Category Archives: Sundays at the Center

May-June 2015 Newsletter

The Mosaico May-June Newsletter is available. Click here to review and print the current newsletter. For past newsletters and instructions on printing the newsletter, go to the Newsletter page.  Upcoming events described in the Mosaico.

  • May 18  – Post Mother’s Day Dinner at St. Rose Parrish Hall
  • May 24  – Painting Italy Workshop
  • May 31 – Sundays at the Center Movie – Golden Door
  • Summer Language Camp for Youth (age 7-17), June 8-12 & June 15-19
  • June 15 – Father’s Day Dinner at St. Rose Parrish Hall
  • June 26 – Movie e Cena at Italian Cultural Center
  • July 15 – Pizza & Birra Party at Italian Cultural Center
  • August 17 – Winemaker Dinner at Riviera Ristorante 

March-April Newsletter

The Mosaico March-April Newsletter is availableClick here to review and print the current newsletter. For past newsletters and instructions on printing the newsletter, go to the Newsletter page.  Upcoming events described in the Mosaico.

  • March 16  – Tavola di_San Giuseppe Dinner at St. Rose Parrish Hall
  • March 29  – Sunday at the Center Movie – Sunflower with Sophia Loren & Marcello Mastroianni
  • April 20 – Buona Pasqua Dinner (Post Easter) at St. Rose Parrish Hall
  • April 26 – Sunday at the Center Movie – The Talented Mr. Ripley with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Matt Damon and Phillip Seymour Hoffman

The March 16 Dinner celebrates St. Joseph: Patron, Provider and Protector.  Janet Barocco has written an article about the history of La Festa e La Tavola di San Guiseppe. Click here for this article.  In the spirit of St. Joseph’s Day, please consider bringing a non-perishable food donation to the dinner for our donation to F.I.S.H, a local food bank

Risorgimento Lecture at ICC – February 15, 2:00 PM

February 15 – “RISORGIMENTO” presented by Douglas Kenning, Ph.D.

This is a special Sundays at the Center Event at the Italian Cultural Center – Doors open at 2:00 PM – presentation at 2:30 PM. Come learn about the “RISORGIMENTO” (Rising again), the 19th century movement for Italian unification that culminated in the establishment of the kingdom of Italy in 1861. Dr. Kenning received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and has taught at universities in the U.S., Tunisia, Japan, and Italy. He is also the author of books, articles, and stage plays. 

Seating is be limited to 50. Use the reservation form in the current Mosaico CulturaleA suggested donation of $5.00 is appreciated. Refreshments will be available for purchase.

Mary’s Pizza Shack at 535 Summerfield Road in Santa Rosa has generously provided NBICF with a Dine Donate Fundraiser in conjunction with this event. 20% of food purchased before or after the lecture at this location will be donated to NBICFObtain a Dine & Donate Coupon at the event. 

January-February Newsletter

The Mosaico January-February Newsletter is availableClick here to review and print the current newsletter. For past newsletters and instructions on printing the newsletter, go to the Newsletter page.  Upcoming events described in the Mosaico.

  • January 10  – Crab Feed at St. Rose Parrish Hall
  • January 19  – Board Installation Dinner at St. Rose Parish Hall
  • January 25  – Sunday at the Center Movie – I’m Crazy About Iris Blond
  • February 15 – Risorgimento Lecture by Douglas Kenning, Ph.D. at the Center followed by Dine & Donate Fundraiser at Mary’s Pizza Shack
  • February 16 – Carnevale Party at St. Rose Parish Hall
  • February 22 – Sunday at the Center Movie – For Roseanna

 

November-December Newsletter

The Mosaico November-December Newsletter is available. Click here to review and print the current newsletter. For past newsletters and instructions on printing the newsletter, go to the Newsletter page.  Upcoming events described in the Mosaico.

  • November 17  – Thanksgiving Dinner Meeting at St. Rose Parrish Hall
  • November 30 – Sunday at the Center Movie – Fernando and Carolina” 
  • December 19 –  Christmas Dinner Meeting at St. Rose Parrish Hall
  • December 6 – Travel Seminar at Italian Cultural Center
  • December 28 –  Sunday at the Center Movie – Roman Holiday
  • January 10 – Crab Feed at St. Rose Parish Hall
  • January 17 – Painting Italy Workshop at the Cultural Center

September-October Newsletter

The Mosaico September-October Newsletter is available. Click here to review and print the current newsletter. For past newsletters and instructions on printing the newsletter, go to the Newsletter page.  Upcoming events described in the Mosaico.

  • September 11 – Italian Class for Travelers at the Center 
  • September 15  – Monthly Dinner at St. Rose Church – Celebrating the Region of Sicily
  • September 28 – Sunday at the Center Movie – Towards Evening 
  • October 12 – Italian Rootstock Festival at Santa Rosa Vinters Square
  • October 17 – NBICF 30th Anniversary Dinner at St. Rose Church – History program, musical entertainment and a special menu celebrating the Region of Liguria.
  • October 26 –  Sunday at the Center Movie – City Island

July-August Newsletter

The Mosaico July-August Newsletter is available. Click here to review and print the current newsletter. For past newsletters and instructions on printing the newsletter, go to the Newsletter pageUpcoming events described in the Mosaico.

  • July 12 – Pittura Italia – Painting Italy Workshop at the Cultural Center
  • July 16  – Pizza e Birra Party at the Cultural Center
  • July 27 – Sunday at the Center – Movie: La Grande Bellezza
  • August 1 – Italian Heritage Night at the Oakland A’s Game
  • August 10 – Winemaker Dinner at the new Rosso’s Rosticceria
  • August 23 –  Rummage Sale at the Cultural Center
  • August 31 – Sunday at the Center – Movie: I Love You to Death

Afternoon in Italy’s Gardens

AN AFTERNOON IN ITALYʼS GARDENS – Sunday, May 18, 2-4 PM

Come be inspired and learn about classic Italian garden design, history, and ideas for your own garden with Cathy Edger, an active member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD). Sheʼll be sharing with us her extensive slide collection of these amazing gardens. Visions of large potted citrus and the limonaia, tunnels of shrubs, dramatic double staircases, sunken gardens, theatrical gardens and more have all stood the test of time.

Garden near Lake Como

Garden near Lake Como

In 2009 Cathy, a former park ranger, along with her 92 year old mother-in-law and 20 fellow members of the APLD visited various villa gardens in Italy. For two weeks they traveled from Lake Como through Tuscany stopping to see gardens from the early Renaissance in the 15th century through the Romantic period of the 19th century. Now you too can visit these gardens with a little armchair traveling with us. A $5 donation is requested for this event. We will have refreshments available for purchase. Please RSVP by calling the NBICF Center at 591-9696. Space is limited so please reserve a seat.

Sundays at the Center – April Movie

Sunday at the Center – 2:00-4:00 pm Italian Cultural Center

Activities at the Center provide interesting Italian movies, operas and lectures. The doors open at 2:00pm and the program begins at 2:30pm. 

April 27, 2014 – Movie – Enchanted April 

Two cloistered, married English women (Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson) impulsively rent an Italian villa and embark upon a vacation without their spouses. They are joined by two other ladies, the high-flown aging widow Joan Plowright, and elegant upper-crust beauty Polly Walker, whom they have never met. Under the spell of an exotic new locaion, the foursome are in for quite a few life-altering experiences, many of them amusing, and not a few very surprising. Impeccably accurate in its recreaion of European manners and mores in the 1920s. Enchanted April is sheer bliss from fade-in to fade-out. In English.

Please call 707-591-9696 to reserve your seat at no charge. 

Sundays at the Center – Movie

Sunday at the Center – 2:00-4:00 pm Italian Cultural Center

Activities at the Center provide interesting Italian movies, operas and lectures. The doors open at 2:00pm and the program begins at 2:30pm. 

March 23, 2014 – Movie – The Spaghetti West documents the film genre referred to as Spaghetti Westerns. 

These movies were made in Italy during the 1950s and ‘60s, where production costs were very cheap and the terrain offered perfectly believable sets. While Sergio Leone became the most well-known director that succeeded in the genre, a number of famous film personalities such as Clint Eastwood and Ennio Morricone established themselves in these Westerns. The film utilizes clips of some of the most famous scenes. In English and Italian.

Please call 707-591-9696 to reserve your seat at no charge.