martedì 28 giugno 2011

ESEDRA - Italian Cultural Association

25°17'12N 51°31'60E   T. 35°- 43 °C


The first Italian Cultural Association is newly born in Doha. In the last few years the Italian community in Qatar has experienced a strong growth showing the need of a gathering place and an association able to fulfil its needs. This is the idea behind ESEDRA.

The Association has two main objectives. On one side it will organise events, conferences and exhibitions for Italian citizens living in Qatar; on the other side it aims to engage the local community by promoting Italian culture, spreading Italian language thanks to the organization of language courses and facilitating relationship with Italy.
The main promoted activities include a multimedia library, events, children's activities, travels to italy, cooking classes, and language
courses.

MULTIMEDIA LIBRARY
Esedra will organise a space dedicated to host the library, video library and all the materials available to the member of the Association.
The sections will be:
- Classical and modern literature from all over the world in italian and other languages;
- Children classical and modern literature, cartoons and comics in italian;
- Documentaries on Italian landscapes, cities, art, touristic destination etc. ;
- Collections of classical music, opera, operetta and italian pop music;
- Collections of Italian movies and foreign movies in Italian;
- Newspaper library including Italian magazines and newspapers.

EVENTS
The organisation of cultural events will be part of the bold activities' calendar that Esedra will offer to both adults and children.
Among others: temporary exhibitions, conferences, theatre pieces, musical events and typical Italian events.

TRAVELS
The Association wishes to spread the knowledge and the love for the beauty and aims to offer the opportunity to discover the unique Italian landscape. A bold travels programme to Italy will be organised for groups or individuals, divided by itinerary and themes: art-culture, natural, food and educational itineraries as well as study holiday.

"ART OF TASTE" - THE ITALIAN COOKING
Italy is renown for its food and Esedra aims to promote and build awareness of the Italian products and the Italian traditional cooking through a path of education of the taste.
Among others: cooking courses, tasting and events dedicated to the art of cooking.

LANGUAGE COURSES
Considering the high demand from the local community and foreigners who live in Qatar, the Association will offer his members the opportunity to approach the Italian language through language courses including group classes and private lessons.


Let me say "Era ora" !!! ;-)






Whatever open-hearth.








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