Thursday, March 11, 2010, from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.

The Consulate General of Italy in Boston
requests the pleasure of your company at the Opening of the Exhibition:

“SOPRA SOTTO ATTRAVERSO”
“OVER UNDER THROUGH”
ITALY IN FOCUS
Photographs by Cynthia A. Clark

Consulate General of Italy
600 Atlantic Avenue (Federal Reserve Building)
17th Floor, Boston, MA 02210

R.S.V.P. 617-722-9201/02/03 or
Email: consolatogenerale.boston@esteri.it

Italian consulate flyer

Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 3:00 pm

The Dante Alighieri Society
The Consulate General of Italy in Boston
Boston University Interdisciplinary Italian Studies

Proudly present

Carlo Aonzo and Elena Buttiero
in concert

Carlo Aonzo and Elena Buttiero flyer

Inspired by the success of their recent tour and of their concerts throughout Italy, Carlo Aonzo (mandolin) and Elena Buttiero (spinet) will perform a collection of songs from their repertoire, representing some of the most important eighteenth-century music for mandolin and spinet. Carlo Aonzo will also give a brief demonstration of the Italian mandolin with musical examples over the centuries in order to illustrate the history of the instrument

Tickets: $10 (includes light refreshments)

Ticket reservation: Call 617-876-5160 (10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.).
Tickets will also be available at the door

Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm

The Consulate General of Italy in Boston
Presents
A National Lacrosse Game
BOSTON BLAZERS vs. ORLANDO TITANS
at the TD Bank Garden
Part of the proceeds will go to benefit activities related to Italian studies
The national anthems will be sung by Coro-Dante

Ticket $20 per person

For information and reservations
Contact Carlo Cipollone at ufficioscuole.boston@esteri.it
or by telephone: 617-722-9409

Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 11:30 am to 3:00 pm

ELECTION DAY
Annual Business Meeting and Annual Elections

Election 2010 Flyer

Friday, April 16, 2010 at 7:30 pm

The Dante Alighieri Society
Hosts a book presentation with the Author Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts – Boston, President of Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, Spencer Di Scala “Vittorio Orlando”

The Italian premier who came to Paris as one of the "Big Four," yet in April 1919 he walked out in one of the most dramatic crises of the Peace Conferences. Orlando’s failure to satisfy his country’s territorial demands in the Balkans directly led to the rise of Fascism and to Mussolini’s policies in the 1930s as he sought to obtain what Italy had been denied at Versailles.

Free and open to the public

Friday, April 23, 2010

On Friday, April 23, the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts will be hosting the First Conference of the US and Canadian chapters. Four officials from the Dante Alighieri in Rome will be present, including Secretary General Alessandro Masi. The conference will discuss in detail new strategies and methods of teaching Italian language and spreading the knowledge of Italian culture in both the US and Canada. Plans for the upcoming celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Italian unification in 2011 will also be discussed. Please take a look at the program for the conference and, if you can, make an effort to attend at least some part of the meeting.

Programma Boston 23 aprile 2010

Hotels

The Dante Alighieri Society
Presents Coro Dante's Annual Spring Concert
in honor of the Festa della Liberazione

Coro-Dante, New England's All-Italian repertoire, 50-person strong Chorus, will be presenting works from Bellini, Vivaldi, Morricone, Donizetti, as well as songs in dialect.

Free and open to the public, Donations appreciated
Validated parking is available at the Kendall Square Cinema

La Federazione delle Associazioni Italiane in collaborazione con il Comites ed il Consolato Italiano di Boston ha programmato una serie di film italiani che saranno proiettati in varie associazioni italiane della zona metropolitana di Boston.

Rassegna del Cinema 2010

Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 5 pm

The MIT Women’s Chorale
Kevin Galiè, Director
Emily Taylor, Accompanist

Gabriel Fauré/André Messager: Messe des Pêcheurs de Villerville (“The Fishermen’s Mass”) with chamber orchestra Music of Vivaldi and Verdi Chinese mountain songs

MIT Women's Chorale Flyer

Free and open to the public

Sunday, May 16th from 12:30 to 2:00 PM

La Donna Musicale

CD RELEASE BRUNCH CELEBRATION
Anna Bon: La virtuosa di Venezia
Harvard Yard Map

Radcliffe Gymnasium
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Admission is free. Space is limited, please reserve by May 12th.
Join us in celebrating the release of our newest CD, featuring the expressive, humorous, and virtuosic music by 18th-century Italian composer Anna Bon.

Performance will include pieces from the CD as well as music by Bon’s employer, Wilhelmine, Princess of Prussia and Margravine of Bayreuth, and by Maria Teresa Agnesi.

Preferential seating and signed CDs available with donations supporting our mission
to preserve and promote music by women composers.

For more information, please write us at ladonna@ladm.org,
or call us at 617-461-6973.

Please visit our website to hear samples of the CD: www.ladm.org/sounds.html
 

Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7:30pm

The Dante Alighieri Society
Presents

A Book Presentation by the Author Prof. Of History Vincent J Cannato "AMERICAN PASSAGE”: a journey into the nation’s immigration past

Vincent J. Cannato discusses American Passage
on the Cambridge Forum. [ Watch ]

Free and open to the public

Friday, May 28, 2010 at 7:30 pm

The Dante Alighieri Society

Proudly Present a Piano Concert by

Joseph Fletcher

Concert Program

Joseph Fletcher is a native New Englander who began his study of the piano at a very young age. He studied at the University of Southern Maine where he majored in piano and music performance. Mr. Fletcher’s repertoire includes the standard works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Ravel, Debussy, Liszt, and Brahms.

Free and open to the public
 

Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 8:00 pm

In celebration of Italian National Day

Proudly present

Un Palco all’Opera
AN EVENING OF OPERATIC TRIVIA & PERFORMANCES

Hosted by Ron Della Chiesa
Saturday, May 29, 2010, 8:00 pm
Dante Alighieri Society
Carl A. Pescosolido Building, 41 Hampshire Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Free Admission. RSVP to Francesca Giannetti at Francesca.Giannetti@gmail.com or
Ubaldo Panitti at culturale.boston@esteri.it, or by calling BOC at 617-517-5883.

Festa Nazionale della Repubblica Italiana

Cultural Events

• Saturday, May 29, 8:00pm - Un Palco all’Opera (An Evening of Operatic Trivia & Performances) - Dante Alighieri Society - Cambridge

• Thursday, June 3, 7:30pm - Fabio Montomoli in concert - Dante Alighieri Society - Cambridge

• Sunday, June 6 , 5:00pm - De Vulgari Eloquentia) Dante’s Vision of Language and Community) - Dante Alighieri Society - Cambridge

Bocce Tournament

• Saturday May 29, 10am-6pm - Langone Park (North End) - Boston

Sunday May 30, 10:00am - 5:00pm
“Piazza Italia Exhibit” - A reproduction of a typical Italian Piazza

• Various Exhibits

• Children’s Area

• Entertainment, Popular, Modern & Classical Music

• Italian Cafè
   

Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Annual Celebration of the Divine Poet's Birthday

The Dante Alighieri Society
Presents
Dante's Vision of Language and Community
Distinguished Speaker - Prof. John Alcorn

De Vulgari Eloquentia Flyer

Free and open to the public

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 2:00 pm

University of Massachusetts Boston
The Department of Anthropology and the North End Historical Society

present

Oscar Andersson, Ph.D., of Malmö University, Sweden,

speaking on the topic of

CORNER GANGS, RACKETEERS, AND POLITICIANS:
BOSTON’S NORTH END AND THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY

Dr. Anderson will discuss William Foote Whyte’s sociological classic Street Corner Society, completed in Boston’s North End, in light of Whyte’s field notes, letters, and other archival material. He will examine the genesis of the book, its main influences, and its relationship to the Chicago School’s emphasis on social disorganization in urban areas.

Where: CAMPUS CENTER-2-2545

Harvard Film Archive
June 5 - June 14

24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

• Saturday June 5 at 7pm • SHOESHINE (SCIUSCIA)

• Saturday June 5 at 9pm • THE GOLD OF NAPLES (L’ORO DI NAPOLI)

• Sunday June 6 at 7pm • THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US (I BAMBINI CI GUARDANO)

• Sunday June 6 at 9pm • SHOESHINE (SCIUSCIA)

• Monday June 7 at 7pm • THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS

• Friday June 11 at 7pm • MIRACLE IN MILAN (MIRACOLO A MILANO)

• Friday June 11 at 9pm • TERMINAL STATION (STAZIONE TERMINI)

• Saturday June 12 at 7pm • UMBERTO D.

• Saturday June 12 at 9pm • AFTER THE FOX (CACCIA ALLA VOLPE)

• Sunday June 13 at 7pm • THE BICYCLE THIEVES (LADRI DI BICICLETTE)

• Sunday June 13 at 9pm • MIRACLE IN MILAN (MIRACOLO A MILANO)

• Monday June 14 at 7pm • TWO WOMEN (LA CIOCIARA)

For more information visit http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2010aprjun/de_sica.html

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 7:00 pm

The Milford Town Library

Hosts a book presentation by
Spencer M. Di Scala, Ph.D. Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
on his new book Makers of the Modern World. Vittorio Orlando: Italy

Lecture - Flyer

Milford Town Library
80 Spruce Street, Milford, MA 01757; (508) 473-2145