Events
April 2008
The Rutgers University Italian Studies Program
and the
NJ Italian and
Italian American Heritage Commission
present the
2007/8 Italian Hours
Rutgers Faculty Lecture
Rudolph M. Bell, "Widows in Early Modern Europe: Reconsiderations from Palermo"
7 PM TUESDAY
1 APRIL 2008
GEOLOGY HALL
(Next to Old Queen's)
85 SOMERSET STREET
RUTGERS-NEW BRUNSWICK
Free and open to the public; reception to follow.
Rudolph M. Bell is Professor II in the Department of History at Rutgers-New Brunswick and immediate past President of the Rutgers Council of AAUP Chapters. A widely-acknowledged expert in numerous aspects of the Italian experience, Bell most recently has co-edited (with Rutgers History professor Virginia Yans) Women on their own: interdisciplinary perspectives on being single (Rutgers 2008). Bell is also author of The voices of Gemma Galgani:the life and afterlife of a modern saint (2003); How to do it: guides to good living for Renaissance Italians (1999); Holy anorexia (1987); Saints & society: the two worlds of western Christendom, 1000-1700 (1982, with Donald Weinstein); and Fate and honor, family and village: demographic and cultural change in rural Italy since 1800 (1979), each published with the University of Chicago Press. Bell received his BA from Queens College and PhD from City University of New York, joining Rutgers almost forty years ago, in July 1968.
This event, which is the third annual Rutgers Italian Hours Faculty Lecture, will conclude the 2007/8 series of events for our Program.
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Offer and program runs from March 19 to April 6
All of these operas are sung in Italian with English super-titles above the stage. NJ Italian and Italian American Heritage Commission members receive discounts on tickets by using the promotional codes indicated. For more information, please click on the individual opera or check nycOpera.com
Madame Buttefly ♪ Falstaff ♪ Tosca
Montclair State University Centennial Italian Festival
FAITH & IDENTITY
St. Dominic Church &the Italian Americans of Brooklyn
by Delizia Flaccavento
March 26 - May 28, 2008
Italian American Museum
28 West 44th Street, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Opening Reception:
Wednesday - March 26, 2008, 6-8pm
Artist Led Discussion:
Thursday - March 27, 2008, 6pm
To RSVP for Opening Reception & Artist Led Discussion
Call: 212.541.1021
or
Email: info@italianamericanmuseum.org
April 2, 2008
Italian Heritage Day and Symposium 2008
LIVE IN CONCERT!
Vic Ruggiero
of The Slackers
FREE!!!
Friday, April 4th, 8pm
Red Lion Café
Rutgers Student Center
126 College Avenue
New Brunswick NJ 08901
Program sponsored by Rutgers’ Italian Cultural Community Alliance
Fair Gama Italian All-Star Exhibition
- See soccer legend Roberto Baggio and other Italian superstars -
Friday, April 4th - 7:30 pm
Prudential Center – Newark, NJ
This night of International Soccer at Prudential Center will benefit Fair Gama, a worldwide charitable organization dedicated to fair play and sportsmanship.
More information . . .
New Jersey Guitar & Mandolin Society
Room 5. Bergen County Academies.
200 Hackensack Avenue. Hackensack, NJ 07601
Monthly meeting- guest performance/lecture
Wednesday, April 9, 2008.
Performance/lecture: 6:30-7:15 (meeting begins at 6:00)
Free for members. $10.00 donation all other guests.
NJGMS website: www.bergen.org/njgms.
Contact: Michael Lemma
201-343-6000 x2313
THE CRUELLEST MONTH
ITALIAN POETRY AND AMERICAN POETRY IN NEW YORK
April 12, 2008
Stony Brook Manhattan
401 Park Ave South (at 28th Street)
8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
f r e e a d m i s s i o n
PROGRAM
GRADIVA PUBLICATIONS
P.O. Box 831, Stony Brook, New York 11790
Tel. 631-632-74448. Fax: 631-632-9612
www.italianstudies.org/gradiva/
E-mail: gradiva@italianstudies.org
Editor-in-Chief: Luigi Fontanella: lfontanella@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
CALDWELL COLLEGE
THE ITALIAN TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY
NEW JERSEY ITALIAN AND ITALIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE COMMISSION
COCCIA FOUNDATION
present
FOCUS ON SICILY II-SPRING 2008
A lecture series emphasizing aspects of Sicilian history and culture for Caldwell External Degree students (IT114), Italian teachers (3 professional hours), and the Italian-American community
SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2008
9:00am –12 noon
SICILY ON THE SILVER SCREEN:
WITNESS TO A CHANGING ITALY
Dr. Marisa Trubiano of Montclair State University will lead this tour through Italian cinema, focusing on films in which changes in modern Italian society are seen and interpreted through the prism of the Sicilian experience. Images of Sicily from neorealism (La terra trema, Visconti) to the present (Respiro, Crialese) will reveal much about ongoing issues of identity surrounding the island and the nation.
SATURDAY APRIL 12 - BRUMIDI HALL - DEERPARK, NY
Giada Valenti will perform Saturday April 12, 2008 again at the Brumidi Hall, in Deerpark, NY (Long Island). She will sing this evening mostly Italian and Italian-American repertoire. Please see her website for information on tickets.
SUNDAY APRIL 13 - FEINSTEIN'S - NEW YORK CITY
Giada Valenti has been asked to perform Sunday April 13,2008 again in New York's premier nightclub Feinstein's at the Regency Hotel. She will sing again a selection of the most beautiful Italian, English, French and Spanish songs, in a renewed show that she has created with stage director Vicki Stuart. Please see her website for information on tickets..
www.giadavalenti.com
www.myspace.com/giadavalenti
www.youtube.com/giadavalenti
GIADA VALENTI
CELEBRATION OF THE GREAT EUROPEAN DIVAS:
Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, Dusty Springfield, Shirley Bassey and Mina
Sunday April 13, 2007 at 8:30 pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Feinstein's at Loews Regency Hotel
540 Park Avenue (at 61st Street)
New York, NY 10021
Feinstein's is a beautiful venue where they serve great drinks and food. Parking is free on the streets around Feinstein's on Sundays.
It is a wonderful occasion to spend quality time with your partner or friends.
For reservations please call (212) 339-4095 or visit www.feinsteinsatloewsregency.com
On the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Antonio Meucci born on April 13, 1808
The Board of Directors and Advisors of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Inc. and The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum Cordially invite you to a Commemorative Luncheon
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:30 PM
More information . . .
The Photo Exhibition Sicilian Crossing in Newark
From April 16th to April 25th the exhibition will be kindly hosted by One Gallery, One Gateway Center, West Raymond Plaza – Newark, New Jersey 07102-5310.
More information . . .
Thursday April 17 at 2:30pm
University Hall Room 1060
The Italian American Experience:
Issues of Identity
Helen Barolini
Helen Barolini’s fiction and non-fiction has created a bridge between the U.S., her homeland, and Italy, the ancestral land. Awarded a writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for her first novel, Umbertina, Barolini is the author of nine other books and many short stories and essays that have been cited in annual editions of Best American Essays. She has received an American Book Award and other honors, has been a Resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundations’ Bellagio Center on Lake Como, and a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.
Presented by Montclair State University Global Education Center
Italian Festival of the Arts and Humanities
An Italian Sense of Place: Land and Identity
Organized by Montclair State University’s Global Education Center, George Segal Gallery,
John J. Cali School of Music, Art and Design, Broadcasting, Spanish/Italian, History,
And Health and Nutrition Sciences Departments and the
Joseph and Elda Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America.
Made possible by funding from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Joseph and Elda Coccia Institute.
For further information contact 973-655-4185 or simonW@mail.montclair.edu
Amici Della Cultura Italiana and The Coccia Foundation Presents…
Una Serata Elegante
April 18, 2008
Il Villaggio Ristorante, Carlsdtat NJ
For more information…
To benefit youth Italian American programs…
Book Signing and Reading from
Resisting Bodies: Narratives of Italian Partisan Women
Rosetta D’Angelo & Barbara Zaczek
Wednesday April 23, 2008
1:30-3:00 pm
Ramapo College, SC-137
ITALIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
7th ANNUAL GALA & AWARD CEREMONY
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008
CIPRIANI WALL STREET
55 WALL STREET, MANHATTAN
2008 Honorees
Maria Bartiromo
Anchor, CNBC’s “Closing Bell”
Host/Managing Editor “Wall Street Journal Report”Enrico S. Gaglioti
Partner
Goldman SachsTommy Lasorda
National Baseball Hall of Fame
Inducted 1997
Music by Panorama
BLACK TIE
7:00 PM COCKTAILS * 8:00 PM DINNER
To R.S.V.P., CALL (212)541-1031/1021
OR EMAIL: INFO@ITALIANAMERICANMUSEUM.ORG
For More information visit: WWW.ITALIANAMERICANMUSEUM.ORG
More information . . .
Joseph and Elda Coccia Institute Programs
Italian Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Montclair State University
The Peoples and Cultures of the Italian Peninsula before Rome
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Presented by Dr. Corey Brennan of Rutgers University in cooperation with the History department of Montclair State University
University Hall, Room 1030, 1:00 – 2:30 PM, Free Admission
