PREVIOUS DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY EVENTS (2002-2009):
Lecture on the Sistine Chapel
Wed., Oct. 9, 2002 7:30 PM
Vet's Hall 846 Front St., downtown Santa Cruz Join us for an illustrated lecture by Dr. Allan Langdale, Professor of Art History, UC Santa Cruz. We'll hear about Michelangelo's paintings in the Sistene chapel, one of the marvels of Rome. Tiramisu follows!
Folk Songs From Tuscany
Wed., Oct. 30, 2002 7:30 PM
Vet's Hall 846 Front St., downtown Santa Cruz
Suggested donation: $5.00 Contact: 831-423-7095 An evening with Alessandro Scavetta, Florentine Tenor and Guitarist.
A well known "Cantestorie" who specializes in Tuscan folksongs, Scavetta
is making his first appearance in the United States!
Dante in Love
Wed., Dec. 4, 2002 7:30 PM
Vet's Hall, 846 Front St., downtown Santa Cruz
Suggested donation: $5.00 Contact: 831-423-7095 I Dolci Italiani! (Italian desserts available)
A multi-media lecture about the life and times of the great Italian
poet, Dante Alighieri. Presented by Dr. Margaret Brose, Professor of Italian
and Comparative Literature and Director of the Italian Studies Program at
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Viva Vivaldi!
Sunday Feb. 23, 2003 2:00 PM
Rio Theater, Santa Cruz
Cost: Students/Seniors $5, Adults $10.
Co-sponsored by
Community Music School of Santa Cruz.
and the Santa Cruz Cultural Council
Contact: 831-423-7095 Viva Vivaldi: The Four Seasons of His Life, is an exciting musical
drama depicting the life of composer Antonio Vivaldi. The whole
family will enjoy learning the surprising details of his life in
18th century Venice, dramatized by talented children and accompanied
by the finest young musicians from Santa Cruz and Monterey counties
performing many of his greatest works. Our hostess and narrator is
Linda Arnold, joined by the York Chamber Players, the Cabrillo
Children's Chorus, and students of the many fine teachers of the
Community Music School and the Music Teachers Association of
California. Italian treats and a Venetian village can be explored at
intermission.
Mala Notte:
Experiences of Italians in Santa Cruz during World War II
Wed. Feb. 26, 2003 7:30 PM
Veteran's Hall, Downtown Santa Cruz
Suggested Donation: $5
Local award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and historian
Geoffrey Dunn will talk about the experiences & treatment of Italians
& Italian-Americans in Santa Cruz during World War II.
Machiavelli in a Skirt:
Letters from the Renaissance Court of Isabella D'Este
A lecture by Professor Deanna Shemek, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wed. April 30, 2003 7:30 PM
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St., Downtown Santa Cruz
Suggested Donation: $5
All proceeds will benefit the Dante Alighieri Society.
Cosponsored by the LILA WALLACE-READERS DIGEST LECTURE PROGRAM
Contact: 423-3900
Isabella d’Este (1474-1539) was acclaimed by several of her contemporaries
as the “First Lady of the World”. As the Marchesa of Mantua, she commissioned
works from the likes of Da Vinci, Raphael and Titian. She, herself, was an
accomplished poet, musician and dancer. Also effective in politics and
Renaissance diplomacy, contemporary writers showered her with praises.
Drawing from Isabella d’Este’s over twelve thousand letters of correspondence,
Professor Deanna Shemek, an expert on women of the Italian Renaissance, will
present a profile of this remarkable women, revealing why Isabella d”Este is
known as MACHIAVELLI IN A SKIRT!!
Lecture/Tasting I: Overview of Italian Wines.
Saturday, May 10th, 2003 at 7:00 pm. $40.00 for society members; $50.00 general
Please print out our registration form
Upon registration, directions to the location will be mailed to you Join Claudio Melega, a native of Bologna, descendant of a wine-making family, and
connoisseur of fine Italian wines, for an evening of bountiful information and a slide show.
Enjoy plenty of tasting, light snacks and a delicious Italian dessert in
a beautiful Santa Cruz private residence. An incomparable experience!
Viaggio in Italia:
An Architectural Tour of Italy
A multimedia lecture by Dr. Allan Langdale, UCSC
Wednesday, May 14th, 2003 7:30 PM
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St., Downtown Santa Cruz
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900 Whether you are planning a trip to Italy or just want to travel
from an armchair this one-hour slide show and talk will take you to some
of the lesser-known, but still spectacular towns and cities of Italy. We
shall see the ancient Greek temples which still survive in Sicily, along
with the Roman mosaics of Piazza Armerina and the Roman theater at Taormina,
overlooking the smoldering Mt. Etna. The impressive remains of the monumental
tombs of the Etruscans at Cerveteri will also be included. We shall visit
Pienza—an ideal town rebuilt by Pope Pius the II in the mid-fifteenth
century—and Urbino, where the enlightened despot Federigo da Montefeltro
ruled over a sophisticated Renaissance court and built one of the most
beautiful palaces of the period.
Top Ten Reasons Why We Still Read Dante Today
A lecture by Stephen Woodhams, Faculty, Language Arts, Cabrillo College
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2003 7:30 PM
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St., Downtown Santa Cruz
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900 In this assessment of the enduring popularity of Dante and his Divine
Comedy almost 700 years after its composition, Woodhams will draw on his experience
teaching Dante's Inferno as well as his experience
living and travelling in Italy. He will consider Dante's influence on
generations of writers and artists, and try to account for what makes
Dante's work such a powerful, resonant creation to this day. Why are we
still spellbound by this medieval figure?
Michelangelo's Life as a Sculptor
A Slide Show and Lecture Given by Dr. Allan Langdale of the Department of Art History and Visual Culture, UCSC
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003 7:30 PM
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St., Downtown Santa Cruz
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900 Dr. Langdale will present slides to accompany the works
he discusses; these, for example, include a relief done while
Michelangelo was 15 years old, along with other statues that he
worked on during his life and into his 80s: the Pieta, the Bacchus
(pictured), the David, and the figures for the Tomb of Julius II,
including the ‘slave’ statues and the statue of Moses. In addition,
the talk will address such issues such as Michelangelo’s view of
himself as a sculptor rather than a painter, the sometimes difficult
relationships he had with his patrons, and his homosexuality.
LECTURA DANTIS
Inferno I: The Dark and Savage Way
A reading and interpretation of Canto I of Dante’s “Inferno”
by Professor Margaret Brose,
Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 7:30 PM
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St., Downtown Santa Cruz
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900 The tradition of a public reading and interpretation of a single canto from Dante's Divine Comedy
is a long and hallowed one. Giovanni Boccaccio, the author of the Decameron, was hired in
1374 [the year of his death] by the Comune of Florence to give the first public Lectura Dantis.
That tradition has continued for almost 700 years, sponsored by the many Dante Societies all over
the world. The Santa Cruz Società Dante Alighieri is proud to be initiating its series of
Lecturae Dantis this year in Santa Cruz.
Dr. Margaret Brose is currently Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, and Director
of the Italian Studies Program at UCSC. She previously taught at the University of Colorado
and Yale University. She received her MA and Ph.D degrees from the Department of Romance
Languages at Harvard University. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and teaching
awards, among which a Fulbright Fellowship to Rome, an ACLS grant (American Council of Learned
Societies), and two NEH fellowships (National Endowment for the Humanities). She has twice
received a Visiting Scholar Award to the American Academy of Rome. In 1996-1998 Prof. Brose
served as Director of the University of California Education Abroad Programs in Italy (Venice,
Padova, Bologna, Milano, and Siena). Prof. Brose has written widely on all periods of Italian
literature, from Dante to Primo Levi, and in 2000 she was awarded the Modern Language
Association Marraro-Scaglione Italian Literary Prize for her book, Leopardi Sublime: la
poetica della temporalità (1998). In June 2003 Prof. Brose was awarded the UCSC Committee on
Teaching "Excellence in Teaching" Award.
19th Century Italian Opera:
Oppressed People in the Homeland
Wed., March 10, 2004 7:30 p.m.
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St.
(downtown Santa Cruz, next to the main post office)
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900
John Dizikes, esteemed UCSC Prof. of History for 35 years and author of
Opera in America, will be our guide through a pre-eminent theme in Italian
history – the aspiration of the Italians to create a
nation. This theme is deeply reflected in 19th century Italian opera.
Excerpts from operas by Rossini, Bellini and Verdi will be presented to
illuminate this struggle. The lively lecture and discussion are not to be missed!
Italy by Bicycle
Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:30 p.m.
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St.
(downtown Santa Cruz, next to the main post office)
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900
Our speakers will first provide a history of bicycle racing in
Italy and then shift gears with a multimedia presentation of touring Italy on bike.
Personal anecdotes and pictures will bring alive the Italian countryside and this
excellent means of travel! In honor of this event Brunetti Bicycles and Vesuvio
Imports will provide a 10% discount for all Dante Alighieri members on their cycling
products.
ITALIAN CHESS FESTIVAL: "LA FESTA DEGLI SCACCHI"
AND A SIMULTANEOUS CHESS EXHIBITION
Sunday, May 16th, 2004 – 2:00 pm
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
307 Church St., Santa Cruz
The Dante Society, in conjunction with Academic Chess and Vine Hill School,
will present an Italian Chess Festival based on a famous chess game played
in the 15th century in the Italian village of Marostica. It is said that the
local Duke had two daughters, the eldest being courted by two suitors who were
about to duel for her hand. The Duke insisted they not duel, but instead play
a game of chess, with the victor winning the hand of the older daughter, while
the loser had to be content with the younger one. And so it was.
Every other year, Marostica celebrates this historical event with a living chess
game in their Medieval plaza, using local residents dressed in Medieval costumes.
Please join the Dante Society and the Duke and Duchess as they present a living
chess game with students from Academic Chess, in full costume, as the chess pieces.
Medieval and Renaissance entertainment will abound. Feel free to dress in the spirit
of the occasion!
As a culmination to the event, Liina Vark, a master-strength player originally
from Tallinn, Estonia, will give a simultaneous exhibition, where she will play
challengers from the audience, 20 at a time.
Admission for the event is $10.00 for general, $5.00 for students 12 and over,
children under 12, free. All proceeds from this event will benefit Vine Hill School
and the Dante Society.
LECTURA DANTIS
Lost in Limbo
A reading & interpretation of Cantos 3 and 4 of
Dante's Inferno
by Professor Margaret Brose,
Department of Literature, University of California,
Santa Cruz
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 7:30 p.m.
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St.
(downtown Santa Cruz, next to the main post office)
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900
The tradition of a public reading and interpretation
of one or two cantos from Dante's Divine Comedy is a
long and hallowed one. Giovanni Boccaccio, the author
of the Decameron, was hired in 1374 (the year of his
death) by the Comune of Florence to give the first
public Lectura Dantis. That tradition has continued
for almost 700 years, sponsored by the many Dante
Societies all over the world. The Santa Cruz Societ`
Dante Alighieri is proud to be initiating its series
of Lecturae Dantis this year in Santa Cruz.
The second of these lectures, "Inferno 3 and 4: Lost
in Limbo," will be presented by Prof. Margaret Brose,
Department of Literature, UCSC. Those planning to
attend may want to read in advance the 3rd and 4th
cantos of the Inferno (in the bilingual edition of
Robert Durling and Ronald Martinez, Oxford University
Press). The text of Inferno 3 and 4 in Italian and
English will be made available through the Dante
Society at the lecture.
PETRARCH IN LOVE
A lecture by Dr. Margaret Brose, Petrarch Scholar, UC Santa Cruz With special guests, "The Petrarch Players" who will perform musical settings of Petrarch's poetry, including Renaissance, Baroque, and Contemporary styles
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004 7:30 p.m.
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St.
(downtown Santa Cruz, next to the main post office)
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900
2004 marks the 700th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian poet Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), also known as the first Humanist. Petrarch's Canzoniere, or Songbook,contains 366 poems written to his beloved Laura, and is the most imitated collection of poetry in the Western world. The tradition of modern Romantic love poetry begins with Petrarch, as do the notions of love-sickness, unrequited love, the erotic fetish. Love songs are structured on a a series of paradoxes: love is uplifting and degrading; love brings pleasure and pain; the beloved brings both salvation and death. We owe these notions of Romantic love to Petrarch.
In her lecture on Petrarch, Prof. Margaret Brose, director of Italian Studies at UC Santa Cruz and Petrarch Scholar, will introduce the life and works of Petrarch, analyzing a few of his sonnets to Laura, and exploring his ambivalence about love and salvation. Birthday cake will be served!
CARNEVALE IN ITALY
A Multimedia lecture by Judy Slattum
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004 7:30 p.m.
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St.
(downtown Santa Cruz, next to the main post office)
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900
Carnevale in Sardinia, as well as the brilliantly designed floats of Viareggio, the
medieval carnevale of Verona, and the glittering carnevale of Venice will be
explored in this lecture/slide show.
Few people in the world have embraced Carnevale as fervently at the
Italians. Caricature is the embodiment of Carnevale, when society is turned
on its head and the faults and idiosyncrasies of entire classes are
exaggerated for comic effect--not merely gratuitous revelries for tourists
and locals but helping society regulate itself by releasing pressures built
up throughout the year--caricature mocks the high as well as the low.
There is little doubt that Carnevale traveled to Italy after its birth in
Greece. Remnants of that dark, moody form of the celebration of seasons is
still celebrated today on the island of Sardinia, where the Mamuthones
perform in shaggy goat skins, weighted down by copper goat bells.
Judy Slattum, MFA, is the director of her own travel company and has been
organizing and leading trips to Carnevale in Italy for the past 10 years. She
is currently working on a book about the roots of Carnevale in Greece and
Italy.
Dante Santa Cruz is happy to have this
opportunity to get acquainted with some of the local
members of Slow Food, a worldwide organization, begun
and based in Italy, that is dedicated to the
preservation of food traditions and traditional foods.
Save the date, Feb. 12, for a food and fun-filled
celebration in collaboration with our Slow Food
neighbors! We’ll feature the foods of Venice and the
Veneto, made by Dante and Slow Foods members, as well
as regional wines.
Please contact Carolyn Dille, carolyn@carolyndille.com.,
or 471-9983, to contribute a dish from your Venetian favorites.
Carolyn will also provide delicious Venetian recipes from her cooking
classes if you’d like to try Veneto specialties such
as Venetian Fish Soup, Shrimp Venetian-style, Calamari
with Polenta, Savoy Cabbage Friuli-style, Risotto alla
Veneziana, Venetian Meringues, Cornmeal Cookies with
Pine nuts, Hot Chocolate, Goldoni-style, and others.
You must reserve your space as soon as possible, as
participation is limited to 30. Please contact Carolyn Dille, carolyn@carolyndille.com.,
or 471-9983, to reserve your space. Once your space has been confirmed,
please fill out the registration form and send payment.
Cost is $25 per person; no charge for those bringing dishes. Masks
and costumes are welcome, and the best will be
rewarded with prizes. If you can’t be in Venice for
Carnevale this year, don’t miss the Carnevale food and
festivities right here! Directions to the party, held
at a private home, will be sent upon receipt of paid
registration.
BEYOND CALORIES: FOOD AND DRINK IN OPERA
A lecture by John Dizikes
Wednesday, April. 6, 2005 7:30 p.m.
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St.
(downtown Santa Cruz, next to the main post office)
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900
Drinking and eating are central features of one aspect of opera that is
familiar - high spirited festivity. However, such carnal delights are
usually subordinate to other states of mind and other objectives.
They are a means to achieve these, not an end in themselves as we shall hear
in the music of Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, and Mozart.
Please join us for high spirited festivities as John Dizikes, esteemed UCSC Prof.
of History for 35 years and author of Opera in America, explores the role of food
and drink in opera.
LECTURA DANTIS
Inferno 10: Heresy and Fratricide
Among the Fiery Tombs
Reading and interpretation of Dante's Inferno X
by Professor Margaret Brose,
Department of Literature, University of California,
Santa Cruz
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 7:30 p.m.
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St.
(downtown Santa Cruz, next to the main post office)
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900
In Inferno X Dante and Virgil come to the zone which
separates the sins of the flesh, of weakness, from
lower Hell ( the sins of Violence and Fraud). The
division is marked by the circle of the Heretics,
those who deny the immortality of the soul, and are
enclosed forever in burning tombs. This canto is
characterized by the intense interpersonal drama
between Dante and two of the heretics, one of which is
the father of his best friend (Guido Cavalcanti). In
one of the most famous cruxes of the entire Divine
Comedy, Dante appears to suggest that his best friend
Guido will be damned to Hell for heresy.
The tradition of a public reading and
interpretation of a single canto or section from
Dante's Divine Comedy is a long and hallowed one.
Giovanni Boccaccio, the author of the Decameron, was
hired in 1374 [the year of his death] by the Commune
of Florence to give the first public Lectura Dantis.
That tradition has continued for almost 700
years, sponsored by the many Dante Societies all over
the world. The Santa Cruz Society Dante Alighieri is
proud to sponsor the third annual Lectura Dantis this
year in Santa Cruz.
MUSIC AND WONDER AT A MEDICI WEDDING
Featuring Live Lute Music
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005 7:30 p.m.
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St.
(downtown Santa Cruz, next to the main post office)
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900
Nina Treadwell, Assistant Professor of Music at UCSC, specializing in Italian music of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods, will focus on the performances of the extravagant musical interludes for the play La pellegrina, composed and originally performed at a pageant to celebrate the Medici wedding of Duke Ferdinando I and Christine of Lorraine at the Florentine court.
Her talk will incorporate excerpts from the CD that will accompany her forthcoming book on La pellegrina as well as live demonstration on various lute-family instruments that were an integral part of the performances.
Nina Treadwell is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a musicologist, she specializes in Italian music of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods, and her research and publications are informed by her experience as a performer on plucked-string instruments of these periods. Her publications have dealt with questions of performance practice in regard to the chitarra spagnola or baroque guitar, but more recently she has explored the social and political implications of women’s musical performance on the sixteenth-century Italian stage, with performance practice issues bearing on questions of musical meaning. Her publications appear in journals such as Cambridge Opera Journal, Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Lute Society Journal, and Musicology Australia, and the collection edited by T. Borgerding Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Music, Wonder, and the “Mystery of State”: Medicean Theater and the Interludes for “La pellegrina” for the Indiana University Press series Musical Meaning and Interpretation. In this work she elucidates the in-performance efficacy of the interludes, demonstrating how the combined affect of visual and aural media served both the aesthetic and political aims of the genre and that of the new Medici Grand Duke, Ferdinando I.
FOR THE LOVE OF LEONARDO
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005 7:30 PM
Vets Hall, 846 Front St, Downtown Santa Cruz
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900 No other artist in history has elicited from viewers the depths of affection expressed for the works and person as Leonardo da Vinci. In a lecture using slide illustrations taken from rare books and archival documents, Professor Soussloff, UCSC Professor of Art and Visual Culture, will explore the roots of this attitude towards Leonardo in the early Italian literature on his life and its meaning for our own understanding of artistic creation.
Catherine M. Soussloff, Professor of History of Art & Visual Culture, has taught at UC Santa Cruz since 1987, where she held the first Patricia and Rowland Rebele Chair in Art History. A specialist in both Early Modern Italian and Modern European art history, Professor Soussloff is the author of THE SUBJECT IN ART (Duke U, 2006), THE ABSOLUTE ARTIST (U of Minnesota, 1997), and the editor of JEWISH IDENTITY IN MODERN ART HISTORY (U OF CALIFORNIA, 1999). Her recent essay "The Trouble With Painting" published in JOURNAL OF VISUAL CULTURE (August 2005) explores the legacy of Leonardo da Vinci in early art books and modern theory.
COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE
A Lecture and Slide Show by Theater Scholar Judy
Slattum, MFA
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006 7:30 p.m.
Veteran's Hall, 846 Front St.
(downtown Santa Cruz, next to the main post office)
Suggested Donation: $5
Contact: (831) 423-3900
Commedia dell’Arte was Europe's most popular
theatrical form for over 300 years. It inspired
William Shakespeare, and created the basis for almost
all of Moliere's comedic characters. Today Arrlechino,
Pulcinella, and Pantalone survive in art throughout
Europe and the United States.
Through slides, stories, and a display of masks,
scholar Judy Slattum will discuss the origins of this
ribald and lively popular theater form, conceived and
nurtured in the native towns and villages of Italy
during the 13th century. Please join us for this
informative and fun event.
Pot Luck farm dinner at THOMAS FARMS
Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 1 pm
Celebrate the wonderful diversity of Italian cuisine!
Meet Jerry and Jean Thomas on the site of their organic farm.
Chat with members of Slow Food and Dante Santa Cruz while dining
on delicious home-made foods and enjoying live Italian music.
Bring a regional Italian dish to share prepared with local,
seasonal ingredients and the wine or beverage of your choice.
ITALIAN PICNIC AND BOCCE BALL!!
Skypark, in Scotts Valley
Sunday, July 8
noon to 3pm RSVP to dantesantacruz@sbcglobal.net by July 3rd
if you would like to attend.
Please include the number of people attending.
Dante Society will provide drinks and barbequed Italian sausages
as well as table settings.
Please bring an Italian dish to share
such as antipasti, salads, side dishes or desserts.
August 8 thru September 30, 2007 Reflections of Italy: From Mountains to the Sea
A visual celebration of Italy and its far-reaching influence on our community and our lives.
PVAC Gallery, 37 Sudden Street, Watsonville, CA
www.pvarts.org
Satellite exhibit, Bargetto Winery, 3535 N. Main St, Soquel, CA
www.bargetto.com
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September 4 thru September 30
Satellite exhibit, Lulu Carpenters at the Octagon (formerly the Octagon Museum)
118 Cooper Street, Santa Cruz, CA www.santacruzmah.org
Pompeii's Special Importance and its Context with the
Roman Empire of its Time
by Mr. Bruno Pisano
Thurs. Nov. 8 at 7:30 PM
Cabrillo College lecture hall 454.
Mr. Bruno Pisano has his degree in architecture from
the University of Naples and has been a certified
guide to Pompeii and other antiquities in and around
Naples for twenty years. His presentation will be a
video/lecture using a DVD that will show the ruins;
then overlays of a reproduction that will show how it
would have looked when new.
BOCCE BALL PICNIC!
SATURDAY, SEPTMEBER 20
11:00-3:00 PM
DE LAVEAGA PARK- Off Branciforte Dr. The SECOND driveway on the right
into the park by the George Washington Grove entrance.
Please look for three balloons!!
Please join us for a festive time of good eating and the great
team game of Bocce Ball. All are invited to play this easy to
learn Italian game. Rules and Bocce Ball equipment will be provided.
We will play at the new Bocci Ball courts in DeLaveaga!
Please bring:
- an Italian side dish to share (with utensils to serve it)
- if you wish, wine or beverage of your choice
- folding chairs optional - picnic tables will be available as well.
- a vegetarian item to grill, if you wish
Dante will provide:
- Italian sausages and rolls, condiments
- Italian sodas and water
- paper goods, cups, and forks, spoons, etc.
PLEASE RSVP to dantesc@sbcglobal.net BY TUESDAY, SEPT. 16TH To RESERVE SPACE.
Pot Luck Farm Picnic at THOMAS FARMS
Sunday, October 12 at 1 pm
with Slow Food Santa Cruz, Slow Food Monterey Bay and
the Santa Cruz Dante Alighieri Society
Celebrate the wonderful diversity of Italian cuisine!
Meet Jerry and Jean Thomas on the site of their
organic farm. Chat with members of Slow Food and Dante
Santa Cruz while dining on delicious homemade foods
and enjoying live Italian music.
Talk on "Greek Culture in Southern Italy" ["Cultura Greca nel meridione"]
by Dr. Bruno Pisano, of Naples, Italy
Neapolitan architect and guide to historical sites
Thursday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Cabrillo College, Room 454
6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA (479-6100)
$5 charge to the community -- free to Cabrillo students with student ID
Co-sponsored by the Dante Alighieri Society of Santa Cruz County This talk will be given in Italian, with brief English translation.
Mille grazie to the Student Senate and BELA Division for supporting this event.
Dante Alighieri Society of Santa Cruz presents a special evening of opera in film
Franco Zeffirelli's film version of Verdi's Otello (1986)
With an introduction to the opera by John Dizikes,
author of Opera in America, winner of the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 7:00 PM
The Vets Hall, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz Placido Domingo plays the Moor Otello, whose conniving ensign, Iago (Justino Diaz), plants the seed that drives Otello to murderous jealousy against his wife, Desdemona (Katia Ricciarelli). Beautifully shot on location in southern Italy and Crete, the ornate costumes and rich color palate add to the visual splendor. Vincent Canby, in a review in the New York Times of 9/12/1986, says, (Placido Domingo) "fills the screen with passion and ill-fated purpose." 123 minutes. Sung in the original Italian with English subtitles.
La Cucina Festa Primavera!
Culinary Center of Santa Cruz,
504–A Front Street, Santa Cruz
Sat. May 2, 2009
6:00pm – 9:00pm Join chef and award-winning cookbook author Carolyn Dille
(formerly a chef at Chez Panisse in Berkeley) for an Italian
cooking class in the lovely Culinary Center kitchen in
downtown Santa Cruz. Enjoy a fun evening learning hands-on
how to prepare a celebration of old world recipes the Italian way.
Food, wine and recipes provided, as well as Carolyn’s guidance.
May 2009: The Dante Alighieri Society of Santa Cruz donated $325.00 to the Italy Quake Project
of Operation Blessing International. This gift "will bring relief to these earthquake
victims and help restore hope through projects such as a new community center, library,
and more."
For more information about how to make a personal donation,
go to http://italyquakeproject.com, an English/Italian site that
offers video, photo and blog updates on the organization's
relief efforts as well as an option to donate.
Annual Dante Bocce Ball Pot Luck
Join the Dante Board, other Dante members, and interested Italophiles
for a pleasant afternoon playing Bocce, eating, drinking, and socializing.
Bring an Italian dish to share and an alcoholic beverage if you would like.
(Our permit allows alcohol in our reserved picnic area.) We will supply paper goods,
cutlery, and non alcoholic drinks.
When: Sunday, Aug. 30, 1:00 to 4:00 P.M.
Where: Picnic area near the Bocce courts at Delaveaga Park, off Branciforte Drive in Santa Cruz
For more information, call ( 831) 423-3900
Balloons will mark the spot.
In 2011 Dante will be continuing our informal group for those interested in watching an excellent DVD lectures series entitled "Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance". Professor William Kloss of the Smithsonian Institution is our guide for this informative and evocative exploration of Renaissance art and artists.
For more specific information about the course and professor, go to
http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/CourseDescLong2.aspx?cid=7140
We began the group in February but it is not necessary to have seen the previous lectures in order to enjoy the ones coming up. We will meet once a month in September, October, and November or December, then again in January and February, usually the 3rd or 4th Thursday. We gather in someone's home at 6 PM, have a light potluck and chat a bit, then watch two of the lectures (they are each 30 minutes long), take a dessert break, and watch two more.
We have room for several more people. There is no cost, and you don't have to be committed to attending every gathering. We just want to share the fun and learning with more of you! And Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael will be in this portion of the series.
If you are interested, please respond to Dante board member Pamela Hanson: hansonps@aol.com (831) 689-9924
