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The Ibla Grand Prize International Music Competition, celebrating 20th anniversary this year, has become one of the world’s cultural treasures. Held each summer in the magnificent southeastern corner of Sicily, in the quietly beautiful and charming Baroque city of Ragusa-Ibla, this competition has proven to be a consistent and world-class showcase for musical talent of the highest order.

The Italian American Museum will present the restoration of the statue damaged by the earthquake.
Pietranico. On April 6th, exactly two years after the earthquake of L'Aquila, the Italian American Museum in New York will host, with support from the Deputy Commissioner of the artistic heritage Luciano Marchetti, the presentation of the restoration of the statue of the Madonna of Pietranico. Please call for further information. Seating is limited. Please RSVP.

The spring 2011 concert series at Columbia University's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies will feature soprano Lucy Shelton in a program of vocal chamber music.
Messiaen: "Harawi" with Cristina Stanescu, piano.

A gathering of some two dozen poets, editors, translators, publishers of literary journals, and several curators of literary reading series.

Among the participants are Peter Caravetta, Paola Corso, Gil Fagiani, Luigi Fontanella, Marisa Frasca, Daniela Gioseffi, George Guida, Annie Lanzillotto, Maria Lisella, Stephen Massimilla, Nick Matros, Alfredo de Palchi, Michael Palma, Frank Polizzi, Bob Quatrone, Vittoria repetto, Susan Scutti, Michael La Sorsa Steffen, Al Taconelli, Maria Terrone, Robert Viscusi, and Angelo Zeolla.

Spring is in the air, and it’s time to move from the indoor court to the outdoor court! We have a lot of work ahead of us: sweeping and leveling the court, watering, packing, and smoothing the clay, refurbishing the sideboards and backboards, upgrading the rubber bumper, refreshening the tricolor score board, recalibrating the Bocce Cup MeasurerTM, and polishing the pallino so that we are in keeping with the Bocce Standards Association best practices for bocce courts.
 

"I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century." With that, Joanna Clapps Herman concisely describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing up as the child of Italian-American immigrants in Waterbury, Connecticut. They were Aviglianese and Tolvese, and everything 'Merican was inferior. It was a place embedded with values closer to Homer's Greece than to Anglo-American New England, an intensely hierarchical home with prescribed gender roles. Though it was full of passion, the word "sex" was never uttered.

Distinguished panelists include: Evelyn C. Granieri, MD, MPH, MSEd, Chief of Geriatric Medicine at Columbia University; Judith D. Grimaldi, JD, CELA, CSW, Partner, Grimaldi & Yeung LLP; Rachel Hadas, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University; Victor F. Imbimbo, Jr. President & CEO of Caring Today; Jo Anne Sirey, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by The Greater New York Region The National Organization of Italian American Women.

Honoring Commendatore Peter S. Kalikow, President H.J. Kalikow & Company and the Honorable Kenneth P. LaValle, New York State Senate. Please call for further information.
Admission: $125.00

Daniela GIoseffi will host Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Fran Castan to read for Women's History Month from their latest books which will be on sale at authors' discount and for signing.
Sponsored by
29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan
Admission:  $7 (admission & drink); open to the public