Date: Friday, March 06, 2015 - Saturday, March 21, 2015 Time: See link to festival programme. Location: Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland. Organized by: NorthWest Film Centre In collaboration with: IIC A selection of Italian Neorealist films to complement the Portland Art Museum's lavish exhibition of postwar Italian fashions,...

by Amanda Nichols   There is an Italian saying: "Tutte le strade conducono a Roma," meaning, "All roads lead to Rome." Without fail, each fleeting Bradford summer rounds out with the much-anticipated Festa Italiana.    The Festa Italiana Committee said this year's event, slated for Aug. 6 to 8, will once again feature a feast of...

On Monday, October 12, 2015, New York City will celebrate Italian-American heritage with more than 40,000 participants and over one million spectators for New York City's 71st Annual Columbus Day Celebration and Parade. The Parade will run north up Fifth Avenue, from 47th to 72nd Street from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM- led by Grand Marshal Alberto Cribior...

By JoAnne Viviano   With the 2015 Columbus Italian festival now in the record books, organizers and participants say they hope to bring back a couple highlights that were new to the festivities this year. Chief among them is making the St. John the Baptist Italian Catholic Church building a bigger part of the celebration that it sponsor...

by Ken Mammarella   St. Anthony of Padua's 42nd annual Italian Festival brings a Renaissance theme – and food and drink, music, expressions of faith, rides, games, handicrafts and more food and drink – to Wilmington, Sunday through June 19.   The festival, which boasts the third biggest crowds of any Delaware event – 73,000, after Fir...

The Italian American Association of Monmouth County will present its annual festival at Freehold Raceway, Park Avenue (Route 33), Freehold, July 11- 14. The festival hours are 6-11 p.m. each night. Italian food, games, rides, crafters and entertainment are on the agenda. Italian novelties and a collection of children's books translated into Italia...

The Federazione delle Associazioni della Campania USA is hosting Women's Day 2014 on Sunday, March 9th, 2014 at the Westchester Manor, located at 140 Saw Mill River Road, in Hastings-On-Hudson, NY 10706. There will be a full course dinner and music by Pane e Cioccolato. Festivities begin at 12 Noon.   In addition to honoring the ladies of me...

Festa Italiana MN 2014 will be held at Island Lake Park in Shoreview on August 1 – 3. Island Lake Park is located just north of St. Paul at I-694 and Victoria Street. Festa Italiana Minnesota (FIM) is a celebration of the state's Italian heritage.   Established in 2010, Festa Italiana MN began its endeavor to produce a festival celebrating t...

By Giovanni di Napoli Stephen LaRocca is an attorney and senior partner at the New York law firm of Stephen LaRocca, PLLC. He is very active within New York City's Italian American community; giving lectures, participating in cultural events and supporting many charities.   Stephen is the president of the Saint Rocco Society of Potenza, Inc...

This Columbus Day, remember the name and face of Luigi Del Bianco, an Italian immigrant who was the chief carver of Mount Rushmore.   The main sculptor was the celebrated Gutzon Borglum, but according to author Douglas Gladstone's new book, "Carving a Niche for Himself: The Untold Story of Luigi Del Bianco and Mount Rushmore," the main man o...