BOTTICELLI: HEROINES + HEROES

Travel through time with eight of Botticelli's most political works in conversation with modern day interpretations, drawing connections to issues we face today.



February 14 - May 19, 2019 - The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum celebrates Sandro Botticelli with the exhibition: “Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes” . There are eight works by the Renaissance Master along with two masterpieces “The story of Lucrezia” (part of the permanent collection of the Museum) and “The story of Virginia”, a loan from Italy. The works of Botticelli will have alongside, in a sort of ideal dialogue, the drawings of Karl Stevens, a cartoonist of the New Yorker, who reinterprets the Botticelli’s masterpieces with a gaze at the role of women in contemporary society. 

“To have Lucrezia and Virginia reunited within the halls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a historic event” stated Doctor Nathaniel Silver, curator of the collection. The exhibition praises the amazing narrative ability of these works and the timeless revolutionary spirit of the genius of Botticelli which allowed such an ideal dialogue with a contemporary artist in a contemporary environment. 

“ The Botticelli exhibition is part of a mosaic of events that confirms the great influence of Italian art and culture on relations between Italy and the USA and on the relations between our people. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the city of Boston, which boasts a historic connection to Italy, are now at the center of a lively relation that is renewed and strengthened on a daily basis " said Armando Varricchio, Ambassador of Italy to the United States. 

Tuesday, March 5 | 7:00PM | Real Gusto | 24 High Street Medford, MA

Crescendo 2019 - Live @Real Gusto by Boston Italian Artists

Friday, March 8 | 5:45PM | Dante Alighieri Society | Cambridge

La Nostra Voce

Sunday, March 10 | 5:00 PM | Dante Alighieri Society

Italian Movie Night, screening of "Mia Madre"

Friday, March 15 - Saturday, March 16 | 8:00PM | ICA Boston

Alessandro Sciarroni, UNTITLED_I will be there when you die

Italian visual artist and choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni returns to the ICA with a hypnotic reflection on the passing of time. Working with a cast of four professional jugglers, Sciarroni emphasizes performers’ discipline, focus, and concentration to thrilling effect. By stripping away the trappings of the circus, Sciarroni emphasizes the essential elements of juggling and the medium’s nearly endless combination of patterns and tosses (under the leg, under the arm, above the head, etc). Every toss and every catch marks the passage of time—a hypnotic and thrilling effect—again and again and again.

Thursday, March 21 | 7:00 PM | Dante Alighieri Society

The Divine Comedy and the expression of "The Other World"

Friday, March 22 | 12:00PM | Library Lecture Hall | Emmanuel College

Please join Emmanuel College’s Sociology Department, Cardinal Cushing Library, & Italian Club Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea)

A light lunch will be provided, with a discussion following the film.

With support from S.T.A.R.T., the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, Migration Studies and the Eastern Mediterranean Institute at Emmanuel College.

Free and open to the public.

Starting Friday, March 22 | Salem State University

The 2019 New England Contemporary Italian Film Festival

Sunday, March 24 | 7:00PM | Studio Cinema | 376 Tapelo Road, Belmont, Ma

Upcoming screening of an Italian documentary feature film " The Disappearance of My Mother"  directed by  Beniamino Barrese . The film will have its MA Premiere at the upcoming 2019  Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston  

Until May 2019 | 5:00pm-7:00pm

Italian Folk Dance Lessons

Italian Classes at Passport to Languages

SAVE THE DATE - June 24-July 8 2019

Tino D'Agostino - Art Music Italia

Let's Learn Italian-Impariamo L'italiano!

Welcome to our Italian classes. Are you ready for an exciting and rewarding ten weeks studying the most beautiful language in the world? Our Italian Level 1 classes are designed for beginners and Level 2 for more experienced speakers and readers of Italian. Classes are taught by native Italian speakers and will include a variety of communicative activities, short readings and and written exercises. During the ten weeks of study, participants will also study cultural aspects of Italy and its people.

For information about Italian group lessons or private lessons please call  (617) 939-4216  or send an email to [email protected] . Visit us at   www.casit.org  

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Pirandello Italian Language Center (PILC)

Il Pirandello Italian Language Center (PILC), founded in 1973, is one of the oldest Italian language programs in New England. Partially funded by the Italian government, PILC has the resources and faculty members to offer high quality lessons. All classes are taught by professionally trained, as well as highly successful, teachers. It is their passion to share how beautiful and interesting the Italian

language truly is. Through professional development programs, our teachers constantly integrate new and contemporary teaching methods to see the best results in their students. This includes not only teaching Italian, but exposing our students to science, art, music, and geography in Italian as well. PILC language programs are offered to both children and adults on Saturdays from 10 AM -12:15 PM in the historical and beautiful North End of Boston at St. John Elementary School.

For more info, visit our website www.learnitalianpilc.org or call 85-PILC-1-ITA

Scuola Italiana del Sabato - PIB per bambini di Boston e del New England

 

La scuola, fondata nel 2014, insegna ad oltre 100 bambini tra i 2 e i 14 anni, divisi in 8 classi in base a età e livello di comprensione lessico/grammaticale di ciascuno e gestite da 10 maestri e numerosi volontari; è l'unica in New England a tenere, di sabato, esclusivamente corsi full immersion in italiano per bambini che già comprendono l'italiano. Per informazioni e iscrizioni: www.ScuolaPIB.org

Editorial Staff of the Newsletter: Antonio Talarico