Terri Colpi (TML Advisory Board) Voci della Vara in Scozia is an audio collection of six interviews carried out with Scots Italians in 2016. All six have family origins in the Val di Vara, La Spezia province of northern Italy. The “voices” represent a numerically significant and culturally distinct group of migrants within the…Continue Reading Voci della Vara in Scozia
Taken in Carton, Melbourne’s Italian cultural precinct around Lygon Street, these photographs bear testimony of a number of symbolic items that sit side by side in this Australian urban location. A Ferrari club, a museum, food imported from Italy, cafes, Aboriginal signs and souvenir shops. These constitute part of an ongoing reflection on the Italian…Continue Reading Piccola Italia’s visions in Melbourne
The English definition of ‘authentic’ relies on Italian food as an example: Oxford English Dictionary | AUTHENTIC (adj) ‘of undisputed origin and not a copy; genuine: “the letter is now accepted as an authentic document”; made or done in the traditional or original way, or in a way that faithfully resembles an original: “the restaurant…Continue Reading Food and Italianness