IMAFestival First Edition is finished!
IMAFestival First Edition is finished. We would like to thank all the artists that participated in the contest and in EAT ART Exhibition, the performers, the sponsors and supporters, the locations that hosted our events, everybody that worked with us and last, but not least the audiences of the three cities that attended our manifestation! FULL STORY

And the Winner is.....
"My Mother's Recipe" created by Paola Citterio won the Audience Award of the International Migration Art Festival - New York obtaining the most votes from the web visitors and the audience present on the 3rd of May at La MaMa Theatre. FULL STORY

New York finalists have been announced!
New York IMAFestival finalists have been announced and they will participate with their works in IMAFestival big closing event that will be held in New York at La MaMa Theatre (The Club) on the 3rd of May from 2:30 to 10 PM. FULL STORY

Georgia Cee
IMAFestival invited internationally renown artist Georgia Cee to perform both in New York and Los Angeles Big Closing Event. She brought to IMAF audience a collection of songs from her new R&B album and also a few Italian traditional songs as a special gift for the occasion. FULL STORY

Nicola Cesare Baldrighi - President of Grana Padano Consortium
Grana Padano and IMAF. On one hand, a world class Italian food, on the other a festival that aims to promote and talk about the talent of different cultures through art and food, both nationally and internationally. Grana Padano is in fact one of the protagonists of the exhibition EAT ART (open from April 25 to May 3 at the Wook Gallery in New York, and then May 26 - 31 and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, at the end of IMAFestival USA) thanks to the artist Michela Martello, and the famous "form" has drawn inspiration for her painting Route 55. FULL STORY

Interview to Luca Artesi - Managing Director of Babel Channel (Italy)
Luca Artesi is the Managing Director at Babel, the first and only television channel dedicated to the over 5million “new Italians” living in in Italy. (Sky, Chanel 141). An engineer with an MBA from Insead at Fointainebleau, Luca’s consultancy experience comes from McKinsey and Bain, which included international work in Spain, India and Brasil. In 2000, Luca was nominated CEO of FBC Media and Miaeconomia in Italy and was involved in the launch of SkyTG24. An expert in “business innovation,” Luca developed the first contactless prepaid card for transportation. FULL STORY

Alberto di Mauro, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
I was born in Messina, on the Straits of the same name between Italy and Sicily, a geographical location but also a symbolic place of transit, just like my life, since I have travelled a lot. I lived most of my student life between Rome, where I went to College, and Norway where I went to Graduate school in Literature. My position as Cultural Promoter at Italian Cultural Institutes all over the world gave me the opportunity to meet different cultures and live in many cities. FULL STORY

Nicola Faganello, Italian Consul General in Los Angeles
The migrant will always carry in his heart a strong bond and relationship with what he left behind. The more he is away from ‘home’ the more he idealizes the people, the feelings and the traditions s, emotions and he misses. FULL STORY

Francesca Valente, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
A migrant is someone who leaves his/her own country of birth and moves to another nation bringing along traditions and customs impossible to forget. FULL STORY