Cartolina

Bernardo Conticelli, a wine marketing expert from Firenze. Bernardo was in Christchurch last November to attend the event “Wine Discovery New Zealand 2010”, part of the Great Wine Capitals of the World Conference and AGM. This event brings over 80 international delegates, media, wine commentators and experts to Christchurch for a once in eight year event. Bernardo tells us about his researches and extensive travels.

We play the brindisi duet from Verdi's La traviata (Luciano Pavarotti) and the Champagne aria from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, sung by Bryn Terfel.

Cartolina 24 & 29 November 2010

Suor Teresa Grigolini was a missionary with the Comboniani Sisters in Egypt in the second half of the 1800s. She was made a prisoner of the local warlord, the Madhi, for 16 years, and forced to marry a Greek merchant, from whom she had a number of children. All throughout her life, she remained a beacon of faith and generosity for all around her. Her story has recently been revealed to her grand niece, Teresa Pickard, who lives in Christchurch.

November meeting - Alessandro Palermo "i lezioni da Darfield e L’Aquila"

7.30 pm, Wed. 10 November at Sydenham Community Centre, 24 Hutcheson Street (off Colombo St., opposite Sydenham Park)


Alessandro Palermo (University of Canterbury) will speak about "i lezioni da Darfield e L’Aquila."


The meeting will commence with the AGM and election of officers for 2011.

Cartolina 10 & 15 November 2010

The Donaldson Family: Ed and Belinda, with their young children Denver and Castro, are planning a six-month experience of living in Italy. They have all come to our studio to tell about their expectations. We play children’s songs and nursery rhymes, a good exercise in everyday Italian language.

Cartolina 27 October & 1 November

Buildings and earthquakes: Alessandro Palermo is a structural engineer, who’s been working for years with an international group on the research of anti-seismic structures. The group comprises Italian, American and New Zealand experts, and has one of its major laboratories at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.

Cartolina 13 & 18 October

The Cartolina programmes in October are dedicated to the earthquake.

Earthquakes’ geology: Dr Francesca Ghisetti is a structural geologist, expert in the geological risks in both  Italy and New Zealand. In this programme Francesca explains how earthquakes happen, and everyone can calculate the distance from the epicenter.