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"LIBRI COME" - FESTIVAL OF BOOKS AND READING in collaboration with Fondazione Musica per Roma, this is the New York Session of Rome’s “Festa del Libro e della Lettura”, a key-event in the panorama of Italian literary festivals. Two days for acclaimed Italian and American authors to converse, be interviewed by journalists, and interact with the audience, revealing their “trade secrets”. Insiders’ views of books as they are written will be presented and commented upon.

ALBERTO MORAVIA REALITY AND FICTION Twenty years from Moravia's death In collaboration with the New York Review of Books, the Italian Cultural Institute will host an international symposium to survey the impact of Moravia's fiction and journalism on the idea of Italy in the American culture and imagination.

Presentation ofIMAF, which is an annual competition on Video, Visual Arts, Music, Literature. The 2010-2011 is the first year this competition takes place and the theme is “Art your Food”. The choice of food as base of the 2010-2011 IMAF is due to the fact it is an element that all the different cultures have in common and so it is a good way to make artists reflect upon the current idea of multiculture. The organizational committee will choose and public on the website the names of the forty finalists (ten for every category) and the public will be able to vote his favourite one.

EVENT CANCELLEDLA CULTURA ITALIANA: PRESENTATION OF THE MONUMENTAL NEW ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE ITALIAN CIVILIZATIONIn collaboration with UTET Publishing HouseThe first great encyclopaedia devoted to the whole cultural development of the Italian Peninsula published by UTET one of Italy’s oldest publishing houses. Twelwe huge breathtaking tomes to describe how the Italian civilization has evolved since ancient times to the present and how one of the most complex and sophisticated cultures of the world has been transmitted, modified and enriched through the centuries.

"DAYS OF ANTONIO" by Dario D'Ambrosi (English subtitled) The movie, inspired by a real incident happened in the '20s in a family residing in the countryside around Milan (Varedo), tells the story of a handicapped child, who is locked up in a poultry house and rises with the chickens, identifying its functions with those of the rooster. The film focuses on the psychiatric treatment of this man and the relationships he establishes with other patients at the psychiatric hospital.With the partecipation of the director Dario D'Ambrosi and the protagonist Celeste Moratti.R.S.V.P.

The Italian Cultural Institute in New York with Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy`s Coca Cola, Tuscia in Jazz, Comune di Orsara present ITALIAN JAZZ DAYS October 7-16 November 2-7 Tuesday, November 2 - Sunday, November 7 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm (Friday and Saturday also at 11:30 pm)DADO MORONI QUINTET Dizzy`s Club Coca-Cola: Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway at 60th Street, 5th Floor, NY Tickets: 212 258 9595 www.jalc.org or www.twinsmusic.it On the occasion of “Italian Jazz Days” the pianist and composer Dado Moroni leads his quintet in a week-long set of performances at Dizzy`s Club Coca Cola.

SCREENING OF “GIALLO A MILANO: MADE IN CHINATOWN”The documentary “Giallo a Milano: made in Chinatown” presents Milan’s Chinatown, Italy’s oldest and Europe’s largest Chinese community, in an intimate and open light. It focuses on the hopes, fears and contributions of Chinese migrants as well as their thoughts regarding work, relationships, stereotypes and life in Italy. “Giallo a Milano: made in Chinatown” hasparticipated inover twenty festivals and alsothe 2010 Shanghai Expo.

N.I.C.E. Festival New Italian Cinema Events The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to present N.I.C.E. in NY. On this occasion Nina di Majo, director of the movie with Fabio Volo and Margherita Buy “Weddings and other Disasters”, will attend the festival's press conference. R.S.V.P.: 212 879 4242 ext 361

Screening of "WEDDINGS AND OTHER DISASTERS"with the participation of:Nina di Majo, movie's directorFabio Volo, protagonistThe film tells the story of Nana’, a forty years old woman who runs a small bookstore in Florence. Despite the constant nagging of her well-to-do family, she has no intention of making anything more of her life. As for her sentimental interests she has pretty much given up on finding her Prince Charming, in fact the unpleasant end to what she thought was the love of her life has left her allergic to the very idea of matrimony.

I Saloni Milano - New YorkA round table on italian design
With the partecipation of:Bill Moggridge - Directorof Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Stephen Burks - Industrial designer Cinzia Ferrara - Architect, President of APILFranco Raggi - ArchitectIn collaboration with COSMITBy invitation only