Sara, Sara

Sara was getting older and was feeling restless and thought about leaving the family farm. She was receiving letters from a young man, Corrado, who had immigrated to Toronto from Abruzzi, Italy, in 1954. He was looking for a bride and through a friend discovered that Sara was single. Sara remembers reading his letters and liking his photograph. His dark hair and handsome features stood out. There were other suitors, but she rejected them and yearned for a better life outside of a small town.

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Meraviglioso Frank Moyo

If the goal of the songwriter is to tell a story that translates what the artist is feeling, Frank Moyo delivers. On stage in Ottawa, Moyo began his show talking about his Calabrese Nonna and how she taught him how to crochet his signature colourful tuques. The multigenerational audience was instantly endeared to this champion for classic romantic songs. And when he FaceTimed Nonna Rita in the middle of the concert so that the audience could say hello, that put the room over top.

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Mea Culpa

Bruno Cocorocchio's Mea Culpa: A Plea of Innocence examines the consequences of an immigrant parent’s burden on a child. In this story, a parent’s sacrifice – often touted as the backbone of Italian immigration to Canada – is not celebrated. Instead, it is exposed as a mental abuse on a child who is conditioned to feel guilt for all the bemoaning of a miserable and unhappy mother.

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It’s all in the cards

On a clear, crisp, and sunny September afternoon, about a dozen men are gathered in Ottawa for quattro chiacchiere and a card game. They reunite behind the Marconi Centre, arriving on foot, by car and surprisingly one gentleman rides in on his motorcycle. They are members of the Golden Age Club, better known as L’Età D’Oro.

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Bingo returns to the Marconi Centre

For over ten years now, seniors belonging to the Italian-Canadian community in Ottawa have looked forward to regularly scheduled social activities at the Marconi Centre on Baseline Road. After a long pause during the multiple waves of COVID-19, the Marconi Centre opened its doors again to the community in July 2022.

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Un Momento with Terri Favro

Terri Favro's much-anticipated novel, The Sputnik Sisters, is a funny, fast-paced hit in any multiverse. Favro is a superstar novelist, graphic novelist, and non-fiction award winning Toronto writer.

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Un Momento with Gianna Patriarca 

Gianna Patriarca is at the point in her poetic career where her work has received the honour of being collected into one amazing volume for everyone to enjoy. This Way Home also includes stunning new poems master-crafted in Patriarca’s signature heart-felt, intimate poetic style. She is the award-winning writer of over eight books of poetry, short fiction, plays, and children’s books.

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Un Momento with Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli effortlessly weaves and challenges our notions of culture, romance, and identity smoothly throughout her captivating new book of short stories, Pigeon Soup & Other Stories. It also had the honour of being a finalist for The 2021 American Book Fest Best Book Awards.

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Family Tree Workshop for Italians across Canada

A unique online workshop organized by the Kelowna Canadian-Italian Club will give Italian-Canadians across the country the tools to start their family tree. Starting March 17, historian and “Family Tree Guy” Don Rampone will lead an eight-week online workshop that will look at the general tools for genealogy available to the public, with a focus on concepts specific to Italians.

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Ordine Figli d’Italia commemorates 100 years

In 2019, Ordine Figli d’Italia celebrated its centennial with an exhibit, and the release of a book and a short documentary film. They also received funding from Canadian Heritage’s Building Communities through Arts and Heritage Program to erect a monument for the occasion.

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Un Momento with Joe Fiorito

Joe Fiorito's latest collection of poetry - All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been - is masterfully crafted and full of powerfully unflinching observations. Fiorito is an award-winning writer of eight books, and former nationally recognized journalist.

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