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/

Dante cineclub “Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto”

The next Dante cineclub class about “cinema italiano anni ’70” - Wednesday the 28th of August – 1.30pm at Dante’s room – Freeman’s Bay Community Centre.

This time we will watch and talk about the film “Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto” (Investigation on a Citizen Above Suspicion) directed by Elio Petri in 1970.

This movie is an example of the Italian political film genre. The film tells the story of a top police officer that kills his beautiful mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime testing if the police will charge him for the murder.

Will Justice triumph? Or is the political power above suspicion? As the Kafka’s citation that ends the film says: “the servants of the law are above the law, and therefore, above suspicion”.

Here a taste of the beautiful soundtrack performed during a concert in Piazza San Marco in Venice, directed by Ennio Moricone himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54WkUiZopBU

This is a language class, a fascinating way to improve your language skills through the history of Italian Cinema.

Cost: $5 for Dante students, $10 for everybody else.
 

Senza parole

Win a bottle of Sovrano Limoncello!

Go to Sovrano Limoncello facebook Page, like and share the Sovrano Limoncello at the Festival Italiano 2013 post, and be in the draw to win a 500ml bottle!

Italian Class, Beginners 3

Classe del mercoledì sera; Davide, ci manchi! (We miss you!)

Dante Raffle: Win a flight to Italy and other wonderful prizes at the Festival Italiano 2013

To celebrate the Festival Italiano in Auckland, to be held in Newmarket on 29 September 2013, we will have a very special raffle to raise money for the Dante Alighieri Italian School for children. Tickets will be on sale at the Festival, and you can also buy them at the Dante rooms from Monday 12 September, 1 for $5 or 5 tickets for $20. Only 3000 tickets printed, be quick!

Thank you to our generous sponsors this year's prizes are:

Italy!

First Prize: return flight to Italy, worth $2000, from STA Travel 

 Second Prize: Giotto, an English edition of a deluxe book from 24 Ore Cultura - printed to the highest standards in Italy. Retail value $250. Offered by Libro International.

Third Prize: One bottle of Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena valued at $200 from Aceto Downunder

Fourth Prize: one $150 gourmet hamper from Sabato

Fifth-Sixth-Seventh Prizes: 2 passes for the Italian Film Festival

Prize draw at the Festival Italiano, 29 September 2013, 3:30pm.

Winners, if not present at the draw, will be notified by telephone.

Buona Fortuna!

Dante Alighieri Chamber Music Series: "Classical Masters"

Welcome to the third concert of the Dante Alighieri Chameber Music Series, with music by Boccherini, Cimarosa, Mozart and Haydn.

Performed by Luca Manghi, Matama Takahashi, Miyo Yoon, Wen Chuan Lin and Paul Van Houtte

Sunday, August 18, 2013, 5:00pm

St Luke's Church, 130 Remuera Road

Tickets $25 ($20 for Dante members)
Door sales only

Recent Dante activities

During the recent School Holiday the Dante Auckland has been busy with a series of events:

Italiani in Nuova Zelanda

Last Friday the Dante welcomed Mirko and Matteo, two Italian Soccer Coaches visiting New Zealand to train Kiwi kids in Italian Soccer. Thank you Fiorella and all at the Dante for organizing the event.

Click here to find out more about Soccer Italian Style, and here to find out about soccer training in Auckland. 

Dante Children

Durante le school holidays the Dante children attended this course, and not only learned about planting and cooking with Italian herbs, but they also made taralli and grissini! Yum!

Music

Finally, on Sunday, 28 July, two pianists visiting from Italy performed music for two pianos as part of the Dante Alighieri Chamber Music Series. Massimo Perciaccante and Sara Dominici played music by Mozart, Shostakovich, Saint-Saëns and Milhaud in the Lewis Eady Showroom, Remuera.  

Party at the Dante for visiting Italian soccer coaches

Join us to welcome to Auckland Mirko Mazzantini and Simone Bombardieri, two Italian soccer coaches who are here to run training events for children and coaches. Mirko and Simone are from Tuscany and work with young players at ACF Fiorentina and Empoli FC. Their “Soccer Italian Style” courses are being held in Panmure in mid-July. Their website is www.socceritalianstyle.it



Friday 19 July, 5.30pm

Dante Rooms, Freemans Bay Community Centre, 

52 Hepburn St. Freemans Bay.

Free entry, please bring a plate or something to drink to share 

School Holiday programme July 2013

Friday 19 July and Friday 26 July

From 10am to 2pm

Facciamo l’orto!

plant Italian herbs like basilico, origano, rosmarino,

and learn how to use them in the kitchen!

Freman’s bay community Centre – 52 hepburn street

$ 25.00 for session – both days $40.00 – Italian lunch included

RSVP by email to info@dante.org.nz by Thursday 11 July