The story of Italian-Americans in Corning is the story of many voluntary immigrant groups – one of courage and tenacity. When Paulina Capozzi came to the United States in 1933, she traveled in steerage with her young child as her only companion. She brought a sea trunk with her few belongings among which were some linens and lace. Explore the experience of Italian immigrants through lace. This exhibition is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Hours
Open: Monday- Friday 10:00-4:00
June-August Saturday Hours: 10:00-2:00
Other hours and/or tours by appointment

Co-sponsored by Regione Sardegna

**No times posted as of yet - See Italian Academy Website for further details**

Opening of "RE-interpreting the Baroque," an exhibition of architectural research from the 2007 Rensselaer School of Architecture, Rome. In collaboration with Rensselaer School of Architecture.

Carmen Consoli presents her new album "Missing Ring"

Italy’s top female singer-songwriter Carmen Consoli returns to Joe’s Pub after five previous sell-out performances with two shows on October 1. Her most recent New York appearance was an unprecedented headliner slot at the Joe’s Pub in the Park Series in September 2007. Consoli’s October set is titled “Anello Mancante” (Missing Ring) and features the Sicilian-born auteur on solo voice and guitar. New York audiences will experience an offering of repertoire drawn from Consoli’s more than decade-long career re-interpreted in a minimalist manner, intentionally stripped down to expose the sophisticated essence of her songs. In these performances, Consoli’s evocative songs will be interspersed with engaging insights into her songwriting process, citing influences such as writer/director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s use of Italian dialect , the music of star crossed Roman songstress Gabriella Ferri as well as the work of leading figures from the world of Italian and international cinema.

Presentation of "41esimo Parallelo" film festival. The program will include screenings of a selection of documentaries and shorts from the "Napoli Film Festival '08"

41esimo Parallelo at Film Forum: Alberto Sordi's retrospective: program at www.filmforum.org/films/sordi

Kicked out of drama school, Alberto Sordi (1920-2003), or “Albertone” as he was affectionately nicknamed by his public, first became famous as the Italian voice of Oliver Hardy. From starring roles in two early Fellinis, he went on to become one of the greatest and most beloved stars of the great period of commedia all’ italiana, often portraying the lazy, whining mama’s boy/ladykiller wannabe who still managed to suck up to priest and boss, but capable of dominating performances in the tragic style as well. In many ways he was the Italian Everyman and, even more than Mastroianni or Gassman, the most representative male star of Italy’s movie golden age. As Phillip Lopate wrote recently, “No one better embodied the ‘average Italian’ in all his swagger, cowardice, hypocritical geniality, and reluctant nobility.”

Found in translation; screening of documentaries: "ItaloItaliani" and "Manhattan Amore Mio" by Marina Catucci and Daniele Salvini, in collaboration with Paolo Argentini and Damiano Ficoneri production La7 Tv.

First movie of the series "RAI Italian Fiction Week 2008," (a selection of awards winning Italian TV Films): "Puccini" by Giorgio Capitani

Festival Organized by RAI Fiction, External Relations and Comunication and Image Departments Rai with RAI CorporatioN.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 New York
Carnagie Hall, Zankel Hall
6.30 pm "Puccini"
World premiere
Directed by Giorgio Capitani

Written by Francesco Scardamaglia
Nicola Lusuardi
Fabio Campus

Starring
Alessio Boni

a RAI Fiction
Leone Cinematografica Production

English subtitles

By invitation
Rsvp: tel. 212 468 2478

North American premiere of Niccolò Jommelli's Miserere; North American premiere of Luigi Boccherini's Stabat Mater; music by Baldassare Galuppi

Shows on October 8, November 3, December 10

**Times not posted as of yet - See Italian Academy Website for Further Information**

"RAI Italian Fiction Week '08" presents "Einstein" by Liliana Cavani

a RAI Fiction CIAO RAGAZZI Production

Written by Massimo De Rita, Mario Falcone, Liliana Cavani

Directed by Liliana Cavani

Starring Vincenzo Amato,

English Version with Italian Subtitles

By invitation
Rsvp 212 879 4242 ext. 364

A special event and round table moderated by Antonio Monda. The Screening of Marco Tullio Giordana's movie "Sangue Pazzo" will follow at 6 pm.

For information: www.nyu.edu/pages/casaitaliana

Italian Book Club: Amara Lakhous's book "Scontro di civilta' per un ascensore di Piazza Vittorio" (in Italian)

His novel, literally ‘Clash of civilisations in a lift in piazza Vittorio’, presents humanity in all its shapes and sizes, with characteristic wit and irony. The story begins with a murder in a multicultural and vibrant district of central Rome called piazza Vittorio. It ends with a revelatory take on the future of society that is universal in scope and insight.

Italian pianist Cristiana Pegoraro presents her highly acclaimed album "Ithaka".

Information and reservation 212 678 9543

Presentation of the book "Italian Architecture in Eritrea" by Anna Godio, La Rosa Publisher, Turin, 2008

Programme

Introduction
H.E. Mr.Araya Desta, Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the United Nations

Overview
Dr. Naigzy Gebremedhin, former Director of the Cultural Assets Rehabilitation Project in Asmara

Presentation on Italian Architecture in Eritrea
Anna Godio, Architect

Debate-Moderator Dr.Naigzy Gebremedhin

RAI Italian Fiction Week 2008 presents "Montalbano" by Alberto Sironi

Series based on the novels of Andrea Camilleri

Directed by Alberto Sironi

Starring Luca Zingaretti

a RAI Fiction Palomar Production

English subtitles

By invitation RSVP tel. 212 642 2094

Press conference and presentation of "The Week of Italian Language", 12.00 noon
Brunch with Tuscan Wine and Food

Special Presentation "The City of Florence" a New Renaissance (From the Prestigious Past to a Great Future Projects&Perspectives)
2.30 pm concert by Maggio Formazione

RSVP Italian Cultural Institute tel. 212 879 4242 ext.363

On the occasion of the Morandi exhibition, Renato Miracco, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, will illustrate the works of the artist.

This exhibition of approximately 110 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings, traces the career of Morandi—one of the greatest 20th-century masters of still life and landscape painting in the tradition of Chardin and Cézanne.

For further information www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp

Screening of Michelangelo Antonioni's movie "Chung Kuo China"
For information: http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/red_sun.html

Elena Bonelli, one of the few Italian artists to have gained recognition abroad in the musical field with her very Italian and Mediterranean style singing, presents a bewitching collection of Roman songs.

www.carnegiehall.org

Monday, October 13, 2008
Fifth Ave. from 44th to 79th Streets
Noon to 3:00 p.m.

The parade: 35,000 marchers, over 100 bands, floats and contingents, nearly one million spectators, is the world’s largest celebration of Italian-American culture, will be held on October 13 from noon until 3:00 PM on Fifth Avenue from 44th through 79th Streets and will be broadcast on NBC affiliates and by RAI Italian television.

The parade celebrates the spirit of exploration and courage that inspired Christopher Columbus’s 1492 expedition and the important contributions Italian-Americans have made to the United States. Over a dozen high school bands, as well as virtuosi professional groups from the United States and Italy, will make the march up Fifth Avenue and fill the canyons of midtown with joyous, heart-pounding music. Traditional folk groups will perform centuries-old dances, and cutting-edge designs will be brought to the parade route in displays of the vibrant culture that is Italy today.

Concert reading by Iaia Forte presenting "Interno Familiare" from a short story by Anna Maria Ortese, in Italian language and Neapolitan dialect.

Tickets: 10$, members 5$

Opening of exhibition "Andrea Riccio: renaissance Master of Bronze" and lecture "Riccio's Statuettes: Making and Meaning."

Program at http://www.frick.org/assets/PDFs/Press2008/RiccioImageLis.pdf

"8th Edition Italian Language week"

First lecture of the series "Dante in Public" with Prof. Teodolinda Barolini: "Dante's Sympathy for the Other or the Non-Stereotyping Imagination: Sexual and Racialized Others in the Commedia"

Have a glimpse to the wonderful treasures of this fairy tale land. Only by invitation.

"8th Edition Italian Language Week"

European Book Club: A series in collaboration with Austrian Forum, Goethe Institute, Czech Center, Cultural Services of the French Embassy , Instituto Cervantes - on Amara Lakhous's book "Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio".

Opening of exhibition "Gino De Dominicis": the first major American museum show dedicated to the Italian artist, mainly to his late paintings from 1980 until his death in 1998 (through February 9th, 2008)

For info: http://www.ps1.org/exhibitions/view/204

"8th Edition Italian Language Week"

Conversation with Stefano Benni on his novel "Time Skipper", recently translated into English. With Michael Reynolds, Michael Moore, and others TBA.

"La piazza italiana - Lingua, Cultura e Cambiamenti": panel discussion moderated by Hermann Haller (CUNY), with Lorenzo Coveri (Universita' di Genova) ("La piazza nelle canzoni d'autore italiane"), Stefano Benni and Amara Lakhous (writers), Giancarlo Dillena (journalist).

"8th Edition Italian Language week"

Amara Lakhous on "The changing face of the Italian Piazza" , a conversation with guests Ann Goldstein, Lorain Adams, and other TBA. Partial screening of the movie "L'orchestra di Piazza Vittorio".

Opening of the exhibition "I luoghi dell'Utopia-The places of Utopia" by Federica Marangoni

(Thru November 3rd)

"8th Edition Italian Language Week"

"La piazza, la lingua' i giochi: il caso Dante Alighieri" ("The Square, The Language, The Games: the Case of Dante Alighieri".)

Second lecture of the series "Dante in public" byStefano Bartezzaghi in Italian with English translation

MET Gallery Talk with Renato Miracco

http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp

Homage to architect and designer Harry Bertoja

Organized by the Municipality of Pordenone

"8th Edition Italian Language Week"

Presentation of documentary by Fabio Caramaschi "Doing Extra Time-Dietro la palla o dietro la porta"

Premiere screening of Luis Nero's movie "La Rabbia-The Rage"

Organized by Victoria De Grazia (Columbia University)
Co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute (Columbia) and the Institute for the Study of Europe (Columbia)

Check Italian Academy site for further information

**Time - To Be Determined**

Book presentation "Il lato luminoso" ("The bright side") by Antonella Boralevi (Rizzoli, 2007)