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Learn to make mozzarella! This is a unique hands-on experience, the only class where you can make, taste, and take home the fruit (or rather, ball) of your labor - but not before indulging in a one-of-a-kind tasting of fresh mozzarellas from the US and Italy. Summer would not be the same without fresh mozzarella - with shucked corn and watermelon slices, or with basil and fresh tomatoes. Just in time for the peak season of picnics and patio parties, this class is a delicious primer on enjoying - and making - fresh mozzarella. Wine will be served. Limited seating.

Class is a hands on working event, as you get to make your own fresh mozzarella, be prepared to get your hands in the water, and mixing fresh curd. Please dress accordingly. Price: $110. Seating is limited.

This is a multi-screen projection installation by Jack Sal in memory of the deportees under the Fascist and Nazi rule.

Exhibition will ve on view until Feb. 26, 2010.

Please RSVP via phone.

Directed by Danielle Luchetti. In an incredibly effective way, the movie portrays the dreams and disillusionments of two brothers who want to change the world, but in two very different ways.

Fee: Free for Members; Non-Members $5; registration is required.

CONCERT with Julian Lawrence Gargiulo (pianist)

RSVP via telephone. Open to the public. Suggested admission: $10. IIC members: $5.

In the course of his work at staff artist for Ring magazine and the official artist for ESPN's "Sport Century Series," Perillo painted portraits of the greatest athletes of all time, including Rocky Marciano an Joe DiMaggio.

Admission $5; members free.

Exhibit will be open Jan. 9-Feb 7, 2010. Tues - Fri: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sat & Sun: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

On display for the first time together: nearly all sixty drawings by the great Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572). The exhibit is open to the public and will be on display from January 20th until April 18th, 2010.

Metropolitan Hours: Monday: Closed (Except Holiday Mondays*) Tuesday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.** Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m.** Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.** (Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day)

Kairos Italy Theater and The Cell will present the US premiere of

Tosca e Le Altre Due (Tosca and the Two Downstairs) by Franca Valeri.

Translated by Natasha Lardara and directed  by Laura Caparrotti, with Marta Mondelli and Rocci Sisto (voice over). Music by Giacomo Puccini. In Italian with English subtitles.

This is a satirical behind-the-scenes look at Puccini's Tosca as imagined by the witty and admired Italian playwright and actress, Franca Valeri.

Tickets: $20, $15 students, Seniors, IIC members showing card at box office, and Italian Consulate employees. First week: Weds.-Sat. 8pm, Sat and Sun. 3pm. Second week: Fri.-Sat. 8pm, Sat. and Sun. 3pm. Third week: Weds.-Sat. 8pm, Sat and Sun. 3pm.

This is a multi-screen projection installation by Jack Sal in memory of the deportees under the Fascist and Nazi rule.

Exhibition will ve on view until Feb. 26, 2010.

Please RSVP via phone.

Robert Zweig reads from Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries (Barricade Books, 2008)

As a boy in the 1960s, Robert Zweig, an American Jew of Italian and German descent, had the exceptional opportunity to spend his summer vacations in Naples—the birthplace of his mother, the home of his extended family, and the impoverished city that American tourists avoided altogether. The interconnected stories in Return to Naples recount many humorous episodes from those summers. Zweig also describes the family mysteries he uncovered with each visit and how this knowledge led to a deeper understanding of his parents and the place where they met.

Free an open to the public.

In the course of his work at staff artist for Ring magazine and the official artist for ESPN's "Sport Century Series," Perillo painted portraits of the greatest athletes of all time, including Rocky Marciano an Joe DiMaggio.

Admission $5; members free.

Exhibit will be open Jan. 9-Feb 7, 2010. Tues - Fri: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sat & Sun: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

On display for the first time together: nearly all sixty drawings by the great Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572). The exhibit is open to the public and will be on display from January 20th until April 18th, 2010.

Metropolitan Hours: Monday: Closed (Except Holiday Mondays*) Tuesday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.** Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m.** Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.** (Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day)

Kairos Italy Theater and The Cell will present the US premiere of

Tosca e Le Altre Due (Tosca and the Two Downstairs) by Franca Valeri.

Translated by Natasha Lardara and directed  by Laura Caparrotti, with Marta Mondelli and Rocci Sisto (voice over). Music by Giacomo Puccini. In Italian with English subtitles.

This is a satirical behind-the-scenes look at Puccini's Tosca as imagined by the witty and admired Italian playwright and actress, Franca Valeri.

Tickets: $20, $15 students, Seniors, IIC members showing card at box office, and Italian Consulate employees. First week: Weds.-Sat. 8pm, Sat and Sun. 3pm. Second week: Fri.-Sat. 8pm, Sat. and Sun. 3pm. Third week: Weds.-Sat. 8pm, Sat and Sun. 3pm.

This series is a triple homage to three of Italian cinema’s most important independent filmmakers – Carmelo Bene, Franco Brocani, and Mario Schifano – whose long-lasting friendships and collaborations with each other were interrupted only by the early deaths of Schifano (1998) and Bene (2002). Though their artistic sensibilities were very different – Bene for instance was far better known as a playwright and theater director than as a filmmaker, while Schifano was a renowned painter – they all lived and worked in Rome in the 1960s and 70s, a period of remarkably rich artistic and cultural activity. Though all three sought to achieve a profoundly personal form of cinema, they resisted identifying with the Italian underground scene, preferring to make narrative films (albeit strikingly experimental ones) in order to effect a revolution in cinema that would reach audiences beyond the confines of the avant-garde. This series offers a rare opportunity to see a selection of their work, featuring five films (several recently restored) that are rarely, if ever, screened in the U.S., and that are as interrelated as they are impossible to categorize. Curated by Andrea Monti and Alessandro De Francesco; presented with generous support from the Italian Cultural Institute New York. Special thanks to Renato Miracco & Simonetta Magnani (Italian Cultural Institute) and Laura Argento (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale). Films will be screened in the following days at Anthology Film Archives in the lower east side.

This is a multi-screen projection installation by Jack Sal in memory of the deportees under the Fascist and Nazi rule.

Exhibition will ve on view until Feb. 26, 2010.

Please RSVP via phone.

In the course of his work at staff artist for Ring magazine and the official artist for ESPN's "Sport Century Series," Perillo painted portraits of the greatest athletes of all time, including Rocky Marciano an Joe DiMaggio.

Admission $5; members free.

Exhibit will be open Jan. 9-Feb 7, 2010. Tues - Fri: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sat & Sun: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

On display for the first time together: nearly all sixty drawings by the great Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572). The exhibit is open to the public and will be on display from January 20th until April 18th, 2010.

Metropolitan Hours: Monday: Closed (Except Holiday Mondays*) Tuesday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.** Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m.** Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.** (Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day)

Marking the 10th anniversary of Mario Schifano’s death, Franco Brocani made this film both to celebrate his friend and to repay him for his film TRAPIANTO CONSUNZIONE E MORTE DI FRANCO BROCANI. The result is a very personal and elaborate portrait of Schifano, including old footage from a previously rediscovered film about him, and experimenting with the boundaries between fiction and documentary, art and philosophy. The title refers to a particular period in the artist’s career, during which he focused on drawings of dinosaurs.

Will be shown:

Kairos Italy Theater and The Cell will present the US premiere of

Tosca e Le Altre Due (Tosca and the Two Downstairs) by Franca Valeri.

Translated by Natasha Lardara and directed  by Laura Caparrotti, with Marta Mondelli and Rocci Sisto (voice over). Music by Giacomo Puccini. In Italian with English subtitles.

This is a satirical behind-the-scenes look at Puccini's Tosca as imagined by the witty and admired Italian playwright and actress, Franca Valeri.

Tickets: $20, $15 students, Seniors, IIC members showing card at box office, and Italian Consulate employees. First week: Weds.-Sat. 8pm, Sat and Sun. 3pm. Second week: Fri.-Sat. 8pm, Sat. and Sun. 3pm. Third week: Weds.-Sat. 8pm, Sat and Sun. 3pm.

1970, 92 minutes, 35mm. In English, German, French, and Italian with English subtitles. Starring Viva, Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont, and Paul Jabara.

“Brocani conjures together all your favorite European cultural and historical myth figures in order to attack the centuries of ‘sublimation’ that have produced our cities and their inhabitants. The gang’s all here: Frankenstein’s monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona of the Bloody Countess Bathory; Louis Waldon is a hip American tourist searching for the (missing) Mona Lisa. The range is extraordinary, from stand-up Jewish comedy to a kind of flea-market expressionism.” –TIME OUT FILM GUIDE.

Will be shown:

with (representative of Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna)

Prof. Luigi Verdi

(artistic director of Chamber Orchestra of New York)   

(vice-president of Chamber Orchestra of New York) (violinist soloist)

Laura Marzadori

Pre-Concert Lecture Presentation:The teacher Luigi Verdi from Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna will introduce the famous Italian composer, Ottorino Respighi, by showing a video from the Respighi's Foundation Archive with live music by Laura Marzadori, violinist soloist and the participation of Salvatore Di Vittorio and Evan Wilson of the Chamber Orchestra of New York.

Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 8 pm 

Church of St.Jean Baptiste - Lexington Ave at 76th St, NY

"ALLA RESPIGHIANA: Announcing http://www.chamberorchestraofnewyork.org/competitions.html">The Respighi Prize"

Chamber Orchestra of New York directed by Salvatore Di Vittorio with Laura Marzadori(violin)

Tickets:

$30 general admission; $20 seniors, students, IIC Members and Italian Consulate Employees

To buy tickets:www.chamberorchestraofnewyork.org, by

Call TicketWeb* at 866-468-7619

This seminar is presented by David Aliano, College of Mount Saint Vincent, and will be held in the 5th floor seminar room of the Italian Academy, Columbia Univ.

In the course of his work at staff artist for Ring magazine and the official artist for ESPN's "Sport Century Series," Perillo painted portraits of the greatest athletes of all time, including Rocky Marciano an Joe DiMaggio.

Admission $5; members free.

Exhibit will be open Jan. 9-Feb 7, 2010. Tues - Fri: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sat & Sun: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

On display for the first time together: nearly all sixty drawings by the great Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572). The exhibit is open to the public and will be on display from January 20th until April 18th, 2010.

Metropolitan Hours: Monday: Closed (Except Holiday Mondays*) Tuesday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.** Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m.** Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.** (Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day)