April 28
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, April 28, 2025 – 6:00 pm
La Madre Italia
Anthologies are communities. And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere won, “La letteratura delle radici,” prize for anthologies in Italy. Now it will be presented for the first time in English. Join us for a gathering of Italian American women writers– Annie Lanzillotto, Jennifer Romanello, Luisa Del Giudice, Kathryn Curto, Jean Feraca, Joanna Clapps Herman, Chiara Montalto, Gail Reitano, Dr. Loretta D’Orsogna who will be reading from their essays and talking with the audience about what it means to be an Italian American woman living outside of la madre Italia. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura NY – Monday, April 28, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Opera: vecchie radici, nuovi orizzonti. Sviluppo del pubblico e il progetto Opera out of Opera
Michelangelo Galeati è direttore d’orchestra, educatore e organizzatore internazionale nel mondo della musica classica. Rinomato per la sua arte dinamica e il suo approccio innovativo, è professore al Conservatorio “Santa Cecilia” di Roma. Oltre al suo ruolo di insegnante, ricopre posizioni rilevanti come Delegato per i progetti internazionali, membro della Commissione internazionale e parte del Consiglio accademico, promuovendo l’impegno globale dell’istituzione. Dal 2000, Michelangelo Galeati è stato una pietra miliare nella creazione e gestione di importanti iniziative culturali europee come Erasmus+ e Creative Europe. La sua competenza si estende alla promozione della collaborazione internazionale e dello sviluppo del pubblico, rendendolo una figura fondamentale nei progetti culturali transnazionali, sostenendo metodologie educative innovative per coltivare il talento in tutte le discipline.
April 29
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, April 29, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin
The eighth and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features the conductor and Music Director of Opera Philadelphia Corrado Rovaris.
April 30
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, April 30, 2025 – 5:30 pm
Is Innovation Grammatically Correct?
The launch of The Grammar of Innovation: A Literary Exploration of Technological and Organizational Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) offers an opportunity to engage in a thought-provoking conversation on the role of interdisciplinarity in higher education. To celebrate its release, a roundtable discussion will bring together perspectives from the corporate world as well as academics from humanities, sociology, and management studies: such distinct and distant perspectives will highlight the crucial role of interdisciplinarity in higher education – indeed, fundamental to equipe students with tools to navigate and govern complex challenges – as well as barriers and obstacles to being accepted in academia and in corporations. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura NY – Wednesday, April 30, 2025 –6:30 pm
“Il Mecenate” di Massimiliano Finazzer Flory – Proiezione film
Presentato in anteprima a Venezia nell’ambito degli eventi organizzati in occasione dell’81ª Mostra Internazionale dell’Arte Cinematografica, il film documentario Il Mecenate, diretto da Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, racconta del primo mecenate della modernità: Galeazzo Arconati. Senza di lui non avremmo una storia di grande bellezza. Non avremmo tutti i Leonardo da Vinci che possiamo ammirare alla Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
Il Mecenate è un docu fiction che mescola piani temporali, racconto e interviste, storia e attualità di un luogo magico, lascito di una grande personalità del passato, che ha contribuito allo sviluppo del tessuto culturale di Milano.
May 1
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Thursday, May 1, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Delirious Verse
Please join us for a presentation of the new book Delirious Verse, an English translation of an impromptu talk given by the Italian poet Amelia Rosselli in the early 1980s, during which she read aloud and elaborated on her trilingual poetics and dissident metrical theories. Edited and translated by Andrea di Serego Alighieri and Phil Baber. With an afterword by Andrea di Serego Alighieri and a revised translation of Rosselli’s seminal essay Metrical Spaces by Jennifer Scappettone. Published by The Last Books, Spring 2025.
May 5
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, May 5, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Lampedusa Beach
Written by Lina Prosa, Directed by Nadia Kibout, with Nadia Kibout and Daniele Onorati. The story of “Lampedusa Beach” begins with the actress carrying the baggage of her memory on stage and beginning her slow descent into the abyss. Nadia Kibout is Shauba, an African migrant who drowns near the shores of the island of Lampedusa. In that inexorable time Shauba recounts minute by minute the chronicle of her end.
The actress thus brings to life the “Theatre of the Shipwreck.” She fulfills her mythical function of giving body to those who are not there and name to those who do not have it. Before her is the audience, facing its responsibilities. The narrative represents the very current issue of migrants.
May 6
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, May 6, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Alfredino, Italy in a Deep Well
On the evening of June 10, 1981 six year old Alfredo (Alfredino) Rampi fell 36 meters deep into a well in Vermicino, a village near Rome. In the next 35 hours, Italy was glued to the TV watching the first non-stop live broadcast to cover the attempt to save him. It was a turning point in the history of Italian TV, which is still studied in journalism schools and where the modern sensationalist way of dealing with news was born. Fabio Banfo brings the story back to life, introducing in his solo show the many characters that filled that night: the first journalist who rushed to the scene, the sandwich seller who profited from the attending crowd, President Pertini, the robots Mazinga and Grendizer, which Alfredino was passionate about, the policeman who spoke with him for hours to try to reassure him and give him hope, Angelo Licheri, who remained for forty minutes hanging upside down in the well, trying to save the child. At the core of the narration there is Alfredino, in that deep well together with the entire country. - Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, May 6, 2025 – 8:00 pm
In the Name of Mary
The show is inspired by and reworks a mafia news story that occurred in Palermo on 14 November 1982 and which led to the death of the young Sicilian policeman Calogero Zucchetto, who in that period was working with the Palermo Mobile Squad in the search for mafia affiliates. The point of view of the show is from his girlfriend Maria Lo Bello, tormented in the years following the loss by the question: “Could it have gone differently?”. For the entire duration of the show, the protagonist responds unaware to this question, with a true and ironic, fragile and disenchanted stream of consciousness, recounting the meeting and pursuing the love that led her to get engaged to Calogero (Lillo for friends) Zucchetto.
May 7
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, May 7, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Storia di una brava ragazza
If being born a girl can complicate your life, imagine being born a girl in a Roman borgata at the end of the 1970s. Growing up, discovering the opposite sex, the class differences, and shame. Then leaving for the other side of the world, getting married, having children, getting divorced, building a career—with all the effort it takes to change your own destiny.
May 8
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Thursday, May 8, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Essere Lila
Taking inspiration from Lila, the iconic character from My Brilliant Friend, this event explores themes of misogyny, independence, and defiance in different realities in Southern Italy. Actress Irene Maiorino, who played Lila in the acclaimed TV series based on Elena Ferrante’s bestseller, and journalist Angela Vitaliano will discuss the similarities and differences between the world portrayed in the series and other contexts—perhaps less desperate, yet still marked by oppressive structures that seek to silence disruptive voices. A thought-provoking conversation on how women challenge and redefine their space in societies that still struggle to fully embrace them.
May 9
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Friday, May 9, 2025 – 8:00 pm
The Pope’s: Instruction for Freedom
Italy 13th Century – the Guglielmites heretical sect causes havoc in Milan. Their leader, Guglielma of Bohemia, believed to be the second coming of the Holy Spirit, appoints Sister Maifreda, as her Popess. and together heralds a new female-led era, where only women could save humanity from eternal suffering. It did not take long for the inquisition to find out about the congregation and its beliefs… The Popess is a dark comedy solo-show, which unravels the mystery of a true early feminist movement in the Italian misogynistic religious history, investigating the discrepancies between religion, faith and power and, ultimately, the meaning of freedom.
