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 SeriesMonday, 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 RSVP ph 801-364-8259 Thank you Please Like us on FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/SaltLakeCityTorinoSisterCities?ref=ts&fref=ts 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-cultur... 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.