Category: Culture

CORRIERE CANADESE / La creatività italiana protagonista a Toronto

TORONTO – C’è poco da aggiungere sull’evento che il Consolato Generale di Toronto e il Centro Cultura hanno patrocinato al ROM, domenica sera, rispetto a quanto la nostra Mariella Policheni non aveva già raccontato nella sua intervista alla professoressa Olga Zorzi-Pugliese, uscita sul Corriere Canadese del 21 giugno 2024  (Il ROM porta la firma italiana: conferenza di Olga Pugliese sul mosaico del museo)… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Italian Creativity and Heritage in Toronto

TORONTO – There is little to add about the event which the Consulate General of Toronto and the Centre for Culture sponsored at the ROM, Sunday evening, which our own Mariella Policheni had not already covered in her interview with prof. Olga Zorzi-Pugliese, June 21, 2024 (Il ROM porta la firma italiana: conferenza di Olga Pugliese sul mosaico del museo). More than three hundred people jammed the Theatre at the ROM to hear the “story behind the story”: how humble workers and artisans from Italy contributed to the cultural enhancement of Toronto’s (and Canada’s) burgeoning society. 

Pugliese Filmmakers go to Hollywood

TORONTO – This month saw five emerging filmmakers from Puglia showcase their films in Los Angeles, namely the NFMLA Monthly Film Festival. The “NewFilmmakers Los Angeles” Film Festival runs monthly, and has been providing a platform for budding international talent for fifteen years, awarding cash grants through various programs and initiatives. 

Italian “snacks”? Kitchen jewels within everyone’s reach

NEW YORK – Calling it a “book” is a diminutio. Just browse it quickly to realize it. “Italian Snacking”, the latest work by Anna Francese Gass, is not a simple “cookbook”: it is a work of art. Of course, cooking is an art in itself: but this new volume by the famous Italian-American culinary influencer goes beyond the classic “recipe book” and is – rather – the catalog of a museum of precious Italian culinary “jewels”: snacks.