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Special Presentation of a book trilogy by the Italian author Franco Scaglia.Franco Scaglia is a journalist, and has worked for much of his time in Middle East. He works for the Italian broadcasting company RAI and is the vicepresident of RAISAT.He has written novels anddramas. He was finalist for the CampielloAward with "Margherita vuole il regno" and won the first prize with "Il custode dell'acqua" in 2002. RSVP: 914 813 0225Info: [email protected]

I Solisti di Teatro Regio di Parma and Ludmil Angelov, with choruses of the New England Symphonic Ensemble.Info: www.carniegehall.org

"The imperfect dialects of experience", exhibition by Stefano Losi RSVP: [email protected] Losi was born in 1969 by Lake Como, near Milan, where he was raised closely following the classical oil artwork of his grandfather
After having received his graduate degree at the Luigi Bocconi University in 1993, he worked in different management roles at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and other international institutions, and was nominated Knight of the Italian Republic by President Ciampi in 2005

The Department of Italian at Columbia University in collaboration withThe Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America is proud to presentIPR 2008: Poetry in Italy, Poetry in AmericaOrganized by Paolo ValesioPresentation of the new issue of the Italian Poetry Review (IPR) withPoetry Readings and Round TablePoetry readings by:Alfredo De Palchi (Director of "Chelsea Publications")Richard Howard (Columbia)Davide Rondoni (Director of the Center for Contemporary Poetry, Bologna)Susan Stewart (Princeton)Mark Strand (Columbia)Translation readings by Graziella Sidoli (Convent of the Sacred Heart

Screening of the movie "His secret life". A Lecture by turkish director Ferzan Ozpetec will follow RSVP: [email protected]

The 'Culture of Compassion' charity event will be composed of musical entertainment 'Opera on Tap', a silent art auction, door prizes and food.

Conversation with writer and director Mauro Aprile Zanetti ("La Natura Morta de La Dolce Vita") and Millicent Marcus (Yale) onPointings and Meanings of the Italian Film. A screening of "La Dolce Vita" will follow. RSVP: mail to: [email protected]

Zerilli-Marimo'/City of Rome Prize for Italian Fiction. Awarding cerimony. With the participation of: Milena Agus "Mal di Pietre" (Nottetempo, 2006); Mario Calabresi "Spingendo la notte piu' in la" (Mondadori 2007); Andrej Longo "Dieci" (Adelphi, 2007)

Italia Arabia: Art Exhibition and Forum curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath. The exhibition reveals the historical and contemporary co-influences of the Italian-Arab visual and artistic cultures.

"Matter and Memory"Matilde SolignoOpening December 10, 20086-10 PMCurated by Virginia Villari ENNAGON GALLERY48-50 Greene Street, 5th floorNew York, NY 10013http://www.ennagon.com/December 10-21, 2008Mon-Sat 11 am - 6 pm+1 212 343 0055+1 917 365 2274Sponsored byDUGGAL - Visual Solutions29 W 23rd StreetNew York, NY 10010www.duggal.com--http://www.matildesoligno.net/