JANUARY 2012 COMMUNITY CALENDAR

ITALIAN HERITAGE LODGE  -

Saturday Feb 4 – 6:30 pm- Membership meeting and pot luck supper,- St Leo’s Knights of Columbus Hall in Fairfax.  Program :-”The Grunt Padre in Vietnam-The Life Story of Father Vincent Capodanno: Missionary, Chaplain and Candidate for Sainthood”  Guests welcome.  Call 403-978 7896

ITALIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY

Sunday ,Jan 22 – 3:00 pm - at Friendship  Heights Community Center -

CIRCOLO DELLA BRISCOLA

Wed. Feb 8 -6:30 pm- Casa  Italiana  – Stuzzichini   and  camaraderie  followed by games

ABRUZZO MOLISE HERITAGE SOCIETY

Sunday Jan 29 -1:00 pm – Casa Italiana- Monthly luncheon meeting-Prof Renato Miracco   will speak  on “Contemporary Italian  Culture”

 

ROMA LODGE OSIA

No meeting January and February-Meetings resume March 18 for  nomination of officers

LIDO CIVIC CLUB

Thur.Feb 16- 6:30 pm- General membership meeting-Prospective members welcome  -Venue TBA

 Past President Night Gala on Jan 21st-Honoree:  Mike Rizzo, Washington Nationals’ Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager.  Also  be honoring Past Honorees and Past Presidents of the Lido Civic Club.  Online registration and additional information will be availableat www.lidocivicclub.com

DON’T MISS THIS SPECTACULAR EVENT

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AR

Nov 6-April 8-Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) The Golden Age of Renaissance  Bronze . Antico transformed the art of bronze sculpture. The exhibition includes  some 40 masterpieces-medals, reliefs, busts, and  Antico’s  renowned statuette – more than three-quarters of the sculptor’s known works. – Read and listen to a conversation with curator Eleonora Luciano on Amico and Italian Melodie Hour of Jan 31,2011-

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