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L’uomo che verrà (The Man Who Will Come)

Cineforum with Italians in DC Movie screening Italy, 1943. Martina stopped talking when her infant brother died. Her mother is pregnant again and Martina lives waiting for her new brother to be born. The war is getting closer and when her mother finally gives birth to her brother the SS kill hundreds of innocent civilians […]

PAOLO PANDOLFO, viola da gamba

Works from the Renaissance through today DATES & LOCATIONS January 26, 2012 at 7:30 pm[concert] La Maison Française January 27, 2012 at 3:00 pm[master class] Coolidge Auditorium January 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm[concert] Coolidge Auditorium Known as “the Yo-Yo Ma of the viola da gamba,” Italy’s Paolo Pandolfo brings Baroque and Renaissance era music to […]

Primo Levi

Lectures by Francesco Ciabattoni and Giuseppe Tosi, Dept. of Italian, Georgetown University INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2012 Primo Levi’s Caged Narrative Lecture by Francesco Ciabattoni, Dept. of Italian, Georgetown University Primo Levi is known primarily for his novels about his ordeal in Auschwitz. In 1966 he published, under a pseudonym, Storie naturali, a collection of […]

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2012

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which occurs on January 27, is the universal commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly on November 1, 2005. January 27 is the date, in 1945, when the largest Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) was liberated by Soviet […]

Jews between Legend, Arts and Theater in Renaissance Italy

Lecture by Gianni Cicali, Dept. of Italian, Georgetown University – Musical Intermission by Tina Chancey and Priscilla Smith INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2012 From the age of emperor Constantine the Great to the Renaissance, the Italian Jews were represented in legends, paintings, and theater based on the Legend of the Discovery of the True Cross. […]

CINEFORUM WITH ITALIANS IN DC 2012 AN EVENT SERIES JANUARY 18 BASILICATA COAST TO COAST Italy, Rocco Papaleo, 2010, 93 minutes, Italian with Italian subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. A group of musicians walk across Basilicata from the Tyrhennian to the Ionian Sea. Their leader is Nicola, a math professor played by Papaleo, and […]

Basilicata Coast to Coast

Cineforum con Italians in DC Movie Screening A group of musicians walk across Basilicata from the Tyrhennian to the Ionian Sea. Their leader is Nicola, a math professor played by Papaleo, and their destination is the festival at Scanzano Jonico. The musicians are joined by a reluctant journalist played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Alessandro Gassman, Paolo […]

CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO

At The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts FREE PERFORMANCE Italy’s top World Music group Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, after their unprecedented Fall 2011 eleven-city debut tour in North American, will perform a free concert at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, an Italian folk-music group from the Salento […]