From Roots to resilience
February 20, 2025
FOLLOW THAT BELL
November 21, 2024
SPAGHETTI WESTERN
APRIL 19, 2023
CHI HA UCCISO IL MIO BISNONNO
MARCH 8, 2023
L'Acqua: the greening of the okanagan
Feb 15, 2023
Terrazzo - The evolution of an Italian Craft
Jan 18, 2023
STORIE DI GUERRA | WAR STORIES
Nov 16, 2022
LILIA: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, COURAGE AND SURVIVAL IN THE SHADOW OF WAR
OCT 19, 2022
Coming to Pier 21: Conversations with Italian Women
May 11, 2021
DALLA TERRA: THE ITALIANS AND OKANAGAN AGRICULTURE
March 23, 2021
DIALETTI! THE EVOLUTION OF ITALIAN DIALECTS
Feb 16, 2021
RECAPITULATION: THE STORY OF SVEVA CAETANI
Wednesday, January 19, 2021
EMILIO PICARIELLO: THE RISE AND FALL OF A BOOTLEGGER
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
IL NOSTRO LASCITO | THE LEGACY PROJECT
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
WATCH THE FULL PRESENTATION - AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE
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Our LNFI Committee has big plans for the next couple years, including new exciting partnerships. Join us for a sneak preview at all that's coming in Il Nostro Lascito | Our Legacy Project!
LNFI Co-Chairs Gord Hotchkiss and Don Rampone will host this special preview of the plans for Our Legacy Project, including exciting news about partnerships with the Kelowna Museum and ICAP, the Italian Canadian Archives Project. Spoiler Alert - 2023 will be a big year! You can watch the presentation on YouTube |
previous LNFI sessions
game our nonni taught usFebruary 18, 2020
It was all fun and games - literally - when LNFI invited our members to come and share the games they learned from their Nonni and loved as children. Joe Monna gave us an introduction to Tombola and many members tried their hand(s) at Scopa and Briscola. Of course, the indoor bocce lanes were busy throughout the night as well. We had a good turn out from all generations! Thanks to all who shared their stories and memories. It was a fantastic evening and we'll have to schedule a repeat sometime soon!
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sharing our memoriesJanuary 25, 2020
The LNFI Committee kicked of our archival project by asking our members to bring in any photos, documents, newspaper clippings or other memorabilia that could be included in the Club's own archives. We scanned several photos and documents while a highly competitive indoor bocce tournament took place beside us. This was a trial for us just to see what the process would look like. It will continue throughout 2020 as we launch a resource available to our own members and the public. We will be working together with the public archives at the Kelowna Museum. Our goal is to have the archive up and functioning for our 55th anniversary in 2021!
Thanks to all who came out and helped. It was a great first step! |
Between neighbours: Okanagan Italians during World War IINovember 29, 2019
It was a fascinating - and sometimes tragic - story. On June 10, 1940 hundreds of Italian men were rounded up from across Canada and sent to Internment Camps as enemy aliens. In many cases, they were naturalized citizens who had lived in Canada for many years. We looked at what happened elsewhere and focused on the Italian Community here in the Okanagan. What happens when a war comes Between Neighbours?
WANT TO LEARN MORE?
A PDF of the entire presentation (without videos) is available below.
Books and Videos Referenced in the Presentation:
Website from Villa Columbus - a wonderful resource! http://www.italiancanadianww2.ca/villa/home The video Piazza Petawawa on Vimeo: vimeo.com/96100674 Books: Injustice Served by Raymond Culos Beyond Barbed Wire: Essays on the Internment of Italian Canadians |
Our Roots: The Founding of KCIC
October 25, 2019
It was a wonderful chance to look back at KCIC’s beginnings – as we invited original members and others to share their stories of Our Roots: The Founding of KCIC. Celeste Bazzana, Vince Bertucci, Romi Marcanio ,Flori Pucci, Emma Rantucci, Pietro Calissi and Clelia Bertolami took us back over 50 years to the beginning, a shared idea of Italian culture, support and friendship that took form in a barber shop. To quote Bob Hope – Thanks for the Memories. | ||
An evening with lynne bowenSeptember 27, 2019
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Learning about Myra's MenMay 25, 2019
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