Culture Galore 13 March

We had a stand at Culture Galore again this year. We offered coffee and panettone, and our Tarantella group made a public appearance on the main stage.

Cartolina 17 & 22 March 2010

Belfiore Bologna is an Italian architect who’s arrived in Christchurch via Venezuela and China. He talks about his ideas on architecture, energy saving and sustainability. We play a song by Jovanotti: Il mio nome.

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March meeting- John Anderson : Veneto beyond Venice

7:30pm, Wed. 8 July at the Linwood Community Arts Centre, corner Stanmore Rd & Worcester St.

John Anderson, an architect who has lived and worked for several years in Rome and travelled extensively in Italy over many years will give an illustrated talk about some of the places, landscapes and architecture of the Veneto region

With two Italian brothers in law, Andrea an architect and Stefano a biologist, John also takes selected small groups to interesting corners of Italy.

For supper we'll have a pasta to celebrate the start of this year's activities.



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Training course for interpreters

Interpreting Canterbury is inviting applications from people interested in being trained as community interpreters.

If selected for the course, candidates will attend a number of weekend modules and other sessions from May to July 2010 (for a token charge).  Successful graduates will be employed on a casual basis. 

Applications for the May 2010 course close on Mon 15 March 2010. For more information see www.interpret.org.nz and apply online. Or phone 372 9311 .

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Cartolina 3 & 8 March

Veronica Bettone, a young Italian woman from the village of Vigoro, in the Northern province of Bergamo, talks about being there and here. We discuss life and friendship in Italy and in NZ, and play songs by the Coro Dolomiti di Trento: La Montanara, L’Allegrie, El grileto e la formicola.

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Cartolina 17 & 22 February

This week our guest is Federico Tomasetto, a PhD student doing his research at the Bio-Protection Research Centre of Lincoln University.

Federico tells of his work around Banks Peninsula, and of his travels and adventures, including cooking spaghetti in the Galapagos …

(This interview is in Italian). We play Federico’s favourite songs: Ho imparato a sognare, by Negrita, A te, by Jovanotti, and Buonanotte all’Italia, by Ligabue.

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