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May Dante Meeting (In English)

 

DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY of WASHINGTON
presents

Undiscovered Rome
 
given by
Don De Santis
Former Speaker for Rick Steves Travel Center 

(English Meeting, Live)

Undiscovered Rome is a walking tour of Rome discussing off-the-beaten-path churches, history, art, and architecture. Come learn about the lesser-known history of The Eternal City and the fascinating stories it holds. 

About Don De Santis: After a long career in the business world and teaching as a professor for the School of Business at St. Martins and Seattle University, Don has taken up two new “careers”; Speaking on cruise ships, and working on a Master’s degree in History. From 2014 – 2020 he was a speaker for the Rick Steves Travel Center giving a presentation called “Rome: Beyond the Basics”. Since 2018 he has been a speaker on cruise ships for Azamara Cruises, Cunard, Norwegian Cruises, and Viking Cruises. He was also a regular guest with Dave Ross on KIRO news radio for several years. 

WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2024

St. Clement’s Church
1501 32nd Ave S., Seattle 98144

6:00 DOORS OPEN FOR ANTIPASTI
6:30 DINNER
7:30 PRESENTATION

Pre-Dante Pasta Dinner  $8/person.
Please MAKE A RESERVATION by May 5.
Bring antipasti, dolci and/or vino to share!
Won’t it be good to be back to in-person meetings where you can see all your Dante friends? Join us for a dinner lovingly prepared by DAS members, and then enjoy the presentation.
Reservations required.
JOIN DANTE ON MAY 8TH!

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APRIL 10! Dante Alighieri Society of Washington’s Annual General Meeting!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dante Alighieri Society of Washington

invites you to our

Annual General Meeting and Dinner

Wednesday April 10, 2024
St. Clement’s Church
1501 32nd Ave. S.
Seattle WA 98144
Doors open at 6:00 for antipasti e vino
Dinner served 6:30 with meeting to follow

There is no charge for dinner at this important meeting, but registration in advance is required in order to prepare enough food! Attendees are requested to bring wine, appetizers, and/or desserts to share. Agenda items for the meeting include a review of the past season, financial and Language Program updates, survey results for future presentations, and election of the next Board of Directors. All are welcome – come enjoy the evening and deepen your involvement in the Dante Society! Current members are eligible to vote; join or renew  before April 10.
 
In accordance with our bylaws, the Slate of Nominees for the 2024-2025 Board of Directors is hereby announced:

Dante Alighieri Society of Seattle
Annual General Meeting, April 10, 2024
Slate of Nominees for 2024-2025
Board of Directors and Officers

Officers for election or re-election
President: Trevor Pogue
Vice President: Bruce Leone
Treasurer: Harry Reinert
Secretary: Karen Stash

Counselors for re-election
Domenico Minotti
Anastasia Frantsova
Cammie Enslow

Counselors with another year in office
John Steedman
Stacey Howe-Lott
James Hoffman
Judith Klayman
Francesca Agnello

Non-voting members
Joyce Ramee, Past President
Giuseppe Tassone, Language Program Director

– submitted by Nominating Committee Carol DeMatteis, Debra Gillett

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THE BARBER OF SEVILLE: Dante English Meeting March 13 IN PERSON!!


 

DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY of WASHINGTON
presents
a preview talk on
Seattle Opera’s upcoming production of 

The Barber of Seville
Il barbiere di Siviglia

(English Meeting, Live)
given by
Alex Minami
Associate Director of Community Engagement, Seattle Opera


COME LEARN ABOUT ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST BELOVED COMIC OPERAS
and how to attend the  Italian Mixer
events at Seattle Opera in May

WEDNESDAY MARCH 13, 2024

St. Clement’s Church
1501 32nd Ave S., Seattle 98144

6:00 DOORS OPEN FOR ANTIPASTI
6:30 DINNER
7:30 PRESENTATION

Pre-Dante Pasta Dinner  $8./person.
Please MAKE A RESERVATION by March 11.
Bring antipasti, dolci and/or vino to share!
The Barber of Seville, (Il barbiere di Siviglia), is an opera buffa in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini  with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais’ French comedy The Barber of Seville (1775). Rossini’s Barber of Seville is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comic opera. For more than two centuries it has remained a popular work. 

Alex Minami is Associate Director of Community Engagement at Seattle Opera, where he curates the company’s community engagement initiatives and adult learning programs. Previously, Alex worked with foreign exchange students from Germany and Austria and served as Director of Operations of a youth leadership, foreign language, and global citizenship program for underserved high school students in Seattle. He holds a BA in German Cultural Studies and Political Science and an MA in Middle East Studies from the University of Washington, and he studied at the American University in Cairo on a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. He is originally from Kāne‘ohe, Hawai‘i.

Alex will speak (in English) about  Seattle’s production of Il Barbiere, and about the Italian Mixer festivities that will take place at their May  performance. Our Dante Society is among the organizations offering a raffle prize for this event and tickets will be available! Debra Mc Kinney, Audience Services manager for Seattle Opera, will be on hand for more information!

Won’t it be good to be back to in-person meetings where you can see all your Dante friends? Join us for a dinner lovingly prepared by two DAS members, and then enjoy the presentation. Reservations required.

JOIN DANTE ON MARCH 13!

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February 28: Dante and the process of nation-making in Italy, by Beatrice Arduini


 

 

DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY of WASHINGTON
presents

Dante and the process of
nation-making in Italy

(Italian Language Presentation, on Zoom!)
given by

Professor Beatrice Arduini

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28, 2024

ON  ZOOM
zoom room opens 7:00 for conversation (In English or Italian!)
Presentation (In Italian) begins 7:30

Make your reservation now to join the zoom!
Please share the link above to invite others to register;
for zoom security, reservations are required.

Dante and his works, especially The Divine Comedy, seem to be inevitably present in writers and readers of Italian literature, from the fourteenth century to the present, even in those periods of time when the appreciation for his style was feeblest, most notably in the seventeenth century. Cultural memory is, however, highly selective, and later readers and writers responded to Dante and his legacy by tailoring him to their own contexts, especially in relation to issues of national identity, since Dante’s language was early recognized in Italy as the foundation of what Italian culture had become.
For this reason, in my presentation I will explore some episodes of Dante’s reception and how they are defined by interpretative frameworks and filters through which readers and scholars have approached his work and life.

About the speaker: 

Beatrice Arduini is Associate Professor of Italian and current Chair of the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington. Her research centers on Medieval Italian literature, Dante studies, manuscript culture, and textual studies. Her book, Dante’s Convivio: the Creation of a Cultural Icon, examines the tradition of this work in manuscripts and early printed editions. Her projects include a book manuscript on the lyric production of a 13th-century Tuscan poet, Monte Andrea da Firenze, and a study on representations of domestic slavery in medieval and early modern Italy. Dr. Arduini has published on these and other topics in MediaevaliaHeliotropia,
Romance PhilologyTextual Cultures, and Medioevo Letterario d’Italia.

Join us online for this interesting presentation!

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