Festa della Repubblica, final reminder

Don't forget about the upcoming "Festa della Repubblica", Sunday, June 6th, 2010 - it promises to be a great event.

Please reply to Vincenza before the end of this weekend! Time is running out.

View my previous post for more information regarding the Festa.

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June 12th, Meeting in Oldsmar

Our next dinner meeting will be Saturday, June 12, at 6:00 p.m.

Please let me know of your attendance no later than Thursday, June 10th.

Details for our dinner meeting:

When: Saturday June 12, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Where: Lonzalo's Restaurant (formerly Alberto's)
3970 Tampa Road

Oldsmar, Florida
813-749-7533
www.lonzalos.com


Trivia questions for 50-50 will be provided in a separate reminder.

CIAO

Suzanne Lomascolo
President, Lodge 2668

22nd Annual National Education & Leadership Awards Gala

22nd Annual National Education & Leadership Awards Gala
May 26th, 2010

President Of Italy, Honorable Giorgio Napolitano, to Address Sons of Italy Foundation Gala Honoring President Clinton

The Sons of Italy Foundation is proud and pleased to announce that the President of the Republic of Italy, the Honorable Giorgio Napolitano, will attend and address the 22nd annual National Education & Leadership Awards on May 26th in Washington, D.C.

President Napolitano will be on hand as the Sons of Italy Foundation honors President Bill Clinton with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Service, presented to him by the legendary Quincy Jones.

Also being honored that evening are Capt. Anthony Odierno of The Wounded Warrior Project, with a special presentation by his father, General Raymond T. Odierno, Commander of U.S. Forces - Iraq. The Rienzi Foundation, Fondazione Alberto Sordi, and Lewis C. Merletti, former Director of the U.S. Secret Service and Senior Vice President for the Cleveland Browns, will all receive honors as well. Award-winning actor Joe Mantegna will emcee, and tenor Michael Amante will offer a special patriotic tribute.

We hope you will join us and the many other luminaries from the Italian and Italian American business, academic, diplomatic, governmental and entertainment fields that evening. Act promptly, a full house is expected.

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MAY 26, 2010

Omni Shoreham Hotel

2500 Calvert Street, NW | Washington, DC 20008

6 p.m. Cocktail Reception
Program begins promptly at 7 p.m.
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Tickets & Sponsorships:
To reserve tickets, sponsorships or for more information:
202.547.2900 | nelagala@osia.org| SIF website

Upcoming events

The event for this Friday night at the Italian Club in Ybor city has been canceled.

Please see my previous post.

Miscellaneous Announcements

The June dinner meeting is planned for Saturday, June 12th.
It will be in the Oldsmar area.
More information to follow

Miscellaneous picture

Pictured below (left), Gary Barbosa in Ancient Roman Attire



If anyone has any interesting pictures, please feel free to send them to us!

TV Drama in the Dramatized Italy.....

This looks like it will be an interesting presentation, I am planning on attending.
Let me know if you are interested.
Thanks
Larry Aiello

The Italian Program at the University of South Florida
Presents a Special Event:

"TV Drama in the Dramatized Italy. Family and Mafia, Religion and History"

Professor Milly Buonanno, University La Sapienza of Rome
7:00PM on Friday, May 21, 2010
L'Unione Italiana in Tampa's Historic Ybor City

Drinks and dinner (optional) will be available in the club's cantina at 6:00PM

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and the Department of World Languages at the University of South Florida

Milly Buonanno is a Professor of Theory of Television in the Department of Sciences of Communication at the University La Sapienza of Rome. She has widely written in the field of television studies, gender studies, journalism, and is the founder of sociological studies of television drama in Italy. She is the member of the editorial board of several academic journals in Europe and in North and South America. She is a pioneer of the discipline of cultural studies in Italy and the founder of the Osservatorio sulla fiction italiana (Observatory on Italian Television Fiction). She directs the School of Television Scriptwriting based at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (National Film School) in Milan.

She is the author of numerous books among which Indigeni si diventa. Locale e globale nella serialità televisiva (Milan 1999), Le formule del racconto televisivo (Milan 2002), Realtà multiple (Naples 2004), Visibilità senza potere. Le sorti progressive ma non magnifiche delle donne giornaliste italiane (Naples 2005). On her last book, The Age of Television, scholars have commented as follows:

"Some say that the age of television is over. If that is so, then the medium has found its ideal historian and critic in Milly Buonanno" (Toby Miller)
"It is certainly the case that this new work now becomes one of the fundamental texts in television studies" (Horace Newcomb)
"I guess that leaves me in a Mark-Anthony sort of position: I come not to bury television but to praise Milly Buonanno" (John Hartley)

*This event is free of charge and open to the public.*

22 People Expected tonight

We have 22 people expected tonight for our dinner meeting.

It should be a great time, and the restaurant is one of my favorites in the Tampa Bay area for Italian cuisine.

So what are you waiting for? Come join us for other events like this, just join our mailing list to be kept abreast of future events.

Our June meeting will be in the Oldsmar area.

More information to follow.

Have a great Mother's Day Weekend!

Announcements, May meeting, advertising, Grand Lodge Raffle

Lodge Members of the Young Italians of Florida and Guests:

Our next dinner meeting will be Saturday, May 8, at 6:00 p.m.
Please let me know of your attendance no later than Thursday, May 6th.
Details for our dinner meeting:

When: Saturday May 8, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Where: The Villaggio Ristorante
102 Flagship Drive
Lutz, FL 33549
813-949-0572
View map

Trivia questions for 50-50 will be provided separately.

CIAO!
Suzanne Lomascolo
President, Lodge 2668

Membership Info
Another page has been added to this site regarding membership information.
Here is the link:
http://youngitalians.blogspot.com/p/membership-information.html

Advertising on this site

Special thanks to Margaret Fischer, Licensed Realtor (727-804-9080 cell) for purchasing an advertisement on this site.

To find out more about advertising, click here!

Grand Lodge Raffle

The Grand Lodge has raffle tickets from National, the first prize is $25,000. cash and 5, 2nd prizes of $1000.00 each. The cost for each ticket is $100.00 which can be shared with friends or family. The drawing is on August 14, 2010. Deadline to purchase a ticket is July 26th, all stubs must be in by that date, all checks are to be made payable to the Grand Lodge and one check will be issued to the Supreme Lodge with all stubs.

If anyone is interested, bring some money to the next meeting, and if we pooled together, let's say, $10 each, we can buy a ticket.

Pictures from our picnic in April

Here are some pictures from the picnic we had on April 17th in Tarpon Springs. We had over 30 people attend!

If you are having trouble viewing the slide show on this site, try this link.

Thank you to every one that came out, brought great food, played the bocce games and made it a great time for everyone!