Folklore,
Folktales and Friends of the Festa
Daylesford based storyteller and past
president of the Swiss & Italian Festa (1995 – 2001), Anne E Stewart, will
wind her way through twenty years of of Swiss & Italian Festa history. From
friends and early committee members you'll hear anecdotes and
conversations as they share their recollections of the beginning of the Festa
and some of its highlights. Anne will tell of her involvement, including a
visit by internationally renowned author / illustrator Tomie DePaola as well as
recount some of Tomie's classic folktales.
Awarding winning Castlemaine based storyteller Oisin McKenna will also feature on the day and will perform Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo tales. The stories take place in a very poor industrial city in northern Italy in the early 1950s, the Italy of neo-realistic movies.
Awarding winning Castlemaine based storyteller Oisin McKenna will also feature on the day and will perform Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo tales. The stories take place in a very poor industrial city in northern Italy in the early 1950s, the Italy of neo-realistic movies.
“Calvino is surely among the handful of living writers that
can be called, without hesitation, great…in the spinning of his simple, magical
stories we are captured, delighted, informed, horrified, reprimanded and
rewarded; we are afraid and we are given hope. Calvino’s only subject is the
world and how we may live in it...” San Francisco Chronicle.
When
Sunday 4th November
2pm – 4pm
Cost
$15 (performance only)
$39 for High Tea available from midday until
4pm - includes home made scones, dainty finger sandwiches and petit fours, plus
freshly brewed tea & coffee.
Bookings Essential
T: 5348 2271
Or in person at Grange Bellinzona
Where
Grange Bellinzona
77 Main Road, Hepburn Springs
T: 5348 2271 (Grange Bellinzona)
T: 0447 697 997 (Event Information)
