Category: VDSA news
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VDSA secretary and treasurer Robynanne Woolf resigns, Zorana Milosevic appointed treasurer
After 10 years of consistently excellent work managing VDSA’s administrative and accounting matters, Robbie Woolf has made the difficult decision to resign. We are immensely grateful for her meticulous and comprehensive help in navigating the association’s journey from beginning to becoming a registered charity and NGO. We are also pleased to welcome Zorana Milosevic as the association’s new treasurer. Zorana has already shown herself to be a positive and capable colleague, and we look forward to working together going forward.
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Nicoletta Zanardi speaks at VDSA’s 2019 fundraiser
VDSA Committee member Nicoletta Zanardi presents on the association’s activities of support and solidarity with refugees at the 2019 fundraiser.
Nicoletta died of cancer a few months after this video was recorded and her colleagues and friends at VDSA, as well as the many people she helped in her role here, remember her with enormous affection, gratitude and admiration. She is deeply missed.
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Valerio’s Diaries at Museo dei Diari
We are pleased to announce that Valerio’s second book ‘Travel Journals’ has found a place in the Piccolo Museo del Diario in Pieve D.Stefano.
As you might know, the Archivio Diaristico di Pieve S.Stefano in its 35 years of existence has collected more than 8,000 stories of Italians: young and old, contemporary and ancient, cultured and illiterate. All of these stories give us a better perspective on Italian history. A range of professionals such as historians, sociologists, writers and educators are using the Archivio as an important source of information and study. Among all of these diaries, some have been selected to be put in digital drawers in the Piccolo Museo del Diario.
In this context, a digital drawer has been dedicated to Valerio’s book.
As you can see from the photos and videos the drawer opens and all the book’s pages fly around creating a mesmerising effect. At the same time you can hear the voice of Marco Baliani, a distinguished theatre actor, reading extracts from Valerio’s book. It is a moving experience.
If you travel to Italy, we strongly recommend a visit to the Museo. It is worth seeing!
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‘Quadsquad’ Expedition in World Guinness Book of Records
The ‘Quadsquad’ Expedition undertaken by Valerio, Ted and Jamie in 2010-2011 has earned a place in the World Guinness Book of Records for the longest quad bike journey.
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Italian Trailer for ‘Diari di Viaggio – Travel Journals’
This short film by documentary filmmakers Lorenzo Conte and Gabrielle Gianni fuses passages of text from Valerio’s diaries read by Giulio Petushi with footage recorded during the expedition.