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TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the Italian Embassy............................................................................. 3 A Note from the Board of Directors..................................................................... 4 Our Festival Box.......................................................................................................... 5 Film Screening | The Chain..................................................................................... 6 Masterclass | The Art of the Aperitivo.................................................................. 7 Italian Trivia Night with Joe Cacchione.................................................................. 8 Vespa Tour of St. Anthony’s Procession Route in Little Italy.......................... 9 Live Bedtime Story | Strega Nona Meets Her Match.................................... 10 Masterclass | Making Traditional Italian Pasta................................................ 11 Live Bedtime Story | Strega Nona: Her Story...................................................12 Calendar of Events............................................................................................. 13-14 Masterclass | Grow Your Garden........................................................................ 15 Live Bedtime Story | Big Anthony: His Story.....................................................16 Dante’s Perspective.................................................................................................. 18 Italian Scavenger Hunt powered by Escape Manor....................................... 19 Capture the Spirit of Little Italy | Visual Art Commission............................. 20
Amiche e amici, a voi tutti va il mio caloroso saluto in occasione de La Settimana Italiana 2021. As the newly arrived Ambassador-designate to Canada, I am delighted to have this first opportunity to connect with Italians, Canadian-Italians, and friends of Italy in the National Capital, and I look forward to meeting you in person! Questa celebrazione annuale delle tradizioni italiane, ma anche dell’ingegno e dei talenti che sono nostri, offre ai partecipanti l’occasione gradita di condividre, anche quest’anno con un ampio pubblico tramite una piattaforma virtuale, i piaceri dell’Italian way of life, offerti con generosità e con orgoglio dalla collettività di Ottawa. I am pleased to see that this special Week takes place during the National Italian Heritage Month, declared by the Canadian Government as a time to recognize and honour the outstanding contributions of Italians and Canadians of Italian descent to the development of this wonderful Country. Rinnovo agli organizzatori i miei migliori agura di successo e a tutti i partecipanti buon divertimento all’italiana! L’Ambasciatore d’Italia designato Andrea Ferrari
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A NOTE FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Italian community in Ottawa is a force. Our mission this year was to make that force more visible and inclusive to a wider audience, and as always, to invite Ottawa to join us in celebrating the best of what it means to be Italian. As Italians, we already know how to make homemade pasta. We wrestled with nonno in the giardino, and are always up for an aperitivo on a hot June afternoon. Through our masterclasses, we wanted to highlight these traditions for the audiences that didn’t learn these things from their parents or their nonni. That’s not to say that if you aren’t Italian, you didn’t have your own traditions. Italian Week is about a cultural exchange, and some of the things that Italians do best are universal to many cultures. We celebrate the simultaneous softness and toughness of our grandparents, we connect over food and drink, we tell stories to our children, and we celebrate our traditions. We hope that you will find these themes present across all of our events. With these themes in mind, we’re so pleased to announce the winner of our visual art commission, “Nonna” by artist Laura Kelly, which you will find on the cover of this program book. Keep flipping for more details on her piece! We would like to express our sincerest thanks to the City of Ottawa, the Province of Ontario, and the Government of Canada, as well as the Ottawa Festival Network, the Italian Embassy, and our wonderful sponsors and donors. We are especially grateful to the local small businesses who have supported Italian Week for many years, and invite our audience to visit italianweekottawa.ca to check out all the people who make Italian Week possible, and make an extra special effort to support these businesses. We look forward to connecting with you online to celebrate the wonderful impact that Italians have on our Canadian culture. Ci vediamo! #ITALIANWEEKOTTAWA #SONOITALIANO
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OUR FESTIVAL BOX In a world where everything is increasingly digital, Italian Week decided to focus on real, tangible traditions this year, and why they still matter. Traditions in gardening and food are closely tied to the cultural and community values Italians embody. To help you celebrate the tangible traditions with us from home, we assembled festival boxes this year, with the support of our amazing sponsors and partners. A portion of these boxes were also donated to the exceptional frontline workers across the City of Ottawa, who have worked so hard to keep us safe and healthy during this ongoing pandemic. Italian Week would like to thank Ferrero Canada, ItalFoods, and Lee Valley Tools for their generous donations to our boxes. We would like to acknowledge the fabulous print work done by Whiskeyjack Media, who helps make us look fantastic in your hands. Thank you to iXceed Packaging Solutions for generously supporting Italian Week by donating the 2021 festival boxes. iXceed is a locally owned and operated business with over 30 years of industrial packaging and moving boxes experience. All of their moving boxes are made in Canada, pet friendly, and 100% biodegradable. Keep them in mind for the next time you need some moving boxes! Thank you to Gopher It Deliveries for partnering with Italian Week to safely deliver the 2021 festival boxes to your door!
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JUNE 10
FILM SCREENING: THE CHAIN The Testa family is a well-respected immigrant working-class family. The patriarch, Tullio Testa, is a modest landscape contractor, anxious to impress his visiting brother from Italy with his & success in the New World. Tullio and his brother BARRY F. LORENZETTI PRESENTS have not spoken for over twenty years due to a VITTORIO ROSSI’S dispute over land inheritance in Italy. To create the appearance of a man of leisure, Tullio turns the business over to his sons, putting Massimo, A MAGJUSJEN ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION OF THE PLAY “THE CHAIN” A VITTORIO ROSSI FILM the younger, educated, favourite son in charge. RICHARD ZEPPIERI TONI ELLWAND VINCE BENVENUTO DONNY FALSETTI PAULINA COSSIO ALEXANDRA VALASSIS PAUL VAN DYCK GIULIANO FIORILLI LOUIS TUCCI MARIA ARCIERO ERIC MONGERSON ELIO CASTELLO Joe, who has worked alongside his father in the MANNY SIENNA SUSAN FUDA BARRY F. LORENZETTI VITTORIO ROSSI dirt, is shunned. Massimo makes a fatal business error which puts the family company in jeopardy. Joe emerges as the one who will break through the façade. Refusing to put on la bella figura and act the happy family charade for his cousin Rina’s wedding to a WASP accountant, he ignites the true emotions that govern the family dynamic. The whole thing explodes in a family war between father and sons that wrecks not only the family garden, but forever changes the dynamics within the family. The Chain is a Canadian-Italian filmed play, written and directed by Vittorio Rossi, and produced by Susan Fuda, with Barry F. Lorenzetti as the Executive Producer. VITTORIO ROSSI’S
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JUNE 11
THE ART OF THE APERITIVO MASTERCLASS
https://italianweekottawa.ca/event/masterclass-the-…of-the-aperitivo/
ABOUT MARTY PINEAULT Marty Pineault is an award-winning Mixologist from Ottawa. He has competed in local, national, and international cocktail competitions and is a reigning Ottawa Negroni Champion! Marty has 12+ years of experience in the food and beverage industry and is currently the Beverage Director for Mati / EVOO group of restaurants. @marty.cocktails
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JUNE 12
TRIVIA NIGHT WITH JUNE 18 JOE CACCHIONE 7pm
https://italianweekottawa.ca/event/trivia-night-with-joe-cacchione-2/
ABOUT JOE CACCHIONE This year, comedian Joe Cacchione celebrates 33 years of a career and worldwide performances that have made him well-known in the Italian-Canadian community. Born in Rome, Joe arrived in Montreal at the age of 8, where he continues to live and divide his time between being a principal (currently managing the SHADD professional vocational technical school, health and business center in Montreal, specializing in adult education), and being a humorist. joecacchione.ca | @joecacchionecomedian
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JUNE 13
VESPA TOUR OF ST. ANTHONY'S PROCESSION ROUTE IN LITTLE ITALY Following La Festa di San Antonio or St. Anthony’s Feast Mass, Italian Week's Stefano Bianco will take you on a brief historical tour of the traditional procession route that follows the annual Mass. Starting from the steps of St. Anthony’s Church, Stefano will travel the procession route on a vespa, stopping at prominent sites in Little Italy to speak with members of the Italian community.
https://italianweekottawa.ca/event/vespa-tour-of-st…-in-little-italy/
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JUNE 13
LIVE BEDTIME STORY
STREGA NONA
https://italianweekottawa.ca/event/live-bedtime-sto…-meets-her-match/
ABOUT JESSICA RUANO Jessica Ruano is proud to work with MASC as Communications Director and Community Program Coordinator, bringing arts programming to underserved communities and providing meaningful work to professional artists. A graduate of Canterbury High School and the University of Ottawa (M.A., Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy), she has fifteen years’ experience working in marketing and communications for a variety of arts organizations and artists in Ottawa-Gatineau and beyond. She has also worked as an arts journalist and reviewer for multiple publications. As a theatre director, producer, and writer, she is perhaps best known for her documentary dance theatre production of The Ghomeshi Effect that toured across Canada and for which she received the 2017 Ottawa International Women’s Day Award for Media. She is grateful to be living on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people with her daughter Joy Apitak.
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JUNE 14
MAKING TRADITIONAL ITALIAN PASTA
MASTERCLASS
https://italianweekottawa.ca/event/masterclass-maki…al-italian-pasta/
ABOUT DANIELA CROCCO Daniela Crocco is the mastermind and award-winning chef behind MmmChef since its creation in 2014. After attending culinary school she discovered and went on to study holistic nutrition. She combined these two educations to create the first holistic food + chef service of its kind in Ottawa! Daniela grew up with an Italian chef for a dad and in a restaurant industry family that has always been super passionate about REAL WHOLE foods. In 2020, Daniela started a cooking show series on Ottawa's Rogers TV. Watch Season 1 at rogerstv.com or on YouTube. Daniela and her husband Wendell are building their very own Kitchen and Cafe – By MmmChef. This will be a community space and health haven where you can pick up a grab and go meal, enjoy a nice Italian-roast espresso, or even attend a workshop or cooking class! bymmmchef.com | @bymmmchef
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JUNE 15
LIVE BEDTIME STORY
STREGA NONA
https://italianweekottawa.ca/event/live-bedtime-sto…a-nona-her-story/
ABOUT MARINELLA MONTANARI Marinella has an artistic background in theatre and theatre education. She co-funded Jobel Group in Italy in 2000 and the International Jobel Creative Center in 2003. After fourteen years working as an actress, stage manager and assistant she has reoriented her daily mission to developing research and innovation for Jobel Group. In 2015, she led the European Project Undercreative Network co-funded by the Europe Union within the Creative Europe program. Since 2019 she is Art Director and Producer for the Jobel Canadian branch Jobel art for earth, focusing on designing and producing creative multimedia projects, merging traditional arts and technologies to communicate social and environmental sustainability content.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
JUNE 9
JUNE 10 7:00PM
3:00PM
Open your festival box, and show us on social media!
Opening Ceremony
UEFA Euro 2020 Turkey vs. Italy
JUNE 15
JUNE 16
7:00PM
UEFA Euro 2020 Italy vs. Switzerland
7:30PM
Film Screening: The Chain
JUNE 11
7:00PM
Masterclass: The Art of the Aperitivo
JUNE 17
3:00PM
Live Bedtime Story Strega Nona: Her Story
7:00PM
Masterclass: Grow Your Garden
7:00PM
Live Bedtime Story Big Anthony: His Story
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JUNE 10-20, 2021
JUNE 12
JUNE 13
JUNE 14
7:00PM
Vespa Tour
7:00PM
7:00PM
Masterclass: Making Traditional Italian Pasta
11:00AM
Italian Trivia Night with Joe Cacchione
JUNE 18 4:00PM
Dante's Perspective 7:00PM
Escape Manor Scavenger Hunt kicks off!
Live Bedtime Story Strega Nona Meets Her Match
JUNE 19
JUNE 20
Don't forget to get lost in Little Italy with our Escape Manor Scavenger Hunt!
UEFA Euro 2020 Italy vs. Wales
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12:00PM
Escape Manor Scavenger Hunt closes at 6PM
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JUNE 16
GROW YOUR GARDEN MASTERCLASS
https://italianweekottawa.ca/event/masterclass-grow…e-urban-botanist/ Thank you to Lee Valley for supporting Italian Week. For festival box holders, you’ll find tomato seeds generously provided by Lee Valley for your use in the garden masterclass. Thank you to Arbor Memorial for supporting Italian Week.
ABOUT EMMA TERRELL The Urban Botanist was created with the intention to reconnect people with nature. The founder, Emma Terrell, believes in the benefits associated with interacting with our plants, and works to change not only interior spaces, but lifestyle, mentality and health! Emma is Ottawa born and raised, and has spent the last five years combining education with her passion for the natural world and design to form The Urban Botanist. Her intention is to provide her audience with honest, engaging and educational content. She is passionate about inspiring her community to grow their green thumbs and engage with the natural world! theurbanbotanist.ca | @theurbanbotanist
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JUNE 17
https://italianweekottawa.ca/event/live-bedtime-sto…nthony-his-story/
LIVE BEDTIME STORY
STREGA NONA
ABOUT ELEANOR CROWDER Eleanor Crowder is an actor, playwright and director. Audiences know her work from summer productions of Shakespeare in the Park for the past 20 years. She is a founder member of Bear & Co., an Ottawa-based theatre collective, and one of five inaugural resident companies of The Gladstone Theatre. Eleanor has toured across the country, most recently taking her one-woman show Shakespeare’s Will to Newfoundland in 2019. Written by Vern Thiessen, that production will play here in Ottawa when we are able to return to live theatre. Until 2005, Eleanor's focus was on Theatre for Young Audiences. Her work was recognized in 2002 with the Tolgesy Award for her lifetime contribution to the arts in Ottawa. She continues to work with youth and community actors, teaching and directing large community musicals for the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group. She is a MASC artist, a member of Canadian Actors Equity Association and of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
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JUNE 18
DANTE'S PERSPECTIVE
https://italianweekottawa.ca/event/dantes-perspective/
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JUNE 18-20
ITALIAN SCAVENGER HUNT WITH ESCAPE MANOR
https://italianweekottawa.ca/event/italian-scavenger-hunt/
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CAPTURE THE SPIRIT OF LITTLE ITALY Italian Week invited local visual artists to enter our very first juried visual art contest with this year's theme to capture the spirit of Little Italy. The jury conducted a blind evaluation of the submissions. We are excited to announce that the jury selected "Nonna" as the winning piece, created by local artist, Laura Kelly. Her art will be featured prominently in this year's festival, in our promotional material, and as our feature image for Italian Week 2021. Italian Week would like to thank our jury members for bringing their unique perspectives and expertise to the decision-making process: Amanda Gorman, Dom Laporte, Jose Palacios, Claudia Salguero, Lauryn Santini, and Rémi Thériault. Thank you to Wallack’s for supporting Italian Week.
ABOUT LAURA KELLY
“Nonna” by Laura Kelly
Laura Kelly is a young Canadian artist that uses acrylic paint as her medium of expression. Laura did not attend any formal art institution for her post-secondary education. Instead, she pursued her interest in the evolution of communication and modern culture's constant need to consume media. She recently graduated from the Media, Information, and Technoculture (MIT) program at Western University. In her work, Laura explores themes of connection, self-love, loneliness, and the mundane details of everyday life. Her acrylic portraits, with their piercing eyes and life-like quality to them, may remind you of someone you have seen before but can't quite recall where. Like a stranger passing by on the street, or an old family photo, her portraits may strike a yearning for someone you once knew, but can no longer remember the name of. artbylaurakelly.com | @art_laurakelly
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