A Santa Lucia celebration performance of Sicilian folk music, featuring: Alessandra Belloni, artistic director, vocals & percussion John La Barbera, music director, guitarist & composer, chitarra battente & mandolin Steve Gorn, bansuri flutes, saxophone & clarinet Wilson Montuori, guitar
Watch the video: Alessandra Belloni and I Giullari di Piazza feat. SudCantica
Following the screening of “Summer Within” (2023, Documentary, USA, 70 min.)
Watch the video: Summer Minerva, Danila Cannamela, Marzia Mauriello on “Summer Within” and “Italian Trans Geographies”
il messaggero
Read more about: Italy On Screen Today celebra “La meglio gioventù” 20 anni dopo con Fabrizio Gifuni e Sonia Bergamasco (open in a new tab)
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the film release of “La meglio gioventù” (The Best of Youth) Panel discussion with actors Fabrizio Gifuni and Sonia Bergamasco
Watch the video: “The Best of Youth” at 20 with Fabrizio Gifuni and Sonia Bergamasco
La voce di New York
Read more about: New York celebra i vent’anni de “La meglio gioventù” di Marco Tullio Giordana (open in a new tab)
Maaza Mengiste, writer in conversation with Antonio Monda, NYU
Watch the video: Forgotten Gems with Maaza Mengiste
Students from Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music collaborate with formerly incarcerated men and women to reveal the contemporary relevance of Dante’s Divine Comedy. The performance uses music and poetry to consider the parallels between contemporary journeys out of prison and Dante’s medieval journey out of hell.
Watch the video: The Bread of Angels: Wisdom and Music Behind Bars
In conversation with Antonio Monda
View the album: Forgotten Gems with Maaza Mengiste
International Symposium Dante’s Ancestors: The Poets of the Sicilian School Intertextuality and Multiculturalism
Watch the video: Dante’s Ancestors: The Poets of the Sicilian School. Intertextuality and Multiculturalism
Part of the New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) Film Festival Celebrating its 33rd edition in the United States
Watch the video: “Santa Lucia” Film Presentation