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Luncheon and fashion show preview of spring/summer collection 2010. Acclaimed Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli will showcase his fall/winter 2009 collection at a luncheon to benefit the Westchester Italian CulturalCenter.
Admission: $75 and $100; advanced reservations required. Please call for information or tickets.

 A Futuristic Culinary Experience: Actors from Sicily’s Piccolo Teatro di Catania will offer a playful, thespian version of “futuristic recipes,” an experience not to exalt the palate but where spontaneous expressions and movement become a single body. Text of Marinetti and others with the actors of the Piccolo Teatro di Catania: Nicola Alberto Orofino, Anna Passanisi, Gianni Salvo; music by Pietro Cavalieri; directed by Gianni Salvo.

Bilingual reading of Italian dialect poetry at the Cornelia St. Cafè, with great poems in Sicilian, Calabrese, Abruzzese, Neapolitan, Romanesco, and other dialects.
Featuring Emelise Aleandri, Luigi Bonaffini, Gaetano Cipolla, Nino Del Duca, Gil Fagiani, Marisa Marcelli, Fiorentina Russo, Joseph Tusiani.

Admission: $7

After the 9\11 attack Art Spiegelman, worldwide famous Maus' author and downtown newyorker, designs a series of comics about "his own" 9/11.

What comes out is a catartic trip , an exorcism against the fear and the mental disorder caused from the tragic event who affected New York and the all world.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents the 47th New York Film Festival which presents a diverse range of features that include the Italian film Vincere by Marco Bellocchio, 2009 and a short film by Paolo Sorrentino.

Lia Levi was born in Pisa on November 9, 1931, to a Jewish family of Piedmontese origins. After the promulgation of the Fascist racial laws in 1938, Lia Levi’s family left northern Italy and found refuge in Rome. Levi remained in Rome, where she completed her studies in philosophy and became a successful journalist. For more than thirty years she has directed the Jewish monthly Shalom.
 

Opening night:
 

October 25, 2009 at 6:00 pm
 

Center for Jewish History, 15, West 16 Street
 

Sessions:
 

Monday, October 26 | 5:00 pm - 9:30 pm  
 

New York University Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò
 

24 West 12 Street
 

During the evening, the Italian pianist Alessio Nanni will play a classical repertory of the following composers: E. Grieg, S.V. Rachmaninov, F. Liszt, J.S. Bach and F.Chopin.

Suggested Admission $10; member $5

Francesco Bearzatti (sax, tenor, clarinet), Giovanni Falzone (trumpet), Danilo Gallo (double bass and acustic bass) and Zeno De Rossi (drums) will perform at a special concert, which is also a tribute to the photographer Tina Modotti from Friuli Region.