{"id":4665,"date":"2015-08-20T06:53:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2020-01-08T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:47:46","slug":"invible-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=4665","title":{"rendered":"2015 Invisible Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

INVISIBLE CITIES \u00a0 \u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0 2015<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Festival Event<\/strong>: Remembering Italo Calvino: a Literary Happening<\/a><\/strong> | 24 Sept 2015<\/a><\/p>\n

A celebration of Italo Calvino on the 30th anniversary of his death, sponsored by the Embassy of Italy in Wellington and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.<\/address>\n

For this celebration, six people were invited to each deliver a ten minute personal “reflection” on Italo Calvino. Daniel K. Brown presented his short film Invisible Cities, a Wellington Architect’s Perspective<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“In Italo Calvino\u2019s Invisible Cities<\/i>,<\/a> Marco Polo regales Kublai Khan every evening with new and ever more imaginative stories of the most extraordinary and fantastical cities in the world. One evening Kublai Khan says to Marco Polo, \u201cAfter all these tales, there is still one place of which you never speak \u2013 your own city of Venice.\u201d Marco Polo responds, \u201cAh, but every time I have depicted a new city, I have actually been describing Venice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The moral of the tale is that the cities in which we live are in fact composed of a myriad of the most extraordinary and magical places \u2013 but we only recognize them if we open up both our imaginations and our hearts to the extraordinary wonders that they hold within. So let me now tell you a tale of nine Invisible Cities of Wellington. …”<\/p>\n

Invitation<\/strong> designed by Leonardo Carta<\/a>:\"calvino<\/a>Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n

REMEMBERING ITALO CALVINO<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A Literary Happening<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Italo Calvino: un uomo invisibile |Italo Calvino: An Invisible Man<\/p>\n

Rory McKenzie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome<\/p>\n

Francesca Benocci & Sydney Shep<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening Speech<\/p>\n

His Excellency Carmelo Barbarello, Ambassador of Italy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Six Fragments for an Obituary<\/p>\n

Marco Sonzogni<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Sign in Space<\/p>\n

Francesca Kurghan & Anastasia Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Palomar<\/i>\u2019s Calvino<\/p>\n

Marta Simonetti<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Invisible City<\/p>\n

James Kierstead<\/strong><\/p>\n

Invisible Cities<\/i> from an Architect\u2019s perspective in Wellington<\/p>\n

Daniel K. Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acknowledgments<\/p>\n

Eleonora Bello<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remembering Italo Calvino<\/h1>\n
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2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the death of noted Italian journalist, novelist, and short story writer, Italo Calvino (Santiago de las Vegas 1923 \u2013 Siena 1985).Victoria students and staff joined in a celebration of his life and work last week at Wai-te-ata Press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Calvino\u2019s best known works include the Our Ancestors<\/i> trilogy, the Cosmicomics<\/i> collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities<\/i> and If on a Winter\u2019s Night a Traveler<\/i>. Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.<\/p>\n

The event organisers, Eleonora Bello and Francesca Benocci, both PhD students in the Italian Programme in the School of Languages and Cultures, choreographed an evening across all disciplines and languages. Poetry, multimedia video, drama, film, and prose offerings by Marco Sonzogni, Marta Simonetti, James Kierstead, and Daniel Brown, together with the students Francesca Kurghan, Anastasia Roberts, and Honours student in Italian Rory McKenzie, gave life to an amazing commemoration of the legacy of Italo Calvino. The presence of the Embassy of Italy in the person of HE Ambassador Carmelo Barbarello, capped an inspired creative conversation and opportunity for cross-cultural engagement.<\/p>\n

Web. 8 Oct. 2015. <https:\/\/www.victoria.ac.nz\/staff\/news\/2015\/09\/remembering-italo-calvino<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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