PIZZA, POETRY, AND PAINTING: Revisiting Italy During the Pandemic Lockdown

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HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER presents

ITALIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE LECTURE SERIES – SPRING 2021

PIZZA, POETRY, AND PAINTING:

Revisiting Italy During the Pandemic Lockdown Thursday, February 18, 6:30 p.m. “Whaddyacall the Wind? Comesichiamail Vento?” with Performance Artist Annie Lanzillotto Annie Lanzillotto reads new works – creative nonfiction and poetry yielded from a sojourn in Southern Italy. The art of yelling, Pulcinella, the secret of why laundry doesn’t drip on your head in Napoli alleyways and accordions, how a New Yorker learns to walk on the San Pietrini, standing on the spot at the Madonina where grandma left the motherland, finding the gay community in the paese, gaps in the family tree – an LGBTQ+ Perspective, a meditation on women who sell wind to sailors.

Tuesday, March 16, 2:30 p.m. Naples and the Amalfi Coast – The Horizons and Colors of Identity with Artist Bill Papaleo New York born artist, William Papaleo, has spent the last 35 years living in and painting the beauty of Naples and Southern Italy, while bringing attention to the new wave of immigrants and their voyage and integration into Italian society. He will present his paintings and his personal history, from his father Joseph Papaleo’s writing of the Italian American experience to the development of his own paintings, and his interviews with the new immigrants arriving in Italy. Southern Italy’s complexity as a land of myth, landscape, struggle, and transformation will be explored through his paintings.

Tuesday, April 13, 6:30 p.m. Film Screening and Commentary: “Arrangiarsi (Pizza... and the Art of Living)” with Director Matteo Troncone Join us for a screening of Troncone’s love letter to Naples from olive oil to street artists, to the making of his eight-year-long project. This inspiring film combines a healthy smattering of foodie passion, little known Italian history, and quirky Neapolitans to tell the tale of one man’s journey to find himself .... and his search for the “greatest pizza on earth.”

Lecture Series Director: Stanislao G. Pugliese Professor of History and Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies, Hofstra University The Italian American Experience Lecture Series is supported, in part, by the Association of Italian American Educators.

For more information and to RSVP, visit events.hofstra.edu or email hofculctr@hofstra.edu.

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All events for spring 2021 are virtual; advance registration is required. Registrants will receive an email with the link to join the event.


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