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"An Italian poet cruising
through Manhattan"
Saturday, 18 March 2023
12.00 pm-1.30 pm (PST)
In Engliush – Online via Zoom
Free for Members & Students - $10 donation for Non-Members
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Join us on a poetic journey through New York City, which in 2016 welcomed Sara Fruner with all its harsh contradictions. Urban beauty — Sara would soon find out — can sparkle with horror and trauma: this surprising contrast opened up a new emotional territory that her imagination was eager to explore. The poet will walk us through her urban poetic experience, and read from her volume, Bitter Bites from Sugar Hills.
“Fruner nails the city with clear, fresh perceptions that work like silk on the page. She owns her words with personality and originality in this high-caliber collection.”
(The Washington Independent Review of Books)
Born in Riva del Garda, Trentino, and relocated to New York City, Sara Fruner is an Italian novelist, bilingual poet, and literary translator. Bitter Bites from Sugar Hills (Bordighera Press), her first collection of poems in English, came out in 2018, and Lucciole in palmo alla notte, her first volume in Italian, in 2019. Her new collection, La rossa goletta, is forthcoming. Year 2020 marked her acclaimed debut in fiction with L’istante largo, which received the second prize in the Severino Cesari National Award for Debut Novel 2021. Her second novel, La notte
del bene, was released in 2022.
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a 5% discount on all the Italian language courses at our Dante Italian Language School in Vancouver.
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Thursday, 6 April 2023
6.30 pm-8.00 pm (PST)
In person – Telus Studius Theatre,
The University of British Columbia
6265 Crescent Road Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1
Free - Donations are welcome
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info@dantesocietybc.ca
About the Event: Described as “one of the most engaging artists of the guitar nowadays” (Ricardo Iznaola), Carlo Fierens will be playing music composed by Niccolò Paganini, the legendary Italian violinist who cherished and wrote for the guitar. The programme will also feature music inspired by Paganini, including compositions by the Romantic guitar prodigy Giulio Regondi, a pastiche written by the 20th-century composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Kevin Callahan’s contemporary “Red Fantasy,” whose sparkling brilliancy directly recalls the essence of Romantic music. The harmonious sounds of the classical guitar will guide us through a concert dense with various and contrasting emotions, much in the spirit of the musician who got be known as “The Devil’s Violinist.”
About the Performer: Performer, musicologist, and educator, Carlo Fierens has won numerous prizes in international competitions (most notably the Alirio Diaz competition in Rome, the Indianapolis Matinée Musicale Competition, and the National Prize for the Arts in Italy). He has performed in many countries across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, and in prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
*Please send your $10 donation via Interac email transfer at info@dantesocietybc.ca
Or Become a Member! The yearly membership costs $40 and offers free access to all our paying events &
a 5% discount on all the Italian language courses at our Dante Italian Language School in Vancouver
For info & donations email: info@dantesocietybc.ca
Con stile.
Perché le donne vestono come i romani e gli uomini come i barbari
Date: TBA
12:00 pm-1:00 pm PDT/Vancouver Time
In italiano - via Zoom
Gratis per soci e studenti - donazione $10 per i non soci
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La Dante Alighieri Society of BC, in collaborazione con l' Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Toronto, invita alla conferenza
tenuta dalla storico Alessandro Marzo Magno
Event's details:
In questo incontro, Alessandro Marzo Magno racconterà l’influenza italiana sulla storia dell’abbigliamento.
About the presenter:Alessandro Marzo Magno, giornalista e veneziano itinerante ora di stanza a Milano, da tempo si dedica alla divulgazione storica. Ha scritto o curato diciassette libri, tra i quali L’invenzione dei soldi. Quando la finanza parlava italiano (Garzanti) e Con Stile. Come l'Italia ha vestito (e svestito) il mondo (Garzanti).
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