List of Events
The Medici | Film Screening
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance From a base in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family used charm, patronage, duplicity, and ruthlessness to amass wealth and power. The Medicis also ignited Western history's most important cultural and artistic revolution, the Renaissance, but doomed their own ordered world. This epic drama in the courts, cathedrals, and palaces of Europe traces a family's powerful ambition and a continent's tortured struggle to emerge from the Dark Ages. (PBS) Producer: DEVILLIER DONEGAN ENTERPRISES Film screening 220…
Festa della Musica 2019
Organized by the Dante Alighieri Society and the Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation, in cooperation with the Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan and Tuesday Musicale of Detroit, under the Auspices of the Consulate of Italy in Detroit. 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…
Celebrating Dante’s Day
Celebrating Dante’s Day at beautiful Belle Isle. Family event with games, picnic , and pot luc. SAVE THE DATE Details coming soon
Italians in Detroit | Caffè & Cultura
Most Italians came to Detroit between 1880-1920. Detroit’s “Little Italy” started from the lower east side (Eastern Market area) along Gratiot and Riopelle Streets near Black Bottom and Paradise Valley.