May 21 - Dante In Gibraltar - A Talk By Charles Durante With Art Exhibition By Kristel Turner
Charles Durante, retired English teacher, and art teacher Kristel Turner, have teamed up to present a Dante for our times. The talk will introduce Dante's Divine Comedy, exploring the structure, main incidents, characters, and poetry of this masterpiece of world literature. It will highlight the most moving encounters in the three sections of Dante's poem: the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. The exhibition will showcase Kristel's compositions, based on her interpretation of the Comedy, but providing Dante's medieval cast with a Gibraltarian setting.
Both the talk and the exhibition will take place at 7:00pm on Tuesday 2nd June, 2015 in the Charles Hunt Room, John Mackintosh Hall. There will be a power point presentation. Knowledge of Italian is not essential. Entrance is free.
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