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Please join Umberto Vattani, President of ICE, Italian Trade Commission, Rosario Messina, President of FederlegnoArredo, and Carlo Guglielmi, President of Cosmit at the Grand Opening Ceremony of "Italian Design Street Walking" in honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of I Saloni (The Milan Furniture Fair)

Celebrate the excellence of Italian Design and toast the holiday season
with festive Italian eats, sweets and vino!

Rai Corporation and the Dante Alighieri Society of New York cordially invite you to celebrate the book launch of "Se tu fossi qui" (Cairo editore) by Maria Pia Ammirati.
Panel discussion with:
Claudio Angelini, New York Dante Alighieri Society President
Massimo Magliaro, Chairman & CEO of Rai Corporation
Paolo Valesio, Columbia University

Professor Giancarlo Elia Valori in conversation with Professor Giuseppe Ammendola. IACC Economic Advisor

Join us for a very special evening with EMI Music recording artists Bell’Aria, a new vocal quintet of young Italian Americans whose fresh interpretations of classic Italian American songs celebrate the music that helped to shape and define the immigrant experience, not only for Americans of Italian descent, but for everyone who loves all things Italian.  Bell’Aria’s debut CD Little Italy will be released on November 23, 2010.

A press conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the opera's world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera.

A video screening, a piano recital and a performance by the tenor Marcello Giordani will follow the conference.

With the participation of Simonetta Puccini, Walfredo Toscanini and Deborah Burton.

A lecture by Frank Gerard Godlewski on Angel Orensanz's installation

Born in Montclair, Frank Gerard Godlewski attended Montclair Academy and MKA, graduated from The Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York and worked on a Doctorate of Research in Architectural Composition at the Institute of Architecture in Venice, Italy.

The Director of the Italian Government Tourism Board Riccardo Strano and the Executive Manager of Tourism Promotion Piemonte Angelo Feltrin gladly invite you to a presentation of the region of Piedmont.

Learn more about new winter tourism opportunities and latest tourism development and attractions for REGIONE PIEMONTE!

Local specialties will be served

In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles

IN PURGATORY (IN PURGATORIO)
directed by Giovanni Cioni
produced by Teatri Uniti
Italy/France/Belgium, 2009 (72 min)

Film screening SUSO. CONVERSAZIONI CON MARGHERITA D'AMICO, Luca Zingaretti, Italy, 2007 (58', in Italian, English subtitles).
 
Followed by "Screenwriting Italy: A conversation on Suso Cecchi D'Amico"
with Caterina D'Amico, Masolino D'Amico, Antonio Monda and Kent Jones.
 
and
 
BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET [I soliti ignoti], Mario Monicelli, Italy, 1958 (106', in Italian, English subtitles)
Thanks to The Criterion Collection

A lecture by Giorgio Bertellini (University of Michigan and Tiro a Segno Professor of Italian American Studies, NYU).