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Bostoniano.info interview with Pietro Nigro Famulari, who earned an MFA at Boston University and was awarded second place at the latest Redstone Film Festival for his short film "Your way home".

On March 4, BU will host a lecture by Dr. Carole Counihan, focusing on the role of cuisine and technology in the theory and practice of Slow Food’s activism. Counihan explores how leaders of diverse Slow Food chapters in Italy talk about the movement.

Young Sicilian filmmaker Pietro Nigro Famulari won second prize at the 2011 Redstone Film Festival at Boston University, which he recently graduated from. He presented "Find Your Way," filmed in his hometown Siracusa, Sicily.

When Sunday, January 30, 2011 — 11 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. Where Conference Auditorium, second floor, George Sherman Union, Boston University, 775 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 1 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. Participants mark “Italian Holocaust Remembrance Day” during “Amnesia and Remembrance” event hosted by the American Jewish Committee Boston, Boston University, the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and the Consulate General of Israel to New England. 11 a.m. Introduction. 11:30 a.m. Boston University professor Nancy Harrowitz discusses the topic “Making the Past the Present.” 11:45 a.m. Virginia Picchietti, a professor from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, discusses the topic ...

La Fanciulla del West, Puccini’s best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn’t prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly. In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,” a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians, including David Rosen, a professor emeritus of music at Cornell University ...