La Befana's Table with Dina & Friends

Born from Dina Gregory’s real-life experience animating a puppet of Italy’s legendary gift giver through the streets of NYC, La Befana’s Table is a gathering space for conversations that blend wisdom, humor, & heart. labefanastable.substack.com

La Befana's Table with Dina & Friends is a society podcast hosted by Dina Gregory, with 46 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dina Gregory hosts La Befana's Table with Dina & Friends, a society show with 46 episodes published.

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  🎙 Finding Our Voices & Each Other Through Ancient Songs with Maria & Francesco of Nìula

  Mar 31, 20261h 3mS0

  <p>Francesco and Maria met in Rome in 2023—not by swiping right, not through a mutual friend, but by singing together in a traditional songs workshop before they even exchanged names.</p><p>In this conversation, we explore their journey from theatre to how they came together to form Nìula—a duo that offers modern reinterpretations of the traditional oral music of Southern Italy and the wider Mediterranean basin.</p><p>Drawing from a repertoire of polyvocal songs, they compose original music that bridges the ancient and the contemporary, and connect us across time, place, and language.They lead conce...

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  🎙️ Commedia dell' Arte with Chiara Durazzini

  Feb 25, 202645 minS0

  <p>On this episode of La Befana’s Table, I welcome Chiara Durazzini — Florentine native, actor, director, educator, founder of Boston’s Pazzi Lazzi Troupe, and the beloved (and slightly mischievous) Befana di Boston.</p><p>In celebration of Commedia dell’Arte Day (February 25th), Chiara brings us into the vibrant, irreverent, deeply human world of Commedia — a 16th-century Italian theatrical form that gave us archetypes still alive in today’s sitcoms, satire, and street performance.</p><p>Together, we explore:</p><p>* Why February 25, 1545 marks the birth of professional Western theatre</p><p>* How Commedia introduced women performers to the stage</p...

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  🎙️ Dreams & Defiance on the Dance Floor with Derrick Washington

  Jan 19, 202634 minS0

  <p>In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Dina sits down with Dr. Derrick León Washington—cultural anthropologist, curator, dancer, and human-rights advocate—to explore how Dr. King’s dream for humanity can be felt on the dance floor.</p><p>Dr. Washington is the curator of Urban Stomp: Dreams & Defiance on the Dance Floor at the Museum of the City of New York, a groundbreaking exhibition tracing more than 200 years of social dance history and expanding who—and what—belongs in museum spaces.</p><p>Together, Dina and Derrick reflect on the transformative power of movement, the cultural st...

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  🎙️ Doing What You Love, Using What You Have, & Having Fun with Mario the Maker Magician

  Nov 15, 202548 minS0

  <p></p><p>This week at La Befana’s Table, Dina is joined by Mario the Maker Magician—a world-touring performer celebrated for his one-of-a-kind family theater show bursting with handmade robotics, art, invention, and a big dose of hilarity. Mario has appeared on The Tonight Show, Sesame Street, and recently returned from a sold-out run at the Sydney Opera House. This month, his show lights up New York City’s New Victory Theater.</p><p>In this episode:</p><p>* Mario shares his journey as a first-generation Italian American, reflecting on family traditions, the importance of roots, and how his he...

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  🎙️Beyond Columbus: Italian-American Myth Busting & More with Steve Cerulli

  Oct 13, 202540 minS0

  <p></p><p>This week at La Befana’s Table, we’re joined by the brilliant Steve Cerulli—PhD student at Fordham University and Italian American diaspora specialist, and myth-buster extraordinaire.</p><p>In honor of Italian American Heritage Month, Steve takes us on a whirlwind tour through the history of Italian migration to the Americas, from the earliest explorers to the waves of Southern Italians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We talk about how “Italian-American” identity was forged abroad, the realities of assimilation (or lack thereof), and why so many of the stories we tell ourselves are, well...

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