Friday, September 30 - Saturday October 22 

Opening Reception Friday, October 7 at 5.30pm until 9.00pm

at the Laconia Gallery, 433 Harrison Ave., Boston MA 

"During a time when art transcends national borders and when artists become cosmopolitan explorers of culture. I am proud to announce that Fabrizio Bellanca of Rome is the founder of the exhibition "Boston-Vienna 2ways". This journey into the heart of contemporary art of Boston and Vienna is an exchange between Europe and the United States that offers the opportunity to think about different identities and cultural heritages. Bellanca's work represents Italy's experimental side, one for all the world to see. Many paintings portray cities like Boston, New York and Vienna, where the foundation of their architecture and the physiognomy of their people become a source of inspiration for the artist. He uses a combination of art and technology; in his works, metallic shadows and brushes of color give new birth to the consistency of reality. The Consulate General of Italy in Boston supports this project, with the hope that contemporary Italian art will assume even a larger role in the international level. We will continue to promote new initiatives that strengthen the dynamic and innovative image of our country. I hope that the public will appreciate the exhibition and I would like to take the chance to give a warm welcome to all the artists that are participating."

Giuseppe Pastorelli, Consulate General of Italy in Boston.

 

Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday 12:00 PM-4:00 PM. 

Free and open to the public.  

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Clostridial neurotoxins: entry into neurons and blockade of the neuroexocytosis nano machine

Hosted by: Dr. John Collier, HMS Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology. Speaker: Cesare Montecucco, University of Padua, Italy

No Registration required. Free event

Additional information Coffee and snacks served at 12.15pm outside the room. For more information Contact Shannon Humphreys: shannon@hms.harvard.edu

Thursday, October 13 and Friday October 14, starting at 9am at the Cambridge Innovation Center, 3rd floor Conference Room Asuncion, One Broadway Cambridge, MA

U.S. & Italian Strategies for Turning Academic Research into Business.

An Italian Trade Commission International Seminar to Support U.S. - Italy Technology Transfer

The Italian Trade Commission invites you to an international training seminar that aims to provide concrete tools and examples to support 

your entrepreneurial efforts to commercialize university research by creating a start-up company. Target Audience: Academic Science 

Researchers with the potential or interest in translating their research 

work by creating a research spin-off / start-up company in Massachusetts or in Italy (or a partnership between the 2 regions). Discussion topics will 

cover public funding and private investment opportunities in MA and Italy,example local university models, and a showcase of successful international case study start-ups. 

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Wednesday, October 19 at 8.30pm at The Behive, Boston

Newpoli

 

Newpoli is a group of exceptionally talented musicians, all alumni from Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, that performs Southern Italian Folk Music, mainly from the regions of Campania and Puglia, integrating a wide variety of styles such as Tarantella-Pizzica, Tammuriata, Villanella and the Neapolitan Canzone, encompassing music from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. Because Italian Folk music, with the exception of a small number of Neapolitan songs, has not received its deserved attention and recognition, neither in Italy nor abroad, Newpoli, guided by their passion for playing and researching these seldom played traditional styles, introduces to the audience, often for the first time, the joy and beauty of this music while recounting the ancient stories and rituals described in the lyrics.

The group has been enthusiastically received everywhere, as the audience, notwithstanding the language barrier, is mesmerized by the vitality, energy and spice of their music. They have performed throughout New England, at venues such as the Berklee Performance Center, Ryles Jazz Club, The Middle East, Dante Alighieri Society of Cambridge and First Night. They have been interviewed and featured twice, in 2006 and in 2008, by RAI International, the Italian International public television. They released their debut CD in March 2008.

Formed in October of 2003, the group consists of two singers, Carmen Marsico and Angela Rossi, a Tamorra player (traditional Italian percussion), Fabio Pirozzolo, an accordion player, Roberto Cassan, a classical guitarist, Bjorn Wennas, a double bass player, Kendall Eddy and a violinist, Megumi Sasaki.

Maestro Federico Cortese conducts BYSO 

Vasari/500

On the quincentennial anniversary of his birth, Vasari/500 will unite doctoral students, recent graduates, and an international group of scholars with the aim of reassessing the Tuscan-born artist and writer's central, if deeply contested, role in charting histories of the Renaissance. Thematic panels, special presentations, and a roundtable discussion will allow participants to consider Vasari and his legacy both in depth and across disciplinary boundaries. What is Vasari's place in the humanities today, and how might the study of this figure illuminate our own world as well as that of Renaissance Italy? Vasari/500 aims, then, to be both tribute and re-evaluation; both reflection and prescription.

This symposium is organized by Francesca Borgo, Caitlin Henningsen, Shawon K. Kinew, and Daniel Zolli, doctoral students in the History of Art + Architecture, Harvard University. It is made possible by generous support from the Lauro De Bosis Committee and the Department of History of Art + Architecture, Harvard University in collaboration with Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; 

Harvard Art Museum and the Consulate General of Italy in Boston.

 

Free and Open to the public.

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Handel and Haydn Society Presents
Pergolesi Stabat Mater

Italian baroque specialist Rinaldo Alessandrini leads a program of Baroque jewels, with Pergolesi's achingly beautiful Stabat Mater at the heart of the concert. Alessandrini also performs Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in D Major.

Rinaldo Alessandrini is a major conductor and harpsichordist specializing in Italian Baroque music. After musical studies including serious research in Italian music from 1550 to 1750, Alessandrini embarked on his career as a harpsichordist, both as a soloist and as continuo player/leader of Concerto Italiano, a vocal and instrumental ensemble he founded. During the 1980s and 1990s Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano established themselves as the leading ensemble for Italian Baroque music from the music's home country.

Alessandrini believes that, regardless of musical era, there is a set of "essential, but often elusive, expressive and cantabile elements of fundamental to Italian music." His aim is to find those qualities in music of the Italian Baroque period, which he regards "the most fertile and innovative in all Italian music."

He and Concerto Italiano have toured extensively in Europe, including many of the major musical festivals, especially the ones with interest in the era. He and the ensemble record for various labels and have won awards such as the Cini Foundation Vivaldi Prize, the Choc de la Musique, Grand Prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, the Diapason d'Or (in three successive years), the Cecilia Prize, the Gramophone Award, the BBC Music Magazine Prize, and the Grand Prix de l'Academie Charles Cros.

Alessandrini also conducts Italian Baroque opera widely. His is considered one of the world's leading specialists in the operas of Monteverdi, and also revives lesser-known Italian opera composers such as Cavalli and Vinci. He includes the Italian operas of George Frideric Handel in his conducting repertoire, and he and Concerto Italiano have recorded harpsichord concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. These Gramophone Award-nominated performances are hailed for paying special attention to the direct Italian inspiration for the concertos. Other acclaimed CDs include his two volumes of One Hundred Fifty Years of Italian Music, featuring harpsichord music on the first disc and organ music on the second.

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