It's Gelato, not Ice Cream! (rescheduled)
2026-03-07 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Westerly Library Auditorium, 44 Broad St, Westerly, 02891
It’s Gelato, not Ice Cream!
>>> NEW DATE: RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER! <<<

Is there a difference between gelato and ice cream? Absolutely! Join Melanie Wolf as she shares her journey to master the art and science of making this delicious treat. Wolf began by traveling with her husband, Denis St. Amand, to Bologna, Italy to attend Gelato University. She returned to take more advanced courses on the chemistry and science behind it so she could create her own flavors.

Wolf’s story continues beyond her highly acclaimed gelateria in downtown Westerly. She has also competed in the Carpigiani Challenge, World Masters Gelato Festival, and was one of three finalists from New York to compete in the North American Finals (Los Angeles, 2025).

Note: Unless specifically noted as being streamed or recorded, the lectures in the lecture series hosted by the Dante Society of Westerly are live events only and are not recorded. They are neither streamed online nor available afterwards as recordings.
Lectures are free and open to the public.

This event is presented in partnership with the Westerly Library and Wilcox Park.

Cin Cin 2026: An Exploration of Classic Italian Cocktails
2026-03-08 16:00 - 18:00 | The United Theater, 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
As part of the 2026 SoupyFest series of events, the UNITED in partnership with the Dante Society of Westerly presents Anthony Caporale for a tasting and deep-dive into the evolution, ingredient history, and cultural significance of Italian cocktails.
Anthony Caporale is an award-winning mixology author and star of “The Imbible” series of long-running Off-Broadway musicals about the history of cocktails and spirits. Known throughout the beverage industry for his dynamic and entertaining talks, this veteran of the New York stage will guide you through the history of classic Italian drinks, including live demonstrations of how to craft them perfectly at home. You won’t want to miss this unique evening of fun, facts, and fables, all viewed through a liquid lens!

Doors open at 3:30 with the lecture starting at 4:00. A tasting is included, which begins at 5:30. The event ends at 6:15.
Total cost per person is $25 per ticket, which includes the lecture, tasting, and the processing fee.
Last year sold out!
For the most current information and/or to purchase tickets, visit the United Theatre’s web page for the event:
Click here to go to their web listing and scroll to the bottom of the page to see the button to purchase tickets.

General Membership Meeting March 2026
2026-03-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Westerly Senior Center, 39 State St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
This is the First of the four members’ business meeting for 2026.
(the next meeting is scheduled for June 11)
The general agenda is:

Call Meeting to Order
Opening Statement by the President of the Society
Approval of the previous Minutes (Minutes from November are now available – see the page Index of Meeting Agendas and Minutes)
New member Introduction
Committee Reports
Upcoming Events & Programs
Other new items

When available, the full agenda can be found in the Index of Meeting Agendas and Minutes.
This meeting will be held at the Senior Center.

Members are reminded that the bylaws require attendance at a minimum of 50% of membership meetings as well as participation and support in society activities.
The remaining meetings this year are scheduled for June 11, September 10, and November 12.

Please review the minutes from the previous meeting (November 2025) prior to attending the meeting.
The minutes from the previous meeting, when available, may be found using this link: Index of Agendas & Minutes

2026 Wine Tasting - SOLD OUT
2026-03-18 17:00 - 19:00 | The Café, 3 Canal St, Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
The Dante Society of Westerly Presents a Wine Tasting, featuring 4 Wines with food pairings.

The wines will be discussed by guest sommelier Lindsay Colucci, a Certified Sommelier and the Dining Room Manager for the Watch Hill Yacht Club.
Co-sponsored by The Wine Store, the event is being held at The Café (near the fireplace).

The event is open to the public. Cost is $50/person, inclusive of gratuity. Seating is limited, and advanced purchase of tickets is required, available only online.
There are a limited number of NO tickets remaining for sale; tickets will not be available at the door.
Tickets may be purchased using this link: PURCHASE TICKETS SOLD OUT!

Seating is limited. Please buy your tickets early.

Movie: Malena
2026-03-24 16:00 - 18:00 | The United Theater, 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
The United Theatre and the Dante Society of Westerly present a screening of Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Malena”.
The movie was released in Italy in 2000, followed by a release in the US in 2001.

Giuseppe Tornatore also directed “Cinema Paradiso“, which was presented earlier as part of the Italian Movie Series. The movie, released as “Malèna” in Italy, was cut by 16 minutes to produce the US release as “Malena”. The two releases were nominated for a total of 28 awards, winning 7.
The story is of a boy coming of age: as Italy enters WWII, a teenage boy in a small, narrow-minded Sicilian town becomes obsessed with a young woman. Wikipedia’s write up on the movie notes that Rotten Tomatoes gives the movie an average rating of 5.4/10, with a critics consensus stating the movie “ends up objectifying the character of the movie’s title.” David Roony of Variety wrote that the film combines “… a coming-of-age story with the sad odyssey of a woman punished for her beauty, the film ultimately has too little depth, subtlety, …” (from Wikipedia)

Length 1 hr 31 min; “R” rated
Filmed in Sicily
Film is in Italian with English captions
Filmed in Sicily (Noto and Syracuse)

Nominated for 2 Oscars (Best Cinematography; Best Music, Original Score)
Nominated for 2 (US) Golden Globe Awards (USA: Best Foreign Language Film; USA: Best Original Score – Motion Picture )
A trailer and additional information is available from IMDb
The plot synopsis and other information on the film can be found on WikipediA

Tickets may be purchased at the theater at time of the show or online. For online purchases, see the United Theatre web site for the movie.

Italian American Writers
2026-03-29 16:00 - 18:00 | The United Theater, 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
As part of the UNITED Soupy Fest series, the UNITED and The Dante Society present an author talk, selected readings, and book-signing with four members of the Italian American Writers Association.

LAURETTE FOLK
Laurette Folk’as fiction, essays, and poems have been published in Waxwing, Gravel, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Boston Globe Magazine, and Best Small Fictions. Her first novel, A Portal to Vibrancy won the Independent Press Award for New Adult Fiction. Her second novel, The End of Aphrodite, won the Eric Hoffer Award for General Fiction and is described by Kirkus Reviews as “[A] haunting and poignant reflection on grief, spirituality, and the loving bonds that provide guidance and sustenance.” Her third novel, Eleison, is now out from Bordighera Press and was listed as a quarter finalist for the Booklife Prize. Laurette is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and a graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing program.

DANIELLE JONES
Danielle Jones is a poet and educator, with over a decade of experience in arts administration. She holds an MFA from UMass Boston. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, Consequence Magazine, Memorious, Southern Poetry Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, a St. Botolph’s Club Emerging Artist Award, and a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. She teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire, where she directs the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival and manages YAS Press.

JULIA LISELLA
Julia Lisella’s latest collection of poems, Our Lively Kingdom (Bordighera Press), was named a finalist in the 2023 Paterson Book Prize and Grand Prize Finalist and Poetry Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her other collections include Always, Terrain, and the chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly, The Common, Nimrod, Pangyrus and many others. She has received writing residencies at MacDowell, Millay and the Vermont Center for the Arts. She teaches at Regis College and co-curates the Italian-American Writers Association Literary Reading Series in Boston.

CARLA PANCIERA
Carla Panciera’s collection of short stories, Bewildered, received the Grace Paley Short Fiction Award from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Her short story, “The Kind of People Who Look at Art” was indexed by Junot Diaz as a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories for 2017. She was the James E. Kilgore scholar in Nonfiction at Bread Loaf Writers Conference and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant in Creative Nonfiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir, was released in the spring of 2023 by Loom Press, Amesbury, MA. She has also published three collections of poetry: One of the Cimalores (Cider Press) and No Day, No Dusk, No Love and One Trail of Longing, Another of String(Bordighera).

Ticket information will be available on the United Theatre’s web site. A link to their page will be provided here once it is available.

Lecture: The Innocents of Florence
2026-04-11 13:00 - 14:30 | Westerly Library Auditorium, 44 Broad St, Westerly, 02891
Professor Joseph Luzzi will join us to give a talk on his latest book: The Innocents of Florence, The renaissance Discovery of Childhood.

How a Florentine orphanage rescued thousands of children and revolutionized childhood education amid the splendor of Renaissance art. (Additional details will be provided closer to the presentation date)

Note: Unless specifically noted as being streamed or recorded, the lectures in the lecture series hosted by the Dante Society of Westerly are live events only and are not recorded. They are neither streamed online nor available afterwards as recordings.
Lectures are free and open to the public.

This event is presented in partnership with the Westerly Library and Wilcox Park.

2026 Annual Fried Dough Breakfast
2026-05-09 09:00 - 12:00 | St. Pius X, 45 Elm St., Westerly, RI, 02891
Dante Society of Westerly is hosting a Fried Dough Breakfast and Bake Sale.
Proceeds from the event help support educational grants and scholarships in keeping with the mission of the Dante Society.
Cost is $10 for 12 and older, $5 for under 12 yrs.
Tickets may be purchased in advance from members of the Dante Society of Westerly, or at the door.

Society members are encouraged to volunteer to assist with the event.

Movie: The Leopard
2026-05-19 16:00 - 19:00 | The United Theater, 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
The United Theatre and the Dante Society of Westerly present a screening of the epic historical drama “The Leopard”.
The movie was released in Italy in 1963.

Adapted from the 1958 novel of the same name written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who never saw it published as he died the year before it was published. “Set against Garibaldi’s 1860s campaign to unify Italy, the film follows the aristocratic Salina family as they reluctantly confront sweeping social change. Proud yet pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina consents to his nephew Tancredi’s marriage to Angelica, the beautiful daughter of the bourgeois Don Calogero, hoping the union will preserve the family’s comfort and political influence.”

Much of this movie was filmed in Sicily, but most interior shots were done in Rome. The movie was originally shot partly in English and partly in Italian. Scenes with Burt Lancaster, who stars as Don Fabrizio Corbera, were shot in English, and later dubbed into Italian for the Italian release. The other scenes were shot in Italian and later dubbed into English. The movie was 191 minutes long when presented at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, wining the Palm d’Or. It was cut to 185 minutes for the official Italian release. The film is included in the Italian Ministry of Culture Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved.
The 1963 English release, for England and the US, did not fair well as it had been cut from the Italian release of 185 minutes to 171 minutes, and the English dubbing was considered extremely poor both in the translation and the synchronization.
The movie has circulated in 5 versions, with the lengths ranging from the original 205 minutes to the initial foreign release of 171 minutes. In 1983 the Italian version was approved for foreign release with the Italian language restored. Fox released a restored version in 2004 with English subtitles.

Length 3 hr 5 min; “PG” rated
Filmed in Sicily and Rome
Film is in Italian with English captions

Nominated for 1 Oscar (Best Costume Design, Color)
Cannes Film Festival: 1963 winner of the Palme d’Or award (the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival)
Additional information is available from IMDb
The plot synopsis and other information on the film can be found on WikipediA

Tickets may be purchased at the theater at time of the show or online. For online purchases, see the United Theatre web site for the movie.

General Membership Meeting June 2026
2026-06-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Westerly Senior Center, 39 State St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
This is the Second of the four members’ business meeting for 2026.
(the next meeting is scheduled for September 1)
The general agenda is:

Call Meeting to Order
Opening Statement by the President of the Society
Approval of the previous Minutes (Minutes from November are now available – see the page Index of Meeting Agendas and Minutes)
New member Introduction
Committee Reports
Upcoming Events & Programs
Other new items

When available, the full agenda can be found in the Index of Meeting Agendas and Minutes.
This meeting will be held at the Senior Center.

Members are reminded that the bylaws require attendance at a minimum of 50% of membership meetings as well as participation and support in society activities.
The remaining meetings this year are scheduled for September 10 and November 12.

Please review the minutes from the previous meeting (March 2026) prior to attending the meeting.
The minutes from the previous meeting, when available, may be found using this link: Index of Agendas & Minutes

2026 Annual Summer Gathering
2026-06-24 18:00 - 20:00 | RI
This is the annual membership gathering for the end of the 2025/2026 season. The Pat Sposato Award is presented at the event.
This is a members-only event. Members must sign up if they plan on attending, and indicate if they will be bringing a guest.
The society will provide provide pizza. There is no charge, but a head count is required to determine how many pizzas will be required.
Members can find additional details on the event and the attendance signup form by clicking here: (signup closed on June 20)

2026 Johnny V's Meatball Challenge Results
2026-08-19 | Calabrese Club, 28 Pleasant Street, Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
Thank you to all of our generous participants in this year’s Johnny V’s Meatball Challenge!
The following are the participants and the flags associated with the restaurant, sorted in the order of the colors of the Italian flag:

(Green Flag): Hilltop Cafe
(White Flag): Buon Appetito
(Red Flag): Casa Dela Luce

Congratulations to Buon Appetito, voted as the favorite by the attendees.

2026 Johnny V's Meatball Challenge and Pasta Dinner
2026-08-19 16:00 - 20:00 | Calabrese Club, 28 Pleasant Street, Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
2026 Meatball Challenge Voted Favorite: Buon Appetito (White)

The Dante Society of Westerly hosts the 2nd Annual Johnny V’s Meatball Challenge and Pasta Dinner, where diners vote in a blind taste test for their favorite meatball.

Last year was a sellout! – AND SO IT IS THIS YEAR!

TICKET AVAILABILITY UPDATE (July 23): Online tickets sold out on July 22; The last tickets at the Chamber of Commerce were sold July 23. The 2026 Meatball Challenge is Sold Out.

TICKET AVAILABILITY UPDATE (July 19): Online tickets sold out late on Saturday, July 18. We have reallocated some tickets from the Chamber to the online sales. As of noon on Sunday, July 19, a limited number of tickets are again available online. Tickets are still available at the Chamber. See below for details for online purchase and in-person purchases at the Chamber.

Three sponsoring contestants are participating in the challenge.
The contestant will be assigned one of 3 colors (green, white, and red) on the day of the contest, and each of their meatballs will have a small flag with that color to identify it.
Each ticket has a stub which is the ballot to vote for your favorite of the 3
It is a buffet style dinner, served from a service table, with open seating. Doors will open at 4:00 PM (They cannot be opened any earlier).
You do not need to wait for the results as we will publish on our web site and Facebook page later that evening as to who was selected as the peoples’ choice for favorite meatball as well as which color was assigned to each sponsor.
Tickets are $30/person. Tickets may be purchased at the Chamber of Commerce (cash/check) or online using the button below in the Ticket Information Section.

Sponsoring Contestants
Buon Appetito
Casa Della Luce
Hilltop Café
After the event:

The winner will be listed here
The color associated with each sponsor will be listed here

Ticket Information

Each ticket contains 2 parts: one part for the dinner and a second part that is the ballot for voting for your favorite meatball.

If you bought tickets from the Chamber, be sure to bring them with you.
If you ordered tickets online, when you arrive for dinner stop by the desk at the door to pick them up.
Tickets are now available at the Ocean Community Chamber of Commerce (1 Chamber Way, Westerly RI 02891) – see their web site for hours SOLD OUT

Purchase Tickets

Menu
Salad
Bread
Pasta with sauce
(3) meatballs, one from each sponsor
Dessert

Note: Each meatball will have a small green, white, or red colored flag. The ballot half of your ticket contains a list of the 3 colors. Be sure to select your favorite meatball by circling the color of the flag it came with, and submitting your vote at the ballot box before you leave.

General Membership Meeting September 2026
2026-09-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Westerly Senior Center, 39 State St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
This is the Third of the four members’ business meeting for 2026.
(the next meeting is scheduled for November 12)
The general agenda is:

Call Meeting to Order
Opening Statement by the President of the Society
Approval of the previous Minutes (Minutes from November are now available – see the page Index of Meeting Agendas and Minutes)
New member Introduction
Committee Reports
Upcoming Events & Programs
Other new items

NOTE: Tickets for the Annual Cooking Demonstration (October 15) will be available for members to purchase at the meeting. ($40/ticket, cash or check) A link to purchase tickets online will also be available. Tickets will be made available to the public at the end of the week. Please see the listing for the Annual Cooking Demonstration (which will be updated on Aug 29).
When available (usually several days before the meeting), the full agenda can be found in the Index of Meeting Agendas and Minutes.

This meeting will be held at the Senior Center.
Please review the minutes from the previous meeting (June 11, 2026) prior to attending the meeting.
The minutes from the previous meeting may be found using this link: Index of Agendas & Minutes

Members are reminded that the bylaws require attendance at a minimum of 50% of membership meetings as well as participation and support in society activities.
The fourth and last meeting this year is scheduled for November 12.

Movie: Sept 22 - Amarcord
2026-09-22 16:00 - 18:00 | The United Theater, 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
The United Theatre and the Dante Society of Westerly present a screening of Amarcord.
This 1973 Federico Fellini film is listed in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian Films to be saved.
From the United Theatre: Federico Fellini returned to the provincial landscape of his childhood with this carnivalesque reminiscence, recreating his hometown of Rimini in Cinecittà’s studios and rendering its daily life as a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge. Wikipedia summarizes the movie as the of tale about an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in a village near the ancient walls of Rimini in 1930s Fascist Italy.

The movie was originally released in Italy in 1973, and released in the US in 1975
In 1975 the movie was rated R and won the 1975 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
The original release is in Italian with English subtitles
The movie runs approximately 2 hrs
Details and a trailer can be found here on IMDb.com.
Additional information on the movie can be found here on Wikipedia.
A link to the theater listing is HERE

This movie is rated “R”. Please review the links provided for IMDB and/or Wikipedia above for specifics on the rating.
As part of the United Rewind Series, tickets are $13 online; $11 at the theater at the day of the showing. 65 and over are free.

Il Risorgimento: Creating A United Italy
2026-10-10 13:00 - 14:30 | Westerly Library Auditorium, 44 Broad St, Westerly, 02891
Dr. Alfred Crudale, Professor of Italian at the University of Rhode Island and Bridgewater State University, presents Il Risorgimento: Creating A United Italy
(please note the new date for this lecture)

In this multimedia presentation we discuss the factors which contributed to the Italian uprising, the Italian patriots who shaped the course of the revolution, and Italy as a united nation. As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, join us as we explore the Italian revolution for the Unification of Italy.
Alfred R. Crudale is a native Rhode Islander who grew up in the Knightsville section of Cranston. He has been an educator in Rhode Island for over forty years and earned his Ph.D. in Italian literature from the University of Connecticut. He is a lecturer in the Italian departments at the University of Rhode Island and Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.
In 2021 Bordighera Press published Crudale’s book THE VOICES OF ITALY: ITALIAN LANGUAGE NEWSPAPERS AND RADIO PROGRAMS IN RHODE ISLAND. He is also the author of three children’s books, A New Home for Salvatore, released in May of 2024, Buon Natale, Salvatore, released in October of 2024, and Good Morning, Catbird, released in May of 2025. Crudale’s poetry and short stories have been published in The Association of Rhode Island Authors Annual Anthology, and in the Rhode Island Bards Poetry Anthology. He and his wife Barbara live on their small farm in West Kingston, RI, where they raise chickens and goats.

Note: Unless specifically noted as being streamed or recorded, the lectures in the lecture series hosted by the Dante Society of Westerly are live events only and are not recorded. They are neither streamed online nor available afterwards as recordings.
Lectures are free and open to the public.

This event is presented in partnership with the Westerly Library and Wilcox Park.

2026 Annual Anna Turrisi Cooking Demonstration
2026-10-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Calabrese Club, 28 Pleasant Street, Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
(last update Aug 30. next update Sept 3)
The Dante Society of Westerly continues the tradition of hosting the annual Anna Turrisi Cooking Demonstration.
This year the guest chef is Joyce Amedeo of Joyce’s Everyday Gourmet
Tickets are required for attendance. There is a 160 seat limit.
Ticket sales will open September 12 (see below)

The event will feature a video of the guest chef, Joyce Amedeo, preparing a dish, followed by a live Q&A session with Joyce. A meal will be served based on the video presentation, prepared in part by, and served by, the culinary students from the Westerly High School. The meal will be followed by a raffle and a live auction.

The program runs from 6:00 to approximately 8:30; doors will open 5:30.
The video presentation will begin at 6:15.
Raffle tickets will be available before the video presentation and during the meal.
Raffle tickets will not be sold during the video or Q&A session.

Event Brochure
Space for advertisements and/or personal messages are available in the event’s brochure.
Among other items the brochure will also contain the menu and recipes.
Cost for the space is:

Full Page: $250
Half Page: $125
Quarter Page: $60
Eighth Page $30

For additional information, please contact the Dante Society of Westerly with this form: <<Request Information>>

Ticket Information
Purchase details will be provided here by September 12.
Tickets will be available at that date for purchase online (by credit card) or at the Chamber of Commerce (cash or check only).
Tickets will be available for early purchase by members (cash or check) at the upcoming member’s meeting on September 10.
Tickets are $40 each.
No tickets will be sold at the door.

A limited number of table packages will also be available online for $375. The package consists of a reserved table with a sign for you, 8 tickets, and 1/2 page in the brochure.
Because those buying the table package are paying for a sign on their table, members are requested to not bring in their own signs.
Ticket sales will end once it is a sell-out or on the Monday before the event so we can have an accurate count.

Menu
(The menu will be posted here in the near future.)

2026 Lecture: Boogie Woogie Virtuoso Arthur Migliazza
2026-10-17 13:00 - 14:30 | Westerly Library Auditorium, 44 Broad St, Westerly, 02891
Award winning pianist Arthur Migliazza brings the Boogie Woogie and Blues piano tradition back to life through truly unbelievable piano playing and engaging storytelling.

Award winning pianist Arthur Migliazza brings the Boogie Woogie and Blues piano tradition back to life through truly unbelievable piano playing and engaging storytelling. During this special encore performance, Arthur takes us on another journey through the origins of this extremely influential and important African-American music and uncover its connections and relevance to all of American pop mu- sic that followed, including Jazz and Rock and Roll. Italians are also a part of the story!

Note: Unless specifically noted as being streamed or recorded, the lectures in the lecture series hosted by the Dante Society of Westerly are live events only and are not recorded. They are neither streamed online nor available afterwards as recordings.
Lectures are free and open to the public.

This event is presented in partnership with the Westerly Library and Wilcox Park.

General Membership Meeting November 2026
2026-11-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Westerly Senior Center, 39 State St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
This is the Fourth of the four members’ business meeting for 2026.
(the next meeting will be scheduled for March 2027)
The general agenda is:

Call Meeting to Order
Opening Statement by the President of the Society
Approval of the previous Minutes (Minutes from November are now available – see the page Index of Meeting Agendas and Minutes)
New member Introduction
Committee Reports
Upcoming Events & Programs
Other new items

When available, the full agenda can be found in the Index of Meeting Agendas and Minutes.
This meeting will be held at the Senior Center.

Members are reminded that the bylaws require attendance at a minimum of 50% of membership meetings as well as participation and support in society activities.

Please review the minutes from the previous meeting (September 10, 2026) prior to attending the meeting.
The minutes from the previous meeting, when available, may be found using this link: Index of Agendas & Minutes

Movie: Nov 17 - The Conformist
2026-11-17 16:00 - 18:00 | The United Theater, 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
The United Theatre and the Dante Society of Westerly present a screening of The Conformist.
This 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci film is listed in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian Films to be saved.
Based on the 1951 novel by Alberto Moravia, the IMDB movie description is: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

The movie premiered in 1970 in Berlin, had a limited release in the US starting in late 1970, then a limited release in Italy starting in 1971. It was released on DVD in the US in 2006.
The movie is rated R. It was nominated for the 1972 Academy Award as Best Writing, “Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium”
The original release is in Italian with English subtitles
The movie runs just under 2 hrs
Details and trailers can be found here on IMDb.com.
Additional information on the movie can be found here on Wikipedia.
A link to the theater listing is HERE

This movie is rated “R”. Please review the links provided for IMDB and/or Wikipedia above for specifics on the rating.
As part of the United Rewind Series, tickets are $13 online; $11 at the theater at the day of the showing. 65 and over are free.

2026 Holiday Concert
2026-12-09 08:00 - 20:00 | The Granite Theatre, 1 Granite St., Westerly, RI, 02891, United States
>> Save the Date <<

A holiday concert (or 2) are in the works for this date. Updates will be posted as they become available.

Italian Opera
2027-02-27 13:00 - 14:30 | Westerly Library Auditorium, 44 Broad St, Westerly, 02891
(Details Pending)
