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Programs for 2009-2010
All events are offered free of charge by the Dorothea
van Dyke McLane Association to anyone in the community with an interest
in Italian culture. Programs are followed by informal get-togethers
where one can chat with old and new friends, and taste dishes and offerings
brought by participants.
In case of cancellation of a program due to inclement
weather or unexpected reasons, please check this Web site or call Dorothea's
House for information.
click here
for a pdf version, which includes an Italian
translation.
Programs 2009 - 2010
* Sunday, October 11, 2009 5:00 pm
A Futuristic Culinary Experience: Actors from Sicily’s Piccolo Teatro di Catania will offer a playful, thespian version of “futuristic recipes,” an experience not to exalt the palate but where spontaneous expressions and movement become a single body. Text of Marinetti and others with the actors of the Piccolo Teatro di Catania: Nicola Alberto Orofino, Anna Passanisi, Gianni Salvo; music by Pietro Cavalieri; directed by Gianni Salvo.
Sunday, November 1, 2009 5:00 pm
A Puccini Retrospective: Joseph Pucciatti, artistic director and conductor of Boheme Opera New Jersey will describe the life and operas of Giacomo Puccini, the last of the great Italian composers from the golden age of Italian opera.
Sunday, December 6, 2009 5:00 pm
Polenta Festa: It’s that time of year again to party with polenta. Bring your favorite cornmeal-based dish to Dorothea’s House and share in the fun. Enjoy the food accompanied by lively music.
* Sunday, January 10, 2010 5:00 pm
Liguria Lost and Found: Laura Schenone, James Beard award-winning author of The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken, will discuss her travels to Italy and share photographs and stories of her quest to find long-lost family recipes. Copies of her book will be available for sale.
* Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:00 pm (Change in program)
The life, art and poetry of Renaissance painter Agnolo Bronzino: Elizabeth Pilliod, an authority on 16th century Florentine art, will offer the program on Bronzino, a court artist of the Medici family in Florence. Bronzino has been considered the consummate Mannerist painter by virtue of the elegant, glacial mystery of works. He is currently the subject of an exhibition of drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Dr. Pilliod is a former fellow of I Tatti (the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), the author of several books on Florentine art, a co-author of the Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue, and a lecturer at Rutgers University, Camden. She is currently completing a monograph on Pontormo.
Sunday, March 7, 2010 5:00 pm
The Italian Civil War: Paolo Mastrolilli, foreign news editor of RAI 1 News and former correspondent for the Italian dailies La Stampa and Avvenire, as well as Vatican Radio, will discuss his latest book about how World War II and the end of Facism divided not only Italy but also his family. This is the real story of two brothers who found themselves on opposite sides without knowing it; one fighting the Nazis in Rome, the other refusing to give up his loyalty to Fascism.
* Sunday, April 11, 6:00 pm
From Ararat to the Italian peninsula: What made Armenians settled in Italy? Why is there an Armenian island in Venice? Answers to these questions and more will be given by Dr. Chiara Megighian Zenati, member of the Society of Armenian Studies.
This event is preceded by the showing of the movie La masseria delle allodole on March 21.
Sunday, May 2, 2010 6:00 pm
The Galilean Telescope and Its Rivals: Eileen Reeves, professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, and specialist in early modern scientific literature, will look back 400 years to the anniversary of Galileo’s first telescopic discoveries, putting them in the larger context of similar scientific breakthroughs in the same century.
* Please note that programs preceded by asterisks will take place on the second Sunday of the month instead of the first.
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Let’s Go to The Movies! Do you love Italian Films?
We will show the following films in Italian with English subtitles. Come and enjoy!
Vi piace il cinema italiano? Questi sono i film che verranno proiettati in italiano con i sottotitoli in inglese. Venite e divertitevi!
Click on the Italian film title to link to the description and trailer in Italian, and on the English title for the description and reviews in English.
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 3 pm:
Solo un padre (Only a father) (2008)
directed by Luca Lucini
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3 pm:
Il vento fa il suo giro (The Wind Blows Around), (2005)
directed by Giorgio Diritti
Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 3 pm:
Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch), (2008)
directed by Gianni di Gregorio
Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 3 pm:
Il ladro di merendine (The snack thief), (1999)
First episode of the series "Il commissario Montalbano" based on the best sellers by Andrea Camilleri
Some of his books, including this are available in Italian and in English at the Princeton Public Library.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 3 pm:
La masseria delle allodole (The Lark Farm), (2007)
directed by Vittorio Taviani and Paolo Taviani
Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 3 pm:
Il ladro di merendine (The snack thief), (1999)
First episode of the series "Il commissario Montalbano" based on the best sellers by Andrea Camilleri
Il Commissario Montalbano
Some of his books, including this are available in Italian and in English at the Princeton Public Library.
Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 3 pm:
Baaria (2009) directed by Giuseppe Tornatore original version in Sicilian with Italian Subtitles (no English)
Trailer
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Past Programs at
Dorothea's House
PDF Versions of past programs:
2009-2010 Programs
2008-2009 Programs
2007-2008 Programs
2006-2007 Programs
2005-2006 Programs
2004-2005 Programs
2004
Feb. - Dreyden Ensemble performs Italian baroque music on period
instruments
April - Anne Leader talks about the Orange Cloister at the Badia
Fiorentina
May - A Pirandellian evening with students from Princeton University
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Lidia Bastianich |
2003
Feb. - Fundraiser with restaurateur and cookbook
author Lidia Bastianich
Click
here for Princeton Packet article
April - Evening of poetry from Loretta Casalaina
and Maria Fama
May - Wine tasting from Tony Prospero of Prospero
Winery in Pleasantville, N.Y.
2002
Feb. - Chemist Felix Buccellato lectures on Italian
citrus oils used in perfume
May - Metropolitan Opera conductor Gildo DiNunzio
on backstage musical effects
Oct. - Bloomfield mandolin orchestra presents
Italian music and sing-along
Philadelphia folk dance group "Ballerini e Voci
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Tony Prospero of Prospero Winery
2001
April - Metropolitan Opera prompter Jane Klaviter
on secrets below the stage
May - Local artists display paintings, sculpture
Dec. - Folkdance group from Philadelphia "Ballerini
e Voci d'Italia"
2000
March - Concert by flutist Claire Durand Racamato
and pianist Marianne Lauffer
May - Photographer Holly Smith Pedlosky captures
intimacies in Venice
Nov. - Lecture on paper making in Fabriano by Raffaele
Roncalli
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1999
April - Italian author Gina Lagorio recounts her
experiences as a writer
Nov. - 15th Century Florence lecture by art historian
Elena Welm
Dec. - A portrait of Verdi's Violetta by Metropolitan
Opera conductor Joseph Colaneri
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1998
April - Mozzarella making demonstration
Nov. - Maria LoBiondo upholds tradition of Italian
story-telling
Dec. - Lecture on Leonardo Sciascia by Strathclyde
University's Professor Joseph Farrell
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1997
Jan. - Sister Margherita Marchione introduces her
book "Yours is a Precious Witness"
April - Facts and fiction about olives and olive
oil by Clo Treves and Milena Troiano
Nov. - Lecture on Trevi Fountain history by Professor
John Pinto
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1996
Feb. - A Dante evening with Professor Robert Hollander
April - Robert Browning in Italy - lecture by Lillian
Mariano Chance
Oct. - Inspired by Italy watercolors by Marge Chavooshian
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Chris Tamasi giving a cooking demonstration in 1994
1993
March - Italian general consul and lawyer from Stark
& Stark on legal issues
Oct. - Lecture on Italians in New Jersey by Professor
Remigio Pane
Nov. - Lecture on Italians in Princeton by Robert
Immordino and Ciro Poppiti
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1995
Feb. - Venice during Carnevale lecture and slides
by Carla Olsen
March - Giuseppe Verdi comes to Dorothea's House
by way of Eduardo Mangella
Nov. - Gardens of Villa Lante slide show and lecture
by architect Kevin Wilkes
1994
Jan. - Lecture by Professor Pietro Frassica on letters
to Pirandello by Marta Abba
Feb. - Boheme Opera Company's Sandra Pucciatti on
insider's guide to opera
Nov. - Italian baroque music by Westminster choir
group and Nancy Perella
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1992
Jan. - Architect Michael Mostoller lectures on Palladio
April - Traditional pig roast
May - Professor Lucy Nardella talks about Siena's
Palio
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1991
Feb. - Operatic performance by singers of the Boheme
Opera Company
March - An armchair tour of the Dolomite region
Oct. - DeFranco family and Calabrian folk music
and dancing
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1990
Jan. - Lecture on the Etruscans by Professor Maria
Teresa Moevs
April - Slide show and talk on Molise and Pettoranello
by Antonio Pirone
May - Italian folkdancing with the Montclair Folk
Group
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1989
Oct. - Dorothea's House 75th Anniversary Celebration
March - Renaissance Rome lecture by Professor Laurie
Nussdorfer
Nov. - Lecture on operas of Mascagni by Alan Mallach
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1988
Jan. - Lecture on Sicily by Professor Pietro Frassica
and Dr. Frank Campo
Feb. - Carnevale celebration
Oct. - Italian Fashion show and historical lecture
by Rene Battaglia
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1987
Jan. - Architect Fred Travisano gives lecture on
Italian hill town architecture
May - Concert by cellist Gino Treves and string
quartet
Oct. - Villa Banfi wine-tasting; Bob Freda demonstrates
home wine-making
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1986
Oct. - Wine tasting program
Nov. - Italian movie "Tre Fratelli"
Dec. - Prosciutto making demonstration by Dominic
Tamasi
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