Cartolina 9 & 23 October 2013

9 October: The Italian Film Festival 2013 may not go on in Christchurch, due to the pending assessment of Hollywood Cinema in Sumner, in renewed post-earthquake scrutiny. We hope for the best, and interview Festival director Tony Lambert.

23 October: Bala Patel is a retired gynecologyst, now full time painter. Bala travels to Italy often, to seek inspiration, and this is the recount of her last trip. For info on Bala’s work, just google Bala Patel Artist

As usual all programmes are available via internet live or in podcast from http://plainsfm.org.nzCartolina producers Wilma Laryn and Denis Walker wish you all: Buon ascolto!

Cartolina 28 August 2013

28 August: the Italian doctoral student Laura Azzani is in Christchurch to study local birds. She talks of her research, as well as her upbringing  in Castelvetro.

Cartolina 14 & 18 August 2013

14 August:

Denis and Wilma present: Inverno, a selection of songs, poems, music and food, all related to Winter.

28 Augusto: the Italian doctoral student Laura Azzani is in Christchurch to study local birds. She talks of her research, as well as her upbringing  in Castelvetro.

Cartolina 17 & 31 July 2013

The Italian architect Roberto Capocaccia is a keen singer of classic repertoire, and a lover of modern music. He tells about the career and life of the Italian singer and composer Umberto Bindi, and of the social and cultural landscape of Italy in the 50s and 60s. We play Bindi's most famous songs: Il nostro concerto, Riviera, Arrivederci in the first programme, and Vento di mare, La musica e` finita, Lasciatemi sognare in the second programme.

Cartolina 3 July 2013

Rebecca Wilson (teacher) and Scott Kinley (principal) of the Bromley School are running a learning programme based on the Reggio Emilia approach.

They tell how this method worked for their school and how it’s being expanded to other schools. We play songs from the Zecchino d’Oro (children songs contest). 

Cartolina 19 June 2013

On the phone from Wellington, Carolina Izzo tells about her career as an art restorer in Italy and in New Zealand, where she worked for 6 years at Te Papa. Already dividing her time between her two studies in Auckland and Wellington, she’s just being assigned the task of restoring the dome of the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch.

Carolina Izzo restoring the wall memorial by Peter McIntyre in Hamilton's central library