Free English Course February 2013

Free English courses are
available for NZ permanent
 residents who are working
or self-employed.

Call 377 3141 English Language Partners

New committee and new meeting venue

The new committee elected at the AGM is:

Denis Walker (President)
Jan Tedesco (Secretary)
Philippa McLaughlin (Treasurer)

Committee members: Valerie Mayer, Wilma Laryn, Maria Fresia, Fiorenzo Peloso, John Pryor, Louise Easter, and new members Francesco D'Alo' and Glen Mosna.

The meeting venue for 2013 will be St. Ninian's Church in Puriri Street with the first monthly meeting in February.

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.