Bands In the Square - featuring Frank Sinatra music (free event)

WHEN: Friday, 25 May 2012
TIME: 7.30 pm - 8.30 pm
WHERE: King George Square, Brisbane City

Twilight Markets in the city swing to the beat of Brass Roots live! featuring the music of Frank Sinatra. Come and join us for this free event in King George Square.

The BrisStyle Indie Twilight Markets in the heart of Brisbane's King George Square offer a unique home-grown experience like no other event of its kind in Australia.

These Friday night markets combine the laid-back attitude of south-east Queensland with the buzz of Brisbane's CBD to create a lantern lit celebration of local independent art, craft and design.

 

Candlelight Opera Gala

WHEN: 31 May 2012
TIME: 7.30 pm
WHERE: Albert Street Uniting Church, Ann Street, Brisbane

To mark the 5th anniversary of the largest environmental event in history – Earth Hour. Aria Productions will hold a Candlelight Opera Gala at the Albert Street Uniting Church to celebrate the occasion.

The gala will begin at 8:00pm with the usual powered lighting and then, after an audience countdown to Earth Hour at 8:30pm, the lights will be turned off and the music will begin by candlelight.

Performers include one of Brisbane’s favourite sopranos, Leslie Martin, whose stunning voice has taken her to Opera Australia, Opera Queensland and to a career in Europe.

Alongside this experienced singer, Aria Productions are proud to be showcasing two exciting young talents in Mia Yaniw (Mezzo Soprano) and Iain Henderson (Tenor).

General admission tickets for Earth Hour Candlelight Opera Gala are available for purchase from Ticketek with prices from $20.00. See Ticketek for more information.

As well as providing valuable performance experience to emerging Queensland talent, Earth Hour Candlelight Opera Gala will also raise funds for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Wesley Mission Brisbane.

Wesley Mission Brisbane was established in 1907 and leads the way in providing care for kids, families, youth, the elderly, the homelss, the disadvantaged and those living with disability. www.wmb.org.au

Italian Movie Screening - “Lezioni di cioccolato” (ticketed event)

WHEN: Thursday, 31 May 2012
TIME: 6.30 pm
WHERE: Casa Italia Community Centre, 26 Gray St. New Farm 4005

To celebrate Italian Week 2012, the Brisbane Dante Alighieri Society, the students of Italian at Griffith University and Casa Italia Community Centre are pleased to organise the screening of the movie “Lezioni di cioccolato” (“Lessons in Chocolate”, in Italian with English subtitles), courtesy of the Australian National Film and Sound Archive.

Light refreshment and presentation of the movie will be provided by the Griffith Students before the screening.

Entry $20.00
Concession for students $15.00

50% of the profit will be donated to the Hear and Say

RSVP by Monday 28 May (3356 7731 or danteb@bigpond.net.au with the subject “Lezioni di cioccolato”) 

 

Traditional Italian Dancing - La Tammurriata (free event)

WHEN: Friday, 1 June 2012
TIME: 6.00 pm - 6.30 pm
WHERE: Queen Street Mall, Brisbane CBD, QLD, 4000

Carmen Gentile, young and talented Italian dancer from Campania, in collaboration with Women of the World Brisbane (WOW) by Rise & Shine will perfom a series of dances. The dances that we’ll offer are a fusion of different styles with tradtional and modern Italian music: fun, contagious and very entertaining!

We no speak Americano: a jazzy dance with a cheeky tap dancing style
Be Italian: a pure sensual style with tambourines and a bit of tango
Mambo Italiano: a fun mambo style, very funky and entertaining.
The Tammurriata ('O Ball 'ncopp 'o Tammurr). La Tammurriara is a dance from Campania, simpler form of the classic Tarantella - it used to be a devotion dance and a courtship dance later on.

The dance, the music ... they change your life! Or at least make it better, more alive, adding a surplus of physical, intellectual and emotional activities.
The music, the dance and the popular culture penetrate you along with the origins of the land of your parents or your grandparents, with the simplicity of the tools with which "we play the music and we dance".


Women of the World Brisbane (WOW) is organised by Rise & Shine Inc (www.riseandshine.org.au)  a not for profit association dedicated to reshaping and empowering a women way of life!

Women of the World Brisbane (WOW) bring Australian and immigrant women together to blend cultures & share ideas, to listen to their needs & to help each other, to create a contagious atmosphere joining their different experiences and to have fun together!

At WOW any woman can feel at home wherever they come from and find friends for life!