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Italian Language and Literature Department Italian Cinema for the New Millennium: Cinema as Witness April 19 – 22, 2007 ? Whitney Humanities Center ? 53 Wall Street, New Haven Film Screenings, WHC Auditorium All films are in Italian with English subtitles Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:30 PM - Perlasca, un eroe italiano (Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man), Alberto Negrin, 2002Friday, April 20, 2007 7:30 PM - Buongiorno, notte (Good Morning Night), Marco Bellocchio, 2003 Saturday, April 21, 2007 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM U.S.

Public conversation, slide show, and radio clips exploring the political career of Fiorello La Guardia and in particular his public and personal involvement, between 1934 and 1945, with the American Anti-Nazi-fascist campaigns, the Jewish Labor Committee, and civilians’ relief during W.W. II. On the occasion of the publication of the memoir of Gemma La Guardia, curated by Rochelle Saidel (Syracuse University Press). Mayor La Guardia’s “Talk to the People” and “Cominc Readings” on WNYC are well known part of New York City history.

Franklin 54GalleryOpere di Aldo Bertolini (Rome, Italy) e James LoParo (New York) Data di apertura venerdì 27 aprile 2007 Data di chiusura domenica 27 maggio 2007 Orari: mercoledì/sabato 11.00/18.00 e su appuntamento L'artista emiliano, residente a Roma, Aldo BERTOLINI espone in una doppia personale con lo scultore statunitense James LOPARO, 15 opere in smalto, terre e matita su rame, presso la Galleria FRANKLIN 54 al Greenwich Village a New York.

I disegni in bianco e nero dell'artista italo-americano saranno gli assoluti "protagonisti" della personale che verrà allestita nel prossimo mese di maggio presso la galleria New Art Center. "Nei miei quadri, così come in questi lavori su carta in bianco e nero, rappresento le 'mie Venezie', la città così come mi piacerebbe che fosse, simile a quella che lasciai ormai cinquant'anni fa, e che ancora oggi vedo spesso in sogno. La mia è la Venezia dei Veneziani, e non quella che conoscono iI turisti".

New York Toasts Italy On May 19, 2007, New York City’s Italophiles will spend the day as if they were in Italy as the Big Apple’s most exclusive and authentic Italian shops, restaurants and personalities converge for “New York Toasts Italy,” an inaugural one-day shopping and dining extravaganza celebrating the best of Italian style.

A restored print of Mafioso, also included in the 2006 New York Film Festival’s program, is being shown at the Fiml Forum through June, 7. The Alberto Lattuada’s 1962 film is about Antonio (Alberto Sordi - the immensely popular star of Fellini’s The White Sheik and I Vitelloni and scores of other movies), a supervisor in a Milan factory who leaves his middle-class, modern life for a vacation in the Sicilian village where he grew up. One of the darkest, most authentic movies about the mob – and the funniest – it pre-dates The Godfather and most other Mafia movies by a decade.

The 10th Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF) has been titled IDENTITY. On the 10th anniversary, BiFF turns inquisitive in the search for a refined identity and a new balance. BiFF 07 is about revelations. It’s about uncovering the truth that lies beneath. It is about revisiting and coming out of the shelf to leave a mark. It’s about being transparent in an opaque system. Ultimately, BiFF 07 is about individuality, personality, distinctiveness, uniqueness, and the courage to be oneself.

An Evening with Michael Amante and Orchestra is also the opening event of QUEENS COLLEGE ALUMNI HOMECOMING WEEKEND (September 15-17). $40: Orch; $34: Mezz/$38, $32: Seniors, Students, Alumni, QCIDOrdere tickets online at Kupferbergcenterarts.org or at (718) 793-8080 Michael Amante is all about love, a true entertainer and showman who captures in song the very heart and soul of pure romance. With a mind-blowing array of styles--from high classical to pop/rock, from gospel to Broadway - Amante redefines an evening of romance with his passionate performance.

The artist collective Alterazioni Video (featured in this year’s Venice Biennale) presents a selection of photographs, drawings and prints focusing on Sicily’s many unfinished public building sites. The Incompiuto Siciliano project reinterprets the Sicilian landscape by cataloging and defining the style and artistic merit of these sites, particularly those in the town of Giarre, Sicily, which the artists dub “the capital of the Incompiuto Siciliano”—a haunting and beautiful collection of places.

Twenty-five years ago, in September 1982, Storefront's first public event got underway in its original Prince Street location. Performance A-Z, organized by the gallery's founders Kyong Park and R L Seltman, and artist Arleen Schloss, was a 26-day sequence of performances by New York-based artists. Each of the 26 performers was allocated one evening slot.