APRIL 2020 NEWSLETTER
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Dear Members,
We hope that his newsletter
finds you well. It has been a different
Spring than any of us had ever imagined or experienced. In this time of uncertainty, we urge you to
STAY HOME and STAY WELL. We’ll all make sacrifices and get through this
Coronavirus Emergency together.
For those of you who are home
alone, please contact us via email at aia.fvg@gmail.com
if you need assistance, or just would like to talk. We’ll call you back. If you are home together with your spouse and
children, good luck. Enjoy your quality
family time.
We miss you all and we can’t
wait to see everybody again soon! Enjoy the Spring from your window. Happy Easter!
The Associazione Italo
Americana FVG / American Corner Trieste has been working from home in order to
stay in touch virtually. In record time,
the AIAFVG teaching team prepared LESSONS from a DISTANCE that are sent to our families
/ students each week in order to recuperate the lessons missed in the Winter
Session. We hope that you are enjoying
them. From PreK/Family to Elementary 345
and Native Speakers, the lessons are to be done by the children with their
parents. For other classes we send a weekly
lesson plan including links and schedule an online meeting with the teacher. If
you haven’t received your Lessons, check your Inbox, Promotions and Spam. If you still can’t find the lessons, contact
us.
The positive feedback from our
students and families about our Lessons from a Distance has been
tremendous. We’re so proud of all of
you! If you wish to send your children’s
artwork to us, with your permission we will gladly share it on Facebook.
We hope that our Lessons from
a Distance will help you improve your English, have some fun and help make the
time at home pass a bit faster.
We are preparing a session of 5
weekly LESSONS from a DISTANCE -Round 1, starting the week of April 20th. Our usual immersion approach with a focus on fluency. New students are welcome. Are you be interested? Please let us know on this Google Form.
All of us would love to watch
our films on the big screen. Tentative
dates had been scheduled to recuperate films that were cancelled due to the
closure of cinemas. At this point, no
one knows when the theaters will re-open.
The program is in stand-by. We
hope to screen the remaining films later this year.
The American Corner has gone
virtual, posts daily in Facebook and features interesting free links for you to
improve your English and learn about American culture from home. Take virtual tours of museums and national
parks, check out eBooks from the finest libraries in the world, take a University
Online Course for free, go to the Opera, enjoy concerts, audio books,
children’s books and films at no charge.
Don’t worry about overdue
library books and DVDs. There will be
plenty of time to return them when we can get out again!
American Corner Trieste hosts
weekly Webchats on Facebook Live on Fridays at 11 am. This week we’ll discuss April Fools’
Day. Informal Chats in English about
more or less! We’d love for you to join us!
Instead of a single theme, for
April, we propose a theme each week: April
Fools’ Day, Jazz, Baseball, Earth Week, Intellectual Property Week. The US Department of State is working to give
American Corners rights to transmit American documentaries from the Kanopy
collection on a closed Facebook page.
We’ll keep you posted. Check
our blog and American Corner Facebook Page regularly for updates.
TAKE CARE. STAY HOME.
STAY WELL!
NEWS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS
2020
is a GENERAL ELECTION YEAR.
If you’re an American Citizen, you
can register to vote… even if you have never resided in the United States Request your Absentee Ballots now with your Federal Post Card
Application, so you will be set for the entire year. Let your voice be heard in the Presidential Primaries
and General Election. VOTING
REGISTRATION INFO HERE.
VOLUNTEERS
We are a Volunteer Run Non-Profit Association. Volunteers run our Library, American Corner Programs and Activities. We are looking for Volunteers to Work at the Cinema, Help with Sewing and
with our Morning Activities at the Front Desk and in the Library, TESOL Speakers, Teen Maker
Space Mentors, Assistants for Nati per Leggere.
Send us an email and we’ll find a role for you. University of
Trieste students in Humanities, P.R. and
other majors can earn with us (CFU). We
accept students with a minimum of 75 hours (3 CFU). You'll have a
great experience and improve your English, while you also learn valuable life
and people skills. Contact us! aia.fvg@gmail.com
AMERICAN CORNER
TRIESTE – Since 2007, we have been part of the American Spaces Network with over 600 locations around the world. Programs, consultation of the library, public
internet access computers, and Wi-Fi are always Free and Open to the
Public. A great place to study, meet
friends, bring your kids. Specific
sections of the library are dedicated to Educational Advising, Children’s
Corner Library and Women’s Space. Consult our on line catalog of Books and DVDs. The American Corner also offers Life Skills in English Courses for Refugees
and Case Workers thanks to a U.S. Department of State Grant and the US
Diplomatic Mission to Italy. The
American Corner promotes the Refugee Bear Integration through Entrepreneurship Project,
encouraging professional refugee tailors to use their skills.