Open to the public! Join CCF and speaker Carla Gambescia for an engaging virtual presentation by Carla Gambescia on Tuesday, March 9, 2021
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Discover the lives and legacies of Italy's Renaissance Women and those of several unheralded women who inspired some of the greatest artwork of all time. An uplifting and thought-provoking program examining the evolution of the perceptions of women from antiquity and the middle ages through the Renaissance, the inflection point when our concept of today’s modern woman began to take shape. You will discover the stories of women such as Isabella D’Este, Vittoria Colonna and Artemisia Gentileschi whose lives and accomplishments can still inspire us today while you also gain fresh perspectives on some of the Renaissance’s most beloved artists and paintings.
Carla’s award-winning book —
La Dolce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A to Z — is an eclectic compendium of all things Italian; she also was the co-creator of the Giro del Gelato bike tour winner of OUTSIDE Magazine’s "Best Trip in Western Europe." Carla is also the curator of the delightful blog
Postcards From The Boot.
About Carla Gambescia:
Carla Gambescia’s passion for Italy began early – with her mother’s love of the Renaissance masters and her father’s discourses on Italian geniuses of every calling. In the ensuing decades she has toured every region of Italy (often by bicycle) and immersed herself in its astonishing array of cultural treasures. In recent years Carla has combined her passion as an Italophile with her skills as a career marketer and branding expert, acting as a consultant to and a collaborator with boutique tour operators. She conceived and co-lead the Giro del Gelato bicycle tour, winner of Outside Magazine’s “Best Trip in Western Europe.” In 2008 Carla founded Via Vanti! Restaurant & Gelateria, in Mount Kisco, New York, with the ambition of creating a unique environment and dining experience which would enable guests to feel as though they had stepped right into Italy. Via Vanti! quickly won plaudits not just for its innovative Italian cuisine, extraordinary gelato (named “Best Gelato Shop in New York”) and dazzling jewel box interior but also, under Carla’s direction, for its active program of culinary and cultural events. It is Carla’s conviction that all of us, regardless of our inherited ethnicities, share an “inner Italian” – that part of our nature which is most expressive, festive, spontaneous and fun – just waiting to be unlocked.
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