Screening the Real: Alina Marazzi's Maternal Trilogy

Alina Marazzi, Film Director 
Monday 11 February, 6pm
Arts 1 220, 
Auckland University
Free entry

Screening the Real: Alina Marazzi's Maternal Trilogy

Alina Marazzi, is an internationally acclaimed director of documentaries, fiction film and theatrical works. Many of her films address issues of gender, motherhood and memory. This presentation focuses on three films that are commonly referred to as her maternal trilogy:  Un’ora sola ti vorrei (For one more hour with you, 2002) Vogliamo anche le rose (We Want Roses Too, 2007) and  Tutto parla di te (All About You, 2013), her first fiction film starring Charlotte Rampling. Marazzi will use clips from the films  to highlight the importance that cinematic form and experimentation take in her re-invention of the real. She considers the reconstruction of her mother’s life and its relationship to women’s history in For one more hour with you; the search for new models for women arising out of  the movements of  the 1970s in We Want Roses Too, and the way fiction functions as a form of alter-ego in representations of maternity and maternal ambivalence in All About You. 

Un altro intensivo, un altro successo!

Un altro intensivo, un altro successo! Una sessantina circa di studenti coinvolti, sette insegnanti (Sandra, Maria, Fiorella, Luca, Matteo, Niccolò e Federico), due cuoche (Brunella ed Annalisa, grazie per i deliziosi pranzetti!!!), ospiti, attività, cinema e sorprese, per cinque giorni d’immersione totale nella lingua e nella cultura italiana.

Anche quest’anno il tradizionale corso intensivo della Dante non ha deluso le aspettative. Un sentito ringraziamento a tutte le persone e gli amici che hanno reso possibile questo evento, in particolar modo Paolo Rotondo (direttore del Cinema Italiano Festival) per il film “Orecchie”, Pukeko Bakery per le buonissime focaccine e la simpaticissima MariaPia per la preparazione delle orecchiette.

Vi aspettiamo tutti al prossimo intensivo!!!

Note Italiane, a series of concerts featuring internationally acclaimed Italian musicians

The Embassy of Italy in Wellington is pleased to present “Note Italiane”, a series of concerts featuring internationally acclaimed Italian musicians.

We welcome violinist Luca Ciarla during his Oceania tour, and are proud to host New Zealand-based Lilia Carpinelli (soprano), Luca Manghi (flute) and Matteo Napoli (piano) for their first public performance together.

We look forward to having you join us for the concerts and enjoy the talent of the performers and the diversity of the Italian music on display, buon ascolto!​ Free entry.

 Mediterramia

A creative and surprising violinist, Luca Ciarla easily transcends the boundaries among genres to trace an innovative musical path, a magical acoustic seduction in perfect balance between written compositions and improvisation, traditional and contemporary sounds.

Luca owns the stage with his fiddle and a few toy instruments. With a loop pedal, he performs live all the parts, playing the violin like a guitar, a cello or percussion. In this imaginative landscape, Luca sings, whistles, plays other little instruments and adds new virtuoso passages; music is continuously evolving into a dazzling solOrkestra!

The programme features unusual arrangements of traditional Italian folk tunes, music from the Mediterranean area and original compositions.

Auckland: Thursday 28 February 6 pm, St Matthew in the City - Free entry

Other dates are in Hamilton, Motueka, Picton: https://www.lucaciarla.com/tour/

A Night at the Opera

Italian-born New Zealand based artists, international performers Carpinelli, Manghi and Napoli will perform in public together for the first time, with a special programme prepared especially for this occasion. Their recital for soprano, flute and piano, will take us on a journey through Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera, with themes of popular arias by Vivaldi, Rossini, Puccini, Verdi as well as Italian traditional songs.

Lilia Carpinelli: https://www.vivaldiacademy.co.nz/copy-of-marcello-napoli

Luca Manghi: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/about/school-of-arts/music/staff-contacts/luca-manghi

Matteo Napoli: https://www.vivaldiacademy.co.nz/matteo-napoli

Auckland: Saturday 16 March 6pm, St Matthew in the City - Free entry

The Embassy of Italy and the Europe Institute at the University of Auckland Present a lecture by Prof. Francesco Spagnolo (University of California, Berkeley)

Marginal Cosmopolitans: Musical Representations of Italian Jewish Identity

Jews have lived in the Italian Peninsula since Roman times, thus before the advent of Christianity, and have participated in many aspects of its culture. Originating in the global diaspora, Italian Jewish culture is equally rooted in Italy's history. In this lecture, Prof. Francesco Spagnolo (UC Berkeley) explores the many dimensions of the cultural identity of the Jews of Italy in the modern period. By combining musical sources (manuscripts and archival recordings) with visual and literary testimonies, the talk will explore the hyper-local, regional, national, and global dimensions of the Italian Jewish experience. Particular attention will be paid to the formation of Jewish ghettos inside Italy's cities, large and small, since the 16th century, and to the Emancipation of the Jews in the 19th century when the Jewish minority achieved full civil rights in the midst of the Risorgimento and Italian unification and independence. 

Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 6pm

Arts 1 Building 206 Humanities Room 220​

Free Entry

Francesco Spagnolo is a multidisciplinary scholar focusing on Jewish studies, music, and digital media. At the University of California, Berkeley, he is the Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Music. He is also an affiliated faculty with the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, the Institute of European Studies, the Religious Diversity Cluster of the Haas Institute, and serves on the Digital Humanities Council. 

Intersecting textual, visual and musical cultures, he actively contributes to academic and cultural heritage institutions, as well as live and electronic media, in Europe, Israel, and the United States. Hepublishes on topics ranging from music to philosophy, film, and literature, and curates exhibitions and digital programs. 

As a scholar, his research interests center on the intersections of music and synagogue life, particularly among Italian Jews, an arena in which Ashkenazi and Sephardic liturgical and popular musical traditions have historically come together in unique ways. As a curator, his focus is on the performative aspects of Jewish material cultures and creative expressions across the global diaspora. Where his scholarly and curatorial work meet is in asking a variety of questions about the nature of (Jewish) cultural heritage, and the role of synagogues, archives, and museums (including their respective "rituals" and performative settings) as communal institutions in the modern period.