AGM - 14 November

The Annual General Meeting of the Società Dante Alighieri will be held on Wednesday 14th November at 7.30pm at St Ninian's Presbyterian Church, 9 Puriri Street, Riccarton.  Business will include annual reports by the President,the Secretary and the Treasurer and the Election of Officers for 2013. We will relaunch the Society in 2013 with new vigour and new programmes of meetings, films and classes.

Cartolina 21 novembre

Italian journalist and language tutor Barbara Pezzotti, on the phone from Wellington, talks about her just published book: The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction - A Bloody Journey. We play Fred Buscaglione’s song Eri piccola cosi` (You were this small), of gangster’s love, betrayal and, as you’ll hear, murder.

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Cartolina 7 novembre

The Rocket Espresso has been defined as the world’s sexiest coffee machine! It’s at the top end of the home espresso machines, and the dream of many a coffee aficionados. We talk, on the phone from Milan, with Andrew Meo, a Wellingtonian now living there, who bought the business years ago. We play Domenico Modugno’s song O ccaffè.