Venue: The Glasgow Art Club & Gallery, 85 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4HU

Date: Monday 24 November 2025 6-7:30pm (Doors open 5:30pm)

Cost: £10.46 per person

Our next ‘Aperitivo Culturale’ is something extra special … bringing together Scotland’s top Italian writers, a visiting expert from Sicily in the beautiful setting of Glasgow Art The Glasgow Art Club & Gallery.

You are invited to join us for a glass of prosecco and a convivial evening with four widely-published Italian Scottish women writers, who will present powerful extracts from their writings, covering different aspects of Scotland’s ‘Italian story’.

• Cavaliere Mary Contini OBE, Director Valvona & Crolla; one of Scotland’s best-known Italian cooks; author, broadcaster and journalist. Her books include Dear Francesca, Dear Olivia, Dear Alfonso and Valvona & Crolla, A Year at an Italian Table.

• Hilda De Felice, creator of two plays, Loving The Enemy, and The Badly-behaved Poets’ Society; an after-life encounter between Rabbie Burns and the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli.

• Ann-Marie di Mambro, playwright and television screenwriter; author of Tally’s Blood, an option on the SQA English curriculum, and Brothers of Thunder.
• Dr. Anne Pia, poet, essayist, food writer. Her work includes award-winning Language of My Choosing, Keeping Away the Spiders, Magnaccioni: My Food My Italy and The Sweetness of Demons, translations and responses to Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.

From Sicily, Professor Manuela D’Amore of the University of Catania, and author of Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain: Time, Transnational Identities and Hybridity, will speak on what makes Scots Italian writing unique among the literature of Italian communities overseas.

The event will be chaired by Cav. Ronnie Convery, President of Italian Scotland and Honorary Consul of Italy in Glasgow and presented by Michela Calcagni, Vice President of Comites Scozia e Irlanda del Nord.

Afterwards guests are welcome to browse the gallery and exhibition area and stay and chat in the lounge bar area.

Tickets are on sale now and numbers are limited so book now on Eventbrite to avoid disappointment.

Event by Italian Scotland