Potrete giocare da soli o in squadra, sfoggiare le vostre conoscenze o scervellarvi sulle domande più puntigliose.

Premi per i migliori, per i medi e per i peggiori… insomma, per tutti!

Colazione and trivia quiz about Italy this month! Suitable for all levels of Italian! Come along, have fun, and learn interesting facts about Italy!

52 Hepburn St

Freemans Bay, Auckland

Franca e il lume della Cevola. La vita, la guerra, i partigiani. A special book presentation about the Italian Resistance with the co-author Giulia Borelli from Italian Time Zone.

Saturday 28 September

10am-12pm

Dante Rooms

Freeman Bay Community Centre

52 Hepburn St, Freemans Bay,

Auckland

Saturday 31 Agosto, 10am-12pm
Dante Rooms, Freemans Bay Community Centre
52 Hepburn St, Freemans Bay

If you are studying Italian and are in love with Italy, you understand how crucial history is to understanding Italian culture and society.

Special colazione in May, with Dr Giulia Dondoli talking about her work in Anti-Money Laundering

If you have watched Breaking Bad or Ozark, you will know that criminals need to launder money to enjoy the profit of their crimes. To try and place their dirty money in the legal financial system, criminals use businesses as a vehicle of their transactions. 

For these reasons it is very important that businesses are aware of money laundering risks and are alert to red flags that need to be reported to the police. Dr Giulia Dondoli is an anti-money laundering specialist and has spent the past  five years helping businesses in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Island to detect and deter money laundering. 

In this presentation, Giulia talks about anti-money laundering, what it means, and how it looks like in practice. 

Join us for a coffee and a talk with Bruno Ferraro and Matteo Telara:

RENAISSANCE WOMEN POETS

Before Italy was united as the country we know today (1871, with Rome the capital) the cultural and artistic expressions were diverse, following the geographical configuration of the country. As two diametrically opposed representatives of what was known as a “the movement of female poets”; though all influenced by Petrarch’s poetry, both in form and themes, two writers have been selected to highlight variety of themes and conduct of life: Gaspara Stampa and Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo’s good friend.

POETESSE DEL ‘500

L’Italia, come la conosciamo oggi, nasce solo nel 1871 con Roma la capitale; nelle varie regioni, città e province la cultura – dopo la poesia religiosa del secolo precedente di cui si ricorda Santa Caterina da Siena - conosce un nuovo gruppo di scrittrici di varie origini: cortigiane (cioè legate alle corti), donne di estrazione borghese che ha permesso loro un certo livello di istruzione, religiose. In questa presentazione, oltre ad illustrare le condizioni politico-culturali dell’epoca, si verranno a conoscere due rappresentanti di questo momento felice per la produzione letteraria delle donne; la poesia petrarchesca sottende tutta la produzione letteraria ma due rappresentanti sono diametricalmente opposte sia come formazione sia come vita: Gaspara Stampa e Vittoria Colonna, amica di Michelangelo.

Saturday 26th August 10am-12pm

Dante Rooms

Freemans Bay Community Centre

52 Hepburn St, Freemans Bay

All Welcome! Vi aspettiamo!

Our next Colazione alla Dante will be really special, as we welcome our speaker, architect Riccardo Lucignani, to present the lecture:

I Giardini dei sogni e della fantasia: Il Sacro Bosco di Bomarzo e il Giardino dei Tarocchi

Saturday 27 May

10am-12pm, Dante Rooms, Freemans Bay Community Centre, 52 Hepburn St, Freemans Bay

L’incontro del 27 di maggio è una chiacchierata su due bellissimi giardini italiani, di epoche diverse ma che condividono lo stesso tema e cioè il sogno e la fantasia. Parleremo del Sacro Bosco di Bomarzo, nel Lazio, voluto da Vicino Orsini nella seconda metà dal ‘500 e del Giardino dei Tarocchi, eseguito da Niki de Saint Phalle negli anni ’70 dello scorso secolo, che si trova in Toscana.

Gardens of dreams and imagination: The Park of the Monsters, Bomarzo and the Tarot Garden, Capalbio

On May 27th you are invited to a conversation about two beautiful Italian gardens from two different periods that evoke the themes of dreams and fantasy; The Park of the Monsters, created by Vicino Orsini during the second half of 1500 and the Tarot Garden, created by Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1970s. Riccardo will talk in Italian and and Sean Bell will translate in English. 

Colazione di giugno: next month our colazione will be on June 24th, 10am-12pm, Dante rooms.

Dante Rooms, Freemans Bay Community Centre

52 Hepburn St

Freemans Bay

Join us for our monthly colazione at the Dante, and for an early Easter celebration and a taste of Colomba, the Italian Easter cake, plus a second hand book sale and a raffle to win your own Colomba!

Colomba (which means dove in Italian) is the Easter cake that all Italians eat during the Easter period, a bit like Panettone during Christmas time. The cake takes its name from its shape, baked in the form of a dove, which is a symbol of peace, as well as the sign of spring. 

Cari amici

A few pics from our monthly colazione, a good chance to practice Italian (for students and friends) and to catch up (for everyone!).