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Italian Language Meeting – September 27, 2023

When: September 27, 2023
Where: St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, 1501 32nd Ave. S, Seattle 98144
Speaker: John Giuliani
Topic: Italian Songs

John Giuliani will perform a variety of traditional Italian songs for an hour. (We will endeavor to provide sing-along lyrics for the audience.)

John Giuliani

John Giuliani has been playing the accordion since he was 7 and has played string bass in a band since the age of 13. He earned his BA in Music Education from CWU and has performed at Kennedy Center and taught high school band – concert and jazz – and choir. Currently, John is an active, professional musician playing a variety of venues, from strolling accordion gigs to string bass gigs with different music groups and styles. He has been part of the Renton Community Center Band for 33 years. He has performed with many well-known orchestras and vocalists and continues to teach private music lessons and as a substitute teacher for Highline School District.

English Language Meeting – November 8, 2023

When: November 8, 2023
Where: St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, 1501 32nd Ave. S, Seattle 98144
Speaker: Domenico Minotti
Topic: 2024 Festa Italiana Quiz – Famous Men of Italy

 

In the late 1920s, Domenico’s parents emigrated from Sant’Angelo, Limosano, a small hilltop town in Molise. The population at that time was about 1000 but is now 345 as Domenico learned on a visit last year. The family spoke their dialect at home. Domenico studied Italian at Columbia University and Perugia and got lots of practice while on Fulbright study grants in Milan in the mid 60’s. Domenico returned to the states and to his first love, medicine, at Georgetown University and came to Seattle in 1976 to work at the US Public Health Hospital on Beacon Hill, better known as the Marine Hospital. He and his father Pasquale would attend Dante meetings back then, but took a break until retirement a few years ago. Domenico serves as a Consigliere for our Dante group.

Italian Language Meeting – October 25, 2023

When: October 15, 2023
Where: St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, 1501 32nd Ave. S, Seattle 98144
Speaker: Marco Zuccari​
Topic: Dante’s Contemporary Relevance

In his lecture about Dante, Marco will discuss how Dante’s message remains relevant to contemporary audiences. This includes exploring the impact on everyday language, the inclusion of diverse characters and subjects that defied tradition, and a dramatic and modern narrative style that delved into themes of religion, morality, and pure love.

 

Marco Zuccari

Marco Zuccari studied in his hometown of Domodossola in the Piedmont region and later graduated in mathematics from a university in Milan. His professional career involved working in the field of information technology, mostly from an organizational perspective. Zuccari is enthusiastic, curious, and loves life and traveling. He’s an avid reader and writer, having published several books and contributed to various publications. Marco pursued his passion for Dante and his works later in life, becoming an expert in the field and holding several presentations on this subjects at school and cultural events. Zuccari also treads the boards, both performing and directing.

Marco can be reached via his website: www.marcozuccari.it

English Language Meeting – October 11, 2023

La Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo is held every year in the third week of October. Organized by the diplomatic-consular network and the Italian Cultural Institutes in collaboration with our main partners in linguistic promotion (MiC, MIM, MUR, CePeLL, Government of the Swiss Confederation, Accademia della Crusca, CGIE, Italian-speaking Radio and Television Community, Encyclopedia Institute Italiana Treccani, RAI Italia and Società Dante Alighieri), the Week has over time become the most important event on a global scale dedicated to the Italian language. Since its establishment in 2001, this event has annually received High Patronage from the Presidency of the Italian Republic.
https://iicsanfrancisco.esteri.it/it/gli_eventi/calendario/xxiii-settimana-della-lingua-italiana-nel-mondo-litaliano-e-la-sostenibilita/

This year, the Dante Alighieri Society of Washington anticipating the XXIII edition of La Settimana della Lingua Italiana del mondo from October 16 to October 22, whose theme this year is “L’italiano e la sostenibilità – Italian and sustainability”, presents:

When: October 11, 2023
Where: St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, 1501 32nd Ave. S, Seattle 98144
Speaker: Trevor Keaton Pogue
Topic: Salt, Mold, and Time: Three Months As A Tuscan Norcino’s Apprentice – Sale, muffa e tempo: 3 mesi da apprendista del Norcino toscano

In January 2023 Trevor left his day job as a residential property manager in Seattle to live on a 1100 acre organic farm in rural Tuscany. With no professional butchery experience Trevor began his training under master norcino, Riccio Pigozzo. For the next three months Trevor studied and practiced butchering and curing culturally protected cinta senese pigs using 500 year old Tuscan methods and ingredients. Salt, Mold, and Time is a presentation about the history and impact of Italian salumi, the ethics of farm to table butchery, and how when nothing else makes sense, sometimes the only sane thing to do is throw your life in the air and say “aah”.

Trevor Pogue

Trevor Keaton Pogue is an Italian-American author, radio journalist, and community cook. He graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Comparative History of Ideas. His writing, photography, and audio work have appeared in The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, Seattle Met Magazine, Vice, and KNKX. Trevor is the founder and editor of Meatball Americano, an Italian-American food and lifestyle newsletter, and the former host of Anxiety Club, a Seattle arts and culture podcast. In addition to writing, Trevor is also a martial artist with a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, an old car collector, and a fervent focaccia baker. He is currently in the final stages of applying for dual Italian-American citizenship through his great grandfather who was born in Pietraperzia, Sicily and is taking Italian Language Classes from the Dante Alighieri Society of Washington.

Website: Archive – Meatball Americano

English Language Meeting – September 13, 2023

When: September 13, 2023
Where: St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, 1501 32nd Ave. S, Seattle 98144
Speaker: Rebecca Albiani
Topic: Pietro Vannucci, AKA il Perugino

Local art lecturer Rebecca Albiani will introduce us to Pietro Vannucci, known as il Perugino, who was called “the best master in Italy” in 1500. The frescoes he painted that year in Perugia’s Collegio del Cambio (see below) are among his masterpieces. The Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria in Perugia, which houses a superb collection of his works, is hosting a landmark Perugino exhibition this spring in honor of the 500th anniversary of his death.

Rebecca Albiani

Rebecca Albiani has been an arts lecturer at the Frye Art Museum since 1997. She was a Graduate Lecturing Fellow at Washington’s National Gallery and a Fulbright Scholar in Venice. She received an MA from Stanford University and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Beginning September 2023, the Frye Art Museum presents a new season of lectures by Rebecca Albiani, exploring masterpieces of world art, and providing pivotal context to better understand works on display at the Frye. All lectures will occur in person in the Frye Auditorium, and lecture recordings will be available to series passholders immediately following the lecture.

Second Thursdays, September 2023 – June 2024

In-Person: 11 am–12 pm Pacific Time, Auditorium

Learn more at: https://fryemuseum.org/programs/art-history-lecture-series-rebecca-albiani