Chicago Area Camera Club Association Delegates,
This is just a reminder that all CACCA Spring Salon entries are due at the March 14th, CACCA meeting. If you have any questions, feel free to email me.
Remember that lunch is free for all those that come down to help. Come enjoy the competitions and help pass prints, call out scores, etc.
Here is the schedule for the day:
Breakfast 9:00 a.m. - mini muffins, donut holes, quick breads, orange juice, coffee, tea
Upstairs
Top of stairs-
Large prints 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Middle room-
PJ Prints 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Portrait Prints 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Panoramic Prints 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.
End room-
Small Monochrome Prints 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Small Color Prints 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Downstairs
Main room
Far end by kitchen –
Pictorial Slides 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
PJ Slides 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Portrait Slides 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Other side by entry door
Alteration of Reality DPI 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Pictorial DPI 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Kids room
Nature Slides 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Nature Prints 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Lunch 12:30 p.m. Pizza and soda or coffee, tea and desert
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Is it a crime to take pictures?
From today, anyone taking a photograph of a police officer could be deemed to have committed a criminal offence.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Are Smart People Drawn To The Arts Or Does Arts Training Make People Smarter?
...Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a study three years in the making, is the result of research by cognitive neuroscientists from seven leading universities across the United States. In the Dana Consortium study, researchers grappled with a fundamental question: Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter?...
Monday, February 2, 2009
Casa Italia Activities
Sunday, February 1- Saturday, February 28 - Casa Italia presents Italian Month at the Palatine Library - Artists of Casa Italia present: "I-Am Renaissance."
Saturday, February 28, 2:00 p.m. - Screening of "And They Came to Chicago: The Italian American Legacy," Gia Amella's Video Documentary, with additional commentary by Dominic Candeloro on Chicago's Italian Neighborhood. Palatine Public Library District, 700 N. North Court, Palatine, IL 847-358-5881 ext.109 -
Wednesday, March 4, 7:00 p.m. - Field Trip to attend presentation by best-selling author, Adriana Trigiani, on her new novel "Very Valentine." Reading at Anderson's Books, 123 W Jefferson Ave., Naperville, $10. Deadline for field trip reservations is February 2. Meet at Casa Italia at 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 14, 2 p.m. - Florentine Room - New Book Presentations - Tony Romano, "If You Eat, You Never Die" Tony Romano, the acclaimed author of When the World Was Young, brings a first-generation Italian American family vividly and poignantly alive in closely related tales. Peter Pero's "Chicago Italians at Work," is a photo book that depicts generations of Italians at work in companies such as U.S. Steel, Western Electric, Pullman, Crane, McCormick/Harvester, Hart Schaffner and Marx, self-employed as barbers, shoe workers, tailors, musicians, construction workers, and more. Espresso & dolci. Book sales/signing, raffle
Friday March 27, 7 p.m. - Florentine Room - "L'italiano in piazza" Join Gino and Maria Nuccio and Anna Clara Ionta with colorful stories of that pillar of Italian culture ---"The Piazza." This is the third event of the series "Dove il sí suona. Incontri per chi ama la lingua italiana", launched in 2007 and aimed at promoting and supporting the Italian language and culture in our community. Created and conducted in Italian by Gino and Maria Nuccio and Anna Clara Ionta in collaboration with Casa Italia, this year's event will present a pleasant "passeggiata" to the splendid Italian "piazza," through their leading role in the Italian literature, culture and way of life. The event will feature an entertaining medley of music, poems, literary selections and visual presentations in Italian that explore the romantic, political, religious, commercial, social, artistic, and gastronomical uses that Italians make of urban space. RSVP by calling 708-345-5933. Donation $5, Students $3.
Friday, April 3, 7:30 pm. - Florentine Room - "If Stone Could Speak", "Se La Pietra Potesse Parlare." . "Every monument tells a story, of those it honors and those who created it." This hour long documentary is about Italian immigrant stonecutters: they created stone masterpieces across America. Focuses the struggle to forge new identities from their Italian & American legacies Shot in Northern Italy, Minnesota, Vermont & Washington, DC. Music from Italy. Art expert commentator, refreshments. Donation $5, students $3.
Saturday April 4 - Casa Campus - Palm Weaving workshops by master weaver Eugene Fedeli at 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation Fee: Admission is $30, Students $20. Pre-registration is required. Friday, April 17, 7 p.m. - Florentine Room - Italian Movie Night-- in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. New release, guest presenter.
Friday/Saturday, April 24/25 Immersion Weekend - Anna Clara Ionta leads a fun-filled full immersion event. It's like spending a weekend in Italy. Adults eat, drink, speak, hear, see, feel, laugh, read, view, and even sleep in Italian. Recommended for those who have some familiarity with the language and for the curious/adventurous with little or no experience in the language. $95 / person, inclusive of lodging, food, material; $90/person without lodging; present students of Casa Italia will receive a $10 discount; 10%Early Bird Registration before
March 24. Friday, May 8, 7:00 p.m. - Movie Night - Italian Cultural Center. New release, guest presenter.
Saturday, May 16, 1 p.m. - Luncheon and Museum Tour of Casa's Museums. Guided tour of the Italian American Veterans Museum, the Vatican exhibit, the Scalabrinian Museum, the Italians in Chicago Exhibit, the Art Gallery, the Sicilian Museum, the Florence Roselli Library, the Hall of Fame, the Chapel, etc. Tour will follow luncheon A delicious Italian luncheon $15 per person. RSVP required.
Friday, May 29, 7 p.m. - Casa Italia Campus - Italian Weddings Through the Decades---Join us as we reminisce about our Italian Weddings since the 1940's - the peanut weddings, the gowns, the towering cakes, the gigantic wedding parties, the buste, the bella figura, the homemade wine, etc. Bring YOUR stories and your photos to share the drama, the cuisine, the joy, and the stresses of those wonderful days---and maybe, just maybe, enjoy a wedding crème puff like in the good old days. Photos presented at this event will be scanned and integrated into the Italians in Chicago Exhibit. Donation $10 (in busta) or TWO fully identified old wedding pictures or jpg files for the Italians in Chicago Exhibit.
Friday June 5, 7 p.m. - Grand Reopening and Rededication of the Florence Roselli Library - Authors' Night. Join us for a wine and cheese reception as we re-introduce the Midwest's most comprehensive Italian American Library, with expanded archives and Italian American holdings of the Casa Italia Library. We'll also hear presentations from 20 local Italian American writers as they autograph their books at our mini book fair. Browse the updated Casa Italia Library and join our "Friends of the Library" group.
Saturday and Sunday, June 6 & 7, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair, South Loop. Come downtown to meet and greet Casa Italia Library staff and authors. Buy some books, sign our email list, pick up info about the library and other Casa Italia promotional materials. The booth will feature hundreds of Italian and Italian American authors and Gia Amella's DVD "And They Came to Chicago: The Italian American Legacy." If you have any Italian or Italian-American books that you would like to donate to the Casa Italia Library or for sale at the fair, please call 708-345-5933
June 15 to July 10 - Children's Italian Language Summer Camp & Sports Camp - For children aged 5 to 13 years old. Half day and full day programs available. For details see our ad in a current issue of Fra Noi or call 312-593-7255.
Saturday and Sunday, October 3 and 4 - Italian Fall Festival - Pumpkin carving, grape stomping, hay rides, petting zoo and Italian folkloric music will be featured at Casa's annual Fall Festival. Stay tuned for more details. October 2009, Date TBA -
Casa Italia Vocal Scholarship Auditions Early November, Date TBA - Casa Italia Vocal Scholarship Performance and Dinner For details on the above events, call 708-345-5933.
Saturday, February 28, 2:00 p.m. - Screening of "And They Came to Chicago: The Italian American Legacy," Gia Amella's Video Documentary, with additional commentary by Dominic Candeloro on Chicago's Italian Neighborhood. Palatine Public Library District, 700 N. North Court, Palatine, IL 847-358-5881 ext.109 -
Wednesday, March 4, 7:00 p.m. - Field Trip to attend presentation by best-selling author, Adriana Trigiani, on her new novel "Very Valentine." Reading at Anderson's Books, 123 W Jefferson Ave., Naperville, $10. Deadline for field trip reservations is February 2. Meet at Casa Italia at 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 14, 2 p.m. - Florentine Room - New Book Presentations - Tony Romano, "If You Eat, You Never Die" Tony Romano, the acclaimed author of When the World Was Young, brings a first-generation Italian American family vividly and poignantly alive in closely related tales. Peter Pero's "Chicago Italians at Work," is a photo book that depicts generations of Italians at work in companies such as U.S. Steel, Western Electric, Pullman, Crane, McCormick/Harvester, Hart Schaffner and Marx, self-employed as barbers, shoe workers, tailors, musicians, construction workers, and more. Espresso & dolci. Book sales/signing, raffle
Friday March 27, 7 p.m. - Florentine Room - "L'italiano in piazza" Join Gino and Maria Nuccio and Anna Clara Ionta with colorful stories of that pillar of Italian culture ---"The Piazza." This is the third event of the series "Dove il sí suona. Incontri per chi ama la lingua italiana", launched in 2007 and aimed at promoting and supporting the Italian language and culture in our community. Created and conducted in Italian by Gino and Maria Nuccio and Anna Clara Ionta in collaboration with Casa Italia, this year's event will present a pleasant "passeggiata" to the splendid Italian "piazza," through their leading role in the Italian literature, culture and way of life. The event will feature an entertaining medley of music, poems, literary selections and visual presentations in Italian that explore the romantic, political, religious, commercial, social, artistic, and gastronomical uses that Italians make of urban space. RSVP by calling 708-345-5933. Donation $5, Students $3.
Friday, April 3, 7:30 pm. - Florentine Room - "If Stone Could Speak", "Se La Pietra Potesse Parlare." . "Every monument tells a story, of those it honors and those who created it." This hour long documentary is about Italian immigrant stonecutters: they created stone masterpieces across America. Focuses the struggle to forge new identities from their Italian & American legacies Shot in Northern Italy, Minnesota, Vermont & Washington, DC. Music from Italy. Art expert commentator, refreshments. Donation $5, students $3.
Saturday April 4 - Casa Campus - Palm Weaving workshops by master weaver Eugene Fedeli at 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation Fee: Admission is $30, Students $20. Pre-registration is required. Friday, April 17, 7 p.m. - Florentine Room - Italian Movie Night-- in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. New release, guest presenter.
Friday/Saturday, April 24/25 Immersion Weekend - Anna Clara Ionta leads a fun-filled full immersion event. It's like spending a weekend in Italy. Adults eat, drink, speak, hear, see, feel, laugh, read, view, and even sleep in Italian. Recommended for those who have some familiarity with the language and for the curious/adventurous with little or no experience in the language. $95 / person, inclusive of lodging, food, material; $90/person without lodging; present students of Casa Italia will receive a $10 discount; 10%Early Bird Registration before
March 24. Friday, May 8, 7:00 p.m. - Movie Night - Italian Cultural Center. New release, guest presenter.
Saturday, May 16, 1 p.m. - Luncheon and Museum Tour of Casa's Museums. Guided tour of the Italian American Veterans Museum, the Vatican exhibit, the Scalabrinian Museum, the Italians in Chicago Exhibit, the Art Gallery, the Sicilian Museum, the Florence Roselli Library, the Hall of Fame, the Chapel, etc. Tour will follow luncheon A delicious Italian luncheon $15 per person. RSVP required.
Friday, May 29, 7 p.m. - Casa Italia Campus - Italian Weddings Through the Decades---Join us as we reminisce about our Italian Weddings since the 1940's - the peanut weddings, the gowns, the towering cakes, the gigantic wedding parties, the buste, the bella figura, the homemade wine, etc. Bring YOUR stories and your photos to share the drama, the cuisine, the joy, and the stresses of those wonderful days---and maybe, just maybe, enjoy a wedding crème puff like in the good old days. Photos presented at this event will be scanned and integrated into the Italians in Chicago Exhibit. Donation $10 (in busta) or TWO fully identified old wedding pictures or jpg files for the Italians in Chicago Exhibit.
Friday June 5, 7 p.m. - Grand Reopening and Rededication of the Florence Roselli Library - Authors' Night. Join us for a wine and cheese reception as we re-introduce the Midwest's most comprehensive Italian American Library, with expanded archives and Italian American holdings of the Casa Italia Library. We'll also hear presentations from 20 local Italian American writers as they autograph their books at our mini book fair. Browse the updated Casa Italia Library and join our "Friends of the Library" group.
Saturday and Sunday, June 6 & 7, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair, South Loop. Come downtown to meet and greet Casa Italia Library staff and authors. Buy some books, sign our email list, pick up info about the library and other Casa Italia promotional materials. The booth will feature hundreds of Italian and Italian American authors and Gia Amella's DVD "And They Came to Chicago: The Italian American Legacy." If you have any Italian or Italian-American books that you would like to donate to the Casa Italia Library or for sale at the fair, please call 708-345-5933
June 15 to July 10 - Children's Italian Language Summer Camp & Sports Camp - For children aged 5 to 13 years old. Half day and full day programs available. For details see our ad in a current issue of Fra Noi or call 312-593-7255.
Saturday and Sunday, October 3 and 4 - Italian Fall Festival - Pumpkin carving, grape stomping, hay rides, petting zoo and Italian folkloric music will be featured at Casa's annual Fall Festival. Stay tuned for more details. October 2009, Date TBA -
Casa Italia Vocal Scholarship Auditions Early November, Date TBA - Casa Italia Vocal Scholarship Performance and Dinner For details on the above events, call 708-345-5933.
Artists of Casa Italia at Palatine Public Library
The Palatine Public Library has made February an all Italian, all the time month. The works of the Artists of Casa Italia (painting, sculpture, and photography) are featured. They will also have Italian authors, chefs and more showing what being Italian is all about. A good friend of mine (Dominic Canderolo, PhD) will be giving a presentation about the video he helped to create called, And They Came to Chicago with a special segment on the various Italian/American neighborhoods in the Chicago-land area on Sat. Feb 28th. This is all free. Go to http://www.palatinelibrary.org/Programs_Registration/MainAdult.html for more information. Interested in all things Italian? Go to http://www.casaitaliachicago.net/ .
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