Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945
Date: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 - Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Hours: 6pm Venue: Italian Cultural Institute of New York In collaboration with: IIC-San Francisco Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945, an exhibition of photographs by Alfonso Carrara (1922-2012). Carrara, an Italian-American architect-artist-poet-pho...
Calandra Community Book Club Wants You!
Begun two years ago, the Calandra Institute's Community Book Club has read together and engaged in fun, funny, argumentative, dynamic, and critical conversation about a whole slew of the greatest Italian American books ever written. And we want you to join us as we continue exploring classic Italian American literature! Come to our next me...
New York - Robert Gallo receives Leonardo da Vinci Prize
The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee (IHCC) has conferred the 2015 Leonardo da Vinci Award on Robert Gallo, an Italo-American and an internationally renowned researcher in the field of immunology. The Director of the Institute of Human Virology and Professor of Medicine at the Maryland School of Medicine, Dr Gallo played a key role in determi...
Sagra del libro: The Italian American book festival in Little Italy
The Lt. Joseph Petrosino Lodge of Little Italy(OSIA) and IAWA - The Italian American Writers Associationare joining forces to host the "Sagra del Libro" (Italian-American Book Festival) that kicks off IAWA's year-long 25th Anniversary Celebrations. WHEN: Friday, February 26, 2016 from 6 to 10 pm. WHERE: Lodge Hall...
He helped make Patchogue what it is
The call came when Artie Fuccillo was seated at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts. Would he consider being St. Liberata's Italian American of the Year? It was an ironic moment because Fuccillo, with his friend Al Chiuchiolo, helped negotiate the purchase of the theatre when it needed help and put up the money, along with others...
2013 Year of Italian Culture Opening Exhibition New York City
JOIN USOpening Poster ExhibitionITALIAN HERITAGE & CULTURE COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK, INC.CELEBRATES ANNUAL THEMETUESDAY, March 12, 2013 at 7pmCalandra Institute of CUNY, at25 West 43rd Street, 17th FlrNew York, NY The President/Chair and Board of Directors of the IHCC-NY, Inc. have announced the first in a series of events for 2013: Year of Itali...
E' morto Saby D'Amico, l'americano di Pesaro
Ieri è morto negli Stati Uniti, a Port Washington, nello stato di New York, all'età di 94 anni Sabatino, Saby, D'Amico che da molti amici veniva definito pesarese, o meglio pantanese, d'America o americano di Pesaro. Saby era a nato a Jessup in Pennsylvania da famiglia di migranti italiani attirati dal lavoro nelle ricche miniere di carbon...
Rome Through Richmondtown celebrates all aspects of Italian culture
Historic Richmondtown was painted red, white and green for the first annual Rome Through Richmondtown festival on Staten Island. The festival was presented by Borough President James Oddo and served as the replacement for the annual Columbus Parade, which had seen an attendance drop in recent years. Oddo went the way of a festival to exten...
The Italian Americans: una storia americana
Se siete in America, il 17 e il 24 febbraio sera non prendete impegni: c'è un pezzo della vostra storia in prima visione TV. Diviso in quattro episodi, due per serata, dalle 9.00 alle 11.00 ET, andrà in onda su PBS The Italian Americans, l'atteso documentario di John Maggio tratto dall'omonimo libro di Maria Laurino e narrato dalla voce di...
Our American Days - March 10, 2015 at 6:00 pm
A Documentary by Chiara Barbo e Andrea Magnani, produced by Pilgrim Film with the endorsement of the Embassy of Italy in the USA. Durata 35 minuti. Through a collection of interviews and archival footage, Our American Days tells the story of life in Trieste during the Allied Military Government (1945-1954). Read more Sour...
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Oratorio Society of NY & Manhattan School of Music to Present Verdi's REQUIEM, 3/26
For the first time ever, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in collaboration with the Oratorio Society of New York and the Manhattan School of Music Symphony and Symphonic Chorus, will present a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem, on Thursday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Under the artistic direct...
Syracuse Opera production unravels story of POW's homecoming
By Melinda Johnson Syracuse Opera opens its season with "Glory Denied," by composer Tom Cipullo. The contemporary opera is based on the book "Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War," by Tom Philpott. After being held in captivity in Vietnam from 1964 to 1973, Floyd "Jim" Thompson discovered...