1  ADULT CLASSES WILL BEGIN ON JANUARY 27, 2003
2  CLASSES FOR CHILDREN WILL BEGIN ON FEBRUARY 1, 2003
3  NEW ITALIAN CONVERSATIONAL GROUP PLANNED for 2003
4  OPEN HOUSE/INFORMATION SESSION WILL BE JANUARY 21, 2003 (See above)

ADULT CLASSES:
Adult level classes are held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at the Shaw Community School located at 5329 Columbia Avenue at Macklind in the historic Hill neighborhood. Classes meet one night per week from 7:00 to 9:00 PM and run for 10 weeks. Courses are available for all levels, from Introductory where no knowledge of Italian is assumed through Intermediate levels. Tuition is $45 per course. In addition, the cost of text and workbook is $56 (One time cost for new students). 

CLASSES FOR CHILDREN
Classes for children will be held on Saturday mornings at the Southwest Bank located at Kingshighway and Southwest Avenues. Children's classes will meet for one hour per week either at 9:15 AM or 10:15 AM depending on course level and will run for 10 weeks. Tuition is $25 per course. In addition, the cost of the text book is $15 (One time cost).

ITALIAN CONVERSATIONAL GROUP (IL CIRCOLO ITALIANO)
Depending on level of interest, we will have an Italian Conversational Group (Il Circolo Italiano) during the winter term. The group would meet to discuss informally any topic of interest - but strictly in Italian - under the guidance of a Facilitator, fluent in Italian, who would give advice and assistance when somebody "gets stuck" but would not  "teach". The purpose of Il Circolo Italiano would be to provide an opportunity for individuals, who feel they have a basic knowledge of Italian grammar, to improve conversational skill. The group would meet one evening per week (night to be determined) for two hours for 10 weeks. Cost would be $45 per 10 week term. 

ABOUT REGISTERING AND PURCHASING BOOKS
You may register either at the January 21 open house (preferred) or before attending the first class. If you register before class, please come 1/2 hour early to allow sufficient time.

Course registration fees are payable to the Shaw Community Education Center (CEC). Book purchase fees are payable to the Federation of Italian American Organizations (FIAO). All fees must be paid by check. We cannot accept cash or credit cards - so bring two checks with you if you are planning to both register and purchase books.

WHAT IF THE WEATHER IS BAD?
The Shaw Community School follows the rules set by the St. Louis Public School System. So, In case of inclement weather,  if schools are closed by the SLPS, we must follow accordingly and classes will be cancelled and rescheduled (Including the January 21 Open House/Info Session which will be moved to January 28). If in doubt, call 776-4327 well before the meeting time.

NEED MORE INFORMATION?
If you have any questions, please contact either Gene Mariani or Joe Torrisi. 
Joe Torrisi. Tel. 776-4327. Email Joseph.Torrisi@slps.org
Gene Mariani Tel. 352-5484. Email emariani@aol.com

Speriamo che ci vediamo alla "Open House". Buona festa e felice anno nuovo..
FIAO Italian Language Committee.
Gene Mariani, Franco Giannotti, Joe Torrisi

For reservations call:  A. Lombardo 638-3446, Michael Lombardo 849-3539, R. Mondello 832-0779 (H) or 647-5622 (W), J. Palazzo 432-8994,  V. Monteleone 991-1933, J. Tucci 636-461-0197, G. Lancia 636-391-8986, M. Peri Sack 837-8830.

 
The Sheldon Art Galleries presents An Eye for The City: Contemporary 
Italian Photography, February 8  - May 24, 2003 in the Gallery of 
Photography and the Bernoudy Gallery of Architecture.  An opening 
reception will be held Friday, February 21, 2003 from 5 - 7 p.m. 
Gallery hours are Tuesdays, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Wednesdays, 9 a.m. - 5 
p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. and one hour prior to Sheldon 
performances and during intermission. 

An Eye for the City: Contemporary Italian Photography encompasses an 
analysis of ways of seeing, architecture, urban studies, and how we 
place ourselves in the world.  The first group exhibition of 
contemporary Italian photography outside Italy, this show brings 
together the work of eight photographers, some internationally known, 
and some only just beginning to earn recognition outside their country. 

The photographers featured in this exhibition focus on aspects of the 
urban experience. Organized in two sections, the first, on view in the 
Gallery of Photography, features photographers who create images that 
are psychological or formal responses to the urban landscape. 
Internationally known photographer Mimmo Jodice captures the surreal 
incongruity of incomplete and abandoned roads on the margins of Naples. 
His photographs are romantic interpretations of the Italian urban 
landscape. Paola de Pietri photographs pedestrians in an urban 
environment, juxtaposing the calligraphic qualities of the body in 
motion against the hard formal lines of architecture. Guido Guidi, one 
of the first Italian photographers to investigate and describe the 
effects of post-industrialization and progress in the 1980s, finds 
beauty in the subdued palette of colors found in industrial complexes, 
which through the decline of industrialization, were abandoned to ruin. 
Walter Niedermayr explores Italy's highway culture. His photographs from 
a raised vantage point provide the viewer with panoramic compositions 
that bring together man-made and natural elements in a modern tapestry 
of the built environment. 

The second section, seen in the Bernoudy Gallery of Architecture, 
features photographers who provide a critique of the development of the 
urban and suburban landscape from post-war ruins, through unfettered 
development, to a placeless landscape of decentralized sprawl. Included 
are Ugo Mulas, Giorgio Avigdor, Vincenzo Castella, and Gabriele 
Basilico. Ugo Mulas' photographs are the earliest to be featured.  His 
images of the suburbs of Milan from the late 1950s are gritty street 
photographs of people living alongside the ruins of war and newly built 
structures. Both Giorgio Avigdor and Vincenzo Castella focus on the 
jumble of differing architecture that constitute the peripheries of 
Post-war urban Italy.  Avigdor's color images of architecture in 1970s 
Turin critique the lack of urban planning and fractured architectural 
shape of the city. Castella uses an aerial vantage point, photographing 
from the tops of office buildings to show the city of today to be a 
placeless environment of unplanned development. Gabriele Basilico, 
probably the most important urban photographer in Italy today, creates 
highly organized compositions of segments of cities besieged by road 
signs and a cacophony of architectural styles. Seen together, the images 
in this exhibition provide insight into the realities and poetics of a 
modern urban landscape. 

The Sheldon Art Galleries is a nonprofit gallery, which hosts five 
spaces permanently devoted to photography, architectural history, the 
history of jazz, and children's art.  The Sheldon actively supports the 
work of St. Louis artists in all mediums and features a dedicated 
gallery with museum-quality exhibits by St. Louis artists, past and 
present.