Comunicare l'Italia all'estero: A follow-up
As I arrived back from a seven-day stint in Calabria, I was reminded of Letizia Airos's piece in Italian, "Comunicare l'Italia all'estero," and I mused about it and a few other things...
I Seminatori di Grano e la Bellezza Eataliana
Una riflessione legata all’evento con l’orchestra del Teatro Regio, organizzato presso Eataly. Una lunga serata che ha visto anche la presenza di Gianmaria Testa. L'emozione per una sua canzone sui nuovi migranti
From Boccaccio to Shakespeare: the Connections of Literature & Theater
During the past weeks, led by Three Time Obie Award actor Rocco Sisto, Kairos Italy Theater (Casa Italiana's Company in Residence) has been working on scenes from Measure for Measure while learning about the relationship between Shakespeare and Italy. Tonight, the actors will share the result of the workshop by presenting scenes from Measure for Measure together with scenes from The Mandrake Root and Decameron, introduced by Sisto himself.
Avvento 2014. Pensando al Natale
Riflessione sul S. Natale del prof. Luigi Casale, partendo dal Vangelo secondo Luca
Fighting against the Sack of Rome
Courageous police and magistrates are battling valiantly against a wave of high-level political corruption linked to organized crime in Rome that has just brought 37 indictments. The dozens more under formal investigation include a cabinet minister and a former mayor of Rome. The media have christened this latest Italian scandal “The Sack of Rome.” This month Transparency International ranked Italy 69th down its list of corrupt nations
“My wife in a Chador”. Interview: Claudio Angelini & His Theater
Written by Italian news personality Claudio Angelini, “My wife in a Chador” is a seriocomedy that raises a lot of questions. In the play “My wife in a Chador,” a Pulitzer Price nominated author resembling Norman Mailer is recruited to run for Mayor of New York. Coincidentally the author's wife, who is half Arabic, is mugged on the city's mean streets and is so traumatized by the crime that she decides to return to her Islamic roots and adopt the chador (head covering). The question then becomes: can a man campaigning with an Islamic wife win the mayoralty of our city?
Puffy Little Balls in Honey. Yes, it's Struffoli Time!
For many Italians, it would not seem like Christmas without struffoli. These puffy little balls are the quintessential Christmas sweet in Naples and other places in Italy, especially the Central and Southern regions.
Four Cities in Versilia and Michelangelo
The Consulate General of Italy together with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, and the four Cities of the Medicean Versilia – Pietrasanta, Seravezza, Forte dei Marmi and Stazzema – present “Michelangelo and Versilia”, an initiative organized at the Italian Cultural Institute to illustrate the excellences of the territory and to highlight the historical and artistic figure of Michelangelo in the Versilia area, who here lived and worked. Participate in the project also the Artigianart Association and the Cosmave Consortium of Pietrasanta.
Natale. Il presepe ed il miracolo di una festa
Natale il miracolo è una festa senza fretta.
Il presepe, i riti, la religione: una storia che si tramanda attraverso le attese.
Gennaro Matino presenta “Tetti di sole”. La sua Napoli a New York
Gennaro Matino, teologo, scrittore, docente di teologia pastorale e parroco a Napoli, presenta il suo ultimo libro "Tetti di sole" nella pizzeria Ribalta
Premio per i Diritti Umani “Nelson Mandela”
La XV edizione di "Salento Porta d'Oriente" si terrà a Lecce il 14 dicembre, al Teatro "G.Paisiello". Tra gli insigniti del Premio Speciale per i Diritti Umani "Nelson Mandela" per il 2014 i giornalisti-scrittori Tiziana Grassi, Ilaria Guidantoni, Goffredo Palmerini e Canio Trione
Louise De Salvo's "personal effects"
A new book appraises the work of a major Italian American woman writer
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