Month: January 2016

Il Centro Zonarelli: Spaces of Intercultura – Bologna

La sua azione è finalizzata a sostenere, promuovere e moltipicare le opportunità di incontro, conoscenza reciproca, scambio e dialogo interculturale. (Centro Interculturale Massimo Zonarelli)   Learning how to live, work and collaborate across differences, whether linguistic, cultural or otherwise, is central to how we inhabit and thrive in the contemporary city. While encounters with difference…Continue Reading Il Centro Zonarelli: Spaces of Intercultura – Bologna

Transnational Italian Studies Summer School, Venice 2015

TML’s Summer School in Venice brought together an engaged group of PhD researchers eager to explore with the project team and invited speakers instances of transnationality in their own and others’ research. As an opportunity for discussion and reflection for both the team and participants, the programme allowed for a collaborative exploration of methodological and…Continue Reading Transnational Italian Studies Summer School, Venice 2015

Timeless

Sein Tempu Musica Danza y Poesia del Mediterraneo is a Buenos Aires-based quintet devoted to the research and interpretation of traditional music and dance from the Mediterranean ‘basin’, a place of ancient multicultural exchange, where most of the Argentinian migrants came from, as early late 18 century onwards. Their name can be translated as meaning…Continue Reading Timeless

Bailarinas en la a Feria de las Colectividades, Morón – Buenos Aires

The Feria de las Colectividades in the city of Morón in the Argentinian province of Buenos Aires is an occasion where local communities from Moron and the surrounding provinces of Catamarca, La Pampa, Tucumán, Santiago del Estero and Salta come together to enjoy typical local food and regional produce, traditional dances and music. It is…Continue Reading Bailarinas en la a Feria de las Colectividades, Morón – Buenos Aires

Interview with Claudia Acuña

  • Author By cp14603
  • Publication date January 25, 2016
  • Categories: Work

Sein Tempu is a Buenos Aires-based quintet devoted to the research, promotion and interpretation of Ethnic Music, Poetry and Dance from the Mediterranean Sea. Living in the 21st century, in a country strongly identified with the 20th century immigration, they started their research into the traditional rhythms of Southern Italy, Northern Africa and the Near…Continue Reading Interview with Claudia Acuña

Emigrante che vieni emigrante che vai (Popular song)

  • Author By cp14603
  • Publication date January 25, 2016
  • Categories: Work

Click on the image below to watch the video.   Extract from lyrics (author unknown): Emigrante che vieni emigrante che va Un giorno dal mio paese io son partito emigrante in terra straniera io sono andato la mia mamma piangendo e la moglie ho lasciato ed un figlio più bello del sole appena nato Emigrante…Continue Reading Emigrante che vieni emigrante che vai (Popular song)

‘Lavora na fazenda’

  • Author By cp14603
  • Publication date January 25, 2016
  • Categories: Work

This sequence of images shows Marcia Contó making a series of different and varied pizzas (including a plátano pizza) at a birthday party held at the Fazenda Santa Cecília, Bernardino de Campos, a municipality in the state of São Paolo, on the 4th January 2016. Marcia is a member of the fourth generation of the…Continue Reading ‘Lavora na fazenda’

L’America

  • Author By cp14603
  • Publication date January 25, 2016
  • Categories: Endings

Officina Zoè – L’America Click on the image below to watch the video. Many young men left Italy for America in search of work, leaving the young women in their communities behind. Many of them did not write home or come back to Italy, and formed families with ‘Americanas’ (American women) leaving these women in…Continue Reading L’America

Amara Terra Mia

  • Author By cp14603
  • Publication date January 25, 2016
  • Categories: Endings

Click on the image below to watch the video. Lyrics by Domenico Modungo sung by Ginerva Di Marco Sole alla valle e sole alla collina. Per le campagne non c’è più nessuno. Ritornello: Addio, addio amore, io vado via. Amara terra mia, amara e bella… Cieli infiniti e volti come pietra. Mani incallite ormai senza…Continue Reading Amara Terra Mia

Writing across Languages and Cultures, Birmingham Ikon Gallery

  • Author By cp14603
  • Publication date January 25, 2016
  • Categories: News

From February to June 2016, the TML team based at Warwick will be running a series of creative writing workshops at the Birmingham Ikon Gallery with the writer Shirin Ramzanali Fazel. The series explore how we bridge gaps and move across languages and cultures in our daily lives. Discussing themes such as heritage, relationships and…Continue Reading Writing across Languages and Cultures, Birmingham Ikon Gallery