Consolato Generale d'Italia

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          The newsletter for the lovers of Italian Culture

CONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY IN BOSTON

JANUARY 2013

  

 

EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE NEWSLETTER:

Chiara Marsoner

Antonio Talarico

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Events in New England
FICCB Website Launch
Night Series Liberty Hotel
Verdi Requiem
Brutus
Rigoletto
Salute to Giuseppe Verdi
Tribute to Primo Levi
Jill Slosburg-Ackerman - In Rome
Memory Traces
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IL CONSOLATO INFORMA:

 

Passaporti:    

Si avvisano tutti i connazionali che dal 26 giugno 2012 tutti i bambini che viaggiano dovranno essere muniti del proprio passaporto.

 

Si invitano pertanto tutti i genitori che hanno i minori iscritti sul proprio passaporto di contattare il Consolato
(
[email protected]; 617 7229223). 

 

Cittadinanza:

Si informa che sul sito del Consolato e' disponibile il manuale pratico sulla doppia cittadinanza "To be or not to be an Italian citizen? That is the questionnaire!". Nel manuale sono disponibili tutte le informazioni utili per comprendere le modalita' di acquisto, riacquisto e la documentazione necessaria per ottenere la doppia cittadinanza.

 

Contatti utili: 

AIRE/ELETTORALE: 

[email protected]  

617 722 9220

 

NOTARILE: 

[email protected] 

617 722 9205

 

PENSIONI:

[email protected] 

617 722 9220

 

CITTADINANZA:

[email protected] 

617 722 9303


STATO CIVILE:
[email protected]

617 722 9225 

 

PASSAPORTI: 

[email protected]  

617 722 9223

 

TITOLI DI STUDIO/BUONI POSTALI:

[email protected]  

617 722 9225

 

PER QUESTIONI DI CARATTERE

GENERALE: [email protected] 

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Useful information and news


NEW IN BOSTON

Piccola Italia Preschool
  

Piccola Italia Preschool (PIP) � un asilo nido di famiglia situato a Newton, MA. PIP � speciale grazie all'enfasi sulla cultura e lingua italiana. Gli insegnanti utilizzano l'approccio di "immersione" dove l'italiano � il metodo d'istruzione. PIP accetta iscrizioni per bambini da 2.9 a 5 anni con opzioni di due, tre, e cinque giorni alla settimana.  

Clicca qui per ulteriori informazioni

Cari Amici dell'Italia, Buon Anno a Tutti! DAL 2013 POTRETE SEGUIRCI ANCHE SU FACEBOOK E TWITTER!

Come sapete, il 2013 e' l'ANNO DELLA CULTURA ITALIANA NEGLI STATI UNITI che a Boston inaugureremo con tre straordinari eventi. Il 17 gennaio la Boston Symphony Orchestra, diretta dal Maestro Daniele Gatti, suonera' il Requiem di Verdi. Il 18 gennaio il Museum of Fine Arts ospitera' - in prestito dai Musei Capitolini di Roma - il Bruto Capitolino, per la prima volta negli Stati Uniti.  Il 20 gennaio la Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras di Federico Cortese eseguira' il Rigoletto presso il Sanders Theatre. Non potevo immaginare un miglior inizio!

Attiro poi la vostra attenzione sulla COMMEMORAZIONE DELLA GIORNATA DELLA MEMORIA DELL'OLOCAUSTO, che organizzeremo insieme a Boston University, Consolato Generale d'Israele, American Jewish Committee e PIB il 27 gennaio, con un ricordo di Primo Levi.

Permettetemi di segnalarvi anche la nascita della Onlus "AMICI DEL CENTRO ITALIANO DI CULTURA DI BOSTON", che ha l'obiettivo di creare un Centro Italiano di Cultura a Boston per promuovere la nostra lingua e cultura e contribuire alla preservazione del retaggio italiano della citta'. Per maggiori informazioni visitate il sito www.ficcb.it.

Un avviso infine a tutti i connazionali iscritti all'AIRE. Come sapete le ELEZIONI POLITICHE sono state indette per il 24-25 febbraio 2013. Per votare RICEVERETE A CASA IL PLICO ELETTORALE ENTRO IL 6 FEBBRAIO. Ove abbiate cambiato indirizzo, assicuratevi di comunicarlo ad [email protected]. Per maggioni informazioni consultate l'apposita versione del sito web del Consolato http://www.consboston.esteri.it/Consolato_Boston/Menu/La_Comunicazione/elezioni_2013.htm 

Buon 2013 e... buona lettura! 
Giuseppe Pastorelli 


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Dear Friends of Italy a Happy New Year to All! From 2013 the CONSULATE WILL HAVE A FACEBOOK PAGE AND A TWITTER ACCOUNT!

 

As you know, 2013 is the YEAR OF ITALIAN CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. We will inaugurate it in Boston with three extraordinary events. On January 17th the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniele Gatti, will play Verdi's Requiem. On January 18th for the first time in the United States, the Museum of Fine Arts will display  Capitoline Brutus, borrowed from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. On January 20th the Boston Symphony Orchestras of Federico Cortese will perform Rigoletto at the Sanders Theater. I could have not envisioned a better start!

 
I would also like to bring to your attention  the  COMMEMORATION OF ITALIAN HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY, which we will organize along with Boston University, the Consulate General of Israel, the American Jewish Committee and PIB on January 27th honoring Primo Levi.

 

It is worth to mention the creation of the Public Charity "FRIENDS OF THE ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BOSTON" which has the aim of creating an Italian Cultural Center in Boston to promote Italian language and culture and preserve Italian heritage of Boston. For more information please visit www.ficcb.it.

 

Last, a notice for all Italian citizens registered at the A.I.R.E. As you know the GENERAL ELECTIONS will be held on February 24-25 2013. You will RECEIVE AN ELECTORAL ENVELOPE AT HOME BY FEBRAURY 6TH. If you have recently changed your address, please be sure to update your information by sending an email to [email protected].

For further information, please visit the dedicated section in the Consulate's website http://www.consboston.esteri.it/Consolato_Boston/Menu/La_Comunicazione/elezioni_2013.htm

Happy 2013...happy reading!

Giuseppe Pastorelli 

 

Website Launch
FRIENDS OF THE ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BOSTON
www.ficcb.it
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The Public Charity "Friends of the Italian Cultural Center of Boston/FICCB" was founded in December 2012 with the aim of creating a Center of Italian Culture in Boston and, further, to ensure its management and operation. The non-profit organization is registered in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has the objective of promoting Italian language and culture as well as preserving Italian heritage in Boston.

Please visit www.ficcb.it

Tuesday January 8 from 6:00 to 8:30PM Gallery Night Series | Liberty Hotel 215 Charles Street, Boston MA 02114
JOIN US FOR A NIGHT OF ART FEATURING WORKS BY TRACY GIRDLER 
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January 17-18-19 at 8pm at Boston Symphony Hall| 301 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115
VERDI'S REQUIEM - DANIELE GATTI CONDUCTING
 
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Daniele Gatti, Conductor
 
To mark the bicentennial of Verdi's birth in 1813, Italian conductor Daniele Gatti, music director of the "Orchestre National de France", leads the BSO in three performances of the composer's Requiem with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and four vocal soloists all making their BSO debuts. One of the greatest of all works for orchestra, soloists, and chorus, Verdi's massive, theatrical Requiem was completed in 1874, dedicated to the memory of the great Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni - a personal hero of Verdi's- and premiered on the first anniversary of Manzoni's death.  
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Tickets start st $30. 

Anno della Cultura Italiana  

January 18 until the end of April - Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA

Capitoline Brutus

 

Image from Musei Capitolini
Capitoline Brutus is coming to the United States for the first time, borrowed from the Capitoline Museums in Rome to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The loan falls within the framework of the Dream of Rome project, which has brought masterpieces such as Bernini's Medusa to San Francisco, the Capitoline Venus to Washington, DC, and the Lion attacking a horse to Los Angeles.

Anno della Cultura Italiana
Sunday, January 20 at 3pm at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University | 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
VERDI'S RIGOLETTO - FEDERICO CORTESE CONDUCTING 
Rigoletto
MUSIC BY GIUSEPPE VERDI -  LIBRETTO BY FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras' (BYSO)

6th Annual Semi-Staged Opera

 

Boston Youth Symphony

Federico Cortese, Conductor

Doug Fitch, Stage Director and Designer

 

ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Tickets $30-$40. Click here to order your tickets online or call 617.496.2222

 

  

Anno della Cultura Italiana

 

Thursday January 24 7:30 pm NEC Jordan Hall | 290 Huntington Ave, Boston MA    

Salute to Giuseppe Verdi on his bicentennial 

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New England Conservatory presents
The 23rd Annual Composers Anniversary Celebration
TATYANA DUDOCHKIN,
founder and artistic director
Ron Della Chiesa, host (WGBH)  

Sunday, January 27 - 1:30 p.m. Boston University, George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, 2nd floor | 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 MA     
THE LEGACY OF "SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ" 
 
A TRIBUTE TO PRIMO LEVI 

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Please R.S.V.P. by Thursday, Jan. 24 2013 at [email protected] 
 

 

November 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013, Contemporary Gallery |Worcester Art Museum 55 Salisbury Street Worcester, MA

Jill Slosburg-Ackerman - In Rome: 
The Pine Grove. And. Natura naturans; natura naturata

  

Jill Slosburg-Ackerman's drawing project, In Rome, was initiated while she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2009. Roman pine cones inspired her initial observational drawings and led her to draw other forms, in particular, the patterned stone floors she encountered in medieval Roman churches. As she explored connections between these two representative forms of nature and civilization, Slosburg-Ackerman's project evolved in ways that expose the fluidity of boundaries between two- and three-dimensional experience, organic and geometric structure, intimate and architectural scale, sculpture and furniture...

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This exhibition is supported by the Don and
Mary Melville Contemporary Art Fund.

Memory Traces: A Collection of Italian Memories of Boston 

 

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To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and the MIT Mobile Experience Lab, in partnership with COMITES (Committee of Italians Abroad) of Boston, has developed Memory Traces: A Collection of Italian Memories of Boston. Boston's Italian community dates back to 1860, when the first immigrants came to the United States seeking better conditions than those of their homeland. For the past 150 years, Italian-Americans have played a prominent role in the city of Boston, having distinguished themselves in various disciplines including business, government, medicine, technology, humanities, and academia. Through geo-located video interviews, the Memory Traces project explores the Italian experience in Boston. These recollections from selected representatives of fi rst generation and American born Italians help preserve their heritage for future generations. The use of new media has enabled this interactive documentary.  The Memory Traces project website features the stories overlaid on a map of the city. Stories can be fi ltered by person, time period, and a selection of themes that capture the

http://locast.mit.edu/memorytraces/ messages of the stories. A mobile application provides the opportunity for others to follow these memory trails through the city of Boston. 

  

Consulate General of Italy in Boston

Tel. 617-722-9201

Fax 617-722-9407

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