November 18
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, November 18, 2024 – 6:00 pm
Baroque Rome “What Makes It Italian?” Music + Architecture 2
“What Makes It Italian?” is a music listening and discussion group that meets online on the Zoom platform and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who has also guided listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y; acted as maestro del coro for opera in Italy; instructed music at The New School; and directed Underworld Productions. - Casa Italiana Zerilli -Marimò – Monday, November 18,2024 – 6:00 pm – 8.00 pm
Marimba Metropoli Visionary Architecture from Futurism to Rationalism
“Metropoli: Visionary Architecture from Futurism to Rationalism” explores the radical architectural visions born from Futurism and Italian Rationalism, movements that shaped modern urban imagination in Italy. Beginning with the explosive ideals of F.T. Marinetti’s Futurist manifesto in 1909, which celebrated the energy of modern cities, the exhibition traces how Futurists envisioned dynamic, transformative urban spaces as a break from Italy’s agrarian landscape. During the 1920s and 1930s, the modernist ambition of young architects close to Italian Rationalism came to clash with the Fascist regime’s aesthetic priorities, which left some space for experimentation but also stifled much of their innovation. To this day, this architectural legacy—both real and imagined—shapes our vision and reading of Italy’s urban spaces.
November 19
- Istituto Italiano di Cultura NY – Tuesday, November 19, 2024 – 4:00 -6:00 pm
Voices of Heritage
From Beneventan manuscripts to modern music through the lens of innovation.
November 20
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, November 20, 2024 – 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Tredicesima Strada, New York, gli anni ’80, la coppia (in ITALIAN)
Author Luciana Capretti in conversation with Anna Guaita, journalist Antonio Monda, NYU.
Due anime in una si raccontano in un intenso memoir che è la storia di un grande amore sullo sfondo dei favolosi anni Ottanta.
- Istituto Italiano di Cultura NY – Wednesday, November 20, 2024 – 6pm – 8:00pm
“Sola, perduta, abbandonata”
UmbriaEnsemble String Quartet Angelo Cicillini Violino I Cecilia Rossi Violino II Luca Ranieri Viola Maria Cecilia Berioli Violoncello Maria Luisa Gozzi Voce narrante.
November 21
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Thursday, November 21, 2024 – 7:00 pm
Forgotten Gems with Richard Peña. In conversation with Antonio Monda
Richard Peña, Fmr Prof. of Cinema Studies, Columbia University. Fmr Program Director, Film at Lincoln Center in conversation with Antonio Monda, NYU. Forgotten Gems is a series that takes place at Casa Italiana as part of the literary festival Le Conversazioni that focuses on films that the speakers believe worthy of being [re]discovered. Antonio Monda and his guest each choose three films to present and discuss (accompanied by clips). This season’s second guest is film expert Richard Peña. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura NY – Thursday, November 21, 2024 – 6pm
Respighi Liriche, in prima mondiale per Naxos Records e Carnegie Hall
Masterclass e presentazione musicale del progetto discografico respighiano per Naxos Records - Istituto Italiano di Cultura NY – Thursday, November 21, 2024 7:00 – 20:30 pm
Caroline Cheung, Jorge Otero-Pailos & Karyn Olivier – Material Afterlives
How does the passage of time transform the cultural value of a material object? Do objects gain—or lose—purpose or meaning? The artist and preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos (2022 Resident), the Princeton University classicist Caroline Cheung (2017 Fellow), and the artist and professor Karyn Olivier (2019 Fellow) will explore the theme of afterlives in the context of their work, moderated by AAR President Peter N. Miller. Bringing together visual arts, historic preservation, and archaeology, this panel will shed light on the constantly changing nature of what surrounds us.
November 25
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, November 25, 2024 – 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
La portalettere (Part 1), Francesca Giannone
Casa Italiana hosts this book club online on the Zoom platform to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak.
November 26
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, November 26, 2024 – 6:00 pm
Temples of Science “What Makes It Italian?” Music + Architecture 2
“What Makes It Italian?” is a music listening and discussion group that meets online on the Zoom platform and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who has also guided listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y; acted as maestro del coro for opera in Italy; instructed music at The New School; and directed Underworld Productions.
December 2
- Casa Italiana -Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, December 2, 2024 – 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The Stone Witch of Florence A novel by Anna Rasche
Join Anna Rasche, author of The Stone Witch of Florence and Stefanie Lieberman, Senior Literary Agent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates, for a lively conversation on how debut novels get published, the current market for historical fiction, and how a medieval Italian setting fits into all of this. Discussion will be moderated by Dr. Alison Cornish, NYU Professor of Italian Studies.
December 3
- Casa Italiana -Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, December 3, 2024 – 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Queering Italian Americana Creative Voices, Academic Reflections, New Directions. A Day of Study
Born out of the Tiro a Segno graduate seminar entitled “Queering the Italian American Bildungsroman,” this event will showcase the graduate students’s final projects from the course. Additionally, it will feature four queer Italian American authors, and invite them to read from their works. Two Italian American scholars will deliver papers on literary and media considerations of queer Italian American topics.
December 4
- Casa Italiana – Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, December 4, 2024 – 6:30 pm
Vita Meravigliosa [In ITALIAN] A Portrait in Music and Verse of Patrizia Cavalli
Vita meravigliosa è un ritratto in versi e in musica di Patrizia Cavalli, tra i poeti italiani contemporanei più letti ed amati. Attraverso poesie, prose e canzoni, lo spettacolo ci introduce in un ricco e variegato mondo poetico, con uno spazio particolare dedicato all’oggetto prediletto di questi versi: il sempre aperto teatro amoroso, con le sue precarie ossessioni, gelosie, estasi e malinconie. Ma non c’è solo l’amore: ogni oggetto su cui si posa questa poesia diventa più leggero e più vivo, più intenso. Ascoltate qui, a teatro, lette e interpretate da Iaia Forte, in un efficacissimo congegno narrativo sostenuto dalla musica e dalle canzoni di Diana Tejera, questi versi ci fanno riconoscere, ancora più immediatamente, tutta la irresistibile felicità di questa poesia.
