This edition: Book Launch, PIACE, and a Presepio
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Original tape date: November 24, 2025. First aired: December 22, 2025.In this episode, Italics covers the book launch of Expanding Diasporic Identity: A Multi-Directional Path to the New Italian Writer, as well as a gathering of PIACE—the Progressive Italian American Cultural Exchange—at the Calandra Institute. Later, we head to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, to meet John Miniero and see his fifteen-foot presepio installation outside his home.
Guest List
John Avelluto Visual artist, Independent
Silvana Mangione Vice-Secretary General for extra-European Anglophone countries, General Council of Italians Abroad
John Miniero Artist/Presepio builder, Independent
Jaime Lee Strollo Author and Ancestor-In-Training, Independent
Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, PhD. Host, Italics
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- Andrew Spannaus & Giorno della memoria
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- Thursday, April 30 - 9:30am
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- Emma Stebbins at The Heckscher Museum of Art
- Wednesday, April 22 - 9:30am
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- Antonio Tibaldi, Gorgona
- Tuesday, April 21 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 23 - 9:30am
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- Frank Ingrasciotta in Blood Type: Ragu
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