Happy Holidays! We're closed from December 23rd until January 8th.

See you on Monday January 9, 2012 from 4-8 p.m.

Carol of the Bells

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Associazione Italo Americana had some special guests from the Frontier Bible College of Wyoming. They delighted our classes with their Christmas carols! Listen to the Carol of the Bells.

Happy Holidays!

Our office will be closed from December 23rd until January 8th. See you again in 2012!

Friday Documentary - December 16, 2011

Our last documentary before the Christmas vacation.

Friday, December 16, 2011 6 p.m.

American Corner Trieste - Via Roma 15 Trieste

Open to the Public

Walt Disney World takes viewers on a behind-the-scenes tour of the ingenious technology and incredible engineering feats that went into building the 27000 acre complex. 100 minutes

Adult Coffee Hour and Cookie Exchange

Thursday is Adult Coffee Break Time. If you are a baker... warm up your oven! It is also Cookie Exchange Day.

Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 10-noon
American Corner Trieste - via Roma 15 - Trieste
Adult Coffee Break is our monthly appointment to catch up on some clever English conversation. Coffee Break is always OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. If would like a cup of coffee, it costs just €0.50.
Cookie Exchange is an American tradition. You bake 6 dozen cookies and individually wrap them 1 dozen per package. You go home with a mixture of 6 dozen cookies made by our other bakers. This is a fun way to get a variety of cookies without all the work of baking 6 dozen different types.
See you Thursday!

Made For Each Other - Monday, December 12, 2011, 8:30 p.m.

Made for Each Other continues.
What fun and what a crowd for Glee! Thank you Leonardo and Kyle Scott, Consul General US Consulate Milan.

This week's show is FAME - the original 1980 version - winner of 2 Oscars.

Monday, December 12, 2011, 8:30 p.m.
Cappella Underground, Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi 3 - Trieste

Leonardo Buonomo, Professor of American Studies, and American TV / Movie lover will give us some American Pop Culture to the max. His Comparative TV / Movie discussion follows the film. Last week we projected Glee.

Bring your membership card. Not a member yet? No problem... become a member either in the Association (Monday to Friday 4-8 and Tuesday and Thursday mornings 10-12) or at the Cappella Underground before the show.

Membership is Euro 25 for Students, Teachers, Over 65 and Euro 35 for all the rest of us. Members also can attend the American Cinema Series at the Ariston, use our library, participate in our activities. What a great deal! What a great (and inexpensive) gift for your children, grandchildren, friends, spouse, mom.

Here is the complete listing of the upcoming Made For Each Other shows (back in January)

Monday , January 16, 2012: Family (TV series), winner of 4 Emmy awards
Monday, January 23, 2012: Ordinary People (1980), dir. Robert Redford, winner of 4 Oscars

Monday, February 6, 2012: Bewitched (TV series), winner of 3 Emmy awards
Monday, February 13, 2012: I Married a Witch (1942), dir. René Clair, nominated for 1 Oscar

Monday,February 27, 2012: Thirtysomething (TV series), winner of 13 Emmy awards
Monday, March 5, 2012: The Big Chill (1983), dir. Lawrence Kasdan, nominated for 3 Oscars

Monday, March 19, 2012: Seinfeld (TV series), winner of 10 Emmy awards
Monday, March 26, 2012: Annie Hall (1977), dir. Woody Allen, winner of 4 Oscars

Kyle Scott, US Consul General of Milan visits AIA FVG- American Corner Trieste

Yesterday, December 5, 2011, we had a very special guest in our office.

Kyle Scott, US Consul General of the Milan Consulate, paid us a special visit to see our Library and meet our Volunteers and some of our Board Members. Mr. Scott was accompanied by Robert Palladino, Public Affairs Officer of the Milan Consulate and Simonetta Romagnolo.

Here are more photos of his visit.

The Consul General also welcomed the public at our Made for Each Other Series at the Cappella Underground.

Thank you! You rock (as some of our board members say)! We hope to welcome you back to Trieste soon!

Friday Documentary

Thomas A. Edison, Father of Invention

Friday, December 9, 2011, 6 p.m.

At American Corner Trieste - via Roma 15, 34132 Trieste

Without the success of his innovative and groundbreaking inventions, modern-day life as we know it would be wholly unimaginable.

His inventions included the light bulb, phonograph, movie camera amd literally transformed the way the world functioned. Learn the behind the scenes stories of his life and his 1,093 patents. (50 min.)

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC