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The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) celebrates its 18th Anniversary with two extraordinarily gifted writers, one of whom is also a Dante scholar and a distinguished translator, Angelo Verga, who will share the stage with Michael Palma, a scholar, editor and poet. Additionally, in honor of National Poetry Month, participants at the Open Mic are requested to read at least one piece written by an Italian American author they have been influenced by.

Author Anna Mione will speak about the transition of her novel Sicilian Seduction to a stage play.

Local Author to the Huddson Valley, Anna Mione, will speak about the transition of her novel Sicilian Seduction to a stage play.
Her works are historical fiction with a focus on Sicilian immigration and culture. Sicilian Seduction is part of her first trilogy, but is the last one to be published.
The others novels are:Sicilian Tales, The Matriarch,The Diva, and The Patriarch. The Matriarch Conclusion and Sicilian Love Story.

Commissione Giovani New York, Commissione Giovani New Jersey, in collaboration with “The Sunday” and Cipriani invite the community to join them as they raise funds to help the survivors from the earthquake that hit Abruzzo on Monday.

Admission:
$25.00 minimum donation

Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò
together with
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

presents

"The Films of Gianni Amelio:
The Search for a Cinema of Social Conscience, True to His Roots"
written by
Antonio Vitti
Professor of Italian • Indiana University
Metauro Edizioni, 2009
Pp. 511. ISBN 978-88-6156-021-5
$25.00

This is part of the “Italy at Columbia: a Series of Free Public Lectures by Columbia Professors. Sponsored by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America Columbia University.

A lecture by Thomas F. Mayer of Augustana College. Light refreshments will follow.
Presented by the Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies

In 1988, Italian surgeon Luigi Strada founded the humanitarian organization, Emergency, to help civilian victims of war. Today the organization operates in 13 war-torn countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Rwanda. Dr. Chiara Megighian Zenati will talk about the assistance that has been given to more than 2,750,000 people all over the world.
Admission: free and open to the public

Il cerchio di gesso. Primo Levi narratore e testimone
(Bologna: Edizioni Pendragon, 2007)

By Franco Baldasso (NYU)

(Pomeriggi di lettura series)

Book presentation with the author. Introductory remarks by

John Freccero (NYU)
Rabbi Sacha Pecaric
Andrea Fiano (Primo Levi Center)