XXII Settimana della Lingua nel Mondo
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Luisa Bocchietto | Architect
Furniture and Sustainability – Architect Luisa Bocchietto, Former President of the Industrial Design Association (ADI) and of the World Design Organization (WDO), talked about furniture, sustainability, Italian design, and how design has expanded from product design to the design of processes and services ...
Love IT Detroit
September 2022 marked the start of the highly anticipated and first-ever collaboration between the Consulate of Italy, in partnership with the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, and the Detroit Month of Design - a 30-day exhibition filling one glorious space in the heart of downtown ...
MUNER – Motorvehicle University
MUNER – The Motorvehicle University of Emilia-Romagna has the most famous automotive Companies in the world put their know-how and the most innovative technologies at the service of students who want to become the new professionals in the automotive field and are willing ...
Detroit City FC challenge!
Players of the Amazing Detroit City FC have joined LoveIT Detroit challenge! We thank the team and the players for joining in on the fun.
Silvio Angori | Pininfarina
In simultaneous collaboration with Detroit Month of Design, and for the first time ever, the Consulate of Italy in Detroit, in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, LoveITDetroit, an active design, innovation and architectural exhibition like nothing Detroit has experienced before.<br ...
Ruben Abbattista
In simultaneous collaboration with Detroit Month of Design, and for the first time ever, the Consulate of Italy in Detroit, in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, LoveITDetroit, an active design, innovation and architectural exhibition like nothing Detroit has experienced before.
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Carlo Ratti
In simultaneous collaboration with Detroit Month of Design and, for the first time ever, the Consulate of Italy in Detroit, in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, LoveITDetroit, an active design, innovation, and architectural exhibition like nothing Detroit has experienced before.
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Celebrating Dante on Belle Isle
Pomeriggio con Paganini
Pomeriggio con Paganini Was a Great Success By Sandra Tornberg On Sunday, May 22, 2022, the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan in collaboration with the Consulate of Italy in Detroit, presented Pomeriggio con Paganini to commemorate the famous violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini who died on May 27, 1840. Born on October 27, 1782, in Genoa, Italy, Paganini […]
IDR (Italian Doc Remix) North American Tour
IDR (Italian Doc Remix) 2022 Tour was Sponsored By:
Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago
Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto
Italian Cultural Center in Minneapolis
Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan
Under the Auspices of the Consulate of Italy in Detroit.
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The 28th Annual Italian Songs and Arias Vocal Competition for Michigan High School Students
On May 1st the Concert of the Finalists reached the 28th Anniversary edition.It was exciting to see and hear remarkable young singers emerging each year as they challengethemselves to have their artistic dreams realized. The Verdi Opera provides students the opportunity to showcase their talent in hopes to inspire them to continue their musical journey […]
XXI Week of Italian Language
Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan presented:“The Evolution of the Romantic Poem”, by Erika CaturegliDuring this Anno Dantesco, Dante Alighieri of Michigan explored Dante’s poetry before the creation of the Divine Comedy by selecting poems in which he talks about his beloved Beatrice. In this retrospective in honor of the Settimana della Lingua, we will look […]
How Dante Alighieri keeps mattering
We believe Dante Alighieri played a fundamental role in the beginning of the Renaissance, which brought about so much change to society. It allowed us to begin to satirize institutions and authority. It gave us the beginning of art, architecture, and learning.
Dante and Pisa
We would like to inaugurate a monthly appointment in which we will talk about Italian historical figures, archeological sites, art, cities, or overall culture. We are launching this new blog by talking about cities that were mentioned by non other ...
We would like to inaugurate a monthly appointment in which we will talk about Italian historical figures, archeological sites, art, cities, or overall culture. We are launching this new blog by talking about cities that were mentioned by non other ...
Digital Solidarity
The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan is participating to the “Digital Solidarity” campaign to help people cope with COVID-19 lockdown in a totally FREE way! In collaboration with Mareluna Cooperativa Sociale, ONLUS (Non Profit organization) is offering online English classed to children, residing in Italy, ages 6-10.Teachers, students, and families around the world are affected […]
The Nativity Scene by Eduardo De Filippo in Detroit
Natale in casa Cupiello Presented by the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan On December 17, 2019, the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan presented a live production of Eduardo De Filippo’s Natale in casa Cupiello (“The Nativity Scene”) to a sold-out audience at the Village Players of Birmingham. The event was organized in collaboration with the […]
Simone Cinotto: The Italian American Table
Simone Cinotto is Associate Professor of Modern History at the Università di Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenzo, Italy, where he is the Director of the master’s program “Master of Gastronomy: World Food Cultures and Mobility.” He has been Visiting Professor at Indiana University (2017), the Department of Italian Studies at New York University (2008-2010), and the […]
Festa della Musica 2019
The Festa della Musica is inspired by the values of the international Fête de la Musique. An event born in France in 1981 that later became an international phenomenon. Nowadays, the Fête de la Musique simultaneously involve many cities all around the world. In June, at the very beginning of the summer, for the summer […]
Italian Film Festival Detroit
The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan is a proud sponsor of the Italian Film Festival in Detroit.
April 3, 7:30 p.m. | Benedetta follia
Detroit Film Theatre at the
Detroit Institute of Arts
Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human
Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human
Author Elena Past talked about how filmmaking practice—from sound recording to location scouting to managing a production—helps uncover cinema’s ecological footprint and can offer new perspectives on the nonhuman world
Luigi Ferri: The Survival of a 12-year-old Italian Child at Auschwitz
“The Holocaust is a page in the book of Humanity from which we must never remove the Memory bookmark” (Primo Levi).
DAS of Michigan 2018 End of Year Party
Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan 2018 End of Year Party at the Detroit Historical Museum DAS celebrated the Dante Alighieri Society End of Year Party at the Detroit Historical Museum Streets of Old Detroit with a celebration which included the “Dante Distinctive Citizen Award” ceremony to honor admirable members of the community. The 2018 recipient […]
The Roman Theaters by Prof. Wladek Fuchs
On this special Caffè & Cultura by Prof. Wladek Fuchs talked about the rise of the Roman theater as an architectural form, its role in the Roman society, and finally its decline. There were over 400 theaters built during the Roman period in all parts of the Empire. Vitruvius in his treatise on architecture from the […]
III Week of Italian Cuisine in the World
What a Superb dinner coordinated by the Italian Chef Mimmo Bei Casagrande at the Great Lakes Culinary Center. ~Organized by the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Chicago, in collaboration with the Federazione Abruzzese del Michigan, the Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation (IACLCF), under the auspices of the […]
The Mediterranean Diet, an Italian-American Discovery useful for the Future
On November 9th the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Chicago, in collaboration with the Federazione Abruzzese del Michigan, the Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation (IACLCF), under the auspices of the Consulate of Italy in Detroit presented: The Mediterranean Diet, an Italian-American Discovery useful for the Future, a […]
Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo | Week of Italian Language
Where: The Scarab Club – 217 Farnsworth, Detroit, MI 48202 The XVIII Week of Italian Language in the World was presented under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, the Consulate of Italy in Detroit, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, with the support of the […]
A tribute to the lives and works Gabriele D’Annunzio and Paolo Tosti
On Thursday, September 20, at the Italian American Cultural Society in Clinton Township, presented by FADM in collaboration with Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan and the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, was held a presentation-concert in tribute to the lives and works Gabriele D’Annunzio and Paolo Tosti, two extraordinary Italian artists from Abruzzo who left their indelible mark […]
Angelina (L’onorevole Angelina) (The Honorable Angelina) (1947)| Film Screening & Pizza
DAS hosted a film screening and on the occasion of the 110th Anniversary of the birth of Anna Magnani, Actress (1908 – 1973) & Italy’s 73rd Anniversary of the Universal Suffrage Anna Magnani plays Angelina, an impoverished housewife who begins a passionate battle to improve the standard of living in her slum neighborhood in the days […]
Gabriele D’Annunzio and Paolo Tosti Together Again Concert
Presented by FADM in collaboration with Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan and the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan on Thursday, September 20, 6:30 p.m., at the Italian American Cultural Society in Clinton Township. This presentation-concert was in tribute to the lives and works Gabriele D’Annunzio and Paolo Tosti, two extraordinary Italian artists from Abruzzo who […]
DAS BIKE TOUR CANCELLED-POSTPONED
We are very sorry to inform you that we are forced to cancel and postpone on a different date DAS Bike tour. Stay tuned
"Wanted" eVenti Verticali Show in Ann Arbor
Through the Dante Alighieri and the Consulate of Italy in Detroit, I learnt of an interesting performance taking place on June 19 and 20 at the Top of the Park Summer Festival in my own Ann Arbor. The performers were two Italian acrobats, Luca and Andrea Piallini. Breaking the initial inertia of leaving the house […]
Sport & Nutrition Conference | Giornata dello Sport
First Italian National Sport Day 2018 The conference was held on June 1, 2018 at Wayne State University The Importance of Good Nutrition and Exercise on Physical Performance, Health and Well-Being An audience/interactive symposium to draw attention to the importance of healthy life habits on both physical and mental well-being. Presenters: -Diane Cress, RD, PhD […]
Casa Ricordi- House of Ricordi | Film Screening & Pizza
DAS hosted a film screening on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the death of Gioacchino Rossini, composer (1792 – 1868) Told in pageant-like fashion, Casa Ricordi is the story of the Ricordi family, the most prestigious music publishers in all Italy. It was the Ricordis who, for better or worse, came up with the […]
“La donna negli occhi degli artisti” Evoluzione della figura femminile nell’arte.
For International Women’s Day, Sabrina Cavallari guided us on a trip to discover the female body and its evolution in art. The female figure has always been an object and a subject in art. The representation of women evolves over the centuries along with the evolution of history, different cultures and artistic techniques. The female […]
