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COASIT

Locality: Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9349 9000

Address: 189-199 Faraday Street 3053 Carlton, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.coasit.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Sharing the invitation to "La Nonna: The Little Bits We Love", part of Melbourne Fringe VCR Fest (an on line event).

24.01.2022 CO.AS.IT. Aged Care Services A letter from our CEO, Marco Fedi Dear friends, Thank you for your continuing support and for choosing CO.AS.IT. as an Aged Care provider. CO.AS.IT. is also grateful for your cooperation at this difficult time: COVID-19 poses many challenges for everyone, consumers, support workers and management....Continue reading

23.01.2022 CO.AS.IT. Italian Australian culture series on line #5. Disputes over Italianness. The Italians in Argentina from the beginning of mass immigration to the Great Depression. A talk by Professor Marcelo Huernos.... To watch this talk, please go to: http://www.coasit.com.au//marcelo-huernos-disputes-over-it The arrival of three million Italians in Argentina between 1870 and 1950 had enormous implications both for the local society and for the immigrants, who had to adapt to a new reality. Since the onset of mass immigration, Italians in Argentina have lived between two worlds, dividing their loyalty between their homeland and their new home. Italy tried to implement policies to help its emigrants in Argentina: in doing so, it created insititutions, and also leaned on those of the Catholic Church and on those created by the immigrants themselves. During the Fascist period, attempts were made to colonise existing institutions and replicate those created in Italy. However, the Argentine State always sought to limit the development of an Italian identity in the children of immigrants and to implement a policy of Argentinisation. In this talk Professor Marcelo Huernos examines the conflict that took place up until the late 1930s. Professor Marcelo Huernos teaches history at the National University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and at the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). He is a researcher at the MUNTREF/Immigration Museum and a founding member of the War History Studies Group (GEHiGue) at UBA / CONICET. His area of specialisation is the history of immigration in Argentina, with a special focus on Italian anti-fascism. He has presented at specialist seminars, conferences and congresses. Professor Huernos has produced content for television shows and interactive material for high schools. In 2013 he designed, with Diana Wechsler, the contents for the permanent exhibition For all the People of the World at the MUNTREF/Immigration Museum. In 2014, he designed and prepared the contents for the temporary exhibition Italians and Spaniards in Argentina. 1870-1950 for the same museum. Image: Sociedad Italiana Colonia Progreso, 1902. Credit: Museo de la Colonización, Esperanza (Argentina).

22.01.2022 L’Associazione laziali nel Mondo ha donato $4,000 al fondo di assistenza alla comunità italiana (Italian Community Emergency Welfare Fund) del CO.AS.IT. per gli... interventi a sostegno delle nuove mobilità. L’Associazione, attraverso il Presidente Cav. Tonino Bentincontri, ha voluto dare un segno tangibile di solidarietà ai nuovi italiani in difficoltà a causa dell’emergenza causata da COVID-19. Nel breve incontro svoltosi presso la sede del CO.AS.IT., Francesco Pascalis, Presidente del Com.It.Es., ha ricordato come il gesto sia in linea con l’impegno già dimostrato dalla comunità con le iniziative di raccolta fondi. Marco Fedi ha ricordato l’importanza della iniziativa partita dal CO.AS.IT. e sostenuta dal Consolato Generale d’Italia di Melbourne e dalla Istituzioni italiane. Nella foto: Tonino Bentincontri, Marco Fedi e Francesco Pascalis

17.01.2022 CO.AS.IT. invites you to celebrate the International Day of Older Persons with us!

14.01.2022 Earlier this year, Carlo Aonzo and his trio presented "Mandolitaly" at CO.AS.IT. Carlo has since started "L'Italia dei 1.000 mandolini", a series of mini-documentaries on line on this iconic instrument of Italy and of Italian migration. Episode 9, on Tuscany, is just out. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/sMGX-O6rh_o

13.01.2022 NEW Online Italian Beginner class starting Monday 20 July. https://www.coasit.com.au//beginner-monday-morning-/detail

11.01.2022 In the wake of our successful online Italian classes for adults in term 2, we will be running both face-to-face and online classes in Term 3. We will also be running a brand new ONLINE BEGINNER course. Find out more here https://www.coasit.com.au/component/dtregister/

10.01.2022 From tomorrow, CO.AS.IT.'s exhibition "Nonne, Images Through Generations" will be displayed at the Bonegilla Migrant Experience. Originally featured at our Museo Italiano in 2018, this exhibition is part of the Multicultural Museums Victoria (MMV) ‘Grandmothers’ project. https://www.wodonga.vic.gov.au//celebrating-italian-austra

07.01.2022 CO.AS.IT., in collaboration with the University of Melbourne and Dr Mark Nicholls, presents ITALIAN CINEMA FORUM 2020 Talk # 1. THE LAST EMPEROR (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987)... This talk may be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCW1_1Yat7A The Last Emperor (1987) is about an individual facing massive historical and political change and trying to find himself a place in a new world. A familiar theme for Bernardo Bertolucci, the fact that this individual is an emperor and modern China is the new world, suggests something quite contrary to what we expect from the celebrated European auteur. Part China study project, part essay on filmmaking practice, The Last Emperor represents a regeneration in the career of this controversial director and his constant struggle between the worlds of Freud and Marx. Mark Nicholls is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught film since 1993. Mark has worked as a film journalist for ABC Radio and The Age and has a list of over twenty stage credits as a playwright, performer, producer and director. ITALIAN CINEMA FORUM 2000 Following our successful classic Italian cinema workshops in 2019, we continue the discussion with a series of more recent classics. Dr Mark Nicholls will present introductions to six films for discussion this year. Our aim is to stimulate you to watch these wonderful films, again or for the first time, in preparation for the spirited conversations of our regular forum as soon as it can begin. Join Mark on-line for the introductions to this year’s films: The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987) Aprile (Nanni Moretti, 1998) Looking for Alibrandi (Kate Woods, 2000) Giorni (Laura Muscardin, 2001) Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino, 2008) Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) The talks of the 2020 ITALIAN CINEMA FORUM (part of CO.AS.IT.’s Italian Australian culture series on line) will be published on CO.AS.IT.’s website, Facebook page and YouTube channel at roughly fortnightly intervals, starting in October and finishing in December 2020; as with the other talks of the series, they will remain accessible on these platforms. People in CO.AS.IT.’s mailing list will be notified of each talk as soon as it is published. With the support of Multicultural Museums Victoria. Image: A still from The Last Emperor (sourced from Internet).

05.01.2022 "Come e' cambiata l'identita' italiana in Argentina nel tempo" Francesca Rizzoli interviews Professor Marcelo Huernos for SBS Italian, in connection with his talk for CO.AS.IT.'s Italian Australian Culture Series on line. Listen to the interview here: https://www.sbs.com.au//come-e-cambiata-l-identita-italian Image: Passengers with life vest, 1939. Credit Muntref Museo de la Inmigración (Argentina)... Professor Huernos' talk (in English), "Disputes over Italianness. The Italians in Argentina from the beginning of mass immigration to the Great Depression", can be viewed on the homepage of CO.AS.IT.'s website (www.coasit.com.au), as can the other talks of the series.

05.01.2022 ONLINE Beginner course starting Monday 13 July. Don't let COVID-19 keep you from starting your adventure in Italian! https://www.coasit.com.au/italian-language-classes/enrol

05.01.2022 Con Marco Fedi parliamo oggi di Australia, toccando molti argomenti: situazione contagi da COVID-19, comunità italiana in terra australiana e, soprattutto, del ...COASIT - Museo Italiano, Language & Cultural Centre di Melbourne, un'organizzazione radicata nella storia recente della città che offre, tra gli altri servizi, corsi di lingua italiana e assistenza ai più anziani. See more

04.01.2022 When "Walking the Line" Means Having a Foot in Two Worlds. A talk with Archimede Fusillo. CO.AS.IT.’S Italian Australian Culture Series Online. Talk #6.... To view this talk, please go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js91gxR9bUI "As a writer of Italian heritage I try to avoid simply creating stereotypes in my work. To this end I have had to think long and hard about my personal connection to my Italian heritage. In this talk I want to set out some of the conditions that have led me to write about our identity as children of Italian migrants to Australia in the post WW2 period, and about our generation’s shifting awareness of what it means to be an Italian in Australia. My most recent novel Tribal Lores (Walker Books) is my 11th, and continues the exploration of the Italian Australian experiences of growing up in Melbourne a representation of a wider Australian landscape. My novels have been staples on school curriculums here and overseas and have been awarded several significant awards, including the Globo Tricolore for Literature from Italy. Several years ago I was the proud recipient of the ISS Institute Literature Fellowship, and the resultant report The Future in Their Past is now in several key migration museums in Italy." Website: archimedefusillo.com With the support of Multicultural Museums Victoria (MMV). Image provided by Archimede Fusillo.

03.01.2022 Friday 20 November 2020, 7.30PM (Melbourne time), live Zoom event: presentation of new book on Italian migration and COVID-19. Speakers from Australia include Marco Fedi (CO.AS.IT.) and Fabrizio Venturini (Nomit - Italian Network of Melbourne). Register your interest at [email protected] by 19 November. Presentations in Italian. Presentazione del libro... Il mondo si allontana? Il covid-19 e le nuove migrazioni italiane, a cura di Maddalena Tirabassi e Alvise Del Pra’, Accademia University Press Interventi dei partecipanti all’inchiesta Laura Garavini Michele Schiavone Aldo Aledda TBC Massimo Ungaro Maria Chiara Prodi Loredana Polezzi Edith Pichler Sandro Rinauro Maria Luisa Caldognetto TBC Riccardo Roba Marco Fedi Silvana D’Intino Fabrizio Venturini Brunella Rallo Toni Ricciardi Piero Bassetti Presenta Maddalena Tirabassi Coordina Alvise Del Pra’ La diretta è sulla pagina facebook di altreitalie: Altreitalie Per partecipare inviare una mail a [email protected] entro il 19.11.2020 Venerdì 20 novembre 2020 - ore 9:30 (ore 19,30 orario di Melbourne) Evento online sulla piattaforma Zoom

03.01.2022 Dear Friends, We’re delighted to announce that the Museo Italiano has reopened. We look forward to seeing many of you once again. The Museum will return to its regular opening hours of Tuesday -Friday, from 10am to 5pm and Saturday from 1pm to 5pm. For the time being, entrance on Tuesday to Friday is via 189 Faraday Street and on Saturday via 199 Faraday Street.... In order to safeguard the health and safety of visitors and staff we have implemented physical distancing, hygiene, cleaning and public health measures in line with the latest Victorian Government regulations. These measures include: All visitors must wear a face mask while on the premises All gallery and exhibition spaces will be open with restricted visitor numbers and regular cleaning measures are in place. In line with Victorian Government guidelines, we will collect your name and phone number for the sole purpose of contact tracing in the event of any possible COVID-19 cases. Take care CO.AS.IT. Museo Italiano

03.01.2022 CO.AS.IT. Italian Australian culture series on line #4. From Suspect Outsider to Model Migrant: The Transformation of Natale Italiano and Perfect Cheese A talk with Dr Tania Cammarano... To view the talk go to: http://www.coasit.com.au//from-suspect-outsider-to-model-m In 1930, when Natale Italiano and his wife Maria founded the Perfect Cheese Company in their rented North Melbourne backyard, cheese in Australia was synonymous with cheddar. This meant that only the city’s small Italian population was interested in buying the ricotta and pecorino the couple produced. Fast forward to the 1970s and Italiano was being featured by the Australian Government as a poster boy for migrant success. His once ignored cheeses were celebrated as innovative and worthy of imitation. This talk will explore how Italiano and his company went from a small, obscure, even illegal, business, hawking suspiciously exotic cheese to a foreign, marginalised people to a thriving company celebrated by mainstream Australia and regarded by officialdom as a local producer to be protected from foreign competition. By using a range of primary sources, specifically letters, dairy licence hearings, and other material produced by the Victorian Department of Agriculture, this presentation will challenge the narrative of how Australia’s food culture changed by focusing not on how the receiving culture discovered Italian food but on the entrepreneurial energy and transcultural skills of migrants like the Italianos who were instrumental in that change. Dr Tania Cammarano is a lecturer in the food studies program at William Angliss Institute in Melbourne. Her research is focused on the history of Italian food in Australia and she has presented various aspects of this research at conferences in both Italy and Australia. Prior to embarking on an academic career, she wrote about food for News Limited and Australian Associated Press, and was the founding editor of food and recipe website, taste.com.au. Tania has also taught food writing as part of the Graduate Program in Food Studies at the University of Adelaide. Image courtesy Tania Cammarano.

02.01.2022 Sharing the imminent publication of this book on the impact of COVID-19 on Italian migration. It includes several contributions on Australia.

01.01.2022 Italian Cinema Forum 2020. Talks with Dr Mark Nicholls Presented by CO.AS.IT., in collaboration with the University of Melbourne and Dr Mark Nicholls. Part of CO.AS.IT. Italian Australian culture series on line.... Following our successful classic Italian cinema workshops in 2019, we continue the discussion in 2020 with a series of more recent classics. These Italian and English language films interrogate Italian culture, politics and history from the inside and the outside. They represent Italians as travellers, Italian cultures abroad, and Italy itself as a fertile destination for foreign travellers with similar desires and aspirations. Mark Nicholls will present introductions to each of our six films for discussion this year. He promises to do so without plot spoilers! Our aim is to stimulate you to watch these wonderful films, again or for the first time, in preparation for the spirited conversations of our regular forum as soon as it can begin. The six talks of the ITALIAN CINEMA FORUM (part of CO.AS.IT.’s Italian Australian culture series on line) will be published on CO.AS.IT.’s website, Facebook page and YouTube channel at roughly fortnightly intervals, starting in October and finishing in December 2020; as with the other talks of the series, they will remain accessible on these platforms. People in CO.AS.IT.’s mailing list will be notified of each talk. Join Mark Nicholls on-line for the introductions to this year’s films: -The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987) -Aprile (Nanni Moretti, 1998) -Looking for Alibrandi (Kate Woods, 2000) -Giorni (Laura Muscardin, 2001) -Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino, 2008) -Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) Mark Nicholls is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught film since 1993. Mark has worked as a film journalist for ABC Radio and The Age and has a list of over twenty stage credits as a playwright, performer, producer and director. With the support of Multicultural Museums Victoria (MMV). Image: a still from Looking for Alibrandi, sourced from Internet.

01.01.2022 CO.AS.IT. Italian Australian culture series on line. Today we are proud to present talk #3, "L'Emigrante. Journeys of the Mandolin", a documentary by Maestro Carlo Aonzo. To view the talk, go to: http://www.coasit.com.au//carlo-aonzo-the-emigrant-travels The mandolin, an iconic symbol of Italian identity, changes its shape and characteristics as it travels around the world and across cultures. Indeed, the mandolin is the musical instrument that has most variants: in this di...versity lies its richness. In this documentary, Maestro Carlo Aonzo illustrates the mandolin’s migrations in Europe, South America, the United States and in Australia, where we will get to know some of the performers and plucked orchestras. Italian Australians distinguished themselves also in the field of instrument making, as in the case of Giovanni ‘Jack’ Cera in Melbourne. The documentary will end with an overview of the vibrant contemporary mandolin musical scene. Carlo Aonzo is an Italian mandolinist of international renown. After graduating cum laude from the conservatory in Padua, he has played in all continents for prestigious institutions such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala in Milan (Italy), the Philharmonia of Saint Petersburg (Russia) and the Carnegie Hall in New York. Soloist, researcher, teacher and, since 2006 founder and director of the International Italian Mandolin Academy, Carlo boasts an extensive discography both in the fields of classical music and other musical genres. Complete biography at www.carloaonzo.com/biography Image: Maestro Carlo Aonzo with his mandolin. Photograph courtesy Angelica Colombini.