The first Italian radio programme in Cambridge
RADIO DANTE CAMBRIDGE
Launched: March 3rd, 2012, 1-2pm
Tune in to 105 FM or online www.cambridge105.fm
email: radiodante@cambridge105.fm
Programmes: forthnightly on Saturdays, 1-2pm
Half an hour in Italian and half an hour in EnglishLa Dante launched a NEW initiative for the community in Cambridge with its first Italian radio programme which embraces everything Italian: music, cookery, cinema, education, history, food and wine, travel, interviews and a lot more.
More programmes:
22nd June 2013: Being an entrepreneur in Cambridge – how to be successful with a start-up,  interviewing Massimo Gaetani
Listen to Radio Dante podcasts

Festival of Ideas 2013
Every year the University of Cambridge holds a Festival of Ideas to showcase inspirational talks, performances, films and other creative displays.
FACTS AND FICTIONS WITH SIMONETTA AGNELLO HORNBYFinalista Premio Strega 2012 e Premio Campiello 2012
Simonetta Agnello Hornby, an Italian lawyer who has been living in London since 1970, becomes a writer by chance at the age of 55. In 2000, on September 2nd, at Fiumicino Airport, waiting for the flight for London, La Mennulara’s plot appears to her like a revelation. The author will talk about her novels (five settled in Sicily, one in London) and about the evolution of her fiction with particular attention to the emigrant’s language.Saturday 2nd Nov., Central Library, 5-6 pm

THE OPERAS OF VERDI AND WAGNER
with opera singer ANDRES HERNANDEZ SALAZAR

2013 marks the joint bicentenary of two of the most influential composers in 19th century opera: Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner came to epitomise Italian and German Romantic opera, respectively. In this talk, Andrés compares and contrasts their very different operatic outputs.

Book in advance: ladanteinfo@gmail.com 01223 315191

PASSEGGIATE DIETRO LE SCENE AL FITZWILLIAM MUSEUMItalian Galleries Highlight Tour
Friday 1 November, 1-2pm
Friday 14 March 2014, 1-2pm
Friday 6 June 2014, 1-2pm
Max: 20 people per tour; £5 per person
Learn all about the highlight pieces of art (paintings, sculpture, furniture, maiolica and glass) in the Italian Galleries at The Fitzwilliam Museum from the Keeper of the Applied Arts Department and practice your Italian at the same time!Italian Renaissance Objects Handling Session
Friday 11 October, 1-2pm
Friday 6 December, 1-2pm
Friday 23 May 2014, 1-2pm
Max: 12 people per session; £5 per person
Enjoy a unique opportunity to handle beautiful examples of Italian Renaissance bronzes and maiolica from the Fitzwilliam Museum’s reserve collection and learn all about how and why they were made from the Keeper of the Applied Arts Department, whilst also practicing your Italian!

Book in advance: ladanteinfo@gmail.com 01223 315191

Pasta making feast –
Fringe event at Eat Cambridge
Sat 2nd March 2013, 12-3 pm A pasta making fun session, enjoy mixing all the basic
ingredients, roll and sip a glass of delicious wine at the
same time. Planning to make: tagliatelle, orecchiette,
and ravioli.Venue: Hester Adrian Centre
book in advance: info@ladante-in-cambridge.org
01223 315191

La Dante film club, Spring 2013

La vita è bella

Tues 22nd Jan

Non ti muovere
Tues 26th Feb

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Tues 12th March

L’ultimo bacio
Tues 23rd April

Il Gattopardo
Tues 25th June

all start at 7pm

VENUE: Hester Adrian Centre, Hawthorn Way, Cambridge, next to La Dante
All in Italian with English subtitles, but please check.

Book in advance: info@ladante-in-cambridge.org, 01223 315191

SOIREE’ OF POETRY AND LOVELa storia dell’amore
with Silvano Squizzato and Susan Quilliam
10th April 2013
Venue: CB2, Cambridge CB1 2LD, 7-9pm
FREE event with special sweet treats.
Book in advance info@ladante-in-cambridge.org. Tickets also available at the door too for the evening.Tonight, taking the theme of ‘Love’ as our starting point, we’ll embark on a fascinating and engaging voyage
through  Italian culture from Dante to the present day. We’ll view Love anew as we travel through a wide range
of Italian  artistic expression – poetry, art, cinema and music – and though the topic may be profound, the
approach to that  topic will always be enjoyable and entertaining.

Food and wine festival
Eat Cambridge
9th March 2013, 10-4pm, FREE event
Come along and enjoy a pasta making session with our Italian teachers, chat in Italian and find out how enjoyable and easy it is to make lasagne and tagliatelle. Visit our stand at the Guildhall in Cambridge
www.eat-cambridge.co.uk Bookings: info@ladante-in-cambridge.org

Radio Dante presents:
Italian Art at the Fitzwilliam Museum
Radio programmes on Sat 1-2pm on Cambridge105.fm

One hour programme held in Italian and in English
24th November: Italian paintings – Titian, Veronese and Palma il Giovane
2nd February: Italian sculpture – Renaissance Bronzes in Italy and Upper Marlay
16th February 2013: Italian ceramics forcusing on maiolica
16th March 2013: Italian arms and armour –
27th April 2013: Roman Antiquities –
focusing on objects that relate to family life in Ancient Rome in the Roman Gallery
Italian short stories
Friday 7-8 pm(from April 2013 onwards)27th Feb: La coscienza di Zeno di Italo Svevo
20th March: Il Piacere di Gabriele D’Annunzio
24th April: Il treno ha fischiato di Luigi Pirandello
Level required: good intermediate level upwardsVenue: La Dante
Bookings: info@ladante-in-cambridge.org

Friday 22nd March, 5pm
Film in Italian and English
Uomo: La Macchina Perfetta  
Discovering the amazing inner workings of the human body. From the skin, bones and brain, what happens inside our body in an ordinary day? What happens when we breathe, eat, run or sing? With animations, indoor pictures with miniature and other sophisticated technological tools, this film sheds new light on everything.Sat 23rd March, 3pm
Film: Einstein, la vita e la scienza
In Italian
A brilliant and complex personality, a man who loved life, but most of all, he loved science. For 90 | anniversary of the award the Nobel Prize for Physics, the American network WGBH produced this lengthy document that sheds light on the personality of a man of genius, a pioneer of his time.Book in advance: info@ladante-in-cambridge.org or call 01223 315191

FREE Italian Conversation at La Dante
Friday 18th Jan, 8th Feb, 8th March 2013, 1-2pm
Students and members welcome. Guests welcome too.
Enjoy an hour conversation practicing your Italian in a lovely atmosphere.
Venue: La Dante, open to members (new members welcome)