Kairos Italy Theater Newsletter
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November 2007
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KIT's Suggestions: Italy in NY
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Not so many tricks, yet a lot of treats from KIT!
One month of traveling between
Roma e Napoli... e che il viaggio abbia
inizio...
October 25th - November 20th: Toto' in New York!
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The Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo' one-month celebration continues
The first two screenings are gone, lots of
people, lots of laughs... don't miss the rest of
the Toto's Events:Monday October
29th
6 PM
Opening
of the exhibit
A Prince Named Toto'
with
the
extraordinary participation of F.
MURRAY ABRAHAM
followed by the
screening of
Are We Men or Corporals? (Siamo Uomini
o Caporali?)
Thursday November 15th
5
PM A
Neapolitan Turk (Un Turco
Napoletano)
7 PM Destination
Piovarolo (Destinazione
Piovarolo)
Tuesday November 20th
6 PM Show: Tot�'s Poetry in Words and
Music with L. Caparrotti
followed by the screening of the documentary
You don't know who Toto'
is
All events are at Casa
Italiana Zerilli-Marimo' at NYU (24 W 12th
Street) and they are Free!
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November 5th - 7 pm: Le macchiette di Migliaccio as interpreted by KIT
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Book presentation and KIT's show at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo'
Fra
Napoli e New York, Le macchiette di
Migliaccio. Book presentation by the
author
Professor Hermann Haller plus live
performance by KIT.
Tra Napoli
and New
York takes a look at the vibrant and comical
repertoire of Neapolitan theater present in
New York during the wave of Italian
immigration of the early 20th century.
Migliaccio's macchiette, or stereotypical
characters, shed light on the linguistic and
cultural realities of the Italian immigrant
communities in New York and other cities
throughout the world.
Hermann Haller is the Chair of the
Department of European Languages and
Literatures, and Professor of Italian at
Queens College and at the Graduate Center,
City University of New York.
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Next Stop... December 3rd: Italian Jazz At Dizzy's Club
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Danilo Rea and Roberto Gatto featuring Dennis Irwin
Monday December
3rd - Sets at 7:30 &
9:30
Dizzy's
Club Coca-Cola Frederick P. Rose Hall
Jazz at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 60th
Street - 5th Floor).
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Last stop... SAVE THE DATE: December 4th Accattone in Jazz
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A Concert/Reading based on the screenplay by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Tuesday December
4th - 9 PM: Kairos Italy Theater
presents the US Premi�re of
Accattone in jazz based on the
screenplay by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With
Valerio Mastandrea, Roberto
Gatto, Danilo
Rea.
Walter Reade
Theater at
Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street,
between Broadway and Amsterdam Plaza
Level, NYC).
Pier Paolo
Pasolini's celebrated screenplay for
Accattone is revisited by Italian movie star
Valerio Mastandrea, as he weaves a unique
interplay of words and music together with
Italian jazz legends and longtime
collaborators Roberto Gatto and Danilo Rea,
winner of Europe's most important jazz award,
the Golden Django.
Accattone in Jazz marks the closing night of
the wider celebration Pier Paolo Pasolini Poet
of Ashes organized in New York by the Italian
Cultural Institute of New York and The
Fondazione Aida.
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TALK TO KIT
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If you'd like to let us know about more
Italy in
the NYC area, or if you'd like to share
opinions on Italy and Italian events OR if
you'd like to contact us with questions,
request and suggestions, send an email at
[email protected]. KIT's staff will be
happy
to read it and eventually include it in its
newsletter.
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KIT-Kairos Italy Theater was founded in 2002
in New
York. KIT'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. In the
States,
Kairos Italy Theater is dedicated to spread
the Italian
Culture and to create an Italian Culture
Network in
order to maintain and grow the knowledge of
Italy in
the States.
HELP KIT TO
GROW...
DONATE
TO KIT BY
CREDIT CARD You can make your tax
deductible
contribution with
VISA or MasterCard at
http://www.thefield.org/ctaa.htm. Type in
Laura
Caparrotti (artist) and Kairos Italy Theater
(company
name) and please be sure to fill in all of the
contact
info so that we can acknowledge your
donation with
a proper thank you!
DONATE TO KIT BY PERSONAL
CHECK
Write a check to The Field, and put in the
memo line
Laura Caparrotti/Kairos Italy Theater.
Then mail it to the following address:
KIT-Kairos Italy Theater
60 E 8th street Suite 12B
NY-NY 10003
KIT-Kairos Italy Theater is sponsored by The
Field, a
not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501 (c) (3)
organization
serving the New York City performing arts
community.
Contributions to artists through The Field are
tax-
deductible to the extent allowed by law. For
more information about The Field contact:
The Field,
161 Sixth Avenue,
New York, NY 10013,
Tel: (212) 691-6969,
fax: (212) 255-2053,
e-mail [email protected].
A copy of The Field's latest annual report
may be
obtained, upon request, from The Field or
from the
Office of the Attorney General, Charities
Bureau, 120
Broadway, New York, NY 1027
Ciao a tutti!
Kairos Italy Theater
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