Year: 2017

Chiara Pesente & Camy

Negli anni novanta ebbi la possibilità di essere ospitata da alcune famiglie americane durante il mio viaggio in California. Allora pensavo che un giorno forse mi sarei sdebitata con quelle generose famiglie statunitensi e l’opportunità mi è arrivata dalla Diocesi di Mantova con questo bellissimo progetto di accoglienza di volontari stranieri. Se dapprima ho pensato […]

Love, Passion, Treachery, A Curse…in a powerful new interpretation of Verdi’s masterpiece. Lecture by John Zaretti

Love, Passion, Treachery, A Curse…in a powerful new interpretation of Verdi’s masterpiece. Lecture by John Zaretti, President of the Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan, with guest performances of selections from Verdi’s Rigoletto, performed by the MOT Studio Artists THURSDAY OCTOBER  AT  P.M. Chrysler Black Box Theatre at the Detroit Opera House • FREE […]

After Industry – A Wasserman Projects

Members and friends join us for the exhibit After Industry introduced by Sculptor Sergio De Giusti After Industry was an exhibition of new and recent work by Italian sculptor Willy Verginer, Norwegian painter Christer Karlstad, and Michigan-based photographer Jason DeMarte. The exhibition marked the first time that Verginer and Karlstad’s work was explored in depth […]

“The roots of Italian Taste: revisiting seven thousand years of culinary traditions”

Join us for this special Caffè & Cultura by Laura Motta. Many of the Italian traditional ingredients can be tracked back to prehistoric time, since the first domesticated plants have been cultivated during the neolithic. This historical overview, based on recent archaeological and ethnohistorical research, explores the past lives of Italian traditional food from Romans’ […]

Songs from a Lost World of Italian Jewish Composers

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017 The Dante Aligheri Society, Michigan Chapter and the Wayne State Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies with the support of the  Italian Program at Wayne State, under the auspices  of the Consulate of Italy in Detroit presented Songs from a Lost World of Italian Jewish Composers  a performance by  Caroline Helton – Soprano & Kathryn Goodson – […]

Memorandum of Understanding

On January 20th 2017, the Consul of Italy, Dr. Maria Luisa Lapresa, met with Brian J. Whiston, Superintended of Education for the State of Michigan for the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding designed to facilitate the promotion of the Italian language in K-12 schools in Michigan.The official document, believed to be the first […]