by Joyce Ramee | Oct 22, 2018 | Notices
Ciao tutti –
Please Come to a Good-bye to Garden House Get-together
on Wednesday, October 24
Usually at our second meeting each month we have a speaker, who makes a presentation in Italian. And for the October 24 we had booked Claudio Mazzola from the UW Italian Department to present an overview of the films to be presented at the SIFF CInema Italian Style Festival, November 8-15. Unfortunately SIFF has still not announced the lineup of films for the Festival, so our speaker has been unable to put together material for his presentation.
Since this is our last meeting at Garden House and since so many of you had asked for a chance to make suggestions for a new meeting place, give your feedback and have your questions answered – we decided to throw a Good-bye to Garden House Get-together in place of the scheduled Italian presentation.
So here’s the plan:
- meet at 6:30 as usual. Please bring along an antipasto, vino or dolceto share
- 6:30 – 7:15 food and informal conversation preceded by a toast to Garden House
- 7:15 – 8:30 information and feedback meeting: where do we go from here?
Please join us on Wednesday, October 24 at 6:30 at Garden House. You’ll remember that it’s located at 2336 15th Avenue South in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
Avoid the traffic! The Garden House is a short walk from the Beacon Hill Light Rail Station.
As a special incentive to attend, I’ll be giving away 12 pairs of vouchers, good for free admission to any of the SIFF Cinema Italian Style films at the Festival to the members at our Good-bye to Garden House Get-together. Please come for a chance to win.
And as usual feel free to come early to help set up the room and start visiting. And, in any case, please come to say good-bye to this old friend, to this special venue that has hosted our Dante meetings for the last 40 or so years.
A presto –
Dan DeMatteis,
President, Dante Alighieri Society of Washington
by Joyce Ramee | Oct 10, 2018 | La Voce, Notices
Ciao tutti –
I am sorry to report to the Dante Alighieri Society membership some disheartening news about the Garden Club, where we have been meeting for the last 40 years or so.
We received this morning an email from the President of the Washington Federation of Garden Clubs (WSFGC) informing us that the Garden House was sold as of October 10, 2018 and that we, that is Dante, are not able to have our meetings there after October 31, 2018 at which date the lockers we rent there have to be emptied as well.
So we’re looking for a new meeting space, both in the short and the long term.
We have not yet spoken with the new owners and are trying to find out who they are and how to reach them. It may be that they will be willing to rent to us, at least in the short term. We’re trying to contact them.
Short term I am particularly interested in finding a location for our November 14th meeting. I would welcome suggestions from the membership. Please email them to me and to the Board rather than to the membership at large. I don’t want to fill up everyone’s inbox with emails.
At the next meeting on October 24 – at the Garden House – the Board is planning an Q and A / Feedback Forum before the presentation. I hope as many of you as can make it will be there.
I know that this is discouraging news but I’m sure that as a group we can come up with a solution that will enable us to continue to enjoy our gatherings and presentations.
Forza e Coraggio!
Dan DeMatteis,
President, Dante Alighieri Society of Washington
by Joyce Ramee | Oct 5, 2018 | Notices
Ciao tutti –
NEXT MEETING of the 2018-2019 PROGRAM YEAR IS
THIS COMING WEDNESDAY, OCT 10
Our speaker this evening will be Professor Mary O’Neil, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, who will be presenting “Niccolò Machiavelli on Politics, Religion, and War”. Machiavelli served for a time as political advisor to the Borgia family and immortalized the amoral warlord, Cesare Borgia, by dedicating his book, “Il Principe” (The Prince) to him. Machiavelli was excommunicated in his own time but remains a seminal figure in political thought even today.
Professor O’Neil received a BA from the University of Chicago and PhD from Stanford University. She has been a University of Washington associate professor since 1981. She also studied at the University of Bologna with Carlo Ginzburg, the Italian historian who has been a pioneer in the use of Inquisition trial records to study popular beliefs.
She has taught courses at the UW on Medieval and Renaissance Italy since the 1980s, including a course on “Rome: the City in History from Romulus to Mussolini”, which was designed as a basic introduction for students going on Study Abroad programs at UW Rome Center.
So come along and get to know more about another fascinating Italian from the Renaissance.
As usual our Pre-Dante Pasta Dinner will be ready at 6:30 and the program will start at 7:30. Please bring an antipasto, dolce, or vino to share.
If you plan to come for the dinner as well as the presentation, please make your reservation by 5:00 pm Monday Oct 8 by clicking on the button below, calling our Information Line at our NEW number, (206) 289-0419 or emailing your request to our NEW reservation email, reserve@danteseattle.org.
Let us know how many are in your party. This will help our volunteer cooks know how much pasta to prepare.
Cost is $8.00 per person or $15.00 per couple to be paid at the dinner. Cash, check, credit or debit cards accepted.
Our meetings are held at the Garden House (formerly Headquarters House) located at 2336 15th Avenue South in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
Avoid the traffic! The Garden House is a short walk from the Beacon Hill Light Rail Station.
Feel free to come early to help set up the room and start visiting. And, in any case, please come.
A presto –
Dan DeMatteis,
President, Dante Alighieri Society of Washington
by Stacey Howe-Lott | Oct 1, 2018 | Notices
Ciao tutti –
Here is the October 2018 issue of La Voce. Just click on the October 2018 La Voce button at the bottom of this email to open your copy. You can also download to your device or print it if you like as well.
This issue contains among other interesting articles:
- Information about the speakers at our upcoming October meetings
- Lots of pictures from Festa Italiana, as well as some tasty recipes from Festa’s guest Chef, Marco Sciortino
- Information about the Seattle-Perugia Sister City Association Scholarship
- An update from the Language School Director and
- A snapshot of the Gelato Festival America.
As always we welcome stories and articles for future La Voce’s. Send them to me via email (as a Word document) at LTHdesign@comcast.net. You can also mail them via regular mail to Linda Heimbigner, 4355 Little Falls Drive, Cumming, GA 30041. Keep things coming!
Thanks to everyone who has contributed articles.
Linda Heimbigner
Editor
by Joyce Ramee | Sep 25, 2018 | Notices
When: October 10, 2018
Speaker: Prof. Mary O’Neil
Topic: Niccolò Machiavelli on Politics, Religion and War
About the Speaker:
Mary O’Neil is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington where she has taught since 1981. She received her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from Stanford University.She has taught courses on Medieval and Renaissance Italy since the 1980’s, including the course Rome: the City in History from Romulus to Mussolini.
Her research interests focus on the Roman Inquisition, heresy and popular beliefs suppressed by the church courts.