an open-space for women of Italian origin in Australia
Australian Donna is an open-space for women of Italian origin in Australia.
We aim to favour the exchange of information, knowledge and topics related to the world of women.
Our space will grow and be enriched through the contribution of different realities and individual experiences of all participants. More...
Cover ‘Sotto La Pelle / Under the Skin’ by Elena Callipari
Ascolta Women is a collective of multi-generation Italian Australian and Italian affiliated women established in 2020. Its modus operandi is based on Teresa Capetola’s doctoral thesis for the express purpose of creatively and unapologetically providing migrant women of Italian origin in Australia, the opportunity to give voice to their social history from a feminist woman’s perspective.
By giving birth to Ascolta Women Inc., the foundational members created a vessel for the harvesting and publishing of Italian Australian multi-generation women’s own stories, critiques, and creative fiction and non-fiction writing, which otherwise would remain outside of the annals of Australian history. More...
Tickets: $25 (Includes bubbles and light refreshments)
Join us for a special screening of the short documentary Fili Invisibili, with its award-winning director Fabio Schifilliti in attendance for a post-screening Q&A discussion. The documentary is in Italian with English subtitles; it was released in Italy in June 2025 and thus far not screened in Australia yet.
Fili Invisibili is created by students of ITT-LSSA Copernico, directed by Fabio Schifilliti, as part of the project “Oltre le ombre” (“Beyond the Shadows”), funded through the Cinema and Images for Schools initiative of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian Ministry of Education and Merit.
During the 2025 Italian Festival in Adelaide, Australia Donna in collaboration with the Ascolta Women Association held an afternoon of reading of poetry and writings entitled ‘Di sogni e di speranze – Of hopes and dreams’.
The Ascolta Women Association is a collective of creative women of Italian-Australian origin and from different generations. The Ascolta Women Association was established in 2020 with the aim of giving voice to their stories and to the stories of women who would otherwise remain unheard or untold. Since its foundation, the Association has held events and published various anthologies, including Stories from the Inside and Stories from The Other Side. More...
Sunday 12th October 2025
2.20 pm
Palace Nova Eastend Cinema
3 Cinema Place (off 250 Rundle Street), Adelaide, SA 5000
Australia Donna invites you to join us for a general screening Signorinella a fascinating documentary ‘that highlights the tenacity and spirit
of Italian women who have helped shape the Italian-Australian community.’ Women we know, women we understand, women we are.
$15.00 per ticket only for Australia Donna (normally $20.00)
Call Vera on 0412 413 416 to secure your seat.
Join us around the corner, after the film, per un caffè e una chiacchierata.
Bring your own photos, letters, stories to share. More...
Saturday, 15th November, 2025
2.00pm
The Migration Museum
82 Kintore Ave, Adelaide, SA 5000
Donation $10.00
Click here to book tickets via Humanitix.
For the second year Australia Donna is proud to present an afternoon of poetry and prose. This year we are featuring many multi-generational Italian- Australian women writers from Australia Donna and Ascolta Donna Inc.
Presenters:
Laura DiMartino-Kempt
Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli AM
Giuseppina Marino Leyland
Carla Caruso
Angela De Ionno
Claudia Callisto
Elena Castrechini
Jordana Ubaldi
Light refreshments will be served.
During the celebrations of the 79th Anniversary of the Italian Republic on 2 June 2025, Rosa Matto was awarded the honour of Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana.
As explained by the Consul during the ceremony, Rosa is recognised for having played, and continuing to play, for over thirty years in South Australia the important role of educator, teacher and writer. Rosa is considered a “figure of the highest standing in the field of eno-gastronomy”, and is unanimously recognised in South Australia as a reference and icon of culinary culture and traditions. She is acknowledged to have played, over the course of more than thirty years, `a decisive role in the preservation and promotion of Italian gastronomic traditions to the general Australian public’. More...