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A lecture by
Jonathan Fargion, Landscape Designer

Focusing on the concept of landscape design and gardens through the evolution of Homo sapiens, from the agricultural revolution, through the need of expressing religious thoughts, to the rise of the magnificent ornamental gardens that reigned for a long time in history in the homes of the richest and most powerful elites. Reaching an apex with the gardens of the Italian renaissance, where nature is under the strict human control and rigor.

Salon Sanctuary Concerts and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò

present

I Sacri Musicali Affetti
Barbara Strozzi​

Jessica Gould, soprano
Elena Biscuola, mezzo-soprano
Paula Chateauneuf & Catherine Liddell, theorbo
Christa Patton, baroque harp
Katie Rietman, baroque cello
Caitlyn Koester, chamber organ​

Antonio Monda (NYU) announces the theme of the 2019 edition of Le Conversazioni.

Followed by a screening of the documentary Happiness directed by Francesco Zippel about the previous edition (2018) with Ian Buruma, Dave Eggers, David Mamet, Helen Oyeyemi, Benjamin Taylor, and Vendela Vida.

A lecture by
Raffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union

This conversation, part of the Italian Creators of our Times series, is with Luca Rossettini and Mauro Nardocci, the founders of two companies specializing, respectively, in cleaning the sky, D-Orbit, and the oceans, Seads (Sea Defence Solutions).

Rainbow Jubilee is a series of three events that Casa Italiana put together with its theater company in residence KIT to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The events will feature LGBTQ theater respectively from Italy (February 25th), the US (March 25th) and from the rest of the world (April 15th): three events of live performance to discover how much LGBTQ topics have been portrayed on stage and by what means.

This Kairos Italy Theater production tells the story of Elena Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman to earn a doctorate from a university. Voices of her life, including from Elena, take us back to 1600, with violin playing in the background.

Performed by Laura Caparrotti.

This event is part of WHAM, Women History Artist Month, at Goddard Riverside The Bernie Wohl Center presenting performing and visual arts by and about women

This talk in Italian will be accompanied by a translation in English.

Speaker Giovanni Bazoli is the president emeritus of Intesa Sanpaolo, president of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, and emeritus professor of law, Università Cattolica di Milano.

In Whom We Shall Welcome (Fordham University Press, 2019), Danielle Battisti examines post–World War II immigration by Italians to the United States. The book looks at efforts by Italian American organizations to foster Italian immigration along with the lobbying efforts of others in the community to change the quota laws. While Italian Americans (and other white ethnics) had attained virtual political and social equality with many other ethnic populations by the end of the war, Italians nonetheless continued to be classified as undesirable immigrants.

The Center for Italian Modern Art is pleased to announce a workshop, for children age 6 -11, led by museum educators and scholars in residence. By incorporating close observation with guided conversation and an artistic activity, children develop meaningful and lasting relationships with art in an intimate exhibition environment.