More Photos of the Festival Italiano!

Tarantella

Face painting and photo boot with Studio 81

Street Actors

Dante Cake Stall

Italian Story Reading Workshop

Pasta workshop!

Pranzo!

Ferrari!

First photos from the Festival Italiano '13

Tarantella dancers from Santarelli School of Dance

Italian Vegetables from Art of Produce

Street performers and our Dante Cake Stall girls

Christopher Dempsey from the Waitemata Local Board

Antipasti

Italian Honorary Consul Mario Magaraggia with Miss Suzanne Vette

Lunch at the Festival Italiano

Waitemata Local Board Chair Shale Chambers with Italian Embassy Cosular Attache' Daniela Di Napoli

Ferrari cars display

Dante volunteers Alicia, Sizanne and Elisa

Street Comedians entertaining

We love Vespa!

Italian poi in The Poi Room

Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©

Festival Italiano today: 11am-4pm, Osborne St, Newmarket

Festival Italiano tomorrow!

SPECIAL FESTIVAL ITALIANO-ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL EVENT!

All tickets to the Rialto Cinema’s September 29, Sunday afternoon 2 pm screening of “The Big Heart of Girls” (“Il cuore grande delle ragazze”) include a complimentary glass of bubbly upon entry to the cinema! Sit back and enjoy a slice of Italian country family life! Associate Professor Bernadette Luciano (University of Auckland) will provide a brief introduction to the film and festival highlights.

Set in the 1930s the film by veteran multi award-winning Pupi Avati, “The Big Heart of Girls” is a charming and entertaining tale of love, compromise and the role of women in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy inspired by the story of the director’s own grandparents.

http://festivalitaliano.co.nz/events/event/special-festival-italiano-italian-film-festival-event/