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The 82nd Annual Awards Dinner for the Elmhurst-based Italian Charities of America (ICA), was held at the Roma View Restaurant in Howard Beach. (L. to r.) ICA President Domenic Giampino; Italian American Community Service Award recipient, Director of Special Programs of the Italian Genealogical Group Mario Toglia; Italian American Leadership Award r...

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Sunday, October 7, 2018 at 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT - Roma View, 160-05 Crossbay blvd, Howard Beach, New York 11414. Italian Charities of America, Inc. cordially invites its members, friends and anyone interested in our organization to join us at our 82nd Annual Dinner Dance. Every year we come together to celebrate the Italian American community in N...

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The New York City Premiere of the documentary Sicily: Land of Love and Strife was held on September 12, 2018, for a full house at Goddard Riverside. Because of unexpected building maintenance, the screening was moved from The Bernie Wohl Center to Goddard Riverside. The change, though, did not prevent the crowd from attending this Upper West Side e...

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Sul siciliano scritto e parlato c’è molto interesse da diversi studiosi nazionali ed internazionali, come dimostrano i numerosi libri e saggi che continuano ad essere scritti sia in Italia sia all’estero. Sappiamo che la “Poesia Siciliana”, scritta nel 1230 in siciliano presso la corte di Federico II di Svevia, è la prima documentazione in lingua n...

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Dear Friends, I am happy to announce that Arba Sicula and Legas have just created an ONLINE STORE where you can buy books on Sicilian language and culture. Visit our site at Arbasicula.org. Browse through the Legas catalogue and order the books online by following the link. For every purchase valued $14.00, Legas will send you an additional book th...

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Lampedusa’s famed quote, “If things are to remain the same they will have to change,” is still relevant today. To the keen eye, this is evident in an artistic renaissance happening in Sicily today. Once prized for its strategic position connecting disparate worlds and culture, that advantage changed long ago. In recent history, Sicily and its art s...

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The present volume, which has a moving image by Giulia Di Filippi on the cover and which the author dedicated to his wife Florence, is number 27 in the "Sicilian Studies" series, published by Legas and directed by Gaetano Cipolla. This is a revised and expanded edition of the volume published with a slightly different title in 2005. Following the...

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January 28, 6:30 pm — 8:00 pm, Westchester Italian Cultural Center - 24 Depot Square, Tuckahoe, New York   Giovanni Meli, "The Poet of Sicily," was an Italian poet and man of letters. He is considered one of the most important dialect poets of eighteenth-century Italy. Emeritus Professor Gaetano Cipolla, president of the...

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You are cordially invited to attend a special program at the Italian American Museum this Friday evening, September 4th. Professor Gaetano Cipolla will present "The Poetry of Giovanni Meli", volume XIV of the successful series "Pueti d'Arba Sicula/Poets of Arba Sicula."   The goal of the series is to present the best poetry written in Sicili...

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È stata un'indimenticabile serata quella tenutasi al Social Club di Castellammare Del Golfo, a Brooklyn, interamente dedicata alla cultura siciliana.   Ricco programma di poesie presentate dal noto poeta Nino Provenzano, vice presidente di Arba Sicula, al quale hanno partecipato anche il prof. Gaetano Cipolla, presidente della medesima Assoc...

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