Program Themes

2023 The Joys of Learning Italian [Program]

2022 Celebrating Italian and Italian American Nobel Prize Laureates [Program/Bookmark]

2021 DANTE 700! Celebrating the Genius of Dante; The Great Poet Who Unified Through Language [Program/Bookmark

2020 Fellini 100: Celebrating the Centenary of Federico Fellini

2019 Matera: European Capital of Culture 2019 [Program]

2018 Breaking Barriers . . . from Ellis Island to the Present: A Salute to Italian Women in America [program]

41 Years of Posters – Italian Heritage and Culture Month • Mese della cultura italiana

2017 Celebrating Italian Americans in Cinema and Theater: Saluting Actors & Directors [program]

2016 Celebrating 40 Years of Italian Culture in America

2015 Italian Creativity 1965 New York World’s Fair: 2015 Expo Milano Celebrating 50 Years of Science and Technology

2014 Celebrating the Italian American Experience, Legends and Icons Italian Americans in Sports

2013 Year of Italian Culture In The United States

2012 Amerigo to America: Amerigo Vespucci 1454-1512 The Legacy of Italians in the Americas

2011 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy

2010 Maria Montessori: An Internationally Renowned Educator and Physician

2009 Galileo Galilei – Father of Modern Astronomy / Giuseppe Petrosino – Italian American Crime Fighter 1860-1909

2008 Andrea Palladio – Architect for the Ages 1508-1580 / Antonio Meucci – The True Inventor of the Telephone 1808-2008

2007 Giuseppe Garibaldi – Eroe dei Due Mondi/Hero of Two Worlds 1807-2007

30th Anniversary – 30 years of Italian Heritage & Culture Month

2006 Celebrating the Italian Genius ­ The Leonardo DaVinci Legacy

2005 Giuseppe Mazzini- the Political Idealist of the Italian Struggle for Independence

2004 Amerigo Vespucci

2003 Focus on Italian Opera

2002 Constantino Brumidi – Artist of the United States Capitol

2001 Giuseppe Verdi: A Tribute to Italy¹s Patriotic Composer

2000 Italy in the Year 2000: Italian Heritage and Cultural Roots at the Threshold of the New Millennium

1999 ­ The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement

1998 ­ New York City at 100: Italian Americans Commemorate the Immigrant Experience (Patria e famiglia)

1997 ­ The Voyages of Giovanni Caboto: 500th Anniversary

1996 ­ Italy and its Regions (L¹Italia delle Regioni)

1995 ­ Guglielmo Marconi: Centennial of the Radio

1994 ­ Italian Americans in Law: From Beccaria to Scalia

1993 ­ The Legacy of Italy¹s Artistic and Cultural Contributions to the World

1992 ­ Cristoforo Colombo 500th Anniversary: The Legacy Lives on

1991 ­ Italian Americans: The Legacy of Cristoforo Colombo

1990 ­ William Paca: Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Jurist, 3 times Governor of the State of Maryland

1989 ­ Italians Reaching Out: Antonio Meucci, Inventor of the Telephone, and Mother Cabrini, Missionary of the Immigrants

1988 ­ Lorenzo Da Ponte/Academia

1987 ­ Year of the U.S. Constitution: Mazzei and the Italian Contribution

1986 ­ Year of Lady Liberty

1985 ­ Building America

1984 ­ Year of the Etruscans

1983 ­ Italian Culture Week

1982 ­ Italian Culture Week

1981 ­ Italian Festival of the Arts

1980 ­ Italian Culture Week

1979 ­ Italian Culture Week

1978 ­ Italian Week, Board of Education of New York

1977 ­ Italian Culture Week

1976 ­ Italian Culture Week