To celebrate 25 years of Italian Heritage Society in Indianapolis we are having a dinner dance being held at the Indiana Historical Society in conjunction with the end of the You Are There 1943: Italian POWs at Atterbury exhibit. Dinner features favorites from Northern, Central and Southern Italian cuisine. Live music will encourage you to dance the night away. […]
Italian Heritage Society Lecture Series Obtaining Dual Citizenship: What You Need to Know! Sunday, August 12, 2018 at Nora Library 2:00-4:00 pm Always Free-No RSVP required.
Italian POW Chapel in the Meadow at Camp Atterbury Join IHSI for 29th Annual Celebration of Mass & Picnic 11:00 a.m. Presentation of Colors Ceremony and Mass The Picnic will follow nearby, bocce and games are planned. Members are asked to bring a side dish or dessert to share. A main pasta dish will be provided, […]
Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and beautiful Angelina, except that his angel just happens to be an unapologetic cheat. But what begins as […]
Join us at Matteo Ristorante Italiano for Il Postino. Address: 1351 West 86th St., Indianapolis Date & Time: October 28 at 12:30 pm Admission includes dinner: members $18.00, non-members: $25.00 Pay at the door, cash only. For more information and to reserve your spot contact Ray Brown at [email protected] or Mauvene Borton at [email protected] A […]
Ciao Amici, The 42nd Indy International Festival is fast approaching! Date: November 8, 9 and 10, 2018 Where: Indiana State Fairground Blue Ribbon Building Hours: Thursday, November 8, 2018 9 am-5 pm Friday, November 9, 2018 9 am-9 pm Saturday, November 10, 2018 9 am-9 pm Theme: Destinations Around the World Set up is on Wednesday […]
Our final lecture of 2018 is coming up! Roman Architecture By Professor Glass We are privileged to learn about this fascinating topic from an expert. Professor James Glass has a long track record in Indiana around historic preservation. Formerly, Profess Glass was Director of Historic preservation and Architecture for the State of Indiana’s Department of […]
Matilde Serao (1856-1927)is widely regarded as the most successful Italian woman journalist of the nineteenth century as well as being an important writer of fiction. A great observer of life, Serao focused her writing directly on the most pressing problems of a newly unified Italy, urban poverty, and the North/South divide. Historian and critic Benedetto Croce […]
The 2018 IHSI Scholarship winners will be our guests FOOD We will provide the main course of a meat dish and pasta dish, wine, soft drinks Guest will bring either appetizer, side dishes or dessert. Also, if anyone wants to bring a fish course to participate in the Italian traditional Christmas Eve selections known […]
Tea with Mussolini (1999)117 minutes; NR, Drama, Comedy Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini is a story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935. Luca is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother […]
