IAWA Italian American Writers Association Newsletter August 2011
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Saturday August 13thth – 5:45 pm – 7:45pm.
Poetry and Prose Feature plus Open Mike
Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia St., Manhattan
212-989-9319; http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
$7 minimum includes one drink
Come in time to sign up at 5:45 pm.
Bring poetry Bring prose Bring script Bring a friend
5 minute time limit for open mike
Feature Readers: Kathryn M. Fazio and Gabriella Belfiglio
The reading takes place Saturday, August 13th, 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., at the Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan, 212-989-9319. The evening starts with Open Mike readings of five minutes each.
Kathryn Marie Fazio, whose work has been published internationally, is a poet and fine artist. She was awarded the Ferrara Scholarship from the Performing and Creative Arts Department of the College of Staten Island CUNY, and named its Poet Laureate. Her book, A Taste of Hybrid Vigor: new poems of War, Passion, and Social Significance, contains poems and pictures of her original oil paintings and her poem “War” in the collection, won her the First Ed-Rehberg Prize for poetry, which was translated into French and televised in Haiti by the Education Committee of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.
Fazio participated in a FUSE event to raise money for the aftermath of Katrina, was a poet for telethon to support public television in Kingston, NY. and has recited on the Brooklyn Waterfront in Red Hook for Creative Arts Therapy Outreach and Awareness. Fazio was coined a Bowery Woman, appearing in the only Bowery Women Anthology ever published.
Fazio credits her close relationship with Robert Dunn for encouraging her to participate in the 5th World Congress of Poets for Poetry Research and Recitation where she represented the U.S., and was awarded the Silla Gold Crown World Peace Literature Prize from Korea. Fazio edited a collection of poems Our World in an Onion and is currently a poet at a Wellness Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Gabriella M. Belfiglio was born in Philadelphia, PA. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from Antioch College as well as an MFA in Poetry from American University.Her writing has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Folio, The Centrifugal Eye, the award-winning Poetic Voices without Borders, and Avanti Popolo. She is one of five emerging Brooklyn writers featured in the anthology The Dream Catcher’s Song.
Belfiglio is an artist and social activist. She is a member of the Malìa Collective of Italian American Women and recently participated in the Centennial commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Since 1991, the organization has given voice to writers through its Open Reading series at Cornelia St. Café every month.
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Events:
Tuesday, August 2 Reading: Claudine D’Angelo-Dotzman will read from her debut novel, Of Asphalt and Earth. A story of immigration and finding one’s place in a new land for generations. She will be joined by Dan Pope, author of In the Cherry Tree. 7pm Westside Classroom Building, Room 218 Western Connecticut State University Westside Campus, 3 Lake Avenue Ext,. Danbury, CT 06811
Saturday, August 6 Play: Soliloquy For A Seamstress: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire A One-Act three character drama written and performed by LuLu LoLo In this play LuLu LoLo portrays the young seamstress Sarafina Saracino who shares drudgery and dreams with her little sister Teresina unaware they are about to perish in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; their Italian immigrant mother; and a young reporter William Gunn Shepherd who witnessed the fire and speaks of the infamous trail that acquitted the factory owners of any blame for the tragedy. http://www.lululolo.com/theater/soliliquy.html 2pm
Seward Park Library, 192 East Broadway (at Jefferson St.) Manhattan (212) 477-6770
http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/67/node/124158?lref=67%2Fcalendar Free Admission
Saturday, August 13 Musical: Hush the Musical, a production from Charles “Rocco” Mandracchia in association with the Frizzi & Lazzi Musical Theatre Company. Hush is set in the VIP waiting room at LaGuardia airport during a blinding snowstorm which has halted all departures. Several stranded, eccentric characters and their opposing philosophies are forced into comical confrontations with delightfully humorous consequences. Georgia, a New Age Buddhist meditation instructor encounters a successful, materialistic businessman, Othello Salviati. They are joined by an inept Hit Man, a kooky Stewardess, Othello’s Wife Vittoria and various passengers. Music for Hush is composed/co-conceived by Charles Mandracchia, who also directs and produces. The libretto was adapted by Emelise Aleandri, Artistic Director of Frizzi & Lazzi, from Etta Cascini’s original one-act comedy, SHHHH! 3:30pm Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street Manhattan 10012
Other Shows: Tues 8/16 @ 7pm, Tue 8/23 @ 5pm, Wed 8/24 @ 7pm, Thurs 8/25 @6:30pm http://www.hushthemusical.com For tickets visit http://www.FringeNYC.org
Sunday, August 14 Play: “Anna Nicole: Blonde Glory,” a poignant and witty play award-winning poet and playwright. Grace Cavalieri, will be presented by The Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City for five performances between August14-September 4. An imagined panorama of Anna Nicole Smith’s life. The cast of six stars Mary Riley as Anna Nicole-a portrayal seemingly channeled from the model herself. Composer Jon Tomlinson creates a sound score and a cheer-leading production number for Anna to sing and dance. Cino Theater, 155 First Avenue Manhattan 10003 $15.00www.smarttix.com Performance dates/times: August 21 7pm, August 24 7pm, August 26 9pm, August 27 2pm matinee, August 28 7pm
Members’ News:
Mary Bucci Bush’s long-awaited novel Sweet Hope about Italians imported illegally to the Mississippi Delta 1901-1906 and working as contract laborers/ indentured servants alongside African American sharecroppers, will be published this fall 2011 by Guernica Editions. You can learn more about the novel and other work by Mary, plus read an excerpt from the novel and her other work, at http://www.marybuccibush.com Sweet Hope is an ideal novel to teach in Italian American Studies, American Studies, American History, Southern History, African American History, American literature, and other courses, especially those looking at immigration or race relations, etc. Chapters from this novel have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. This is the untold story of the “Italian Colony Experiment” and of a bittersweet friendship between one Italian and one African American family.
Interview with Fred Gardaphe: http://magnagrece.blogspot.com/ by Olivia Kate Cerrone
Gil Fagiani and Maria Lisella were the recent subjects of a Huffington Post article by Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Couplets Couple in which the reporter explores their dual development as writers sharing a private life and a public commitment to Italian American culture and political activism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/astoria-characters-the-couplets-couple_b_866581.html
“Between Two Shores – Poets read at the Naples/New York Exhibit”: You are invited to attend and read at B. Amore’s exhibit, Naples/New York on Saturday, October 15th, 2-5 PM. The exhibit and event will be held at the David Filderman Gallery of the Hofstra University Museum. The gallery is in the Axinn Library Building, 9th floor, 123 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549. Please send bio to B. Amore (amoreb@earthlink.net) if you’d like to read or just come and be part of an open mic. Hope to see you!!!
Paul Giaimo is proud to announce the publication of his reader’s guide to Don DeLillo’s fiction: Appreciating Don DeLillo:The Moral Force Of A Writer’s Work. Pre-orders of the ebook are hopping and the paper book should hit the shelves on 7/31/2011. If anyone wishes to review the book, please contact DrMojiah@aol.com http://www.amazon.com/Appreciating-Don-DeLillo-Moral-Writers/dp/0313386242
A “lionhearted debut” (Ada Limon) in two parts, Diorama is written by Lisa Marie Basile and Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein. Praised for being “super smart, bold, and a little scary” Lisa Marie Basile http://www.lisamariebasile.com
Nick Matros won a month-long grant through the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in the NEH’s Summer Institute course The Art of Teaching Italian through Art in Rome, Italy.
Stephen Sangirardi, former Iona adjunct in English, New Yorker, and Multiple Sclerosis patient, has released his second novel—A Shakespearean View of Freud. Like his first novel Monday Afternoon, this second book is also published by Night Reading in the UK and is available on Amazon.com and Kindle. The novel is about a librarian–Rob Conti—whose jealousy and fetishes ruin his two marriages. The setting takes place in New York and Missouri. The author’s picture is again on the back cover of the book, and his email is Bard715@aol.com.
Kathleen Gerard has a novel forthcoming in May, In Transit (Five Star/Gale-Cengage-Thorndike Press) is a woman-in-jeopardy story that features a contemporary Italian-American protagonist. The story delves into the ordinary lives of NYPD career cops and how their fates are determined by people who hold secrets as dark and as labyrinthine as the New York City Subway System. Kathleen was the recipient of the Perillo Prize for Italian-American Literature (IAWA, 2007). To learn more about the novel visit: http://intransit-thenovel.blogspot.com
Louisa Calio, director of the Poets and Writers Piazza for Hofstra’s Italian Experience is a featured poet this month at http://www.Mythopoetry.com. Just click on their facebook link to see her work. She will host the 10th anniversary of the Poets and Writers Piazza this Sept.18th at Hofstra. Look out for details. Her poem “Meet Joe, My Sicilian Father” will be in Descant a literary magazine published in Canada this coming winter and her story “Churchillo” will be published in a collection of humorous tales by Ed Maruggi of Winston Publications. Her poem ” Signifyin Woman” is now available in Sweet Lemons 2 an anthology of writings with a Sicilian flavor available through Legas Press.
Playbill announced the world premiere of Richard Vetere’s play Last Day, on Gloucester Stage’s summer 2011 season in Gloucester, MA, running July 21-Aug. 7, and is billed as “a dark, delicious and mysterious love story set in a Long Island cemetery where not all secrets are underground.” Stage, screen and television writer Richard Vetere is the author of past Gloucester Stage hits Gangster Apparel and First Love. For furtherinformation and to purchase tickets, call the Gloucester Stage Box
Office at (978) 281-4433 or visit http://www.gloucesterstage.org
Dennis Barone has two new books out: Field Report, twenty stories from Quale Press (and with a cover by poet Elaine Equi), and Parallel Lines, a volume of selected poems including work from over thirty years and with an Italian section. Information can be found on the new site: http://www.dennisbarone.wordpress.com.
Maria Terrone’s poem, “Ferdinandea,” about a Sicilian ghost-island, is the opening poem in the April debut issue of The Common, published by Amherst College. Another Italian-themed poem, “Spaccanapoli,” was recently accepted by Hawaii Pacific Review.
On Wednesday, April 20, her appearance on Nota Bene, a monthly internet webcast, can be accessed at http://www.livestream.com/Italics (the interview will also be archived). Every month, Fred Gardaphe, Distinguished Professor of Italian American Studies at Queens College, conducts a lively discussion with artists and scholars of Italian American culture for Nota Bene. The April issue of Clarion, the newspaper for the CUNY Professional Staff Congress union, published three of her poems related to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
Barbara Fragoletti Hoffman’s recent publications are “Name Dropping” and “Cape May in January” published in the current Winter 2011 issue of Italian Americana. Her poems, “All the Birds Cried,” The Amish Mother” and “Split” are in the recently published anthology Toward Forgiveness. Her poem “Riffs on Samantha” appears in the anthology Child of My Child. Forthcoming are the poems “My Sister’s Words” in the fall issue of the Monadnock Writers’ Group memory-themed anthology, “Yellow” in a 2011 issue of The Long Island Quarterly and “Relic” in a 2011 issue of The Paterson Review.
Darlene Madott is pleased to announce her website “Blog” has been updated, with reference to recent publications, and forthcoming work. You are invited to visit her website at http://darlenemadott.com/blog.php
Review of Hush in The Daily Beast: Libretto adapted by Emelise Aleandri, Italian play by Etta Cascini Composed/Directed by Charles Mandracchia http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-23/midwinter-madness-in-new-york-2011-john-chattertons-festival/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsC2
http://www.hushthemusical.com
Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball by Lawrence Baldassaro
Foreword by Dom DiMaggio hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-1705-8 $34.95 from the
University of Nebraska Press Lawrence Baldassaro tells the stories of Italian Americans’ contributions to the game, from Joe DiMaggio, who transcended his ethnic identity to become an American icon, to A. Bartlett Giamatti, who served as commissioner of baseball, to Mike Piazza, considered the greatest hitting catcher ever. Baldassaro conducted more than fifty interviews with players, coaches, managers, and executives—some with careers dating back to the thirties—in order to put all these figures and their stories into the historical context of baseball, Italian Americans, and, finally, the culture of American sports.
Dr. Marie Menna Pagliaro’s novel, That Woman and the Mafia Don, conveys the rejection of Mafia values by proud Italian-Americans. The novel is available at Barnes and Noble (www.bn.com ) or amazon.com with book sale profits going to help prevent young people from joining all kinds of ethnic gangs. That Woman and the Mafia Don was selected to launch the Il Circolo Book Club of Palm Beach because the novel covers four generations of Italian women, providing a focus for discussions on Il Circolo’s theme for this season, Italian American Women. To learn more about the novel, visit
Dr. Pagliaro’s website at http://www.mariepagliaro.com.
Publisher’s News/Book Reviews/Contest Winners/Awards:
A new collection of essays on the Italian American experience is now available in a Kindle edition from Amazon.com. These 12 essays were originally published in the online journal Suite 101, and some of them were rerpinted in Dante Society newsletters in Boston and Seattle Towards a More Balanced View of Italian Americans by Anthony S. Maulucci
Matriarch ~ A Journey Through Tradition (Work Smarter Now, $24.20) was released released on April 24, 2011. An Italian-American woman residing in central New Jersey, Suzann Brucato has created a photo journal as a tribute to motherhood, family, and heritage. Work Smarter Now has published this full-length collection of poems where Mrs. Brucato conveys the importance of family traditions as a contribution to ensuing generations. Matriarch ~ A Journey Through Tradition Author: Suzann M. Brucato
ISBN: 978-0-615-47832-6 | Library of Congress Control Number: 2011927566 Available at http://www.MagCloud.com Web: http://www.MatriarchJourney.com TheFaceOfPoetry@mindspring.com
Italica Press author (and Italian novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright and poet), Dacia Maraini, has been nominated for the 2011 Man Booker International Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the UK.
The International Prize is awarded for an author’s life work; and Italica Press has played some part in bringing this work to English-speaking audiences. Over the years we’ve published an English edition of her Donna in guerra (Woman at War, 1988), translated by Mara Benetti and Elspeth Spottiswood; her short story “Maria,” translated by Martha King in our anthology New Italian Women (edited by Martha King in 1989); and selections from her poetry in our anthology Contemporary Italian Women Poets, edited and translated by Cinzia Sartini Blum and Lara Trubowitz (2001)
Matriarch ~ A Journey Through Tradition (Work Smarter Now, $24.20) was released on April 24, 2011. An Italian-American woman residing in central New Jersey, Suzann Brucato has created a photo journal as a tribute to motherhood, family, and heritage. Work Smarter Now has published this full-length collection of poems where Mrs. Brucato conveys the importance of family traditions as a contribution to ensuing generations ISBN: 978-0-615-47832-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2011927566 Print Format – $24.20; Digital Format – $14.29,Available at http://www.MagCloud.com http://www.MatriarchJourney.com Email: TheFaceOfPoetry@mindspring.com
For what’s new at Italica Press, please check out http://italicapressnews.blogspot.com/
You can also visit Italica Press at http://www.italicapress.com/
The Paterson Literary Review #38, 2009-2010 is out; this edition features Diane di Prima and includes a number of her poems and a short story Other poets/writers in this edition include Maria Fama, Vittoria repetto, Rachel Guido deVries, Maria Lisella, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, , Jennifer Gillan And Anthoy Buccino See http://old.pccc.edu/poetry/public.htm for price and order form.
Literary & Research Queries:
Linda Baldanzia is a student at Drew University in NJ. in a Poetry in Translation MFA program. I am looking for a translator to help me with literal translations of several short poems. I do not read Italian well. It would be best if the Translator has lived in Italy. The translating will begin this June 201-482-0597, lindabaldanzi@mac.com
Dom Giordano, talk show host with WPHT 1210 AM Radio in Philadelphia, is looking for contributors to the book- recipes, Feast of the Seven Fishes stories and other Italian/family traditions and recollections of the Christmas season. http://www.thefeastofthesevenfishes.com Contact Askdomg@aol.com
Alexandra Maffei holds a Masters in Italian Linterature and runs two blogs, one in English breakingnewts.blogspot.com the other in Italian, telegrafite.blog.espresso.repubblica.it/telegrafite. “I’m an excellent translator, fully conversant in Italian and American cultures, so consider me, should you know of or need services” viridiana430@msn.com
R. D. Williams is writing about her immigrant experience, willing to meet other writers. Also, seeking advice on how to obtain publisher. Contact: rosaria@gmail.com
Lachrista Greco is currently working on a book proposal for an anthology on young (20-something) Italian American women and the search for identity. She is looking for women to write on identity, feminism, sexuality, activism, etc. You may submit poetry and/or nonfiction. This book will be using a feminist framework. olive.grrrl@gmail.com
Magazines, Contests & Calls for Submissions:
Luigi Monteferrante is looking for a special edition on work by Italian/Italian American/Italian Canadian authors in the magazine: Chicago Quarterly Review http://www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/ Work should be submitted to luigimonteferrante@yahoo.com
Feile-Festa is an annual publication that comes out in the spring of each year. Though our preference is for creative work related to Irish and Italian/Sicilian themes, we are open to other Mediterranean cultures, all of which can relate to the respective country of family origin or the diasporas to America, Canada, etc. We are also interested in writing that evokes life in New York City. The reading period starts October 1st and ends January 1st. Please do not send submissions outside the time frame mentioned in the guidelines. http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/index.html
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute is happy to announce the re-launching of its bi-annual journal the Italian American Review (IAR). The IAR features articles about the history and culture of Italian Americans, as well as other aspects of the Italian diaspora.The journal embraces a wide range of professional concerns and theoretical orientations in the social sciences and in cultural studies. Information for contributors can be found at: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/calandra/italrev/iarcont.html.
Journal of Italian Translation is a non-profit international journal devoted to the translation of literary works from and into Italian-English-Italian dialects. Subscription price is $25 per year. Submissions and inquiries should be sent to Luigi Bonaffini at l.bonaffini@att.net. All past issues can be downloaded from the journal’s website at http://www.jitonline.org
Pyramid Arts and Poetry Magazine – “Where Rome and New York Meet” Pyramid Arts and Poetry is divided into three sections: Visual Art; Poetry & Literature; and Film. Listings of gallery exhibits, poetry readings, and film showings in New York and Rome accompany each section. For submission guidelines, visit http://www.pyramidmagazine.org
VIA, Voices in Italian Americana, is a semi-annual published in the spring and fall. Issues include sections of essays, fiction, poetry, review essays, reviews, and guest spots by prominent Italian/American writers. Subscriptions are $20.00 per year ($15.00 for seniors, students, and un[der]employed). For subscriptions & advertising, contact Anthony Julian Tamburri at tamburri@bordigherapress.org
Italian Americana is the first and only cultural as well as historical review dedicated to the Italian experience in the New World; subscription price is $20 a year, $35 for two years, to: Italian Americana, University of Rhode Island/Providence, 80 Washington Street Providence, RI 02903-1803. Check out the new Website supplement to the journal at http://www.italianamericana.com
The Monday Night Playwrights’ Series is curated by Richard Fulco; interested playwrights could submit their work at richardfulco@aol.com
Theatre Submissions: Post Road Magazine (Boston, Ma), a literary/visual arts journal, is accepting theatre submissions of very short one-act plays, sketches, and monologues. david@postroadmag.com
The American Italian Historical Association Newsletter is now accepting submissions of book reviews. Please send all submissions Anthony.Tamburri@qc.cuny.edu.
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Casa Belvedere, The Italian Cultural Foundation, a unique 2.75 acre cultural campus and community center on Staten Island for all to enjoy, is a registered 501(c) (3) not for profit organization that seeks to preserve, promote and celebrate the rich heritage of Italy by encouraging an appreciation of the Italian language, arts, literature, history, fashion, cuisine, and commerce through educational programs, exhibits and events. To subscribe to the mailing list and learn more about the upcoming events and programs, call 718-273-7660, e-mail info@casa-belvedere.org or click on to http://www.casa-belvedere.org.
Anthony Buccino has created a blog for New Jersey poets to post info about events, links to their web sites and publishers and literary magazines. You can get email notices- no strings attached – when new items are posted. http://njpoetspoetry.blogspot.com/
http://www.BigFatPrize.com lists over 500 Writing Contests and competition categories like Essay, Fiction, Poetry, Short Story, Young Writers, Songwriting, Screenwriting, Playwright and Journalism
Working Writer newsletter offers solid information with a good dose of humor and a spirit of writing camaraderie. WW is filled with articles on promotion, publishing, freelancing, different genres, how-to, and how-not-to, written by readers across the country. To receive a free copy (no obligation) by e-mail , send a request to workingwriters@aol.com. Or check out http://www.workingwriter1.com
I-Italy: The Italian American Digital Project (http://www.i-italy.org) is online. This site is a forum for discussion and debate over Italian American social and cultural issues, home to numerous Italian American blogs, and the place to read leading Italian American commentators columns on Italian American life.
Readers are requested to visit http://www.italianamericanpress.com to order or obtain information about the fascinating books listed below written by Italian Americans on a variety of interesting topics. At The Italian-American Press, there are links for finding translators, a literary marketplace, and writers’ guilds, aside from links such as Tools for Italian American Writers, Italian American Books, Italian American Publishers, and the Internet’s best selection of self-published Italian American Books (84 Titles).
KIT-Kairos Italy Theater’s mission is to create a cultural exchange program between Italy, the US and the international community, to unveil artistic and creative sides of these two countries to the world. http://www.kitheater.com/
New York Foundation for the Arts, Visit NYFA Source, the most comprehensive database of awards, services, and publications available to artists in all disciplines. http://www.nyfa.org/
The Write Stuff – Online Newsletter of Word Journeys at http://www.wordjourneys.com contains articles on self-publishing, new services and grist for the pen: tips.
The ACLS History E-Book Project http://www.historyebook.org is an electronic resource that includes over 1230 full-text, cross-searchable books in the field of history selected by historians for their continuing importance to students and scholars. Individuals can also subscribe through a membership in the American Historical Association or the Renaissance Society of America.
Accenti, The Canadian Magazine with an Italian Accent at http://www.accenti.ca/
The AA Independent Press Guide is a free, online resource for writers at http://www.thunderburst.co.uk. The guide has detailed listings on over 2,000 literary and genre magazines and publishers from around the world, plus links to over 750 Internet magazines.
http://www.virtualitalia.com is an online resource for Italians, Italian Americans and enthusiasts of Italian culture.
http://www.littap.org is a new resource for literary presenters, with tools such as Guidelines for Writers Fees. In addition to featuring Italian American, Italian Canadian and Italian writers, the site has reviews and links to the sites of writers of Italian Australian, Italian French and Italian Latino American origins.
For the calendar of events for the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, go to http://www.nyu.edu/pages/casaitaliana/events.html
For the calendar of events for the Italian Academy at Columbia University, go to http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/calendar/calendar.html
The Immigration History Research Center is at http://www.ihrc.umn.edu
See Poets & Writers for leads to prizes for writers, and places to get away and write, links to grants, conferences and residencies. http://www.pw.org/toolsforwriters
http://www.ItalianAmericanWriters.com is an archive of samples of contemporary Italian Amerian writing; writers include Dennis Barone, Marisa Frasca, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Bob Viscusi, Anthony Tamburri, Fred Gardaphe, Stephen Massimilla, Alfredo de Palchi, Peter Covino, Paola Corso, Gil Fagiani, Louisa Calio, etc. Also check out the other website edited by Daniela Gioseffi – http://www.PoetsUSA.com/
Of Interest:
Diasporic Continuities: A Salon Discussion Point on the Changing Face of Italian Unification on the Verge of its 150th Anniversaryhttp://disunification.blogspot.com/
How you can join the conversation: Still a work in progress, for now, please join the conversation by commenting on one of the existing posts or become a follower of the discussions. If you would like to post something yourself (rather than comment), please email LauraRuberto (lruberto@peralta.edu) or Pasquale Verdicchio (pverdicchio@yahoo.com)
Association of Friends of Piedmont in New York
We are a group of artists, professionals, scientists and business owners sharing an interest for the Piedmont Region, either because we were born there or because we appreciate the contribution that people from Piedmont have made to the arts, sciences and industry.You can learn more about the Association at http://piedmontinnewyork.blogspot.com
Vittoria repetto rents her charming vacation house in Framura, in the Ligurian region on a weekly to monthly basis at a reasonable price. It is the perfect place for vacation especially great if you are a writer or a painter. The occupancy is for 4 people; there are 2 bedrooms. The town is 3 towns north of the Cinqueterre towns. For detailed information and pictures, http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p211239
Italian American Writers, a Cablevision television series hosted by Vito De Simone, runs each month on many New York area and other Cablevision systems, including Manhattan, Long Island and some Brooklyn systems. Check local listings for channels and times.
The New York-based Italian-American Playwrights Forum meets at the Calandra Institute three Thursdays a month to develop plays and carry out discussions about Italian-American identity/themes. The work itself does not have to be about an Italian-American theme. Please contact Gian Di Donna gian@att.net for information.