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
Gabriella Vagnoli was born in Pisa, Tuscany, home of the famous Leaning Tower. She grew up in a multicultural family thanks to her Brazilian mom and remembers teaching Italian for the first time as a child to her Brazilian cousins. She obtained a Laurea in English and Spanish Language and Literature at the Università degli Studi di Pisa and during her college years spent a year in the University of Reading, UK, studying mainly the works of Shakespeare. After obtaining a Certificate as a Teacher of Italian (DITALS II) at the Università per Stranieri di Siena, she has taught in a full immersion school in Florence, a children's full immersion program in Chicago and a Community College in Illinois.
Tiziana was born and raised in Sardinia, a beautiful Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. She has always been passionate about foreign languages and cultures, and studied French and German at the Scuola Superiore Interpreti e Traduttori in Milan, where she obtained her first Foreign Languages and Interpreter BA degree. She then pursued her MA in English and German Language and Literature at IULM, one of the most prestigious universities in Milan, Italy for Language and Communication studies.
Nicla is a native of Napoli, Italy. She has a Laurea in Materie Letterarie (degree in humanities) and a Laurea in Pedagogia (degree in Education) from the Università degli Studi di Cassino. She earned her M.A in Italian and her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington. She has published articles and book chapters on gender and theater as well as politics and religion in Counter-Reformation Italy and in the last years, has been teaching Italian literature, language, and culture in different institutions. In addition to teaching in our program, Nicla is authorized to cover the role of esaminatrice and intervistatrice in our PLIDA Examination Board.