TERM 4 :: Italian language courses for kids

my children in front of the Trevi Fountain in Rome

TERM 4 :: Italian language classes for kids will start on Monday 26 October at New Farm State School Community every MONDAY between 3:15 an 4:15pm.

IMPORTANT!!! Art seminar in Brisbane

This is the first seminar of Italian Art Awareness series organized in the heart of the city!!!

Back to Italy in a short time

Saint Peter's facade

I can't believe, but yes...it is fantastic now...only four weeks and I am back in Italy to take a group of students for the Mary MacKillop beatification...and so all the crowd will be on Saint Peter Square on Sunday October 17th....will you be there?

Art and seminars in Brisbane

TRAVELLING TO ITALY... INTERESTED IN ITALIAN ART....

don't miss the next series of seminars organized for the beginning of October around Brisbane and at New Farm State School during Term 4!!!

Seminars on art at New Farm State School will be held for three consecutive Thursday between 6:30 and 8:30pm from October 28th.

For more information just drop me a line!

Dunedin and the Beloved Art

Dunedin was again another amazing place to visit after three years of absence. This time was so cold but so lovely to be there introducing again Italian artworks on display at the gallery.

It is amazing the amount of Italian artworks the gallery has there and how easily it is to walk around. Have a look to the art gallery webpage and you will find many more information on exhibition and artworks on display.

I have really enjoyed my time there!!! I will be probably be back next year in February for a conference.

Abbey Museum of Art and Archeology

Lost in the middle of nowhere in the Sunshine Coast, not far from Caboolture, there is there the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, which  displays the history of civilisation from prehistoric man to the modern age. 

What surprised me it was the manuscripts collection!!!

These manuscripts, together with the paintings they have in the collection, but unfortunately not on display at the current stage, are some of the most valuable pieces of art to preserve.

...and there is more....

Next to the Museum there is even the St. Michael's  Church, which contains stained glass. This collection features windows from medieval through to Edwardian times and charts over a 1,000 years of European stained glass production. 

This is the outside...unfortunately I did not have the opportunity to take pictures inside!!

This place is really worth a visit!

The Trevi Fountain

...My purpose is to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of a different kind. You heavenly powers, since you were responsible for those changes, as for all else, look favourably on my attempts, and spin and unbroken thread of verse, from the earliest beginning of the world, down to my own times....

OVID, Metamorphoses

Ovid is perfectly right, when we talk about shapes and transformations of one of the most beautiful fountains of Rome there are no doubts!!!

Just look and admire!!!