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Opening of Glasstress at the MAD, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, on February the 14th (until June the 10th).
Glasstress is a collateral exhibition of the last two editions of the Venice Biennale of Arts, 2009 and 2011. Its mission is to show the potentialities of glass, namely Murano glass, as a new means of expression for contemporary artists (more info at www.glasstress.org).

The Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy, founded in 1824, is among the most important collections of Egyptian art outside of Cairo. Its treasures include the famous contents, discovered intact, from the Tomb of Kha. This is the first Italian state museum to be privatized (2005) with remarkable results. It is one of the most dynamic museums in Italy and is now ranked as the 9th most visited one (and 93rd in the world). Since taking over as Director in 2005, New Yorker and NYU Institute of Fine Arts graduate Dr.

North/South Consonance, Inc. continues its 32nd consecutive season of free-admission concerts on Sunday afternoon February 19. The event will feature the acclaimed North/South Chamber Orchestra under the direction of its founder Max Lifchitz performing five works especially written for the occasion by composers representing three different generations.

They are: Ada Gentile, Yalil Guerra, Victor Kioulaphides, Harold Schiffman and Aurelio de la Vega.
Soprano: Anne Marie Ketchum
Direttore: Max Lifchitz

Enrico Rava is currently playing at a peak of lyrical invention, and his newest Italian quintet may be his strongest yet. Only Gianluca Petrella is retained from “The Words and the Days” line-up. Voted Rising Star Trombonist in the Down Beat Critics Poll of 2005, Petrella has a front-line relationship with Rava which recalls Enrico’s affinity with Roswell Rudd back in the heyday of the New Thing. Fast-moving, quick-witted exchanges abound.

The Association Fiorentini nel Mondo and the European School of Economics, in collaboration with the Association Toscani nel Mondo and the St. John’s University, is organising an exhibition named “Amerigo’s America – Florene and the merchants of the New World”, dedicated to Amerigo Vespucci to celebrate the 500th anniversary of his death.

The opening, preceeded by a conference, will take place on wednesday February 22nd starting at 6 PM at the Manhattan Campus of St John’s University in New York.

Brooklyn, NY: Roulette presents Marco Cappelli’s IDR (Italian Doc Remix). IDR is a project created by Marco Cappelli amp; Jim Pugliese and for this concert will feature special guest, DJ Logic. An artistic exchange between Cappelli and Pugliese, IDR attempts to reflect the process of memory’s distortion of the second/third immigrants generation, living in the New York, a cultural melting pot. IDR intends to express firm traditional backgrounds and present the audience with a strong sense of culture, geography and chronology.

Zeitgeist Films presents the U.S. theatrical premiere of THE SALT OF LIFE, director Gianni Di Gregorio’s ingenious follow-up to his 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch.
With THE SALT OF LIFE, writer-director-actor Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comedy, this time with a dash of the bittersweet.
THE SALT OF LIFE will have its U.S. theatrical premiere on March 2 in New York, at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and the IFC Center.

Festival of Pirandello one acts
The Players, the Pirandello Society of America and Jane House Productions present all the one-act plays of Luigi Pirandello. The festival will take place at The Players, a Greek Revival townhouse which was the home of the great American Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth. Booth and fifteen others, including Mark Twain, founded the club for “the promotion of social intercourse between memebers of the dramatic profession and kindred professions of literature, painting, architecture, sculpture and music, law and medicine,and the patron of the arts”.

Acclaimed Italian performer Maria Cassi makes her American debutin MY LIFE WITH MEN… AND OTHER ANIMALSMarch 9 amp; 10 at Madison Theater at Molloy College in Rockville Center, NYMarch 15-18 at New York’s 45th Street TheaterThe accomplished Italian theater artist Maria Cassi will make her American stage debut this March in the international hit MY LIFE WITH MEN… AND OTHER ANIMALS, a hilarious and poignant semi-autobiographical look at what makes up la dolce vita and the lifelong process of figuring it out.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Hofstra Cultural Center
presents Rabbi Barbara Aiello
Italy’s First Female Rabbi
“The Jews of Southern Italy: A Lost History Rediscovered”
. Rabbi Aiello’s mission starts in southern Italy where she works to help “anousim”
(Italians whose ancestors were forced into conversion from Judaism) discover and
connect with their Jewish roots. Rabbi Aiello extends the hand of Jewish welcome
to Italians and Italian Americans who want to know more about their Jewish heritage.