Executive Director Editorial

We are pleased to inform IACE members that the IACE website, www.iacelanguage.org, has been upgraded with new sections and services. We are very pleased about the site’s new look and hope you will enjoy it!

Please visit all new sections highlighting some new exciting initiatives, including  our online Kids library, online curricula for Pre-k, k-12 and Adult classes,teaching materials and support, and translation/ interpreting services.

Our monthly newsletter will keep you posted about IACE’ s  educational projects and activities  as well as main events and other news related to  the IACE “Community”.

New Board Members

IACE is proud to welcome new  Board members Margaret Cuomo Maier and Berardo Paradiso.They have been elected by the IACE General Assembly held on May 22nd.

For further information about their outstanding involvement in the Italian Community, click on News, New Board Members.

Winners of Summer Program 2005

Our 2005  Summer Program will take place in  Naples, Italy from July 10th to 24th. Sixteen students from  our Italian courses have been selected  and will travel to Naples thanks to a special IACE fellowship. The award ceremony will take place  on July 5^, at the Istituto di Cultura Italiano. Consul General of Italy, Antonio Bandini, will be present at the event.

For further information about our Summer Program itinerary  click here .

Our congratulations to the winners:

New York
Abatemarco Diane (Manhasset H.S.) - Adelman Patrick  (Valhalla Center At) - Blair Stephen (F.La Gurdia H.S.) - Caruana Christine (T.R.Proctor H.S.) - Cavaliere Dario(Eastechester H.S.)-Spellman Nicole (Peekskill Middle School)

New Jersey
Bono Krista (High Point Regional H.S.) - D'Elia Jessica Lynn (Ridgefield Memorial H.S.) - Jinsung Jeremiah (Palisades Park H.S. ) - Schulien Alexander C. (Wallkill Valley Regional H.S.) - Tirri Lauren Ashley (Wayne Valley H.S.) - Waring Olivia (Villa Walsh Academy)

Connecticut
Kenneth Gregor Jeffery (Newington H.S.) - Lotto Stephen (Woodland Regional H.S.) - Provost Alyssa (Sayles School) - Shah Sonia Walsh Intermediate School)
 

Riding on last year’s success, IACE will continue to sponsor "Tutti all'Opera", a program that provides Italian teachers  with the opportunity to bring their students to the Opera at a discounted price!

Learning Italian through the arias, duets and choruses is an effective way to expose the children not only to the language but also to the innermost Italian culture.The program will allow the students to have a special discount on the ticket price, educational material and/or backstage tour before each performance and/or presentations by a group of artists especially designed to school children, which introduce them to the magic of opera.

Our discounted  operas this year include  “ Il Barbiere di Siviglia”, “Turandot, “La Boheme”, “Don Giovanni.”   This program is conducted in partnership with New York City opera.

Please  click here for information on the schedule of upcoming opera performances.

Do not miss an opportunity to learn about new books and  teaching materials that will be presented  by main Italian publishers specializing in Italian as second language (Bulgarini, La Scuola, Lazzaretti. Soc. Editr. Europea-See, Farinelli Edizioni). The event will be held on Monday June 6th 2005 at 3pm at  the "Istituto Italiano di Cultura", 690 Park Avenue, New York (phone number 212 879 4242). 

For further information clik here

The movie of the month is "Catherina in the Big City" by the Italian leading young director Paolo Virzi.
Starts in New York on Friday, June 3rd. It's an Italian film about Catherina, a typical middle class teenage girl from a little town in Tuscany who moves to Rome. Her exclusive new school turns out to be a microcosm of the cultural and poltical divisions of Italian society at large and she has to be either a leftist hippie or a rightwing fashionista just to fit in.