Our bookclub continues with Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno by Italo Calvino. We will meet the 29th June at Calabrisella’s at 8.30. Mixed language abilities welcome. This event is free but seats are limited so book in advance to avoid disappointment.
Category Archives: Events
In My Mother’s House by Ákos Östör & Lina Fruzzetti
On 2 June in partnership with Cardiff University and Transnationalizing Modern Languages we will screen In My Mother’s House by Ákos Östör and Lina Fruzzetti a new documentary in Italian, Tigrinya and English (with English subtitles) on the many sides of multiple identities, familial bonds, and ambiguities of colonialism, stretching from the Horn of Africa to Italy and the USA. Book free ticket here
Ákos Östör and Lina Fruzzetti are university-based filmmaker-ethnographers (Brown and Wesleyan in the USA). They authored numerous distinguished films and publications. They collaborate closely with participants in their films and often with other filmmakers. Their films are visually interpretive, respecting the integrity of the culture and the locality. They use narration or not, subtitles, voice over, and inter-titles, or no words at all, just as a particular film demands it. This is their first, deeply personal film.
Their previous films in India and Tanzania concern individual lives in small communities, in contexts ranging from sacred rituals and festivals in a town, to women scroll painters and singers in village West Bengal; from fish markets in Dar es Salaam, to a cooperative of disabled people in Zanzibar.
All were shown at festival around the world and won numerous awards.
Their written work is independent yet related to the films. They also participated in creating museum exhibitions and catalogues (Helsinki, Lisbon, Geneva) as well as websites around their work.
Bookclub #4
Our bookclub continues with Leonardo Sciascia’s masterpiece Il giorno della civetta on 31 May at Calabrisella’s at 8.30. Mixed language abilities welcome. This event is free but seats are limited so book in advance to avoid disappointment.
Bookclub #3
Our bookclub continues on Wednesday 20th April Calabrisella Cardiff 8.30 pm with Novecento by Alessandro Baricco. Come and join us!
The bookclub will be followed by the screening of The Legend of 1900 by Giuseppe Tornatore Sunday 24 April at 7:30 @CafeJazz, 21 St. Mary Street, Cardiff.
BookClub # 2
The Italian Book Club: mixed abilities welcomed. Our second book is La strada che va in città by Natalia Ginsburg, Wednesday 15 March at Calabrisella, Cowbridge Road, Cardiff. Come along!!
Voices and Faces of a Post-Colonial Heritage, Cardiff
On 27 February 2016 the Italian Cultural Centre Wales (ICCW), in partnership with Transnationalizing Modern Languages and Watch Africa, held a one-day event in Cardiff on the history of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa and transnational mobilities from this region to/from Italy. The event, aptly called Voices and Faces of a Post-Colonial Heritage, was organised around the screening of the new Italian docufilm Asmarina (Alan Maglio e Medhin Paolos, 2015) with the support of AISCLI, l’Università degli Studi di Milano, il Centro di Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere at the University Orientale in Naples, Docucity and Dizioni Diasporiche. As Caterina Bertelli and Luca Paci from ICCW explained, this event is part of a larger project called ‘Mediterranean Re-mapped’ started during the Italian Film Festival, Cardiff with the screening of Io sto con la sposa (Del Grande, Augugliaro, Al Nassiry 2014) and born from the urge to show a different image of the Mediterranean from that available in the media today. The project also aims somehow to shrug the veil of collective blindness that permits a tacit acquiescence to the thousands who drown while crossing the Mediterranean. Understanding the reasons behind our callous blindness involves exploring both our identity as Italians, a product of many different cultures mostly originating from across the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and our personal and national (hi)stories and heritage in an effort to redress the ongoing silence and cultural amnesia revolving around Italian colonial history. Continue reading
Voice and Faces of a Post-Colonial Heritage
The ICCW in partnership with Watch Africa and Transnationalizing Modern Languages presents
VOICES AND FACES OF A POST-COLONIAL HERITAGE
Part of the ‘Mediterranean Re-mapped’ Project
27 FEBRUARY 2016 from 1 pm to 9 pm
Butetown History and Arts Centre
Terra Madre & Xmas Do with Slow Food South Wales
Thu 10 Dec 2015, 7 pm
Butetown Arts and History Centre
During this event we will be showing parts of Ermanno Olmi’s documentary on Terra Madre, a global organization born in Italy in 2005 by Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini. Terra Madre brings together small farmers and projects promoting sustainability and fair trade against the commodification of food and natural resources.
This event will also be the occasion for us to launch our next project on bees, I love you, Honey and to exchange season’s greetings with a buffet provided by Casanova restaurant. The menu @£15 (£12 for members) includes:
Torta di patate e fagiolini (gluten free, vegetarian)
Focaccia e olive marinate
Pecorino e miele
Italian sausage roll
Maiale tonnato (gluten free)
Cicoria con vinaigrette di miele e mostarda
Frittelle di polenta e cavolo nero (gluten free, vegetarian)
Panettone bread and butter pudding
Torta caprese (gluten free)
Italian Film Festival Cardiff (IFFC)
The first ever Italian Film Festival Cardiff (IFFC) will take place on 16 and 17 of October 2015 in Cardiff and Penarth. The aim of the festival is to give a dynamic and diverse portrait of Italy, its contemporary society and its contradictions. The list of films reflects this choice.
The celebrated LGBT Iris Prize Film Festival (7 – 11 October) will kick-start the IFFC with the film Darker than Midnight by Sebastiano Riso, a story dealing with the controversial issue of gender in contemporary Italy.
How to explain Italy to a child is the theme of the award winning It Will Be a Country. We move through the beauty of poetry (Leopardi) and the crude reality of disillusion (Le cose belle), to the heartrending account of migration (On the Bride’s Side). There is also space for comedy on the most loved national sport in Italy (The Referee).
Chapter Arts Cardiff and Penarth Pavilion will host the core of the festival.
Diego Valeri Youth Orchestra
ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE WALES LAUNCHES IN CARDIFF
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27.05.2015
Press Release
ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE WALES LAUNCHES IN CARDIFF
The Italian Cultural Centre Wales was launched on Friday 22 May 2015 at an event held at Butetown Arts & History Centre in Cardiff.
At the event attended by representatives from a number of arts organisations in Wales, Directors Dr Luisa Pèrcopo and Dr Luca Paci outlined their vision for the Centre as a lively connecting hub and resource centre for Italians in Wales and everyone interested in Italian culture.
The evening included performances by the Italian poet and translator Cristina Viti and by Baritone Richard Parry, who sang Italian and Welsh arias accompanied by pianist Chris Glynn. A documentary on Italians living in Wales directed by Paolo Viel was also shown. Refreshments were provided by Calabrisella, and sponsored by Orangebox and Vinitalia.
The Centre is run by a team of enthusiastic Italians based in Wales from a variety of different backgrounds and regions in Italy including video editor/VFX generalist Paolo Viel, and Italian tutor Caterina Bertelli.
Luisa Pèrcopo and Luca Paci said: “Our purpose is to discover and create new connections between Italy, Wales and the rest of Europe and to reinforce existing ones, particularly those born from the well-established Italian-Welsh communities who have played an important role in contributing to and shaping present day Wales.”
The centre will host regular cultural events such as book launches, poetry reading, a film and a book club, food tastings and concerts. The next event will be held at Butetown History and Arts Centre on 2nd June (Republic Day in Italy). The event called #GranaJazz will feature a live performance by Gyazzoband (an Italian Jazz band based in Caerphilly) and wine and Grana cheese will be available for tasting.
The event also officially launched the first Italian Film Festival in Cardiff, which will take place in October 2015.
There are also plans to run an educational programme for children and adults learning and maintaining Italian as a second or first language in partnership with The Italian Job.
Follow ICCW at @IccwHere and www.facebook.com/ItalianCulturalCentreWales
For images and further information contact mail.iccw@gmail.com
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