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Giuseppe Verdi Music School hosts the Taverny Jazz Ensemble at the Monash Prato Centre.

Submitted by grusso on Tue, 25/10/2016 - 2:15pm
Musical Exchange 2016 - Giuseppe Verdi Music School and Taverny Conservatory of Music

Music filled the halls of The Monash Prato Centre on Saturday 22 October thanks to a musical exchange between Prato’s Giuseppe Verdi Music School and the Taverny Conservatory of Music, based a few kilometers from Paris. The French music students, a group of young students and adults, form the Taverny Jazz Ensemble and are in Prato until 26 October, being hosted by families in Prato.

Bill Kent Memorial Lecture 2016

Submitted by nmcauliffe on Fri, 21/10/2016 - 7:51am
Bill Kent Memorial Lecture 2016
Each year Monash University holds a lecture in memory of Professor Bill Kent, renowned scholar of the Italian Renaissance and Founding Director of the Monash University Prato Centre.

We were honoured to have Professor Lino Pertile deliver the 2016 Bill Kent Memorial Lecture at the Monash Conference Centre in Melbourne earlier this month. Professor Pertile is the Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and the former Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Professor Pertile spoke about the uses and abuses of intelligence from Dante to Machiavelli.

Applications open for student travel grants

Submitted by nmcauliffe on Fri, 14/10/2016 - 6:36am
Monash Arts students during Prato program field trip
Did you know that Monash University offers travel grants to students who are high achieving, experiencing disadvantage or a combination of both to assist with the costs of overseas study?

One of the grants is specifically for study at the Monash University Prato Centre. The Italian Australian Foundation Travel Grants ($4,000) support Monash students of Italian descent in Australia to study at the Monash Prato Centre or other destination in Italy to gain valuable international experience and enrich their understanding of their Italian cultural heritage.

Avila College Italian language and culture course

Submitted by grusso on Mon, 26/09/2016 - 5:06pm
Eighteen students from Melbourne are immersed in Prato life.

From 19 to 23 September eighteen students from Avila College in Glen Waverley eagerly took part in an Italian language and culture course held at the Monash University Prato Centre. The accompanying teachers from Avila College describe what a wonderful success the course was in this beautiful reflection of the week: 

 

FareArte guided tour of Palazzo Vaj and garden

Submitted by grusso on Fri, 23/09/2016 - 11:34am
A unique opportunity to see inside Palazzo Vaj, the home of the Monash University Prato Centre

The grand Palazzo Vaj, owned by the Associazione dell’Arte della Lana (Association of the Wool Guild) and now hosting the Monash University Prato Centre and the Palazzo delle Professioni di Prato, will open its doors to the public today, Friday 23 September at 5pm.  The Associazione Culturale FareArte, who have held their secretarial activities within the building for years, will run this special guided tour. 

Participation is free.

The First International Conference of Cultural Linguistics

Submitted by grusso on Fri, 16/09/2016 - 2:19pm
The 1st ICCL a great success.

The First International Conference of Cultural Linguistics took place at the Monash University Prato Centre from July 20-22, 2016. It constituted the inaugural conference of a series of national and international conferences of Cultural Linguistics in the years to come. More than 100 participants from over 33 countries and from 5 continents helped to make the 1st ICCL a great success and milestone establishing Cultural Linguistics as an independent field of linguistic enquiry.

Wesley College Musical Performance

Submitted by grusso on Mon, 22/08/2016 - 5:23pm
Wesley College European Tour Ensemble stops in Prato

All the way from Melbourne, making stops across Switzerland, the UK and Italy, The Wesley College European Tour Ensemble will hold one of their few Tuscan performances right here at the Monash University Prato Centre.  

On September 12 at 12pm the talented group of 14 students from Wesley College Music School will perform an eclectic mix of jazz, swing, klezmer, rock, pop and musical theatre.

A public lecture by Sarah Dunant - Getting under their skins: History, fiction and art

Submitted by grusso on Mon, 08/08/2016 - 2:03pm
Join us for this public lecture by international best-selling author Sarah Dunant on Wednesday 7 September at 6pm.

In this sumptuously illustrated lecture*, Sarah Dunant, international bestselling author of the Italian Renaissance shares the secrets of her trade. To recreate the past as a living, breathing place, Sarah has visited churches, archives, museums and art galleries all over Italy.

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