La Dante? una risorsa
Video-racconto della tre giorni dell’82° Congresso Internazionale della Società Dante Alighieri, svoltosi a Milano dal 25 al 27 settembre scorsi.
“Are the Passengers Saved?” News!
Local Author filming movie in Detroit & Italy about surviving deadly shipwreck. “The Titanic of the 1950s” inspires a local woman’s life-long mission to expose the controversial truth about the ship’s captain. Trailer and Media Coverage! Media coverage in Italy: La Rai “Community”, July 23, 2015 http://www.rai.tv/StatisticheProxy/tagCloudVisualizza.jsp?tagName=pierette-domenica-simpson&nometag=cGllcmV0dGUtZG9tZW5pY2Etc2ltcHNvbg== Video Interview: http://12alle12.it/san-martino-c-se-il-paese-diventa-set-della-docu-fiction-ispirata-al-libro-lultima-notte-dellandrea-doria-di-pierrette-domenica-simpson-158928 Video made by ANSA: http://www.ansa.it/sito/videogallery/spettacolo/2015/07/28/un-docu-film-sulla-tragedia-dellandrea-doria_8ecb26f2-8246-4cf9-abf4-ce6c553734e4.html The OIakland Press: http://www.theoaklandpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/20150629/shipwreck-survivor-sets-record-straight-for-anniversary-of-andrea-doria-sinking […]
Ancient food greets Archaeology
The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan in collaboration with The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology presented Ancient food greets Archaeology DAS presented a private guided tour at University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology to discover Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The experience was completed with a strolling lunch of ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian delicacies. Tour Guide: Laura Motta, PhD, […]
Caffè e Cultura | “How a world icon comes to life: the Ford Mustang”
For Giuliano Zuccato, a native of Italy, it was a serendipitous path from a river powered sawmill near Venice where he cut raw timber for the locals to the design studios of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. Shortly after leaving his Country to seek a better future, he contracted a rare disease of the […]
Italian Film Festival Detroit
The local premieres of award-winning Italian film April 2015 Metro Detroit Locations and film A GOLDEN BOY BLACK SOULS FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS HOW STRANGE TO BE CALLED FEDERICO! HUMAN CAPITAL REMEMBER ME? SONG ‘E NAPULE THE CHAIR OF HAPPINESS THE DINNER QUIET BLISS LEOPARDI LIKE THE WIND THE MAFIA KILLS ONLY IN SUMMER THE REFEREE
Vatican Museums
The Convention between the Dante Alighieri Society and the Vatican Museums has been renewed until December 31, 2015. A DAS member and one guest will be able to access the museums without the need of standing in line, through the “Individual entrance for visitors with online booking” entry. A DAS member and one guest will […]
DAS 90th Birthday Gala
The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan had chosen the fantastic setting of the Detroit Yacht Club for a promising party to celebrate the end of another great year and its 90th anniversary. DAS proposed an enjoyable evening with seated dinner, music, dance, and a blind silent auction of works by Detroit artists, three of whom […]
Opera in Concert: Rossini’s William Tell
Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium 825 North University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Choral Union Series Opera in Concert: Rossini’s William Tell Teatro Regio Torino Orchestra and Chorus Gianandrea Noseda, conductor Claudio Fenoglio, chorus master William Tell was Rossini’s final opera, although the composer lived for nearly 40 years after its composition. Its premiere […]
Involuntary Witness by Gianfranco Carofiglio
Translated by Patrick CreaghInvoluntary Witness is the first book in a series featuring Italian trial lawyer Guido Guerrieri, who lives in Bari, Italy. The author, Gianrico Carofiglio, is a former Italian judge, so the legal aspects of his novels are very accurate and interesting in their own right due to the complexity of the Italian […]
Agostino by Alberto Moravia
Dante Alighieri Society Book Club Friday, July 17, 2015 7 Agostino By Alberto Moravia Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful, widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, she begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. […]
