeker Street, New York
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $45.00 General, $25.00 Students/Artists/Children under 12. Sales end on May 4, 2023. Purchase tickets online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/verdis-la-traviata-tickets-565397137057.
Web Address: https://www.citylyricopera.org/la-traviata
Giacomo Puccini and the End of the Golden Age of Italian Opera
May 7, 2023,(Sunday) 6:00pm
Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot was the last opera of the golden age in 1926, two years after the great composer’s death. Legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini supervised the last great moments of Turandot at La Scala. Joseph Pucciatti, co-founder and director of Boheme Opera New Jersey, will discuss Puccini’s lifetime and his operas from 1890 through 1924.
Sponsored by Dorothea's House–Casa di Cultura Italiana
This event will be held at Dorothea's House–Casa di Cultura Italiana
120 John Street, Princeton, NJ
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free
Phone: (609) 924-9713
Web Address: https://dorotheashouse.org/
My Italian Secret Screening with Vincent Marmorale
May 7, 2023 (Sunday) 3:00pm
Garibaldi Meucci Muesum Movie Day
During the 1980s, Vince Marmorale was asked to speak to a number of schools, synagogues, and civic organizations about the lessons of the Holocaust. During Vince's work to promote the little-known story of the saving of Jews in Italy by some Italians during the Holocaust, he made five trips to Italy, where he and a survivor were the honored guests of the president of Italy. In September 2008, Vince journeyed again to Benevento, Italy with additional survivors where they attended a symposium on the Holocaust. They also visited two internment camps in Campagna and Ferramonti. This extensive research is part of the documentary project that is the culmination of a life-long passion to understand the moral imperatives from studying the Holocaust. In 2010, Vince Marmorale founded Italy and the Holocaust, Inc. (The Foundation), a 501c3, not-for-profit-organization to share the little known story of the role of Italy and individual Italians in saving approximately 80 percent/32,000 of the Jews in Italy during the Holocaust. The goal of the Foundation is to share stories of survival that were possible because people had the courage to care for their neighbors. The Foundation completed a feature-length documentary, My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust, which tells a heroic story that was all but lost to history until now. The film recounts how WWII bicycling idol Gino Bartali, physician Giovanni Borromeo, and other Italians worked with Jewish leaders and high-ranking officials of the Catholic Church, risking their lives by defying the Nazis to save thousands of Italy's Jews.
Sponsored by The Garibaldi Meucci Muesum Staten Island
This event will be held at The Garibaldi Meucci Muesum
420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island, NY
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Non-members $10.00; Members $5.00 RSVP online at https://www.garibaldimeuccimuseum.com/event-info/my-italian-secret-screening-with-vincent-marmorale
Phone: (718) 442-1608
Web Address: https://www.garibaldimeuccimuseum.com/
Viewing Puglia Through Films
A New York Festival
Block Notes – A History of Pugliesi In New York
(Block Notes: Storia di Pugliesi a New York)
May 9, 2023 (Tuesday) 5:00pm
Directed by Mimmo Mongelli. With: John Mustaro, Nick Spano, Mike Spano, Antonio Rutigliano, James Mitarotonda, Maria Galetta.
Production: Levante International Film Festival Year 2023.
Duration: 30 minutes.
The documentary features interviews with Apulian emigrants or descendants of Apulian emigrants in the Big Apple. Prominent figures are interviewed, some relating to families from the first wave of Italian immigration of the 1890s, others to those of the 1960s, and finally one of recent immigration, from that generation that has chosen for professional and cultural reasons to settle in New York. In Italian.
Sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
This event will be held at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, NYC
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free. Please call to RSVP.
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu.
Phone: (212)642-2094
Web Address: https://calandrainstitute.org/
Bluerose
May 9, 2023 (Tuesday) 6:00pm
World premiere. Directed by Mimmo Mongelli. With Antonella Maddalena. Production: 7th Art International Agency Year 2023
Duration: 85 minutes
Bluerose, a professional woman, widowed for two years of a beloved husband, is in a severe crisis of loneliness, now isolated by the pandemic. She chooses to renounce life, seeking the feral contagion, procured by clandestinely dating men lured on the Internet. The narrative moves by highlighting the loneliness of the character, who wearily drags her domestic days, in a state of absence, suspension, fatigue, loss of meaning, handled with movements of a camera spying on the protagonist. In Italian.
Sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
This event will be held at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, NYC
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free. Please call to RSVP.
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu.
Phone: (212)642-2094
Web Address: https://calandrainstitute.org/
I Eat Your Heart Out
(Ti mangio il cuore)
May 10, 2023 (Wednesday) 4:00pm
Directed by Pippo Mezzapesa with: Elodie, Francesco Patane, Tommaso Ragno, Lidia Vitale, Michele Placido. Production: Indigo Film in collaboration with Rai Cinema and Paramount, Year: 2022.
Duration: 115 minutes.
Based on the investigative novel of the same name by Carlo Bonini and Giuliano Foschini, which was inspired by the true story of Rosa Di Fiore, first repentant of the Gargano Mafia. The Gargano promontory is home to two families belonging to the Apulian Mafia, the Malatesta and the Camporeale, who vie for control of the territory. The two families have had bloody disputes over the years, including the massacre of the Michele Malatesta's family in 1960, which deeply scarred the clan. More than forty years later, the two families seem to have established a
truce. During this period of apparent calm, Andrea, son favorite of Michele Malatesta and heir to the clan, falls in love with Marilena, wife of the boss Santo Camporeale, at the time a fugitive from justice. Marilena in turn falls in love with Andrea but, aware that she is married and of the rivalries between the two houses, only apparently dormant, decides to see him only clandestinely. In Italian.
Sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
This event will be held at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, NYC
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free. Please call to RSVP.
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu.
Phone: (212)642-2094
Web Address: https://calandrainstitute.org/
A Classic Horror Story
May 10, 2023 (Wednesday) 6:30pm
Director: Roberto De Feo and Paolo Strippoli. Starring: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Francesco Russo. Year: 2021. Production: Netflix original production in partnership with Colorado Film.
Duration: 95 minutes.
A Classic Horror Story tells the story of five people who share an RV all going to the same destination. While traveling, they have an accident during the night: they crash into a tree. On impact they lose consciousness, and when they wake up, they find themselves far from the road they were on and near a dense forest. The only existing dwelling in the area is a wooden house, located in the middle of a clearing, which inside has several representations of creatures and/or people with strange masks. Only later do they discover that members of a sinister cult gather in the house. The five begin to wonder how they ended up there and whether they can trust each other. But what is the truth? In Italian.
Sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
This event will be held at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, NYC
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free. Please call to RSVP.
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu.
Phone: (212)642-2094
Web Address: https://calandrainstitute.org/
Il Grand Male
(The Great Evil)
May 11, 2023 (Thursday) 4:30pm
Directed by Mario Tani with Roberto Corradino. Production: MAC film and Amarantaframe. Year: 2023
Duration: 90 minutes.
After a strange nightmare, Julius can no longer exit his backyard. From that moment, the end of the world is only seven days away. The truth is hidden behind a hissing sound coming from the basement of his building. In Italian.
Sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
This event will be held at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, NYC
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free. Please call to RSVP.
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu.
Phone: (212) 642-2094
Web Address: https://calandrainstitute.org/
Il Grande Spirito
(The Great Spirit)
May 11, 2023 (Thursday) 6:30pm
Directed by Sergio Rubini. With Rocco Papaleo, Sergio Rubini Production:Fandango and Rai Cinema. Year: 2019.
Duration: 113 minutes.
Tonino is a petty thief always looking for the big score, which seems to finally arrive when the loot from a robbery, for which he had been relegated to the role of lookout, fortuitously ends up in his hands. Tonino flees with the loot over the Taranto rooftops and finds refuge in a dilapidated dormer house inhabited by a strange character: Renato, who has given himself the nickname Black Deer because he considers himself an Indian, part of a tribe in perpetual struggle against the Yankees. Renato is the only anchor of salvation for the fugitive, who by the way is badly injured by falling from the top of a construction site overhead. An understanding will develop between the two that is the result not only of marginalization, but also of an unsuspected consonance of views. In Italian.
Sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
This event will be held at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, NYC
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free. Please call to RSVP.
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu.
Phone: (212) 642-2094
Web Address: https://calandrainstitute.org/
Paint Nite: Beautiful Butterfly on a Wine Bottle
May 10, 2023 (Wednesday) 7:30pm
For teens and up. Bring three friends and you can attend free! If you want to be seated with your group please email me with the names of your guests to ensure you are all together.
Food and drinks may be purchased at this venue. Everything needed to create these glasses will be included in your ticket. This is not an art class. Sure, you’ll learn a few tricks with step-by-step instructions, but this is far from serious. We’re in the fun business!
Sponsored by Paint Nite.com
This event will be held at Olive Garden
777 Route 18 East Brunswick, NJ
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $45 per person. Supplies are included.
Contact: Antoinette Evola, Event Owner.
Email: https://www.paintnite.com/us/nj/east-brunswick/17092/events/olive-garden/may-10/beautiful-butterfly-on-a-wine-bottle-with-fairy-lights-and-wine-glass-10304695/antoinetteyaymaker@yahoo.com?
Web Address: https://www.paintnite.com/us/nj/east-brunswick/17092/events/olive-garden/may-10/beautiful-butterfly-on-a-wine-bottle-with-fairy-lights-and-wine-glass-10304695/
Healing Music and Dances for the Black Madonna
May 11, 2023 (Thursday) 7:30pm–9:00pm
This traditional music includes the ancient chant to the Madonna of Montevergine, the Black Madonna known as Mamma Schiavona, the Serving Mother, who is considered the most important of the seven sisters. Many pilgrims still climb barefoot while chanting and drumming in her honor. The drumming is known as Tammorriata, a sensual dance that dates back to the rites of the Mother Earth.
Sponsored by Alessandra Belloni, John La Barbera, and I Giullari di Piazza. The event will be held at Cathedral of St John The Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue & 112 Street, New York
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $35:00
Contact: Alessandra Belloni
Phone: (646) 322-4637
Email: Alessandrabelloni@gmail.com
Web Address: https://www.stjohndivine.org/calendar/44789/alessandra-belloni-sacred-drumming-and-chants-for-seven-black-madonnas
The Uncle Louie Variety Show
May 12, 2023 (Friday) 8:00pm. Doors open at 7:00pm.
Under 21 with parent or legal guardian.
The Uncle Louie Variety Show is composed of two hilarious Italian American comedians, Carlo Russo and Lou Greco. For many years, they have been making people laugh through their unique brand of comedy that brings memories of what it was like to grow up as an Italian. Their live shows always exceed the audience's expectations. They perform different acts as the lovable Uncle Louie and Pasqualino characters. From stand-up comedy acts, original songs, and hilarious sketches, this Italian American comedy duo can do it all. The Uncle Louie Variety Show performs live comedy shows in different cities in the US, as well as in Canada and Australia.
Sponsored by Kathedral Event Center.
This event will be held at Kathedral Event Center
499 S Egg Harbor Rd Hammonton, NJ
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $29.00–$49.00 Get Tickets online.
Web Address:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-uncle-louie-variety-show-tickets-243768085907
Saturday Cooking Class for Kids: Strawberry Tart (Manhattan)
May 13, 2023 (Saturday) 2:00–3:30pm
(4–16 years old)
This class will give your child the chance to have fun by getting their hands dirty while learning how to cook basic Italian recipes. From cookies to pizza, kids will love learning traditional methods of cooking and baking, building memories, and learning recipes to share with friends and family for years to come. This is a drop off class; parents cannot stay during the class.*Language: English and Italian.
Sponsored by Speakitaly NYC
This event will be held at Speakitaly NYC
49 W 28th Street, 3rd floor, New York
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $49.66 Get tickets online.
Web address: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saturday-cooking-class-0513-strawberry-tart-manhattan-tickets-473391034327
Collina Italiana Events and Workshops for Kids (4–12)
Festa della Mamma
May 13, 2023 (Saturday) 3:00–5:00pm
We offer different two-hour workshops for children ages four and up on weekends. Each workshop has a theme, usually centered around culture, art, holidays, or upcoming occasions. We love to celebrate all the holidays, the Italian way, of course! These special classes are all fun and engaging, mostly taught in Italian, and focused on learning specific vocabulary relating to our theme. Workshops include activities like singing, dancing, storytelling, and arts and crafts.
Sponsored by Collina Italiana: Italian Language Center.
This event will be held at Collina Italiana: Italian Language and Cultural Center
1556 3rd Avenue, #602-603, New York
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $75.89 fees incl.
Phone: (212) 427-7770
Email: info@collinaitaliana.com
Website: http://www.collinaitaliana.com/
Italian American Writers Association Open Mic and Readings
May 13, 2023 (Saturday) 2:30–4:45pm
The featured authors are: Christina Bruni, an award-winning blogger for mental health issues, has written Left of the Dial, a critically acclaimed memoir and Working Assets: A Career Guide for Peers. Annie Rachele Lanzillotto has written five books. L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir was a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award.
Sponsored by The Italian American Writers Association
This event will be held at Jefferson Market Library, Willa Cather Salon
425 Sixth Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets)
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free
Contact: Maria Lisella
Phone: (718) 777-1178
Email: marialisella@aol.com
Italian Movie Saturday Night Series
Sulla mia pelle (On my skin), directed by Alessio Cremonini, 2018
May 13, 2023 (Saturday) 5:30–8:30pm
Immerse yourself into Italian culture through cinema while enjoying a glass of wine. During this workshop you will have the chance to immerse yourself in Italian culture through cinema. While enjoying a glass of wine, you will watch the movie in Italian (with English subtitles), and afterwards you will share your personal thoughts during our panel. We will take a look at the cultural topics portrayed in the movie and enjoy curiosities about historical context, fun facts, and interesting information about the movie, the actors, and the director. This workshop is led in English.
Sponsored by by Speakitaly NYC, Brooklyn
This event will be held at Speakitaly NYC
110 York St FL 5, Brooklyn, NY
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Starting at $75.20 Get tickets online.
Web address: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/italian-movie-saturday-night-series-tickets-488250328877?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
The Italian Chicks Variety Show
May 13, 2023 (Saturday) 7:30pm–9:30pm
The Italian Chicks is a two-hour comedy and variety show that takes you back to a time and place when life was simpler, and culture and traditions were respected and honored. This show is a blend of comedy, music, storytelling, and little bit of dancing. You don’t have to be Italian to love this show just have a dysfunctional family. Who attends the show? The entire family... from the matriarch down to the third cousin. Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is a girl’s night out. You just might meet your new husband there.
Sponsored by Gene DiNapoli Presents, NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi
This event will be held at Morris Park Performing Arts Center at Jacobi Hospital
1400 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx (Use Seminole Entrance)
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $29.00–42.00 Purchase tickets online at www.TheItalianChicks.com
Web Address: https://allevents.in/the%20bronx/10000463621342917
Film Screening
La Porta Dell'Inferno (The Door to Hell)
May 16, (Tuesday) 6:00pm
Film introduced by Dr. Aileen Riotto Sirey
Michael Cavalieri in conversation with Dr. Gaetano Cipolla
This film is a true story of courage, sacrifice, and the love of family. This documentary chronicles the inspirational stories of some of the last surviving men who worked in the sulfur mines in central Sicily. These superheroes give us a profound insight into the slave-like conditions they were forced to work under by private ownership for many years up until 1963. Their courage, will, and determination form the centerpiece of this film as they discuss their families and relentless fight to keep them together. If they wanted to keep their families together, it was immigration or the sulfur mines. They all chose the mines.
This event will be held at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, NYC
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: Free. Please call to RSVP.
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu.
Phone: (212) 642-2094
Web Address: https://calandrainstitute.org/
The 2023 WSJwine Annual Tasting-Meet the Winemakers
May 19, 2023 (Friday) 6:00pm–9:00pm
Explore more than sixty fantastic wines from all over the world in a relaxed, cocktail party-like setting. Our popular event returns in 2023 on a high note. We’re thrilled to host this special evening for the WSJ wine community. You’ll sip and sample your way through over sixty wines, all while chatting with most-loved winemakers from Tuscany, Bordeaux, California and beyond. Taste at your own pace with friends, meet the experts, and enjoy exclusive discounts on the wines you try. Please note, this is a private tasting event. Tickets must be purchased in advance and will not be available at the door.
Sponsored by WSJwine
This event will be held at City Winery
Pier 57, NYC
Admission: Members only. Please note, this is a private tasting event. Must be 21+ to attend this event.
Fee: $117.76 incl. $8.76 Fee. Sales end on May 18, 2023. Group discount available. Purchase tickets online.
Web address: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2023-wsjwine-annual-tasting-tickets-483212891767?aff=ebdsreoeymlcollection
Trilogy: I Love Napoli! (Brooklyn)
May 19, 2023 (Friday) 6:30–8:30pm
A journey into the Neapolitan culture to discover a world rich of history, legends, feelings, and fun stories while sitting at the table enjoying some authentic regional food. Through narrations, films, and texts of famous writers, we will know a reality that will leave us amazed and fascinated. You don’t need to know Italian to participate at the events but if you know some, you will understand better certain aspects.
Sponsored by Speakitaly NYC Brooklyn
This event will be held at Speakitaly NYC Brooklyn
110 York Street, FL 5, Brooklyn
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $75.20 Price varies see website, purchase tickets online.
Web address: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trilogy-i-love-napoli-brooklyn-tickets-468742881577?aff=odcleoeventsincollection
Saturday Wine Class: Italy 101
May 20, 2023 (Saturday) 3:00pm–4:00pm
Up your wine game every Saturday at One Fifth with a tour through top Italian and domestic wine regions. Join us for a sommelier-led tasting through five wines emblematic of Italy's diverse winemaking culture! Italy can be one of the most difficult areas of the world to navigate with wine, unless you have the right tour guide. Learn the basics of Italian regions and grapes while tasting top notch examples, all led by One Fifth's Head Sommelier, Katharine Hooper.
Sponsored by One Fifth
This event will be held at One Fifth
1 5th Avenue, Greenwich Village, NYC
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $55:00
Phone: (646) 4765420
Web Address: https://resy.com/cities/ny/venues/one-fifth-ny/events/italy-101-2023-05-20?date=2023-05-20&seats=2
Spring Lake Toys Foundation: An Evening in Italy (Una Serata Italiana)
May 24, 2023 (Wednesday) 6:30pm–9:30pm
You are cordially invited to “An Evening in Italy” hosted by Spring Lake Toys Foundation, a Franklin Lakes-based nonprofit and 501c3 organization. Please join our Gold Event Sponsors, Inserra Supermarkets and TD Bank, along with our many Silver and Bronze Sponsors. Enjoy a Taste of Little Italy in a cocktail-party setting. Mingle and sip fine Italian wines while satisfying the palate with hot Italian dishes, charcuterie, and more. Enjoy Italian music from singer and deejay Blaise Biagio Benevenga. End the evening with an abundance of mini cannoli! Wine, soft drinks, coffee, and tea are included. CASH BAR available for those guests desiring alcoholic beverages other than wine.
Sponsored by Spring Lake Toys Foundation.
This event will be held at Indian Trail Club Franklin Lakes, NJ
852 Franklin Avenue, Suite 115, Franklin Lakes, NJ
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $ 140.00 and up, prices vary, get tickets online visit https://ticketstripe.com/SLTF-May24
Phone: (201) 962-0865
Email: info@Springlaketoysfoundation.org
Web Address: https://www.springlaketoysfoundation.org/events/
Day Camp for Children
May 29, 2023 (Monday) Brooklyn
Part-Time Day Camp 9:00 to 11am; Full-Time Day Camp 9:00am to 2:00pm
Our day camp is for all levels and for kids of age between 4 and 10 years old.
If your child speaks Italian or is learning Italian that would be a plus, but since our activities will be very creative all levels are welcome. The Day Camp program includes games, music, and dances. Learn vocabulary with creative writing and drawing, arts and crafts while speaking Italian. At the end of each class, your child will bring home the activity that he/she made in class and all the materials.
Sponsored by Speak Italy NYC Brooklyn
This event will be held at Speakitaly NYC Brooklyn
110 York Street, Brooklyn
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $59.00 Part day - $149.00 Full day purchase tickets online.
Web Address:https://allevents.in/brooklyn/day-camp-for-children-on-may-29-th-brooklyn/10000467813702377
https://allevents.in/brooklyn/10000467813702377
Exhibition: From Depero To Rotella: Italian Commercial Posters Between Advertising and Art
Viewing thru June 9, 2023
Friday guided tours: 11am; 2pm; and 6pm. Saturday open hours: 11am–6pm (last entry at 5pm)
CIMA signature fellow-guided tours are conducted in our spacious and meditative SoHo loft. Advance reservations ONLY.
The exhibition examines the cross pollination between avant-garde art and commercial posters in Italy, with a particular focus on the interwar year and the early post–WW2 era, during the country’s economic boom.
With a starting date in 1926 (the year in which Depero exhibited the Venice Biennale a “quadro pubblicitario," Squisito al selz) and an ideal closing date in 1957 (the year in which the television advertising show Carosello first aired on Italy’s public tv network RAI), the exhibition will illustrate how the design of Italian commercial posters moved hand in hand with the artistic currents of its times. While poster art has often been described as derivative in character, the show will demonstrate how, from Futurism onward, Italian posters acquired a visual and communicative force that elevated the medium to a form of artistic expression in its own right, pushing the boundaries of lithographic techniques, photomontage, and typography.
Sponsored by: Italian Modern Art Museum
This event will be held at the Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome St, New York, NY
Admission: Open to the public
Fee: $15.00 Fridays, $10.00 Saturday. Members & students: free. Reserve your place here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cima-center-for-italian-modern-art-11191260262
Phone: (646) 370-3596
Web Address: www.italianmodernart.org
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/april-friday-in-person-tours-from-depero-to-rotella-tickets-515401970167?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
The Metropolitan Opera
Live in HD, Galas and Special Events
The Met’s 2022–23 season of live movie theater transmissions features ten spectacular productions, including exciting company premieres, new productions, and classic repertory favorites.
Tickets are on sale now. Visit your local theater website for the most up-to-date information.
Fee: $25, prices vary, see website for options.
Phone: (212) 362-6000.
Web address: https://www.metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/
Rhythm Is the Cure: Virtual Online Classes, Live Zoom Classes
New Online Pre-Recorded Course Available Now on Teachable: Rhythm is the Cure. In Italian. Tambourine and frame drums and chants, with singer, percussionist, author Alessandra Belloni.
To register, visit https://alessandrabelloni.com/online-classes.
Alessandra Belloni & Center for the Black Madonna
News, pilgrimage, teachable classes. Immerse yourself in the healing musical traditions of the Black Madonna’s of Southern Italy.
Sponsored by Alessandra Belloni & Center for the Black Madonna.
Admission: Open to the public
Register here: thecenterfortheblackmadonna.teachable.com/p/beginning-southern-italian-frame-drum1
Contact: Alessandra Belloni, abelloni@aol.com for more information.
Web Address: www.alessandrabelloni.com
