Starting on Sunday, May 1 at Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI   

Stop. Run. Play. Photographs by Susan Duca  

Susan Duca's photo-essay follows a group of Italian children attending a public school in Florence, Italy through eight years of growing, playing, learning and relating. Her work captures the energy, affection and free-spiritedness of her young subjects and creates a visual diary of the social and physical connections that may be waning in American educational systems, but appear to thrive in Italian schools. Exhibit on display during Museum hours; see website or call for full information.

Price: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $6 students/military with valid ID, by donation Sat 10 am-12 pm; free for Museum members

Phone: (401) 848-8200

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Starting on Sunday, May 1 from 4pm to 7pm

at AS220 Project Space, Providence, RI

In Italy: New photographs by Roger Carl Johanson

"In Italy" is a new series of photographs by Roger Carl Johanson that provides a small glimpse of Florence, Venice and Rome. These traditional black and white photographs, instead of illustrating a specific story from these cities rich with cultural history offer quiet moments which a viewer may become lost in their own dream story

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Tuesday May 3 at 7:30pm

at Fenway Center, 77 St.Stephen Street Boston

ECCE and L'Arsenale

Northeastern University presents Ensemble l'Arsenale, a chamber music ensemble from Treviso, Italy, and Ecce, a Massachusetts-based chamber music ensemble, in a concert featuring music by contemporary composers. The program includes What the Wave Meant (2007) by Nicolas Tzortzis, and Self, Analyzed (2010) by Travis Alford (both winners of the ECCE/Aresenale 2011 call for scores) as well as music by Lorenzo Tomio and Filippo Perocco.

Founded in Treviso by young musicians and composers under the artistic/musical direction of Filippo Perocco, L'arsenale (www.larsenale.com) aims to bridge the divide between writing music and making music, between conceiving a sound and the gesture needed to produce that sound, between the lifetime of a sound and the space it lives and dies in. A special feature of the group is its flexibility, easily changing personnel in its keenly attentive explorations of the new work coming from young composers in the vast field of contemporary music.

ECCE (www.eccensemble.com) was founded in 2005 with the mission of supporting the creation and performance of contemporary music through concerts, symposia, and outreach events. ECCE's goal is to help revitalize the connection between contemporary music and diverse communities, and to promote new forms of engagement with modern music.. Since its creation, ECCE has committed itself to the most adventuresome programming with special emphasis on contemporary European repertoire not often heard in the states. ECCE performers have worked closely with composers such as Fabien Levy, Louis Karchin, Helmut Lachenmann, George Tsontakis and David Rakowski in realizing powerful interpretations of their music.

Tickets are FREE, reserve seats at tickets.neu.edu 

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Tuesday May 3 until Tuesday May 24

Rassegna Cinematografica 2011 - Presentata da Comites e Federazione delle Associazioni Italiane

Tuesday May 3, 7:30pm

Hosted by Associazione Gizio 226 North Street, Boston

Movie: "Natale a Beverly Hills"

Wednesday May 11, 7:30 pm

Hosted by Juventus Club 270 Broadway, 2nd floor - Revere
Movie: "Un'estate Ai Caraibi"

 Tuesday May 17, 7:30pm
Hosted by Orsogna Women's
Movie: "Sharm El Sheikh Un'estate Indimenticabile"

Tuesday May 24, 7:30pm

Hosted by COMITES 11 Tileston Street, Boston
Movie: "Viva l'Italia"

Thursday May 5 at 6:30pm

at the Mandarin Oriental Boston

BYSO Celebrate, Federico Cortese Music Director
AN ALLURING NIGHT OF MUSIC AND ELEGANCE WITH THE BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS. Join the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras as we celebrate our young musicians and the communities that support us! We are excited to commemorate our children, our achievements and our future with our inaugural spring celebration. Proceeds from this event will support financial aid awards given to our students each year. 

This celebration will include: 
· Unique food stations by the Mandarin Oriental 
· Cocktails by the Mandarin Oriental 
· Silent Auction (with over 30+ items) 
· Performance by BYSO Musicians 
Ticket Price: $150 - Cocktail Attire
Host Committee: Yo-Yo Ma, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, First Lady Angela Menino, Stephen Lang  Please click here for additional information

Friday May 6 until Tuesday May 10

at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston 

Maria Padilla, by Donizzetti - Opera Boston

Don't miss your chance to hear soprano Barbara Quintiliani's return to the Boston stage in Maria Padilla, reprising her triumphant performance at the 2009 Wexford Festival: "the evening belonged, thrillingly and unequivocally, to Barbara Quintiliani as Maria" (Opera News). Maria, determined to rise to power and to preserve her honor, forces her lover-King Pedro the Cruel of Castile-to secretly marry her, despite his impending politically-motivated marriage to another, or she will kill herself. The score abounds with dramatic moments-including Donizetti's only mad scene for tenor-and colorful orchestral writing. Sung in Italian with English titles

Performances: Friday, May 6, at 7:30 pm - Sunday, May 8, at 3:00 pm - Tuesday, May 10, at 7:30 pm

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Friday May 6 at the DCR's Steriti Memorial Rink, 561 Commercial Street Boston 

The North End Community Health Center presents: Taste from the North End

Tuesday May 10 until May 15 

at Black Box Theatre, The Paramount Center

Celebrity Series of Boston Presents:

Compagnia TPO, Farfalle

Celebrity Series of Boston will present Italian visual theatre company Compagnia TPO's Farfalle (Butterflies) May 10-15 at The Paramount Center Black Box Theatre, 559 Washington St., Boston. Performance dates and times are: Tuesday, May 10, 4pm - Wednesday, May 11, 4pm

Thursday, May 12, 12pm - Friday, May 13, 12pm & 4pm

Saturday, May 14, 11am, 2pm & 7pm - Sunday, May 15, 11am, 2pm & 5pm

Compagnia TPO's Farfalle (Butterflies) is visual theatre of the senses, an immersive experience that brings together theatre and contemporary art and creates an innovative, magical relationship between children and performers. The technological centerpiece of the show is the CCC or "Children Cheering Carpet," a special sensor-covered mat which interacts with dancers and the audience in real, enchanted time. The wondrous, other-worldly "sensory gardens" of Farfalle, take audiences on a magnificent journey through a literal and symbolic story of a butterfly's life cycle. This is beauty that kids can touch, beauty they can live in. You and your family have never experienced anything quite like it before. 

General admission tickets for Farfalle are $25 and $35, and are available by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661 Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., online at www.celebrityseries.org or at the Paramount box office, 559 Washington St., Boston.

This performance marks Compagnia TPO's Celebrity Series debut.

Click here  for additional information and to purchase your ticket online

Click here  for the complete press release 

Farfalle / Butterflies

Sunday, May 15 at 3pm 

at First Lutheran Church, Boston

One of the most prolific and influential composers of the 16th century, Orlande de Lassus has long been overlooked in favor of his more famous contemporary, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. But Lassus mastered nearly every style of his time, composing over 2000 works from Italian madrigals and French chansons to masses and motets. Don't miss acclaimed vocal ensemble Exsultemus's captivating survey of the genius of Lassus.

Price: $15, $25, $35; $5 off for students and seniors

Phone: (857) 998-0219

Monday, May 16 at 8pm 

at Harvard University

Trio Napolicanto Goes to Harvard

A concert of Napolitan songs in memory of Carla Giordano 

With TRIO NAPOLINCANTO'S Gianni AVERSANO, Guitarist, singer, actor and songwriter, Ferdinand PISCOPO, Composer and mandolin player, and Domenico DE LUCA, Composer and guitarist 

Presented by Crossroads Cultural Center and Compagnia di Carla

In one of the most famous Neapolitan songs, Torna a Surriento, the verb "to look" appears seven times. It is an invitation to contemplate beauty, and therefore, to love it. But it is not just an aesthetical one, for the song, at a certain moment, invites us to look more deeply, "guarda 'nfunno", to look to the depths, because the treasure can be found in the depths of things. On the other hand, in a Neapolitan idiom, a hostile feeling is expressed by the sentence "Nun te pozzo vedè," (I cannot stand looking at you.) In saying "te voglio bene" (I love you) it is therefore implied "I am looking at you." And it is with this gaze that the person loves and changes: "I don't mind whether I was born poor or rich, because I languish for, I consist in looking at you," as a beautiful villanella from the XV century reminds us." Beauty is the splendor of truth," as in Mandulinata a Napule: "Your eyes are the stars and God is the firmament, and by looking at such a harmony my voice gets tender"; that is, our being takes the shape of what it looks at, if this look recognizes that everything is a sign.And the melancholy that often veils Neapolitan music is not a grieving but a nostalgia for the truth-a longing that opens our heart up to the point of accepting sacrifice, as the beautiful Passione quotes: "This cross I carry for you is not heavy."It is this journey of the eyes and of the heart that represents the file rouge that connects most of the songs of this concert.

The event is open to the public and free of charge.

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Friday May 26 at 6.30pm

at MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, Room 66-110, 25 

Ames Street,Cambridge 02139

Partnership between academia and industry in drug discovery and development

Dr. Rino Rappuoli, PdD Global Head of Research Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics 

Professionisti Italiani a Boston organizza un incontro con il Dr. Rino Rappuoli, Responsabile Globale della Ricerca Vaccini di Novartis, che parlera' di "Partnerships between academia and industry in drug discovery and development".

L'ingresso all'evento e' gratuito.

Vi preghiamo di registrarvi a rappuolipib.eventbrite.com

Seguira' un cocktail di networking,  gentilmente offerto da "Back Bay - Life Science Advisors" e " Choate Hall & Stuart, LLP"

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Sunday May 29 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm 

 "Piazza Italia Exhibit" - A reproduction of a typical Italian Piazza

Christopher Columbus Park at Long Wharf - Boston

• Various Exhibits - Children Area
• Entertainment, Popular, Modern & Classical Music
• Italian Cafe' 

June Preview - June 9-11 in Portland, ME

Italian Life Expo

Visitors will savor and celebrate all things Italian at the first-ever Italian Life Expo at Portland's Ocean Gateway Center this coming June 9-11. The goals of this inaugural event are to foster international exchange and pursue greater links between Maine, New England and Italy. 

Click here to view the press release 

Fax 617-722-9407

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