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

Ready to go! Actor Tony Lo Biano’s One Man Show about New York City’s greatest Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, who gave so much of himself to make the lives of New Yorkers better. His efforts are still evident today. He was a courageous and colorful personality who read comics to the children, fought against corruption and cleaned up city politics setting a new standard for mayors and politicians in America. This is a special limited engagement. Presented by MNA Productions, Inc.

Di Capo Opera Theater

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

(Thru November 3rd)

Barilla and the New York City's Italian restaurants celebrate the Marathon (from October 24th through November 2nd).
Each of the participants resturant listed below will offer a special Marathon dinner made with pasta Barilla.
Everyone can participate. All you need to do is order the Marathon dinner: one dollar of every dinner sold will be donated to the NYC Food Bank, with a matching contribution by Barilla Pasta!

Restaurants:
Oh Mammamia - 1471 Second Ave (77th St.) NY 212.2884045
Bar Italia - 1477 Second Ave (77th St.) NY 212.2495300
Tre - 173 Ludlow St. (E Houston) NY 212.3533353
Vice Versa - 325 W 51st St. NY 212.3999265
Etcetera Etcetera - 352 W 44th St. NY 212.3994141
Tavern on the Green - West 67th St. NY 212.8733200
Sapori d'Ischia (Woodside) 55-15 37th Ave NY 718.4461500
Tony's DiNapoli - 1606 2nd Ave NY 212.8618618686
Tony's DiNapoli -147 W 43rd St. NY 212.2210100
Zero Otto Nove 1 - 2357 Arthur Ave (Bronx) NY 718.2201027
Angelina's - 299 Ellis St. (Tottenville Rail Stop) Staten Island 718.2277100
Tommaso - 1464 86th St. Brooklyn NY 718.2369883

Pianist and composer Pieranunzi worked, among others, with Chet Baker and Charlie Haden. Pieranunzi will perform with two ensembles: a jazz trio and a Latin jazz quintet.

General admission $30
Orchestra $40

"Art Therapy: a cultural dialogue on the healing power of art" in collaboration with the Department of Art Therapy - School of Visual Arts, with Dr. Larry Norton - Chief of Oncology Memorial Sloan Kettering C.C., Renato d'Agostin, photographer, Mary Cole - MPS Art Therapy Department.

"Elisa in concert". On her first U.S. tour, she will be performing her new album "Dancing". Elisa will be at Bovery Ball Room (11/05); Martyrs', Chicago (11/11) and San Francisco's Cafe' Du Nord (11/20)

$16 adv- $18

Opening of the exhibition by Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri "It's beautiful in Here, Isn't It...".

Luigi Ghirri (5 January 1943 – 1992) was an influential Italian photographer. Born in Scandiano, Ghirri began taking photographs in 1970, mostly working in a milieu of conceptual artists. From 1983 he focussed primarily on photographing architecture and the Italian landscape. Ghirri also was notable for organising such exhibitions as Iconicittà (1980), Viaggio in Italia (1984), and Esplorazioni sull via Emilia (1986). He worked for the Architectural Section of the third Venice Biennale of Architecture (1985), which was directed by Aldo Rossi, and the Milan Triennale (1988). Ghirri's books include Paesaggio italiano/Italian Landscape (1989) and Il profilo delle nuvole (1989).

First of a series of lectures on art conservation, in conjunction with Giorgio Morandi's exhibitions in NYC. Panel discussion on art conservation. With the participation of Giuseppe Basile (Istituto Centrale Restauro-Roma), Marco Leona (Department of Scientific Research - Metropolitan Museum of Art), Leonardo Bonanni (MIT - Media Lab - Boston), Maurizio Seracini (UCSD Calit2).

On the occasion of the publication in English of the book "Italici. An Encounter with Piero Bassetti"
An open Round Table:

Italy-city -- The Internet Generation ...global, local, or g-local?

A new generation of Italians is migrating all over the world, again. Some of them are born "abroad." Many study, work, and live in the U.S. They engage in art and literature, science, commerce, and politics. They are young and cosmopolitan, and many will not go back... they are citizens of a global world. They are the Internet Generation. They don't even use the telephone to keep in touch with each other: Skype, Facebook are their tools.

Yet, in some deep, still unexplored sense, they feel Italian. But no easy-made stereotype can catch their soul.
Are they transforming Italy in a g-local city?

Participants include:

Piero Bassetti
President, "Globus et Locus"

Francesco Maria Talò
Consul General of Italy in New York

Stefano Albertini
Director, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, NYU

Anthony Julian Tamburri
Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute,
Queens College, CUNY

Teresa Fiore
California State University Long Beach / NYU

Fred Gardaphe
Queens College, CUNY

Fabio Finotti
University of Pennsylvania

Simone Cinotto
New York University

Ottorino Cappelli
Università di Napoli "L'Orientale"
Project Coordinator, The Italian/American Digital Project

Niccolò d'Aquino
Journalist, Corriere della Sera

Letizia Airos Soria
Executive Editor, i-Italy.org
Journalist, America Oggi

Italian Book Club on "Five is the perfect number", a graphic novel by Igort, an Italian artist who has been one of Europe’s most important drawers for more than twenty years now.

7:00 p.m. "Black Sea" (92 mins.) By Federico Bondi (North American Premiere)

9:00 p.m. "The Girl by the Lake" (95 mins) by Andrea Modaioli

Nice New Italian Cinema Events is a non-profit cultural association founded in 1991 that aims to promote the new Italian cinema abroad through cultural exchanges and festivals. Its founders and members have been working for more than a decade in the organization of such international film festivals

In collaboration with: Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita' Culturali, Mediateca Toscana, Toscana Film Commission, Comune di Firenze, Italian Consulate, Italian Cultural Institute, Fitzgerald Foundation of Florence, Rai Cinema, Rai Corporation, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo', New York Film Academy, Tribeca Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College/CUNY

Organized by Francesco Benelli (Columbia)
Co-sponsored by Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (CISA Palladio) and Regione Veneto
Speakers: James Ackerman (Harvard); Howard Burns, (Scuola Normale, Pisa); Guido Beltramini (CISA Palladio); Paola Marini (Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona); David Rosand (Columbia); Kurt Foster (Yale); Tracy Cooper (Temple); Mario Piana (IUAV)

**Time - To Be Determined**

Check Italian Academy site for further information.

Homage to Fabrizio De Andre'

Italian musician and singer Mauro Pagani will be performing some of De Andre's most famous songs. Mauro Pagani -bouzuky, violin, flute. Joe Damiani, percussions. Giorgio Cordini - acoustic guitar, mandolin. The event was organized by the IIC, the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian American federation of Brooklyn and Queens.

4:00 p.m. "Don't waste your tile Johnny!" (104 mins.) by Fabrizio Bentivoglio (North American Premiere)

7:00 p.m. "The girl by the lake" (95 mins) by Andrea Molaioli

9:00 p.m. "Lessons in Chocolate" (98 mins.) by Claudio Cupellini (North American Premiere)

Nice New Italian Cinema Events is a non-profit cultural association founded in 1991 that aims to promote the new Italian cinema abroad through cultural exchanges and festivals. Its founders and members have been working for more than a decade in the organization of such international film festivals

In collaboration with: Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita' Culturali, Mediateca Toscana, Toscana Film Commission, Comune di Firenze, Italian Consulate, Italian Cultural Institute, Fitzgerald Foundation of Florence, Rai Cinema, Rai Corporation, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo', New York Film Academy, Tribeca Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College/CUNY

2:00 pm: "A night" (90 mins) by Toni D'Angelo (North American Premiere)

4:00 p.m.: "Cover Boy-The Last Revolution" (97 mins) by Carmine Amoroso

7:00 p.m. "Lessons in Chocolate" (98 mins.) by Claudio Cupellini

9:00 p.m. "Black sea" (92 mins) by Federico Bondi

Nice New Italian Cinema Events is a non-profit cultural association founded in 1991 that aims to promote the new Italian cinema abroad through cultural exchanges and festivals. Its founders and members have been working for more than a decade in the organization of such international film festivals

In collaboration with: Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita' Culturali, Mediateca Toscana, Toscana Film Commission, Comune di Firenze, Italian Consulate, Italian Cultural Institute, Fitzgerald Foundation of Florence, Rai Cinema, Rai Corporation, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo', New York Film Academy, Tribeca Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College/CUNY

Free concert at "Christ the King Schhool"

2:00 p.m.: "The Rest of the Night" (101 mins) by Francesco Munzi (North AMerican Premiere)

4:00 p.m.: "A night" (90 mins) by Toni D'Angelo

6:00 p.m.: "Cover Boy-The Last Revolution" (97 mins) by Carmine Amoroso

8:00 p.m. Special Event at Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center "Puccini and the Girl" (84 mins) by Paolo Baroni and Paolo Benvenuti (North American Premiere)

Nice New Italian Cinema Events is a non-profit cultural association founded in 1991 that aims to promote the new Italian cinema abroad through cultural exchanges and festivals. Its founders and members have been working for more than a decade in the organization of such international film festivals

In collaboration with: Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita' Culturali, Mediateca Toscana, Toscana Film Commission, Comune di Firenze, Italian Consulate, Italian Cultural Institute, Fitzgerald Foundation of Florence, Rai Cinema, Rai Corporation, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo', New York Film Academy, Tribeca Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College/CUNY

GROUP SHOW curated by Stefania Carrozzini  8 ARTISTS FROM ITALY PRESENT THEIR WORKS AT BROADWAY GALLERY - 473 BROADWAY, 7 FLOOR (TEL 212 274 8993).
OPENING RECEPTION  NOVEMBER 20, 6 TO 8 PM 
The Emotional Guidance System is organized by I AM. INTERNATIONAL ART MEDIA - Milan - New York - Beijing  with the patronage of D'Ars Foundation Oscar Signorini Onlus Milan  
artists featured: FILIPPO BARBIERI, DANIELA BILLI, ANNAMARIA CIMBAL, MIRIAM DE BERARDIS, ANTONELLA LAGANA', CLARA SCARAMPELLA, SILVIA PISANI, STEFANO SABA',

Discussion with Igort and exhibition of watercolors from his work in progress "Baobab"

BAOBAB
This story by Ignatz will span over 40 years and three continents, tracing an alternate history of the very beginnings of the comic strip art form, including subtle nods toward such early masters as Winsor MacCay and George Herrimann.

7:00 p.m.: NICE Short Winner Taormina "Bab Al Samah) (15 mins) by Di Francesco Sperandeo

7:00 p.m. "The Rest f the Night" (101 mins) by Francesco Munzi

9:00 p.m.: "Don't waste your time Johnny" (104 mins) by Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Nice New Italian Cinema Events is a non-profit cultural association founded in 1991 that aims to promote the new Italian cinema abroad through cultural exchanges and festivals. Its founders and members have been working for more than a decade in the organization of such international film festivals

In collaboration with: Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita' Culturali, Mediateca Toscana, Toscana Film Commission, Comune di Firenze, Italian Consulate, Italian Cultural Institute, Fitzgerald Foundation of Florence, Rai Cinema, Rai Corporation, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo', New York Film Academy, Tribeca Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College/CUNY

"Italian influence on NYC architecture" a lecture by professor David Garrard Lowe, president of the Beaux Arts Alliance, in collaboration with The New York Landmarks Conservancy

Second lecture on conservation "Authenticity and conservation of art works: market and auction houses" by Prof. Silvano Lorusso, Dept. of Conservation, University of Bologna in Ravenna.

Third Seminar of the Series "New York Conversations on Italian Scientific Matters" - LINX XXI". The Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Academy, in close cooperation with Linx XXI and Sicilian and Calabrese Institutions, presents a scientific seminar titled "One hundred years after the Straits of Messina Earthquake: emergency management from solidarity to efficiency - The response of public Institutions to the strategic challenge of emergency management".

I Solisti di Teatro Regio di Parma and Ludmil Angelov, with choruses of the New England Symphonic Ensemble.

Book presentation - Claudio Angelini in conversation with translators and critics about his latest novel "La foresta di New York"

Claudio Angelini is currently president of the Dante Alighieri Society in New York, U.S. Political correspondent for RAI, the Italian national television network and is President Emeritus of RAI Corporation.

Angelini recently ended a 4-year term as director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, the Italian governmental agency for the worldwide promotion of Italian cultural affairs. His tenure was praised by some of the most prominent cultural and political figures, including U.S. Ambassador Richard Gardner and Professor David Friedberg, the director of the Italian Academy at Columbia University[1].

He is well known among Italian-Americans for hosting the weekly TV show "Zoom", on RAI International, a 30-minute lifestyle program focused on many aspects relevant to the large Italian community of North America.

He has been editor-in-chief of important cultural publications including Fiera and has published many books of fiction and poetry with notable Italian publishers Rusconi and Bompiani. His latest book has been published in 2008 with Rizzoli. Renowned intellectuals such as Nobel Prize recipient Salvatore Quasimodo, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Luzi and Carlo Betocchi have praised Claudio Angelini’s work.

"Jazz Trio" concert: Roberto Tarenzi - Piano, Luca Santaniello - Drums and Joseph Lepore - Bass, fuse chromatic harmony with New Orleans funky grooves.

Suggested admission $10, IIC Members $5