This is Your Opportunity to Volunteer in Italy! Summer Camps organized by the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan in partnership with the Oratories of Lombardy, Italy. Do you speak some Italian? Do you want to live in Italy with a family next summer? Here’s a great opportunity – volunteering at a summer camp in Italy! Since 2016, the Dante Alighier...
READ MOREFriday December 13, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Metropolitan Museum of Design Detroit, 905 Henry St 3rd Floor, Detroit, MI. Italy is the birthplace of opera and continues to play a dominant role in the genre. For our Christmas Concert, thanks to a collaboration with the Detroit Opera House, the Consulate of Italy in Detroit together with the Dante Alighieri So...
READ MORE"Italian is not an imperial language, but it is far from provincial; it is a creative language that embodies humanism, culture, and the future—it is a global language.” It is also a language that attracts and appeals. “This is evident among the ‘Italsimpatici’—those who are drawn to Italy for its culture, art, music, and lifestyle—as well as the...
READ MOREOne of the beauties of public art is that it both tells us who we are and reminds us of who we were. Backtrack a century, and we were irate about a bust of the great poet Dante Alighieri, ordered in tribute by a largely immigrant Italian American population. Retreat to Thursday on Belle Isle, and people were jubilant over the refurbishing of a bett...
READ MOREConsulate of Italy in Detroit and the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, with the contribution of its membership and the Società Dante Alighieri headquartered in Rome, are proud to announce the unveiling of the newly restored Dante Alighieri monument on Belle Isle. The unveiling ceremony will take place on Thursday, September 12, 2024, at 1:00 PM...
READ MOREThe Concert of the Finalists is always exciting event, sponsored by the Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan, in collaboration with the Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation, the Italian American Cultural Society, the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, and Detroit Opera, under the auspices of the Italian Consulate of Italy in Detroit....
READ MOREThe classic Italian comedy Miseria e Nobiltà (Misery and Nobility) was presented at the Marygrove Conservancy and Liberal Arts Theater in Detroit on Saturday, March 9. The play was written in the Neapolitan dialect by Eduardo Scarpetta in 1887. The play was produced by the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, supported by the Consulate of Italy in...
READ MOREWhen: Saturday, March 9, 2024 @ 6:00 PM (Open doors) - Where: Marygrove Conservancy and Liberal Arts Theater, 8425 W. McNichols Rd, Detroit, MI 48221 - Register here! Marquis Eugenio, in love with Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook, convinces Felice and Pasquale, two penniless friends, to play the part of his aristocratic relatives in Gemma’s...
READ MORERemembrance and Italian commitment to the fight against xenophobia and discrimination were the central themes of Consul Allegra Baistrocchi’s introduction to the event to a public of almost 300 people. Free and open to the public, there was a captivated audience consisting mainly of members from the Italian, Jewish, and Italian-American community....
READ MORESaturday December 2, 2023 - 6:00 PM. Wasserman Projects, 3434 Russell St #502, Detroit, MI. $18/20 per seat. Register Now. The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan and the Wasserman Projects are pleased to partner on the presentation of Daniela Roma with a special concert set amongst the art installations featuring works by Beth Lipman and Laura Let...
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