This week on The Italian Radio Hour - In conversation with KATIE PARLA (aka Katie "parla")

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This Thursday on The Italian Radio Hour: What does being Italian mean to you?Italians moving to the States now bring new traditions. Italians that have emigrated to the United States hundred years ago brought the traditions, the foods and the language of those times. So, even if the experience of being "Italian" might now differ, the sentiment remains the same: to preserve, to pass on, to appreciate everything that Italy and the Italian (and Italian American) culture has to offer.Keeping the conversation going and an open mind-set that transcends the idea of "real" and "authentic", is the only way to preserve this immense cultural and diverse patrimony.Joined in conversation by John Viola and Patrick O'Boyle, hosts of the Italian American Podcast, we discuss what it means to be Italian to us.If you recall, I was recently interviewed on The Italian American Podcast myself. You can relisten to that episode here and give IAP a subscribe: https://podcasters.spotify.com/.../IAP-283-The.../a-aa1m2uv

This week on The Italian Radio Hour: Exploring Magazzino Italian Art, the only museum and Research Center dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of postwar and contemporary Italian art in the United States. The museum was founded by Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu with the mission to share works of the group of Italian artists who exhibited together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, affiliated with the art movement of Arte Povera, with American audiences.Magazzino opened to the public on June 28, 2017, with an exhibition dedicated to the influence and legacy of Margherita Stein, a late Italian dealer associated with artists active in Arte Povera circles and beyond. The museum is FREE and OPEN to the public. Magazzino, which means "warehouse" in Italian, consists of an old farmers’ warehouse (later turned into a dairy distribution center and then a computer factory) and a new building by Spanish architect Miguel Quismondo. The building includes a new exhibition space and a 5,000-volume library, making up the core of the Research Center, opened in 2018.Magazzino Italian Art is located in Cold Spring, New York, within the Town of Philipstown on U.S. Route 9, on the former Cyberchron site.

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - La Corsa dei Ceri and Italians in Lackawanna County with Stephanie Longo.

What do Gubbio and Jessup (PA) have in common?

Join our conversation with Stephanie Longo, as we explore old and new traditions and how diverse Italian American populations join old and new with events such as La Corsa dei Ceri or St. Ubaldo Day in Jessup and La Festa Italiana on Scranton's Courthouse Square.

Stephanie Longo, an expert on the Italian American history of northeastern Pennsylvania and author of Italians of Lackawanna County tells us that every town in the county with an Italian population has its own story. Whether the people can trace their origins to Guardia or Gubbio, Felitto or Perugia, the Italians of Lackawanna County all share one thing in common: a strong sense of pride in their ethnic origins. In Images of Modern America: Italians of Lackawanna County, readers will find familiar images of summertime traditions, as well as new representations of how the region's Italian community seeks to preserve its heritage.

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Venice, the city of water. For centuries Venice has been made famous by the material that most profoundly represents its enchanting history and fluid terrain, glass.