The Italian Community of St Louis invites you to a typical Italian apericena at Vicini Pastaria in Lafayette Square on Thursday, October 26th at 7pm.
$28/person (+ tax & gratuity) Includes: 2-hour antipasti buffet (includes a bountiful spread of assorted local and imported Italian cured meats and cheeses and "fantasia della chef" - small bites from the chef's imagination) 1 glass of Prosecco OR Vino della casa (rosso or bianco). Additional beverages will be available for purchase. Guests will enjoy a 10% discount off purchases made the night of the event, excluding beverages consumed on-site. Discount will apply to retail bottles of wine to take home and all purchases from the pastaria, Italian/local specialty food market, and home decor shop. There is a 20-person maximum for this event. RSVP as soon as possible to: stlouisitalians@gmail.com and a link will be sent to you to purchase your ticket. Thanks to Chef Dawn Wilson for making this possible!
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Traveling to Italy soon? Want to brush up on your Italian conversation skills? Michael Cross, Adjunct Professor of Italian at St Louis Community College is offering two classes for the Fall Semester 2023 that you don't want to miss: Italian for Travelers class and Italian Conversation class. These classes are part of the St Louis Italian Language Program. For more information or to enroll in one of the classes, send an email to: stlouisitalians@gmail.com or mikecross.stl@gmail.com
Il Dott. Nicola Aravecchia, professore d'archeologia a Washington Unviersity in St Louis presenta "Vent’anni di scavi nel deserto egiziano" mercoledì, il 4 ottobre 2023 alle 18,30 al Ristorante Pan D'Olive. L'indirizzo: 1603 McCausland Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63117 Vi siete mai chiesti come sarebbe vivere nel deserto a esplorare rovine non viste dagli occhi umani da secoli? Mai considerato cosa possiamo imparare dagli indizi lasciati secoli fa?
Avremo un’opportunità per poter ascoltare un esperto del campo! Il Prof. Nicola Aravecchia, professore di archeologia a Washington University in St Louis, lavora da anni nel campo e ora dirige gli scavi in un'oasi egiziana. Ha viaggiato il mondo a studiare e insegnare. Gli scavi ad Amheida (nel deserto occidentale egiziano) sono iniziati nel 2001. Il Professor Aravecchia è il co-autore del libro "An Oasis City," che parla di questa città antica che raggiunse il suo apice durante il periodo romano, prima di essere abbandonata tra la fine del quarto e l'inizio del quinto secolo D.C. Ad Amheida, il professore e i suoi colleghi hanno identificato uno dei primi complessi funerari cristiani, datato alla meta' del quarto secolo. Questa chiesa, studiata dal Professor Aravecchia, è fondamentale per capire le prime società cristiane e rappresenta uno dei primi esempi di architettura cristiana. Venite a cogliere questa grande opportunità di ascoltare un esperto del mondo antico che ci porterà in un altro mondo separato dall’oceano e dal tempo! Prenotate al più presto, cliccando al link sottoscritto, oppure chiamando Scott Hoff al 314-304-5972 o inviandogli una email a scottmhoff@gmail.com: https://www.evite.com/event/01FCJ6JSIXTLYMM4GEPOK5NPYJEULA Scott Hoff Presidente, Club Italiano per piacere scottmhoff@gmail.com Date: Friday, September 22, 2023
Time: 6-8 p.m. Tickets: $20 per person Join us as we celebrate the opening of The Magic House’s newest cultural exhibit, Ciao Bambini! Enjoy an evening of music, remarks and a garden aperitivo. Link to purchase your ticket: https://www.magichouse.org/ciaobambinigrandopening/ The Magic House would like to thank our Ciao Bambini Advisory Committee for helping the Museum bring the culture of Italy to life in this exhibit! Ciao Bambini Advisory Committee Elizabeth Bernhardt Federica Bertolini Michael Cross Franco Giannotti Jessica Glunt Scott Hoff Angela Holland Barbara Klein Anthony Lancia Giovanna Leopardi Rebecca Messbarger Benedetta Orsi Tiziana Orsini Silvia Squillace Alessandro Valentino Sofia Villagra Iva Youkilis Jack Baumann What is the Ciao Bambini Exhibit at The Magic House? From pizzas to piazzas, Ciao Bambini (hello kids!) will transport families to the beautiful country of Italy. The exhibit will highlight Italy’s world-renowned architecture, art and food, and pay tribute to its significant historical contributions while showing what life is like for children in Italy today. Families will learn to make pasta in a traditional Italian home, serve delicious treats in a gelateria, create a mosaic masterpiece, learn some Italian, and find out why the city of Rome is like lasagna. Plus, capture your travels with a photo on a Vespa in a piazza. For more information on times and prices of the Ciao Bambini Italy exhibit, click on the following link: https://www.magichouse.org/ciaobambini/ Traveling to Italy this Fall? Want to brush up on your Italian skills? Michael Cross, Adjunct Professor of Italian at St Louis Community College is offering two classes that you don't want to miss: Italian for Travelers class and Italian Conversation class. These classes are a late summer edition for the St Louis Italian Language Program. For more information or to enroll in one of the classes, send an email to: stlouisitalians@gmail.com
Join us for Ferragosto 2023 - The St Louis Italian Summer Party on Friday, August 18th at the Enterprise Pavilion at Shaw Park in Clayton. Ferragosto is an ancient tradition going back over 2,000 years. It is the largest Italian summer festival of the year. Today we invite to taste and experience contemporary Italian cuisine and culture. WHEN: FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2023 ~ 5PM - 11PM WHERE: ENTERPRISE PAVILION, SHAW PARK, CLAYTON Chef Alessandro Valentino and Pizzaiolo Scott Hoff will be making Neapolitan pizzas. $10 will get you a large pizza (any topping), an Italian cocktail or other alcoholic beverage, and a soft drink. For anyone who doesn't want pizza, feel free to bring a dish or drink to share. The $10 is for those who want to order pizza which also comes with an alcoholic beverage and a non alcoholic beverage. These pizzas are made to order and made by hand by our pizzaiolos and you can choose any topping. If you just want to come and dance and sing, there's no cost to do that. The nearby sand volleyball courts and playgrounds are also available for our use. How to pay: We accept CASH or VENMO. Giovanna Leopardi, our Treasurer, will accept cash at the pavilion or you can Venmo her: @Giovanna-Leopardi Our DJ will play contemporary Italian music and popular Italian hits. Make sure to stay for Italian style karaoke later in the evening so prepare yourself with a few of your favorite songs! Sarebbe meglio se potete cantare in italiano! Tutti sono benvenuti! All are welcome! SPONSORS FOR FERRAGOSTO 2023
~ ARTECO GLOBAL NOOTER/ERIKSEN FRANK LETA AUTOMOTIVE MARMI SHOES DESIGN N PRINT, INC. MR. GIORGIO BUCCI MR. PIERO SCAPINI MR. TIMOTHY KEELEY MR. DOUGLAS & ANGEL JOST CAV. FRANCO GIANNOTTI ~ VOLUNTEERS FOR FERRAGOSTO 2023 ~ ALESSANDRO VALENTINO TIZIANA ORSINI GIOVANNA LEOPARDI MICHAEL CROSS CARLO PIETRO SANFILIPPO SCOTT M. HOFF VITO ALU ADRIANA HERMIDA ~ THE ITALIAN COMMUNITY OF ST LOUIS with the support of our member organizations ITALIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS CLUB ITALIANO PER PIACERE ST LOUIS - BOLOGNA SISTER CITIES YOUNG ITALIAN PROFESSIONALS IN ST LOUIS The Italian Community of St Louis is proud to partner with The Magic House, St Louis Children's Museum, in creating CIAO BAMBINI, an interactive exhibit for kids which opens September 23rd.
From pizzas to piazzas, Ciao Bambini will transport families to the beautiful country of Italy. The exhibit will highlight Italy’s world-renowned architecture, art and food, and pay tribute to its significant historical contributions while showing what life is like for children in Italy today. Families will learn to make pasta in a traditional Italian home, serve delicious treats in a gelateria, create a mosaic masterpiece, and learn Italian. Plus, capture your travels with a photo on a Vespa in a typical piazza. A special thanks goes to the following individuals from the Italian community who have participated in the advisory board for an entire year and who saw this entire idea come to life: Tiziana Orsini, Alessandro Valentino, Michael Cross, Federica Bertolini, Benedetta Orsi, Jessica Glunt, Anthony Lancia, Iva Youkilis, Franco Giannotti, Jack Baumann, Rebecca Messbarger, Barbara Klein, Elizabeth Bernhardt, and Scott Hoff. A grand opening ceremony is scheduled for Friday, September 22nd at the Magic House. The event is invitation only. Traveling to Italy this summer or in the fall? Want to brush up on your Italian skills? Michael Cross, Adjunct Professor of Italian at St Louis Community College is offering a class that you don't want to miss: Italian for Travelers. This class is part of the St Louis Italian Language Program. For more information, or to enroll in the class, please send an email to: stlouisitalians@gmail.com
If you are a fan of history, Italy, the Renaissance, or women’s history–or even of historical fiction and intrigue–you won’t want to miss this event! Join us for an evening with Dr. Elizabeth Bernhardt, author of a captivating and recently-released book called Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio (Amsterdam University Press, 2023). It is a history of a woman and her enormous family (over 175 people lived in her home at one point), and the text’s storyline is sometimes even more fascinating and stranger than fiction. Set in fifteenth-century Bologna, the book tells the story of an illegitimate girl named Genevra who served as a young noblewoman married twice into the powerful Bentivoglio family; and in an entirely female fashion, we will see how Genevra became a key player in the turbulent politics of Bologna and Rome. Bernhardt will share her insights into the writing and research process (research was conducted in over thirty different Italian archives over the past two decades); and she will be happy to answer your questions about the book, its setting and its many characters. Genevra Sforza was also the half-sister of Battista Sforza of Urbino whose famous portrait by Piero della Francesca (held at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence) has become a Renaissance icon. St. Louis artist Chip Reay has reworked Battista’s diptych portrait into several sculptural pieces that were shown at the Bruno David Gallery. Reay has also prepared new work based on Genevra’s diptych portrait for this event. Bernhardt’s informal and fun talk about Genevra and early modern family history will take place at Bruno David Gallery, a contemporary art space in St. Louis (Clayton), on Friday, May 5th, at 6 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
From the back cover of the book: Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successive de facto rulers of Bologna: Sante Bentivoglio then Giovanni II Bentivoglio. Placed there twice without a dowry by Duke Francesco Sforza as part of a larger Milanese plan, Genevra served the Bentivoglio by fulfilling the gendered role demanded of her by society, most notably by contributing eighteen children, accepting many illegitimates born to Giovanni II, and helping arrange their futures for the success of the family at large. Based on contemporary archival research conducted across Italy, this biography presents Genevra as the object of academic study for the first time. The book also explores how Genevra’s life-story, filled with a multitude of successes appropriate for an elite fifteenth-century female, has been transformed into a farraginous body of misogynistic legends claiming she destroyed the Bentivoglio and the city of Bologna. Author information: Elizabeth Bernhardt (PhD, University of Toronto) is not only a scholar and a teacher, but also a storyteller and a writer. She has lived in Italy (mostly in Bologna and Rome) for over twenty years where she was involved in a variety of activities, jobs, and projects. She loves fifteenth-century Italy, women’s history, art & artisan history, family history and historical social justice. She taught many classes about the history of the Italian family for the University of California in Rome program and many art/artisan history classes at a Roman high school called Giulio Cesare; in Rome she also published two handbooks about Italian art and artisans (Ginevra Bentivoglio Editoria, 2017 & 2019), and in Bologna she curated a show featuring contemporary art by several St. Louisians and other American artists at the Villa Ranuzzi-Cospi in Bagnarola. Here in her hometown, Bernhardt has taught at Saint Louis University and is currently at Washington University. Her book on Genevra Sforza is a companion for anyone who wants to know more about Italian history and culture, Bologna, big Italian families and family history, women’s history, and misogyny, how people lived in Italy about five centuries ago, and much more. Where: Bruno David Gallery When: Friday, May 5th, at 6 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information on the author’s works, visit her publisher’s website at: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726849/genevra-sforza-and-the-bentivoglio MICHAEL CROSS President, St Louis - Bologna Sister Cities The Italian Film Festival USA is back with its first in-person edition since the pandemic. The festival is now in full swing, having begun on April 7 and continuing until its last film which shows on April 23. Directed by St Louisan Barbara Klein, the 19th edition of the Italian Film Festival offers eleven films-comedies, dramas and documentaries-on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. All the films are in Italian with English subtitles. Admission is free and open to the public.
This year, the St Louis - Bologna Sister Cities is giving back to the Italian community, proudly sponsoring the U.S. debut of Il Campione, a comedy/drama directed by Leonardo D'Agostini and starring Andrea Carpenzano and Bolognese actor Stefano Accorsi. The young and talented protagonist (Christian Ferro) has a big temper which means trouble for his team-mates and coach. A rocky relationship with his introverted mentor (Valerio Fioretti) means that Christian’s world of fame and Ferraris may have to go by the wayside. The film is a tale of friendship, soccer, and managing success. There are many great films showing at the Italian Film Festival in St Louis this season. You may ask, why did we sponsor Il Campione? There are two reasons. Firstly, the main actor is the famed Stefano Accorsi who was born and raised in Bologna and attended the prestigious Scuola di Teatro Alessandra Galante Garrone di Bologna. Secondly, it's a soccer movie. Director Leonardo D'Agostini successfully recreated a credible soccer match on screen which is a feat not many have been able to accomplish. With the excitement of the new St Louis City SC team and the city's new soccer stadium and with Bologna's enthusiasm over its new proposed stadium, this was a perfect film for the St Louis - Bologna Sister Cities to promote and sponsor. Soccer-or calcio as it is said in Italian-is a sport which unites both St Louisans and Italians. In Italy, this sport is also seen as an art and I believe this film re-creates the magic of this art. I invite everyone to join us on Friday, April 21 at 7:30PM for the U.S. debut of Il Campione. The venue is the Jerzewiak Auditorium in Wrighton Hall at Washington University in St Louis. The film is in Italian with English subtitles. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you there. CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS TO THE VENUE |
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