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.

Cartolina 24 ottobre

The President of the Christchurch Dante Alighieri and Cartolina co-producer,
Dr Denis Walker, talks about Genova, the ancient port-city that he visited
recently. Food and stories, with the songs of Genova-born singer-song writer
Fabrizio de Andrè.

Monteverdi Concert 6 October

The Jubilate Singers will join Wellington’s Baroque Voices and Burnside High School’s Bel Canto and Aurora Voices choirs in one of the best-loved compositions of the choral repertoire and Monteverdi’s largest work, his Vespro della Beata Vergine. Part of a larger 1610 Venice publication, the Vespers comprises large psalm settings, smaller-scale motets, a lavishly scored sacred concerto, and a setting of the Magnificat. The Vespers is courtly and majestic in places, touchingly intimate in others. A pinnacle of Renaissance music, it contains elements that look forward to the Baroque style to come, and spectacular vocal and instrumental effects that are still capable of thrilling audiences four centuries later.
The concert is on Saturday 6 October 2012 at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Manchester St, Christchurch at 7.30 pm and will be directed by Grant Hutchinson. Tickets are $25/$20 (concession) and school students are admitted free of charge.

Cartolina 10 Ottobre

Festival Director Tony Lambert gives us an insight of the present edition of this much-loved appointment with Italian film. There are more titles than the previous years, and, as usual, there is something for everybody!