Saturday Storytime - The Best Pet of All

Saturday Storytime continues with The Best Pet of All by David LaRochelle. The question of the week is: Is it better to have a dog or a dinosaur as a pet?

Saturday, February 4, 2012, 10:30 a.m.at Associazione Italo Americana FVG /American Corner Trieste - Via Roma 15 - Trieste

Join us for a story, a song, and activity... in English of course. Lawrie and Joanne will be our volunteers of the week.

Call the office to reserve a space for your little one.

Friday Documentary -Dreams of Obama

The first in our Friday Documentaries dedicated to Black History Month.

Friday, February 3rd at 6:00 p.m.

American Corner Trieste - Via Roma 15 -Trieste

Open to the Public

Interviews with those closest to Barack Obama before his inauguration in January 2009. PBS - 60 minutes

Il Piccolo - Our Super Chef

Check out the Piccolo today (January 31, 2012).

Andrea Tamburini is featured on page 36 for the American Cooking School - Associazione Italo Americana FVG

School starts on Thursday, February 2nd with Tex-Mex. Response has been fantastic and the first course is already full. We have a waiting list and will reschedule another sessions of Tex-Mex in the future after we see how the first course goes.

In order to participate in the courses, you must be a member of AIA-FVG (Not a member yet? No problem. Membership is €35 for regular memberships and €25 for teachers, students + 65). Membership includes the Ariston and Cappella Underground Film Series, Storytime, Use of our Lending Library and much more).

Upcoming lessons after Lesson 1 El Paso - Tex-Mex will be:

New Orleans - Cajun - March 15, 2012

L.A. - California Fusion - May 10, 2012

Black History Month

February is Black History Month at the American Corner Trieste. The Friday Documentaries for the month are:

Feb. 2nd - Dreams of Obama - Interviews with those closest to Obama before he took office in 2009

Feb. 10th - Tuskegee Airmen - The first group of black fighter pilots in WWII. The fought both racism and the war.

Feb. 17th - Massachusetts 54th Colored Division - The real story of the heroic African American regiment in the Union army in the Civil War.

Feb. 24th - When I Rise - Barbara Smith Conrad, talented Afro-American mezzo soprano in 1957, becomes the center of a civil rights battle at the University of Texas when she is cast to star in a university production with a white male opera singer.

SHOWTIME: Fridays at 6 p.m. at the American Corner Trieste / Associazione Italo Americana FVG, Via Roma 15 - Trieste

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Busy Place on Saturday!

What a busy place on Saturday! Storytime with Joanne and Lawrie, Skyping with the Italian Class at Windows on America Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine), Igor's Photo session with Andrea Tamburini our American Chef, Computer work with Igor, Paperwork with Luisella, lots of book and DVD check-outs too! Check our Facebook site for the video of "Ten in the Bed, Roll Over" and more Photos.

Come and see us next Saturday when we have another Storytime - The Best Pet of All!

Saturday Storytime- Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

Saturday Storytime - Saturday, January 28, 2012- 10:30-11:30

Story of the Week: Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

At: American Corner Trieste / Associazione Italo Americana FVG - Via Roma 15 - Trieste

Join us for our weekly appointment - a story, a song, a craft. The reader of the week is our super fun volunteer Lawrie. Please call to reserve a space for your little one. (040 63 03 01)

Storytime - The Bunny Hop and Photos

Storytime with Dario on Saturday was lots of fun. Here is the video of the our Bunny Hop Dance to the 1950's Big Band Song that we did to accompany Duck! Rabbit!
Next week: "Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes" with our expert Mother Tongue - Lawrie! Call the office to reserve your space (040 63 03 01) Here is a link to the photos of Saturday, January 21, 2012.