Upcoming Events
Next WisItalia Meetings
WisItalia meetings are open to all Italian language teachers, as well as other WisItalia members, or interested persons.
Saturday, October 9, 2010.
It will be held at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202-5916, from 10:00 am - 12:00 noon.
Italian Summer and Fall Festivals
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Looking for some fun Italian festivals to go to this summer and fall?
Here's a sneak peak at some of the festivals to enjoy great food, music, raffles, bocce and lots more.
Schedule of Upcoming Festivals:
- Festivale Italiano in Hurley, WI: September 4-5
- Italian Expo 2010 in Chicago, IL: September 17-19
Chicago Area Italian-Related Events/Activities
ShareItalian Culture Institute of Chicago - Events. Topics include lectures, design, economy, music, opera, science, cinema, art, etc. View the Italian Culture Institute of Chicago website (exit WisItalia) often for upcoming events each month.
Casa Italia: Italian Cultural Center (exit WisItalia) - Cultural Events. Topics include lectures, book presentations, movie nights, field trips, storytelling, palm weaving workshops, Italian immersion weekend in April, opera nights, dinners, luncheon and museum tours, reminiscing about Italian weddings, summer camps, resale treasure sales, Italian fall festival, and the Casa Italia vocal scholarship auditions and performance.
Italian American Chamber of Commerce - Midwest (IACC) - A business association founded in 1907 to provide services to the Italian business community and to American businesses oriented to the Italian market or products.
View their website (exit WisItalia) or their
quarterly Bulletin May 2010 (exit WisItalia) for a listing of upcoming events and issues.
Here are a few upcoming events:
Friday - Sunday, September 17-19, 2010
Chicago Italian Expo 2010. Italian Expo is a unique and exclusive platform for exhibitors and sponsors from Italy and the U.S. to promote their companies, create international business relationships, and sell their products to their target audience over a three-day weekend.
Participating in Italian Expo will ensure your brand visibility and success with a target audience that appreciates and recognizes true Italian Style. Italian products signify top-notch, hand-crafted items that people are willing to spend more to purchase to receive lasting quality in return. Linking your name and business with Italian Expo will result in an image of value and significance. View the reservation form (exit WisItalia) for more details.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
103rd Annual Gala and Awards Dinner, to be held on Saturday, September 18 at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel, will honor top Italian and Italian-American business professionals. More than 500 successful business professionals, delegates and representatives from both Italy and the United States attend this formal event. View the IACC website (exit WisItalia) for more details.
Wisconsin Italian-Related Events/Activities
ShareTuesday, June 1 - Thursday, September 2, 2010
Courtyard Music Series at Milwaukee's ICC. The Italian Community Center Courtyard at 631 E. Chicago Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the setting for a variety of live music performances four nights a week, beginning on Tuesday, June 1 and concluding on Thursday, September 2, 2010. Music nights are Monday through Thursday. Admission is free, along with free parking. The staff of Cafe La Scala, the ICC's public restaurant will be on hand to take food and drink orders. Due to the popularity of the series, reservations are recommended by calling 414 223-2185. View the schedule of music events (pdf) for more details.
Sundays, June 13 - December 19, 2010
Sunday Dinners at the Racine Roma Lodge, 7130 Spring Street, Racine, WI 53406. Beginning on Sunday, June 13 and continuing every third Sunday of the month through December 19, the RIWA will offer Sunday dinner as our Nonnas used to make. The dinner will feature family style dining from 11 am to 3:00 pm. Two menus (pdf) will be rotated every other month. Price $10.95, Children 6 - 10 year $5.50, Children 5 and under free. Telephone the RIWA Office 262 886-3610 for more information.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
IWC Golf Outing. The Italian Workmen's Club (IWC) of Madison will host its annual golf outing and benefit at the Sun Prairie Golf Course, WI. Arrival is at 10:00 am. Tee time is at 12:00 noon shotgun start. Price is $85/person ($25 of fee is tax deductible). Includes Green Fees, Golf Cart, Italian Sausage Lunch, Steak Dinner, Complimentary Drinks, Prizes on Several Holes, Door Prize Drawings, and a Contribution to a Children's Charity.
(Dinner only - $25/person). Dinner is served at 5:30 pm.
Open to IWC and Italian-American Women's Club members and their guests. Deadline to sign up: August 20, 2010. For more details, view the flyer and reservation form (pdf flyer/reservation form).
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Saturday Night Fever / Febbre del Sabato Sera. Milwaukee Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St, Milwaukee, WI. Three separate dance lessons will be offered - salsa, swing, and disco, with each followed by open dancing and a competition. Doors open at 7:30 pm, with salsa lesson beginning at 8:00, swing at 9:00, and disco at 10:00. The evening ends with open dancing at 11:00 pm. Instructors are Mark and Ann Greco of Kenosha, with music by Brew City Big Band. Advanced registration is $17 due September 9. Tickets at the door are $22. For more information call the ICC at 414223-2180.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Pursuing Our Italian Names Together. The next meeting of Pursuing Our Italian Names Together, Chapter 22, will be on Saturday, September 18, 2010, at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, starting at 10:30 a.m. and concluding at noon. They welcome anyone with an interest in Italian Family History. If you cannot attend that meeting, please mark your calendar for the next meeting on Saturday, November 13. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact George Koleas GeorgeJK676@wi.rr.com.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Tuscan Winemaker Dinner. Violante Gardini, Owner. Donatella Cinelli Colombini, Montalcino. Begins at 6:30 pm. Cost is $90/person, plus tax and gratuity. Ristorante Bartolotta, 7616 W. State St., Wauwatosa, WI, 414 771-7910.
This small winery founded in 1998 by Donatella Cinelli Colombini in Montalcino is one of Italy's most unique wineries because it is run solely by women, seven of them to be more precise. Colombini produces spectacular wines including a Chianti, several Brunellos and Tuscan Sangiovese blends, a Vin Santo, a Traminer (their only white) and even a rose. Of particular interest, Colombini makes a blend of Sangiovese and Foglia Tonda, an almost extinct and forgotten Tuscan grape that Donatella is almost single-handedly resurrecting. They also make their own grappa and olive oil made of classic Tuscan cultivars. Colombini's beautiful labels are a prelude to the consistent quality of their wines, which was acknowledged in 2003 when Donatella won an "Oscar" for best Italian wine producer. Donatella's daughter Violante Gardini will be on site discussing her mother's wines, restaurant and inn. Violante also runs a small store in the heart of Siena which specializes in a variety of hand-crafted Tuscan wares. Please join them for a very special evening of unforgettable wines.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana). Free Italian film at the UW Cinematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706. Show starts at 7:00 pm. Made in Italy, 1961, 35mm, b/w, 105 min., subtitled. Directed by Pietro Germi. With Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli. View the flyer (htm) for other free Italian films.
Baron Ferdinando Cefalù (the irresistible Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia (Rocca). His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he hatches a plan to lure his spouse into the arms of another and then murder her in a justifiable effort to save his honor. Winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Mafioso. Free Italian film at the UW Cinematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706. Show starts at 7:00 pm. Made in Italy, 1962, 35mm, b/w, 104 min., subtitled. Directed by Alberto Lattuada. With Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Ugo Attanasio. View the flyer (htm) for other free Italian films.
An irresistibly funny dark comedy and one of the first Italian features to tackle the issue of the mafia, Mafioso is about a factory worker who stumbles into the role of hitman when he brings his family back to Sicily, his ancestral home. "An utter blast! Happily blends low comedy, high sentiment, neorealism and farce – almost a film festival unto itself!" (A.O. Scott).
Friday - Sunday, November 5–7, 2010
Wayzgoose 2010. Interested in wood typeface and printing? Representing the international printing community will be curators from the Gutenberg Museum (exit WisItalia) and Tipoteca Italiana (exit WisItalia) who'll lead a roundtable discussion on the subject of preservation through education in letterpress. The cost is $125 for individuals who register before July 1st, and $150 after July 1st. The event will be held at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (exit WisItalia), 1619 Jefferson Street, Two Rivers, WI 54241. Look for online registration (exit WisItalia) soon.
Read reviews and view pictures from last year's conference (exit WisItalia).
Friday, November 5 and Sunday November 7, 2010
The Marriage of Figaro - Madison Opera, Overture Center (Overture Hall), 201 State Street, Madison, WI 53703-2214. Featuring the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Madison Opera Chorus. Sung in Italian with projected English translations.
Figaro and Susanna are set to be married, but Count Almaviva has plans of his own. At the end of the day, who will cut the cake? Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro turns one day of madness into comic gold, all set to the composer's brilliant, shimmering score. Madison Opera assembles an unbeatable cast for the opening of it's 50th Anniversary Season, with Jason Hardy starring as Figaro, fresh off of rave reviews for his performance in New York City Opera's Don Giovanni. The radiant Anya Matanovic sings Susanna and Melody Moore (Opera in the Park, 2008) returns as the Countess. Metropolitan Opera baritone Jeff Mattsey sings the Count. Maestro John DeMain conducts, with stage direction by A. Scott Parry. Visit the Madison Opera website (exit WisItalia)for more information and to purchase tickets.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata). Free Italian film at the UW Cinematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706. Show starts at 7:00 pm. Made in Italy, 1963, 35mm, b/w, 115 min., subtitled. Directed by Pietro Germi. With Stefania Sandrelli, Saro Urzì, Aldo Puglisi. View the flyer (htm) for other free Italian films.
Shotgun weddings, kidnapping, attempted murder, emergency dental work—the things Don Vincenzo will do to restore his family's honor! Pietro Germi's Seduced and Abandoned was the follow-up to his international sensation Divorce Italian Style, and in many ways it's even more audacious—a rollicking yet raw series of escalating comic calamities that ensue in a small village when sixteen-year-old Agnese (the beautiful Sandrelli) loses her virginity to her sister's lascivious fiancé.
Thursday, November 11 and Friday, November 12, 2010
Piemonte Cinema—coordinated by Monferrini in America and the Regione Piemonte—will take place at Discovery World in Milwaukee on November 11 and 12. Three piemontesi films (with subtitles of course), special guests and more. The entirely free event
presents three feature films shot in the Piemontese capital of Torino and in the Monferrato area to the east. In addition, a short documentary explores the National Museum of Cinema, located in Torino, and the Piemonte region.
November 11 - Dopo Mezzanotte at 7:45 pmSupport piemontese culture in America. Mark your calendars! View the press release (html) for the schedule and to read a summary of the films.
November 12 - Zoè at 6:45 pm
November 12 - Tutti Giù Per Terra at 8:45 pm
Friday, April 29 and Sunday May 1, 2011
La Traviata - Madison Opera, Overture Center (Overture Hall), 201 State Street, Madison, WI 53703-2214. Featuring the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Madison Opera Chorus. Sung in Italian with projected English translations.
A free-spirited courtesan is tamed by true love, but for how long? The tragic tale of Violetta Valery and Alfredo Germont has mesmerized opera audiences for decades with some of Verdi's most recognizable music and transfixing characters. La Traviata brings the 2010-11 mainstage season to a close in a lavish production with sets from the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Elizabeth Caballero (Carmen, 2009) returns to Madison as Violetta after recent performances in the role had Opera News calling her "an excellent heroine...commanding and vulnerable by turns." The young Italian tenor Giuseppe Varano makes his US debut as Alfredo, with Donnie Ray Albert (Opera in the Park, 2005) as Giorgio Germont. Maestro John DeMain conducts, with stage direction by Garnett Bruce. Raise a toast as we celebrate 50 years of opera in Madison... "Libiamo, libiamo!" Visit the Madison Opera website (exit WisItalia)for more information and to purchase tickets.
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