The Italian Radio Hour

09/01/2026

🥂 LADIES & GENTLEMEN… THIS IS ONE SUNDAY YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS! 🤍✨

The second edition of APERITIVO EN BLANC is almost here!

📍 Aspinwall Marina
📅 Sunday, September 13 | 3–7 PM

Dress in your best WHITE, bring your style, and get ready for an afternoon of music, dancing, Italian flair, great company, and aperitivo by the water. 🇮🇹🥂💃

Last year was fabulous. This year, we’re turning it up a notch!

👗 SHOW OFF YOUR STYLE.
💃 SHOW OFF YOUR DANCE MOVES.
🥂 RAISE A GLASS WITH US.
🤍 AND BE PART OF ONE OF OUR MOST STYLISH EVENTS OF THE YEAR!

🎟 GET YOUR TICKETS NOW:
https://www.istitutomondoitaliano.org/aperitivo-en-blanc.html #/

⚠️ NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR.
If Aperitivo En Blanc is on your September calendar, now is the time to make it official.

🤍 ALL WHITE. ITALIAN STYLE. ONE FABULOUS SUNDAY AT THE MARINA. 🇮🇹✨

08/20/2026

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08/18/2026

Secure your ticket for our most successful event of the year - APERITIVO En Blanc Sunday Sept 13th from 3-7pm
Come and display sense of fashion to create new memories to last a lifetime!
Location: Aspinwall Marina - 285 River Ave, Aspinwall, PA 15215
NO TICKETS SOLD at the door.

Tickets include: light appetizers and 2 drink tickets+our famous Aperol Spritz!
Don't forget to wear your dancing shoes! We will have the best DJ in town!

Istituto Mondo Italiano offers Italian language classes to help you ​to learn, speak, and improve your Italian in no time! We also offer translation and interpretation services other languages including Spanish, French, Russian and Turkish.

08/06/2026

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08/03/2026

SUNDAY AUGUST 16th - Summer picnic!
Join us for a day of fun day of playing Bocce and making new friends at our annual picnic.

Bring the kids and make it a family day!

POTLUCK STYLE - Bring a dish or beverage to share
TICKETS:
https://www.istitutomondoitaliano.org/store/p2360/PICNIC_and_BOCCE_TOURNAMENT_-_Sunday_August_16th_from_11am.html #/

Location will be shared with tickets holders by email. Area: Regent Square

Istituto Mondo Italiano offers Italian language classes to help you ​to learn, speak, and improve your Italian in no time! We also offer translation and interpretation services other languages including Spanish, French, Russian and Turkish.

07/28/2026

What happens when the interviewer becomes the interviewee?

After hundreds of conversations on The Italian Radio Hour, I had the unique opportunity to sit on the other side of the microphone as a guest of Bob Sorrentino on Discovering Italy: Roots, Traditions, and Cultural Revival.

We talked about my journey from Rome to Pittsburgh, how a simple dream grew into Istituto Mondo Italiano - Centro di cultura italiana and The Italian Radio Hour, and why I'm so passionate about keeping Italian language, traditions, food, and heritage alive for future generations.

Every Italian family has a story. Every tradition carries a memory. And every effort to preserve our culture helps ensure that those stories continue to inspire the next generation.

If you've ever wondered what drives my work—or if Italy holds a special place in your heart—I hope you'll take a few minutes to listen.

🎧 I'd love to know: What Italian tradition or family memory means the most to you? Share it in the comments, and let's celebrate our heritage together.

Welcome to Italian Roots and Genealogy—where history lives in our b...

06/30/2026

This week on The Italian Radio Hour: From Farmers to Nobles: The Incredible Stories Hidden in Every Italian Family

Every family has stories.
Some are passed down around the dinner table.
Others disappear forever...
unless someone decides to go looking for them.

Today's guest has spent years helping thousands of people reconnect with their Italian roots, but his own story may be one of the most fascinating of all.

His own research began with nothing more than a calling card brought from Italy by his grandmother. That single artifact eventually led him from humble farming families in Puglia to an astonishing noble lineage connected to dukes, princesses, European royalty—and even a pope.

Bob Sorrentino is the creator of the internationally followed Italian Roots & Genealogy Podcast, founder of the Italian Genealogy Blog, and author of Farmers & Nobles.
Before becoming immersed in genealogy, Bob had an accomplished career as a banker. Today, instead of managing people's money, he's helping people reconnect with something equally important: their real wealth, aka their identity.

LINK TO THE INTERVIEW IN THE COMMENTS

06/19/2026

This week on The Italian Radio Hour: Joe Avati: Comedy, Calabria & the Family Stories That Made Him Famous 🇮🇹🎙️

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Our guest has spent the last 30 years doing something remarkable: making Italians around the world laugh at themselves.

Whether you're in Sydney, Toronto, London, New York, or right here in Pittsburgh, somehow Joe Avati knows your father, your mother, your uncle, your nonna, and that one relative who still won't talk to the family because of something that happened in 1987.

Born in Australia to Calabrian parents, Joe has become one of the most successful ethnic comedians in the world, selling out theaters across multiple continents while proving that Italians everywhere share the same stories.
And recently, after decades of talking about Calabria on stage, he traveled there to retrace his family's roots in an emotional journey that connected him to the villages his family left behind.

Joe Avati will be performing live in Pittsburgh on Sunday, July 26 at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. If you've ever had an Italian parent, an Italian grandparent, an Italian aunt, or even an Italian neighbor who thought they were your parent, this is a show you won't want to miss.

LINK TO THE INTERVIEW IN THE COMMENTS