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Saturday, October 21, 2023; 10:00a-12:30p. Italian American Museum of Cleveland, 12111 Mayfield Road Cleveland, OH. Register here. Create a story of your family history by learning to write about your ancestors with author, blogger, speaker, and teacher Annette Januzzi Wick. Writing about ancestors we never knew or family that were strangers to us...

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Italy has submitted Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano as its candidate for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The timely drama follows the hardships of two Senegalese teenagers as they try to make it to Europe via the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean Sea. The film world premiered to critical acclaim in Competition in Venice winning B...

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I have always thought, perhaps driven by my love for the Italian American community and the history of its achievements, that the greatest American athlete of all time is Joe DiMaggio, who belonged to that community. There is obviously no official ranking, everybody has their own, mine sees there at the top a very great Italian American. Someone wh...

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Heinz History Center, 5th floor Mueller Center. 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA. Monday, October 2, 6:30 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.). Free to the public (in-person & virtual). Register here. For additional questions, please email here.  Join the Italian American Program during Italian Heritage Month for a free reading with author Joseph Bathan...

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 10:00 AM. Florham Park Public Library, 107 Ridgedale Ave, Florham Park, NJ. ‘The Italian-American Experience,’ a film and literature minicourse, by Dr Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson U, has been organized by the Friends of the Madison Public Library, a 501c3 organization. This minicourse will run for five cons...

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Sunday, September 17 at 2:00 pm. 6821 Fair Oaks Blvd Carmichael CA. Admission $15 • Refreshments Included • Doors open at 1:30 pm. In this presentation, Author Phyllis Cancilla Martinelli examines the lives of immigrant women from Northern Italy in mining communities spanning the years from 1870-1930. In the old mining towns of the American West, m...

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The Position Paper "Harnessing the power of the global Italian diaspora. How to strategically manage a valuable asset for the country-system" will be presented during the "Rethinking globalization" panel. The panelists are Arancha González Laya (Dean, Paris School of International Affairs), Chris Miller (Professor of International History, Fletcher...

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I’m part of several “Expats in Italy” Facebook groups that fill up daily with gleeful posts along the lines of “I’ve been dreaming of this for decades, finally I’m retiring and moving to Italy next year. Small town recommendations welcome!” I click through to check out these people’s profiles, scouting for potential expat friends. Sixty-five seems...

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There was never any doubt that Linda Romanowski of Ardmore, Pa., would write a heritage memoir. The only mystery was the exact form it would take. That changed a few years ago when Romanowski was a graduate student at Rosemont College in Byrn Mawr, Pa., where she was pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing. Her class had just watc...

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If your social media feeds are anything like mine, they’ve been filled with “my Barbie collection” posts ever since Margot Robbie started doing press events dressed in designer versions of the doll’s most iconic outfits. Weeks before Greta Gerwig’s film was actually released, my friends were posting about Barbies they’d had in their own collections...

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