ITALIAN CENTER OF THE WEST
The Sister City
relationship, Torino & Salt Lake City &
Utah's Former Consul of
Italy
Dr. Giovanni G. Maschero
Assistant professor
Dr. Alessandro A. Galvani
Present the Free Lecture Series
Monday, April 22, 2013 Time 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Steven
Robert McCurdy
Documenting
Procession and Belief in Italian Culture.
A visual and cultural look at Italian Procession
including:
La
Dicesa dei Candelieri In Sassari, The Corso Dei Ceri in Gubbio,
The
San Michele Saints day procession in Procida, Easter processions in
Enna,
Sicily and Cassia in Umbria, Sant Efisio in Cagliari, Labor day
Procession
in Piana Degli Albanesi, A St. days celebration in Supino and
a Midieval celbration in Arezzo.
Discussion
and presentation with film clips and photographs by Steven Robert McCurdy
Monday,
April 22, 2013
Time
6:00 pm
451
STATE St. - Room 335
Salt
Lake City, UT 84111
Please
Use The EAST entrance
Instructor
Steven
Robert McCurdy
Cultural,
travel, and humanitarian documentary films and photography
Description
The
Writer Joseph Dispenza has written, “Who we are may be storytellers. Why we are
here may be to collect stories and share them with one another. These stories
are the content of our lifetime”
Some
years ago, I discovered the joy of telling personal stories through film,
creating a short account of a trip I took to Auschwitz. The trip and the
process of writing the film were emotional experiences that would profoundly
change the course of my career. I followed that short film with a feature
length production, Bringing Home Sardinia, a personal journey back to the
Italian Island in the Mediterranean where I had spent 5 months in 1979. In the
following years I produced four more feature length films.
What
I’ve learned is that writing compelling stories is difficult and that if you
are producing for a mass audience, creating from the heart can open oneself up
to personal attacks and criticism. I have often found that difficult. But more
importantly, I am learning that for me it is not just the end product that is
important, it is the creative process, the people I meet, and the experience of
seeing and experiencing the world. I understand that personal stories can touch
peoples lives, and that in a small way they can make the world a better place.
What
that means is that I must continue to create stories, however flawed and
imperfect. I must continue to learn and improve my craft, however difficult,
and I must share them for these stories "are the content of my lifetime.”
http://www.storycollectors.com
Come
experience Yesterday, through film and photographs presentation.
Public
is welcome, no admission fee.
Refreshments
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ph 801-364-8259
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The
Italian Center is grateful for partial funds by the ZAP tax program Salt Lake
County
"Italian
Culture year 2013"
http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/arts-and-culture/2013-be-year-italian-culture-usa
A
year-long journey: the year of Italian Culture in the United States. America
discovers Italy.
Italy
has declared 2013 the “Year of Italian Culture” in the United States and aims
to present the best of Italian culture and enterprise in order to engage and
enthuse Americans, and strengthen existing bonds and create
new
ones. The journey seeks to encourage encounters at all levels of Italian
society,
economy
and institutions.
Italy’s
brilliance and excellence are anchored in the present and driven by an
unparalleled
past.
Its innovation is clearly in forward motion, as Italy engages in projects that
look
to
the future.
Italian
culture and identity will be presented and decoded through the kaleidoscope of
geniality
that has forged Italian life and lifestyle: art, music, theatre, cinema,
literature,
architecture and archaelogy, science,
design, fashion; politics, law and economics, and, of course, cuisine.