7:30pm, Wed. 13 May at the Linwood Community Arts Centre, corner Stanmore Rd & Worcester St.
Terence Dobson will talk about Italian film animation: what it is and what has been done, and show some film clips.
Terence teaches film animation in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Canterbury. He is a published author of works on film animation and the films of Bhutan.
Wednesday 29 April at 7.30 pm, repeated on Monday 4 May at 10.30 am: In this program Wilma talks with students and teachers from the Mosso school in Italy, in occasion of their recent visit to Christchurch, to search for the family and places of the late Corporal Frank Bowes, who fought and was executed with a group of Partigiani during WW2 in Mosso, and to meet with Frank’s son John Bowes. This old trail started in Italy in 1944 and continues now on both sides of the world. A film on this war episode is being made as a school project.
15 & 20 April Anniversary Programme. This year Cartolina celebrates 10 years of being on air. In this anniversary programme the tables are turned, and Denis interviews Wilma on how the Cartolina adventure started. We also talk about some of the highlights of those 10 years and play special snippets from the archive, including Cartolina‟s very first interview, with Peppino, chef at the Italian Antarctic Station, and the memorable adventures of the mysterious penguin Gennaro.
The programmes can be heard on Plains FM on Wednesday 15 April at 7.30 pm, repeated on Monday 20th at 10.30 am. For an archive of all the Cartolina programmes see http://www.dante.org.nz/chch/ARCHIVIO.htm.
7:30pm, Wed. 8 April at the Linwood Community Arts Centre, corner Stanmore Rd & Worcester St.
John & Jacqui Doogan will take us on a photographic trip in Italy showing images collected from a number of trips. They will pass on useful tips and advice about travel photography. A pasta supper and coffee will follow. Visit John & Jacqui's webpages at http://www.italyphototour.co.nz/
Wednesday 1 April at 7.30 pm, repeated on Monday 6th at 10.30 am: the last program of the Neapolitan song series is about Sole e Luna, sun and moon, that obviously have a great part in either love songs or landscape descriptions. A few songs have been chosen, in which sole e luna are paramount, from O sole mio to Luna Rossa, also to pay homage to the Italian boats on the Hauraki Gulf.. And here is the rest of it.
Wednesday 18 March at 7.30 pm, repeated on Monday 23rd at 10.30 am: La Malafemmena, or the bad woman (usually called so for just not reciprocating the singer’s love...). Our true Neapolitan-in-residence, Tilde Romano, explains the peculiar attitude of Neapolitan men that inspires the Malafemmena phenomenon. Unsurprisingly, there are plenty of songs to play!
