Hopes and Dreams: Images from the CO.AS.IT Italian Historical Society Collection


Image: A group of young proxy brides travelling to Australia on the ship Neptunia, 1955. Courtesy CO.AS.IT. Italian Historical Society.

CO.AS.IT. Museo Italiano
199 Faraday Street, Carlton. VIC 3053.

4 October to 4 November 2022

Tues-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat 1-5pm

Free entry.

A special History Month exhibition featuring a unique selection of images which provide a personal insight into the Italian migration and settlement story from departure, to arriving and finally settling. The images have been reproduced in a special large format to enable the viewer to see the many details that are often hidden in the original standard sized photographs, providing many opportunities to discover something new. More...

Free Seminar: Break the Silence – Say No To Violence

Saturday 8 October, 2022
1:30pm to 3.30pm

Radio Italiana 531
Unit 3/215 Port Road, Hindmarsh 5007
For bookings, ph: 0412 413 416

Exploring the repeating patterns of the exploitation, abuse and violence towards Women – The spiralling effects we pay for silence is part of a programme we will conduct with seminars during 2022/2023. With experts from all kinds of backgrounds as guest speakers and supporting materials and resources, we aim to reach women who have remained silent through fear and isolation how and where they can get help. The seminars aim to support women and show them ways to access information and education and the resources available to them so that they can help themselves. More...

Maledette le guerre e chi le vuole – Damned be wars and those who want them: A concert of folk songs and music

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The Italian Folk Ensemble presents a concert of folk songs and music

Maledette le guerre e chi le vuole
(Damned be wars and those who want them)

Saturday, 13th November 2021
19:00 for a 19:30 start
 
Fullarton Park Community Centre Hall
411 Fullarton Rd, Fullarton

$25 per person – includes:
Fruit juice and water
Libretto with the original texts also translated into Italian and English.

Audience must check-in and wear a mask.
Note that COVID-19 restrictions may change from time to time.

 

Turning the pages of history, we learn that when the power of the intellect fails, we can always resort to violence, and always with the same results: the spoils of wars to the victors – and suffering for the vanquished. 

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Love in the Time of COVID-19: an Italo-Australian Love Story

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Giuseppe and Tina Cavuoto

Diana Glenn, Professor Emerita at Flinders University, reflects on the longevity and endurance of her Italian parents’ vows of love despite the pressures of COVID-19

B​ack in the late 1940s, two young people passionately in love began exchanging secret love letters hidden in the trunk of a tree. After their first outing to the cinema to see Romeo and Giulietta, Giuseppe and Tina hoped that their love would endure. On 30 April 2020 in Adelaide, where they have lived since migrating to South Australia in 1954, the loving couple celebrated their (platinum) 70th wedding anniversary. However, due to the COVID-19 restrictions, they were unable to be together and renewed their marriage vows facing one another on opposite sides of a large pane of glass at the nursing home where Tina now resides. 

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La seconda casa (The second home): A history of the South Australian Italian Association

The volume co-authored by Daniela Cosmini and Diana Glenn, La seconda casa (The second home): A history of the South Australian Italian Association, was launched by His Excellency Honorable Hieu Van Le, Governor of South Australia on Sunday 20 June 2021. The South Australian Italian Association (SAIA) and its predecessor organisations, the Catholic Italian Welfare Association (1949-1965) and the Italian Australian Centre (1965-1967), share a proud history of social welfare and outreach, place making and philanthropic activity carried out continuously over 70 years from the foundation address at 262 Carrington Street, Adelaide. The volume commemorates and celebrates the history of this special meeting place that for many came to represent their second home (‘la seconda casa’). More...

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