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Dear Friends,
We hope that you and your loved ones are well and safe. We are happy to present to you a virtual version of our Community Calendar of Events. We hope you will enjoy it.

If a specific event listed below does not include a Zoom link, please contact the hosting organization to obtain the link.



The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters
April 5–21, 2021, weekdays at 2:00pm

Borders can be concrete parameters, and they can also be metaphorical markers. Either way, the border as a political, economic, cultural, and personal site, one to be policed, extended, breached, opened, celebrated, and/or erased, has long been of interest to those concerned with Italy. The areas of scholarly inquiry are as infinite as the varied Italian and Italianate borders themselves.

Irredentism and colonialism were policies the newly created nation state officially promoted and enacted as a means to augment the scope of its boundaries. Italian immigrants, in turn, extended the boundaries of their respective villages and towns through transnational networks and diasporic realms. In the twenty-first century a global economy, digital communications, and migrants and refugees arriving to Italy, among other matters, have brought renewed attention to the question of political borders.

In addition, larger concepts of boundaries—those not necessarily tied to geopolitical questions—have more and more come to inform collective and self identities in ways that also connect to changing notions of Italy and Italian borders. In the cultural realm, a binary border demarcating inclusion/exclusion is a constantly articulated and negotiated site of discursive and performed authenticity even as it is disrupted or otherwise ruptured, leading to hybridic possibilities and formations. The “real Italian” embodied in such phenomena as a globalized and transcultural cuisine, or new migrations to and from Italy, is an example of enforced and ever-contested identities. If ethnicity can be understood as both identity construction and display, negotiated at points of encounter between various groups, as anthropologist Fredrik Barth proposed, then the boundary itself can also be seen as a dynamic source of cultural expressivity.

This interdisciplinary conference builds on recent books, symposia, and conferences investigating similar themes of Italian borderlands. The 2021 Calandra Institute conference proposes a transnational, mobile, and inclusive approach to Italy and “Italians”—including inhabitants of the nation-state, members of the diaspora, and former colonial subjects—as it positions itself at the border in an attempt to elucidate the consequences and possibilities that border studies suggest and to gain a deeper understanding of class, gender, and race.

Capacity at each Zoom event is 100 participants max.
To see the complete conference program and to register for conference sessions/webinars on Zoom, click here.

For more information, email calandra@qc.edu or call 212-642-2094.


Aztec Chocolate in Sicily
Monday, April 19, 11:00am12:30pm EST
Zoom meeting with limited spots available

An online cooking lesson with Annalisa Pompeo (in Italian with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish and English). Designed in connection with the course project Italian for Spanish Speakers offered at MSU.

Included in the series “Dentro/Afuera: The Interconnections between Italian and Latin American/Spanish Cultures”
Linked to the Italian Program (Deptartment of World Languages and Cultures) and the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia di Palermo (Lingua e Traduzione Spagnola)

Aztec chocolate is one of the several foods introduced into Southern Italy gastronomy during the Spanish imperial period. A collection of recipes is under way in collaboration with Annalisa Pompeo as part of a project aimed at exploring the common Spanish legacy in Italian and Latin American cultures, now supported by an NEH Award in connection to the course Italian for Spanish Speakers.


Italian America in the World of Jazz
Online
Thursday, April 22, 12:00pm

Mark Rotella, director of the Coccia Institute at Montclair State University, leads a discussion with Prof. Anna Celenza and Prof. John Gennari on the impact and influence Italian Americans have had on jazz from its origins to the present day.
Sponsored by the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America.

Contact: Cristina Latino, 973-655-4050
coccia-assistant@montclair.edu
https://www.montclair.edu/coccia-institute/italian-america-in-the-world-of-jazz/


Casa Italiana New York University
What Makes It Italian?

Studies in Contrast is a music listening and discussion group that meets online on Zoom on Mondays and is open to everyone. The Spring 2021 edition through April 26, 6:30-8:00pm.

The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of Underworld Productions.

Each week an Italian pairing of music and art is held up against a similar pairing from elsewhere. Noting how the Italianate aesthetic contrasts with England, Spain, France, the Low Countries, Austria and the US will help us define more clearly “What Makes It Italian.” In ENGLISH. Participation is free.

Email: ginacrusco@gmail.com to confirm your attendance and receive an invitation link.


Casa Italiana, New York University
Book Club
Casa Italiana hosts this book club online on the Zoom platform to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The club is open to anyone, and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place with time in the language and customs. The discussions are informal.

Monday, May 3, 5:00pm
A riveder le stelle, by Aldo Cazzullo

Participation is free.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University


Italian Center of Stamford, Virtual Italian Cooking Class
Thursday, April 22, 5:30-6:30pm

Join in from the comfort of your home as you learn how to make Chicken Burrata: Breast of Chicken Sautéed in a Lemon, White Wine & Garlic Sauce, Topped with a Slice of Tomato, Roasted Peppers & Burrata Cheese.
"To-Go" boxes with all of the ingredients are included with registration. Boxes can be picked up at the IC between 4:00-6:00pm. The Zoom link to view the class will be sent out on April 21.The recipe serves 4. Buon Appetito!
Cost $30

Italian Center of Stamford
1620 Newfield Avenue
Stamford, CT
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-italian-cooking-class-tickets-148612382637?aff=ebdssbdestsearch


Italy-America Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
Town Hall Meeting with Consul General Fabrizio Di Michele
Tuesday, April 27, 11:00am
Town Hall Meeting with the newly appointed Consul General of Italy in New York, Fabrizio Di Michele. During this session IACC President Alberto Milani will welcome the new consul to New York's Italian business community and discuss ongoing initiatives, programs, and projects scheduled for the calendar year. Participants will also have the opportunity to engage in discussion with both speakers and ask questions about consular services and IACC programming.
Italy-America Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
11 E. 44th St, Suite 1400
Manhattan
Contact: 212-459-0044
info@italchamber.org
https://www.italchamber.org/event/


The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere
Laboratorio Virtuale di Scrittura, Virtual Writing Workshop
“Writing the Italian in Your Memories”
A creative way to get through these cold months!
Saturday mornings from 10:0011:30am

As Italians and Italian Americans, when we look back on our pasts, whether a year or decades ago, our stories are often intertwined with our culture—all of its richness, expectations, challenges, and humor. During these workshops, led by author and instructor Maria Giura, we’ll focus on how three aspectsfood, music, and languageform the background (or foreground) of our memories.

We will read short, vibrant excerpts written by Italian American authors and explore how they tell their stories. Participants will then be given prompts to generate their own writing. By the end of each workshop, participants will have produced an original piece of writing.

Join Maria on Saturday mornings from 10:00-11:30 am. The fee for each workshop is $27 ($81 for all three), or $30 for non-members ($90 for all three.) There is a member discount for family members.

The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere
Contact: 718-273-7660 for more information


NOIAW’S VIRTUAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
Saturday, May 1, 6:00-7:00pm

Share in our vibrant and nostalgic 60-minute Celebrazione of NOIAW’s 40th Anniversary, with a special video, audio, and pictorial memories of our unique history, acclaiming the rich heritage and unique empowerment of Italian-American Women. Internationally acclaimed soprano Cristina Fontanelli inspires with her stirring renditions of the American and Italian National anthems.

Honor Awards Ceremony in our Virtual Grand Hall.
Honoring two exceptional Italian American women, actress Brenda Vaccaro and author and filmmaker Adriana Trigiani. Also honoring Angelo Vivolo, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and Special Friend of NOIAW. Registration is required.
IMPORTANT:
1. To access the event, you will use a Zoom Link based on your registration package.
2. The Zoom Link to the event will be emailed to you the week of the event and then again the day before and the morning of the event. Please be on the lookout for this.

We invite you to support Italian-American Women as we launch our "Next 40 Years Fund," a community investment fund, supporting NOIAW’s outreach and expansion of programs, continuing our mission to unite, empower, and connect Italian-American women, celebrate their accomplishments, and equip the next generation for success, for another 40 years!

Sponsored by the National Organization of Italian American Women.
Contact: 212-642-2003
noiaw@noiaw.org
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/noiaw-40th-anniversary-virtual-gala-may-1-2021-registration-145986434355


Spring Craft Fair
Saturday, May 1, 11:00am
Sunday, May 2, 5:00pm EDT
Hosted by Kriscrafting Co. Inc.

Food available for purchase by the Putnam County Italian American Social Club.
Putnam County Italian American Social Club
1010 NY-22, Brewster NY
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-craft-fair-tickets-149066368521?aff=ebdssbdestsearch


CIMA, Center for Italian Modern Art
A public nonprofit exhibition and research center established in 2013 in New York City to promote public appreciation and advance the study of modern and contemporary Italian art in the United States and internationally.

CIMA, Center for Italian Modern Art
Something Else: Schifano and Music – James Demby
Thursday, May 6, 12:00-1:00pm

This mini-series of conversations highlights the intersections between the work of Mario Schifano, the world of Jazz music, and Schifano’s own involvement in the underground music scene of the 1960s. This conversation and Q&A with James Demby, musician, composer and professor at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, will explore Schifano’s passion for the New York Jazz scene and its echoes in the Rome of those years.

CIMA, Center for Italian Modern Art
Conversation + Q&A with Raphael Rubinstein, art critic
Thursday, May 20, 12:001:00pm

This talk, part of a broader series titled "Schifano and Friends," will cover the Italian artist's friendship with poet Frank O'Hara, as well as the reciprocal influence each had on the other.


Exhibition: Facing America: Mario Schifano, 1960–1965
On view through June 5, 2021
For its 2021 season, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) focuses on the early career of painter Mario :(1934–1998), looking at the years 1960–1965. A leading figure in Italian postwar and contemporary art, Schifano radically redefined the fundamental principles of painting through his multifaceted practice, as he marked the transition from postwar abstraction to the new figuration of the 1960s. Comprising works in various media, the exhibition focuses on the artist’s connections with the New York art scene.Through a selection of twenty works of arresting quality, the exhibition, curated by Francesco Guzzetti, Ph.D, independent scholar and curator and former CIMA fellow, aims to present Schifano as a pivotal figure who bridged Italian modern and contemporary art.
https://www.italianmodernart.org/exhibitions/current-exhibition/


CIMA, Center for Italian Modern Art
Michelangelo's Vatican & Sistine Chapel Virtual Tour with Licensed Guide

This hour-long digital tour of the Vatican includes:
English-speaking, licensed, and expert Vatican guide
Explore the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica all from your computer. Live Q&A session with your guide.
Cost: $15

Schifano and Friends: Larry Rivers
Thursday, June 10, 12:00-1:00pm

This talk and Q&A, part of a broader series titled Schifano and Friends, will explore the relationship between Larry Rivers’ work and that of Mario Schifano.
A talk by David Joel, Executive Director of the Larry Rivers Foundation, with the participation of “Facing America” curator Francesco Guzzetti. The talk will focus on the life and art of Larry Rivers, while looking at connections to Mario Schifano’s art.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversation-qa-schifano-and-friends-larry-rivers-tickets-146804250465


Regina Opera
2021 Winter Concert

Chase away any lingering winter blues with our 2021 Winter Concert, featuring Regina Opera soloists singing operatic favorites, accompanied by Dmitry Glivinskiy and fifteen-year-old piano prodigy Julian Villanueva Raheb playing works by Chopin and Beethoven.

Fantaisie Impromptu - Chopin - Julian Raheb
Moonlight Sonata (3rd movement) - Beethoven - Julian Raheb
Die Lorelei - Clara Schumann - Hyunho Cho
Pourquoi me réveiller (Werther) - Massanet - Hyunho Cho
Spring Waters (Vesennije vody) - Rachmaninoff - Galina Ivannikova
Voce di donna (La Gioconda) - Ponchielli - Galina Ivannikova
Io l'ho perduta (Don Carlo) - Verdi - Lindell Carter
Dio! mi potevi scagliar (Otello) - Verdi - Lindell Carter
Porgi amor (Marriage of Figaro) - Mozart - Lisa Bryce
Vissi d'arte (Tosca) - Puccini - Lisa Bryce

Take a look: It's FREE!

Link to the summaries of the various arias:
See all free video performances at:


2021 Online Choreographic Mentorship Program
Dance Composition/ Choreography Workshop
Theme: Ritual & Performance
Anabella Lenzu
Saturdays, May 8, 15 & 20, 11:00am-2:00pm (EST)

Dance is union and communion with ourselves, with others, and with the environment. During this workshop, we will explore the connection between performance and ritual by using movement, spoken word, sounds, music, and props as tools.
We will explore how memory and spirituality shape identity and how rituals can document intimacy. Performance is a conduit for examining cultural identity through form and content, as well as relationships between people and society.
For more information contact: info@anabellalenzu.com


The Metropolitan Opera
Met Stars Live in Concert
If you enjoy the Nightly Opera Streams, be sure not to miss the acclaimed pay-per-view concert series, presenting opera’s greatest stars performing live via satellite from striking locations across Europe and the U.S. Gift Tickets Available Now

Opera’s greatest stars perform in a groundbreaking new series of pay-per-view
recitals in striking locations around the globe, each live via satellite and shot with multiple cameras. While the Metropolitan Opera House remains dark because of the ongoing health crisis, Met Stars Live in Concert will allow audiences to experience extraordinary solo and duo performances by top singers—streamed live online—from such locations as a former abbey in Bavaria, a Norwegian castle, an outdoor terrace on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, a church in Wales, and a historic mansion in Washington, D.C. The series marries the intimacy of the Met’s virtual At-Home Gala with the high production value of the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions.

Tickets for each concert are $20, and the performances will remain available on demand for 14 days. Each concert will run approximately 75 minutes.
For more information visit: https://metstarslive.brightcove-services.com/

The Metropolitan Opera
New Episode Available Now
Aria Code, the Met’s acclaimed podcast collaboration with WQXR, kicks off its third season today, with a fascinating new episode featuring Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The maestro joins host Rhiannon Giddens and two other guests to explore “Nessun dorma,” Prince Calàf’s hopeful declaration of love and victory from Puccini’s Turandot. Showcasing a stunning 1966 performance of the aria by legendary tenor Franco Corelli, the episode examines what makes “Nessun dorma” so popular—even beyond the opera house—and looks at how its message of courage in the face of adversity has helped make it a global anthem of resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Subscribe to Aria Code wherever you get your podcasts.
https://www.metopera.org/discover/podcasts/aria-code/


Rhythm is the Cure Online Drumming Classes!
The World Needs Healing! 

Featuring the ancient and cathartic rhythms of the tarantella, led by internationally renowned singer, percussionist, author Alessandra Belloni. Weekly classes ongoing for beginners and advanced students.

Length: 90 minutes registration of one class is: $40 group or $85 individual lessons
Contact: Alessandra Belloni
Abelloni@aol.com
www.alessandrabelloni.com/onlineclasses

Weekly Classes with Alessandra Belloni and John La Barbera 
You will be guided to find the pitch, to sing the melodies and harmonize too. It is a great addition to work on singing the songs for students that are separately learning the drumming.
For Class Schedule and Pricing email: ABelloni@aol.com for registration link on Zoom
https://alessandrabelloni.com/online-classes


For Opera Lovers
From Italy Online organized by the Scarsdale Adult School, NY.
Contact: 914-723-2325
calandra@qc.edu     •     calandrainstitute.org