Cartolina Statistics October & November 2015 Received from Laura Gartner, 

Community Development Co-ordinator:

Cartolina consistently among the first 3 most-popular programmes!“I wanted to share the latest podcast stats with you. Your programme is getting exceptionally high podcast listens and downloads! The green is downloads and the blue is podcast listens and yellow is programme page visits.

Great result!”

Cartolina 13 & 27 January 2016

13 January 2016: Massimiliano Capocaccia, of MC Architecture Studio, has been a frequent guest at Cartolina. In this programme he tells about his professional philosophy, ‘strongly influenced by European standards, processes and aesthetics’, and his commitment to the rebuilt. We play his choice of opera.

 

27 January 2016: The Solotti family has been into Italian food for many generations in many countries, from selling ice cream in the Orkneys, to the importing business in Gasson St.  James Solotti tells some of those stories, while Denis gives his recipe for gelato al limone. We play the song with the same title, by Paolo Conti, and Roberto Murolo’s ‘Fravula Fra’.

Cartolina 1 & 4 November 1 Decemberr 2015

4 November: in the last programme about the Milan World Expo, Denis Walker talks of one of the collateral exhibitions that he visited in Rome, and that were possibly more intriguing and more focused than the main one, on the theme: “feeding the planet”. This exhibition is located at the Ara Pacis.

18 November: PNRA’s Gianluca Bianchi Fasano (expedition head) and Giuseppe De Rossi (works director) are in Christchurch, on their way to the Italian Station in Antarctica. They talk about this year’s projects, many of which will be part of international cooperation

1 December: Crossing Rachmaninoff, with Italian pianist Flavio Villani and film director New Zealander Rebecca Tansley. The documentary of this title was screened at the International Film Festival this year. It follows the preparation and the presentation of Rachmaninoff’s celebrated and difficult concert held in Calabria, as well as telling Flavio’s personal and professional story.

Cartolina : 7 & 21 October 2015

7 October: Viviana Zanetti moved to New Zealand from Ferrara two years ago. She’s been blogging her family about her new life, and she’s been answering FB questions from other Italians recently arrived, or thinking of the big move. Realizing how important it was to learn about the experiences of others, she established, with help from other friends, a website and FB page titled: “Leaving Italy, Living New Zealand”. Rich of comments and people’s stories, all well told and often humorous, with interviews and side-by-side video sparring, this website is a trove of information and entertainment alike: http://leavingitalylivingnewzealand.weebly.com/

21 October: When talking in a previous programme about the EXPO in Milan, Denis Walker mentioned that there were some 400 exhibitions throughout Italy related to the same theme, ‘Nourishing the Planet’. In this programme he talks of two of them, both in Rome. One is: ‘The Elegance of Food’ at the Mercati di Traiano, that explores the links between food and fashion. His favourite however was: ‘Food: from Spoon to the World’, set in the MAXXI, the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, itself well worth a visit. It was designed by London-Iraqui architect Zaha Hadid, and acclaimed by The Guardian as "her finest built work to date”.

Cartolina 9 & 23 September 2015

9 September: Festival Italiano in Auckland has become a great yearly appointment for lovers of anything Italian, spilling from a school playground onto roads around, and including events and concerts. Festival Director Alessandra Zecchini tells how the Festival was started, and what will be this year’s highlights.

23 September Milan World Fair : Recently returned from his Italian holiday, Cartolina co-producer Denis Walker talks about visiting the Milan World Fair, and some connected events throughout Italy. With the theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, it certainly has inspired this foodie’s thoughts

Cartolina 12 & 26 August 2015

12 August: Pellegrino Artusi, accountant by trade, creator of the “Italian” cuisine. Denis and Wilma talk about the genesis of his seminal book L’arte in cucina e la scienza del mangiar bene (The art in the kitchen and the science of eating well), that for the first time collected regional recipes from all over Italy, meant not for restaurants, but for the Italian households. Interestingly, the book contains in a few chapters everything that now fills bookshops’ shelves in terms of health, hygiene and happiness!

26 August: Karen Price and Karen Stade have co-authored the book Pasta, Prayer & Promise – The story of Nelson’s Italian community, 1860-2014. At 450 pages, with an incredible wealth of documents (some de-classified for the occasion), this is the ultimate compilation of the stories of those families, contributing so much to the New Zealand history, and to the alternate fortunes of the relationship between the two Countries. It’s also a visual feast, presenting photos from sepia to full colour. We talk with the authors, on the day of the Christchurch book launch, organized by the Dante Society.