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Book Launch: Soundtrack of a Life: New and Selected Poems by Gil Fagiani
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The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884–1947): The Paladins of France in America
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Exhibition Opening A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists
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From the Dean’s Desk
Pete Panto Tombstone: Article in New York Times
Posted on by Sian Gibby

Dear Friends,
By now you may have already seen that in the Saturday, July 9, edition of the New York Times, Helene Stapinski—best-selling author and freelance journalist—published an article about Dr. Joseph Sciorra, Director of Academic and Cultural Programs, and his quest to procure a headstone for longshoreman Pietro “Pete”
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A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists
Curated by Joanne Mattera and Joseph Sciorra
Exhibition opening takes place on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 6pm.
The work of the twenty-one artists featured in this exhibit offers a richness of form, medium, subject matter, color, and style that is a delight and a revelation to behold. Connections to a discernable Italian art tradition—or for that matter to Italian American aesthetic practices more specifically—vary across the exhibition, ranging from the explicit to the suggestive to the nonexistent.
After the opening on September 27, the exhibition will be accessible during business hours, 9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday, and is located in the Galleria of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute.
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Detail of Due Facc', by John Avelluto, 2020
Honoring Pete Panto, in the New York Times
Today's New York Times features an article by James Barron that details Calandra's Dr. Joseph Sciorra's tireless campaign to recognize the life of dockworker Pete Panto by erecting a gravestone for the murdered labor activist buried in the St. Charles Cemetery on Long Island. Read the article here. And please consider attending the commemoration of Panto that will take place at the gravesite on Tuesday, September 26, 2023, at 2:30pm. Click here for the address and further details.Read More

Calandra’s Dean Participates in Italian American Book Event in Settefrati
Calandra's dean Anthony Tamburri was in Italy recently, representing the Institute and Queens College, CUNY, at a number of events. One of these was a presentation, organized by the mayor of Settefrati, of a book titled Una Nuova e Più Grande Settefrati sul Suolo D'America (A new and greater Settefrati on American soil), written by Mario Vitti (edited by Dean Tamburri). The book covers the immigration of Italians from Settefrati (Frosinone province) to Connecticut. Dean Tamburri made some remarks at the event. (Video is in Italian; the book is in Italian and in English.)
https://www.facebook.com/extratvitaly/videos/1027538078603420
Read MoreAugust 23, 2023: A Double Remembrance Day

Today, Wednesday, August 23, 2023, marks two solemn anninversaries: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927 in Boston; and Yusuf Hawkins was murdered in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1989.Read More



Italian Diaspora Summer Studies Seminar in Rome
The 2023 edition of the Italian Diaspora Summer Studies Seminar at Roma Tre University has concluded, and it was a huge success. For more information on the Seminar or to apply for next year's trip and course of study, please go to our IDSSS page. Buona estate.Read More

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