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Current
exhibits, film festivals, theater, special events, and more...
Current
Exhibits
On display
beginning December 8, 2009 (Monday – Friday, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm)
“Americhe”
An Exhibition of Photographs by Francesco Nonino
Photographer
Francesco Nonino’s contemporary portraits feature individuals who
migrated to the United States
from the small town of Frisanco (Pordenone province) in the Friuli-Venezia
Giulia region in northeastern Italy. The subjects are
immigrants and their children living in Philadelphia,
New York and New Jersey. “Americhe” (America) in the local Friuli
dialect is used figuratively to indicate a far away, almost unreachable
place, or an ambitious aim. The project has been developed the Archivio
Multimediale della memoria dell’Emigrazione Regionale (AMMER) of the
region Friuli-Venezia Giulia
(http://ammer-fvg.org). Opening
reception: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm.
Sponsored by the John
D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY.
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, Manhattan
Admission: free;
open to the public
Contact: (212)
642-2094
http://www.qc.edu/calandra
On display
November 9 through December 15, 2009
Futuriste
– Women in Art and Literature
An exhibit
dedicated to the most prominent female Futurist writers and painters. The
exhibit is accompanied by a catalogue published by the Casa delle Letterature
of the City of Rome.
Sponsored by Casa
Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ New
York University.
24 West 12th Street, Manhattan
Admission: free;
open to the public
Contact: (212)
998-8730
On display
November 4 – November 28, 2009
Milena
Petrarca and Other Painters
Several new
paintings – the best of Italy
– will be on exhibit.
Gallery is open
to public 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
Opening Reception
– November 6, 2009 at 6:00 pm.
Sponsored by Mese Della Cultura Italiana.
Jadite Galleries
413 West 50th Street, Manhattan
Admission: free;
open to the public
Contact: Mario Fratti (212) 582-6697
mariofratti@aol.com
On display
September 30 – November 22, 2009
Exhibit:
From Petrosino to Giuliani: A Century of Italian Americans in Law Enforcement
Wednesdays
– Sundays 11:00 am – 6:00 pm; Fridays 11:00 am – 8:00 pm.
This exhibition will feature notable Italian Americans in law enforcement.
Among those showcased will be Giuseppe Petrosino, Frank Serpico, as well as
Judge John Sprizzo. Original documents, photographs, service weapons, and
other artifacts will be displayed. Sponsored by the Italian American
Museum.
Italian American
Museum
155 Mulberry Street (corner of Mulberry and Grand Streets), Manhattan
Admission: free;
suggested donation $5; open to the public.
Contact: Dr.
Joseph V. Scelsa (212) 965-9000
info@italianamericanmuseum.org
On display October
1 – December 23, 2009
Exhibit(s):
“Joe DiMaggio The Yankee Clipper” and “Gardens of Tuscany”
Check website for
details: www.snug-harbor.org
Richmond County
Savings Foundation
Tuscan Garden
at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanic
Gardens, Building P
1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island
Contact: (800) 770-1270
Currently on
display
Works by
Italian Artists, Alessandro Gottardo and Emiliano Ponzi
The works by
these Italian artists have been chosen in this year’s competition, and
these winning works are currently on display. Mr. Gottardo was awarded the
Gold Medal for his illustrations “The Immaterial Time” and Mr.
Ponzi was awarded the Silver Medal for his illustration “Death with
Interruption” Gallery hours:
Tuesday 10:00 am-8:00 pm; Wednesday – Friday: 10:00am – 5:00 pm;
Saturday:12:00 pm– 4:00 pm
Museum of American Illustration at the Society of
Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street, Manhattan
Contact: (212)
838-2560
http://www.societyillustrators.org
Currently on
display
Italian East Harlem
Italian
immigrants who arrived in New York
City during the last quarter of the nineteenth
century came from a variety of southern Italian towns and each groups sought
its own enclave. East Harlem was always an
ethnically diverse community. Italian Harlem was born and nurtured amid this
diversity and was known as one of New
York City’s “Little Italys.”
The National Museum of Catholic Art and History
443 East 115th Street, Manhattan
Contact: (212)
828-5209
info@nmcah.org
http://www.nmcah.org/exhibitions/italian.htm
Permanent
Exhibits
Antonio Meucci:
The True Inventor of the Telephone
Featuring Meucci’s telephone models and
original documents.
Sponsored by the Garibaldi–Meucci Museum,
Order Sons of Italy in America.
420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island
Contact: Bonnie McCourt (718) 442-1608
info@garibaldimeuccimuseum.org
General
Giuseppe Garibaldi: The Legendary
Hero of Two Worlds
Featuring
Garibaldi’s “Red Shirt” which he wore during the 1849
defiance of the Roman
Republic and original
handwritten documents.
Sponsored by the Garibaldi–Meucci Museum,
Order Sons of Italy in America.
420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island
Contact: Bonnie McCourt (718) 442-1608
info@garibaldimeuccimuseum.org
Italian
Heritage Collection
The Enrico Fermi
Cultural Committee showcases a display of sculptures and artwork that feature
Arturo Toscanini, “Madre Italia,” Cardinal Lucchesi, Dante
Alighieri, Italian Nobel Prize Winners, “The Italians of New
York” and a silkscreen of “Festa” by Ralph Fasanella.
Enrico Fermi
Cultural Center, Belmont Branch of the New York Public
Library
610 East 186th Street at Hughes Avenue, Bronx
Contact: Marisa Parish (718) 933-6410
http://www.arthuravenuebronx.com/enrico_fermi.htm
Dante
Alighieri
Display of
photographs, posters, prints, books, and artifacts featuring the life and
work of Dante Alighieri.
Enrico Fermi
Cultural Center, Belmont Branch of the New York Public
Library
610 East 186th Street at Hughes Avenue, Bronx
Contact: Marisa Parish (718) 933-6410
http://www.arthuravenuebronx.com/enrico_fermi.htm
Fasanella
Prints
Prints of the
work of Ralph Fasanella on display include “Welcome Home Boys,”
“Working the Night Shift,” “Working at the Mill,”
“South Bronx Rebirth,” “Washington Square,” and
“Labor Education – New Bedford Union Hall” all signed by
the artist.
White Plains Public Library, Computer Alcove
100 Martine Avenue, White Plains
Contact: (914) 422-1480
http://www.whiteplainslibrary.org
Enrico
Caruso
Collection of
costumes, photographs, caricatures, and personal artifacts of Enrico
Caruso. Please call to make
reservations.
Sponsored by the Enrico Caruso
Museum of America.
1942 East 19th Street at Avenue T, Brooklyn
Contact: Cav. Aldo Mancusi (718) 368-3993
CarusoMuseumNY@aol.com
http://www.enricocarusomuseum.com
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
The museum tells
the poignant story of the immigrants who entered America
through the golden door of Ellis Island and
details the history of immigration processing station between 1892 and
1954. Featuring trunks, baggage,
immigrant clothing and costumes, passports, steamer and railroad tickets,
ship passenger manifests, and more from Italian immigrants as well as the
original painting “Family Supper” by Ralph Fasanella.
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Ellis Island, New York Harbor
Contact: (212) 363-3200
http://www.ellisisland.com
The
Baldizzi Family Tenement
Visit a
re-creation of the tenement of this Italian family as it was in the
1930s. Discover the spirited and
imaginative means that the Baldizzi family employed to make their way through
hard times and forge new lives for themselves in America.
Lower East Side Tenement
Museum
90 Orchard Street at Broome Street, Manhattan
Contact: (212) 431-0233
http://www.tenement.org
The
Piccirilli Studio: Public
Sculpture for the Nation
Traveling
exhibition presented by Bill Carroll to feature the great sculptures (such as
the 'Lincoln Memorial,' 'Library Lions,' 'Firemen's Memorial,' 'Maine
Monument') that were carved at the famed Piccirilli studio in the Bronx.
Mott Haven Branch
of the New York
Public Library
321 East 140th Street at Alexander Avenue, Bronx
Contact: (718) 665-4878
Television
Programs
November 25, 2009
(Wednesday) · 11:00 am, 3:00 pm, 8:30 pm
November 28, 2009
(Saturday) ·
8:00 pm
November 29, 2009
(Sunday) ·
10:00 am
ITALICS: The Italian
American Magazine
Monthly
television program documenting the Italian American experience. Produced by the John D. Calandra
Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY and CUNY-TV cable channel 75
in the five boroughs. Check your
local cable listings.
Contact: William Schempp (212) 642-2044
http://www.qc.edu/italics
Italian
American Writers
A television
interview produced and hosted by Professor Vito De Simone.
On Brooklyn BCAT
channels 56 and 69, every Friday at 1:30 pm.
On Great Neck
area (Long Island) channel 20, every Monday
at 8:00 pm and every Saturday at 8:30 pm.
On
Brookhaven-Stony Brook (Long Island) channel
20, every Sunday at 12:30 am.
On Woodbury area
(Long Island) channel 20, every Tuesday at
2:30 pm.
Contact:
Vito De Simone (516) 466-6352
vitodesimone@aol.com
http://www.ItalianAmericanBooks.com
The Gino Di Napoli Show
Featuring Gino Di Napoli performing the
best Neapolitan, Italian and American music.
Woodbury system (All Nassau and western Suffolk)
Every Monday, 6:30 pm channel 20.
Every Wednesday, 6:30 pm channel 150.
Happauge System (Eastern Central
Suffolk)
Every Sunday, 4:00 pm channel 20.
Every Tuesday, 1:00 pm channel 20.
Riverhead System (All of East end)
Every Tuesday, 7:00 pm, channel 20.
Contact: Gino Di Napoli (631) 242-5808
dinapoli1@aol.com
The Italian
American Experience
Hosted by Lina DelTinto, exploring the
achievements and contributions of outstanding Italians and Italian Americans.
On Brooklyn BCAT channels 35 and 68, every
Tuesday at 9:30 am and 5:30 pm.
On Manhattan
cable channels 56 and 110, every Thursday at 8:30 pm.
Contact: (212) 752-4193
linadeltinto@webtv.net
http://www.linadeltinto.cjb.net
Italian
Opera
To see the
schedule of performances of The Metropolitan Opera and The New York City
Opera at Lincoln Center, Manhattan visit
http://ww.lincolncenter.org (by typing in this website
address or double-click on the hyperlink).
Italian
Radio Programs
To see a list of
Italian radio programs in the New York Metropolitan area visit
http://www.qc.edu/calandra/community/commradio.html (by typing in this address or
double-click on the hyperlink).
[Return to the Community Programs page.]
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D. Calandra Italian American Institute. All rights reserved.
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