Cultural Travel and
Special Interest Tours in Italy
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Irv Bauer Summer Screenwriting Intensive
In one of the most enchanting places in the world, Spoleto, Italy — this two week intensive is for beginning Screenwriters. You start from scratch and learn a step-by-step process. By the end of the two weeks you have a short screenplay based on your own ideas and characters and an understanding of the specifics and logic of writing for film. Through the years, in universities around the world and in his small-group workshops, Irv Bauer has helped hundreds of aspiring writers develop their craft. The participants are from virtually every background and every corner of the globe. The atmosphere is enriching and stimulating and most importantly gives the new writer a way to work on their path forward.
Dates: Arrive August 12 - leave August 25, 2010
Cost: $3,200 all inclusive
Tel: 1.212.242.7585
Email: info@irvbauerscreenwriting.com
Website: www.irvbauerscreenwriting.com
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Centro Pokkoli Writing Workshops in Italy and Greece
Study Creative Writing in Italy and Greece with acclaimed poet, novelist, and literary travel writer, Linda Lappin. Multigenre workshops set in exotic locales of the Mediterranean will teach you to tap into the soul of place, discover your secret geographies of the past, and draw inspiration from your immediate environment, wherever you happen to be. May/June Workshop is set in the medieval village of Vitorchiano, near Rome. August in Cretan fishing village.
Contact: Program Director, 169 Via F. Meda, Rome 00157, Italy. Tel. 39 06 41 81645.
Cost: $1250
Dates: May 31st - June 6th, 2009 and August 17 -22nd, 2009
Email: md2948@mclink.it
Website: www.pokkoli.org
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London-Milan: The Dual City Summer Sessions for Design in Europe
Combine Creative Study and Travel in England and Italy during the Summer—Between 5th and 30th July 2010 you can make the most of both London, England and Milan, Italy by enrolling in a unique two- or four-week course in either fashion, fashion styling, interiors or product design. If you are a beginner and wish to build a portfolio and sample a real design school atmosphere or an experienced student or professional who wishes to build upon existing skills, there will be a course in our 2010 program for you.
COURSE OPTIONS: Study Fashion Design for Beginners//Study Fashion Styling for Beginners// Study Interior Design for Beginners// Study Product Design for Beginners// Cool Hunting in London and Milan// Cultural Tours of the Best in Design in London and Milan// Creating a Fashion Collection in London and Milan// Study Interior Design for Retail and Hotels in London and Milan// Study Consumer Electronics Design in London// Study Wellness Design in Milan
SEE website for further details on each course—We're sure you'll find what you want!
Contact: london@london-milan-courses.com
Website: www.london-milan-courses.com/courses.htm
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A Taste of Rome
Italian cooking classes in Lazio.
Contact: www.atasteofrome.com
The Abruzzi Mountain Art Workshop in Italy
Live and work in a rustic mountain village as AMW continues its innovative fine arts program in drawing, painting, collage, mask-making, digital photography, encaustic, fresco and clay sculpture in stunning studios one hour from Rome. May-Oct. Work at 12th century sites, abandonded abbeys and in our WWF reserve. Independent studio space available.
Contact: Patricia Antonucci, 56 Ludlow Street New York, NY 10002 212 260 7603; email: rmpa@verizon.net; web site: www.artworkshopitaly.com.
Accademia Europea di Firenze
Cultural Travel Programs and Activities
Art
Watercolor, Oil Painting, Sketches of Florence, Figure Drawing, Ceramics, Sculpture, Appraisal of Antiques, Photography.
Music
History of Italian Music, History and Language of Melodrama, Opera Directing, Opera Libretti, Vocal Technique for Lyrical Singers, Vocal Music of the Middle Ages- the Renaissance and the Baroque, Interpretation of Chamber Lyrics, Neapolitan Song, Group Singers, Diction for Singers, Piano Accompaniment, Piano - Elementary / Advanced, Musical Instruments.
Italian Cultural Study
Art History, History of Literature, History of Italian Cinema, History of Contemporary Italy, History of Italian Theater, Short Courses.
Italian Cuisine
The Italian cuisine is the most universal and tasted cuisine of the occidental world. Its history develops a great influence from several parts of the world and also the refinements required by the clergy and the high society of the Roman Empire.
Contact: info@accademiaeuropeafirenze.it, www.accademiaeuropeafirenze.it
Atlantic Writers Workshop
Two Week Writing Workshop in Assisi, Italy
Immerse yourself in your writing, whether you have a work-in-progress or are just starting to explore the border between fiction and memoir. Exquisite accomodations, breakfast and gourmet dinner, and daily workshop with award-winning teachers Sarah Van Arsdale and Peter Bricklebank. $3750 for two weeks, August 9-22. In conjunction with Art Workshops International.
Contact: sva@together.net, www.atlanticwritersworkshop.org
Art & Heart Studio in Florence, Italy
Intensive Airbrush and Painting Courses
Intensive Courses for all skill levels from July 4 - 8 and September 26 - 30 on afternoons. Small classes for a high level of individual attention. Individual workstations and art supplies included.
Contact: info@artandheart.it, www.artandheart.it
Bev Gruber's Everyday Gourmet Traveler
Small (4-12) culinary tours/cooking classes to Italy.
Contact: www.gourmetravel.com
Centro Studi - Rocca dei Malatesta
Experience the traditional Italian culture and learn to speak the language, cook family recipes, or create ceramic masterpieces. Explore the hidden treasures of the Marches region and enjoy tasting a variety of locally produced products. Programs can be customized to meet the needs of a group
Contact: centrostudi@roccadeimalatesta.it, www.roccadeimalatesta.it.
Ciao Bella Tours, LLC
European Travel Experts
A unique and experienced tour operator offering complete customized itineraries throughout Europe.
Contact: info@ciaobellatours.com, www.ciaobellatours.com
Convivio Rome Italian Cooking Holidays
Italian Cooking Holidays in Sabina, near Rome
Fun, creative, relaxing and affordable Italian cooking holidays in Sabina, a magical land of olive groves, vineyards and sunflower fields between Rome and Umbria. Luxury accommodation in villa with swimming pool, plenty of exciting activities!
Contact: info@conviviorome.com, www.conviviorome.com
COOKEURO
Cooking programs in Italy and France for the experienced and novice cook combiining dining, siteseeing and shopping. From the time of your arrival and throughout your stay you will experience the true feeling of being a guest not a tourist in an informal fun environment.
Contact: www.cookeuro.com.
Cook Italy
Cooking classes and gourmet tours in Bologna, Tuscany, Lucca, Umbira, Venice and Sicily.
Contact: www.cookitaly.com
Cookinitaly Cooking School: Private Italian cooking schools in Tuscany
CookinItaly is an Italian cooking school created by food enthusiasts to meet the needs of people coming to Italy to enjoy its kitchen and learning how to cook. Our aim is to propose only nice locations and interesting programs, with a particular attention to our clients' satisfaction.
Contact: info@cookinitaly.org, www.cookinitaly.org
Da Vinci Capers
A week-long cultural travel program led by a sculptress and based upon a reading of Leonardo da Vinci's principles of learning and creativity.
Contact: www.davincicapers.com
Dante Alighieri
Cooking classes for all levels in the cultural center of Siena at this fine language school.
Contact: www.dantealighieri.com
Divina Cucina
Cooking classes in Florence with which begins with full immersion into Tuscan life by shopping at the Central Market.
Contact: www.divinacucina.com
Ecotouring Tuscany
At Ecotouring Tuscany, we approach our adventure tours with great enthusiasm, within the frame of an environment-friendly approach. With us you will enjoy numerous easy-going activity options, selecting from a range of biking, walking and non-walking choices not offered by other tour operators; food while walking, wine and ecotourism. Tuscany and other regions in north-central Italy, display individual aspects of Italian culture and history, and these will be brought to life by our friendly, expert local guides.
Contact: info@ecotouringtuscany.com, www.ecotouringtuscany.com
everyday GOURMET TRAVELER
Join our small (6-12) group culinary tours to Italy and France combining cooking classes, markets, tastings, artisan visits, authentic dining experiences, shopping, guided cultural experiences, laughter, good friends and more fun than you can imagine.
Contact: bev@gourmetravel.com, www.gourmetravel.com
Faith Willinger
The noted author offers cooking classes in Florence. "I teach market-to-table sessions in my 18th century kitchen in the center of Florence. Classes are limited to 6 participants, held on Wednesdays and begin at 9:30 with an espresso and an Italian coffee lesson. We adjourn to the nearby Santo Spirito market, to visit the Innocenti family’s stand and purchase their organic, just-picked produce and eggs. Back in the kitchen everyone works together, pairing vegetables with superior extra virgin olive oils, real (not supermarket) balsamic vinegar, single wheat cultivar pasta. Each session prepares 8-10 dishes. Appropriately fantastic wines are served, during the class and at lunch, followed by fruit distillates and grappa for the intrepid. Participants receive a gift bag packed with special ingredients that we've worked with."
Contact: www.faithwillinger.com
Good Tastes of Tuscany
Cooking School in Tuscany, Italy
Experience firsthand the good tastes of Tuscany. We have designed our cooking and wine classes to expose you to an intimate side of that Italian lifestyle that is so appealing to all. Spend a fruitful day in an original gallery kitchen of the 13th century villa with hands-on instruction by one of our professional Italian chefs.
Contact: kanna@fusemail.com, www.tuscany-cooking-class.com
Grapeadventures
Grapeadventures offers small group cooking and wine appreciation tours as well as cultural tours.
Visit: www.grapeadventures.com
Il Chiostro-Arts Workshops in Italy
Il Chiostro offers a variety of arts and learning vacations in Italy inculding painting, photography, fiction writing, poetry, cooking and cabaret performance. Our programs are in Tuscany, Venice, Rome, Sorrento and Lake Garda.
Contact: ilchiostro@hotmail.com, www.ilchiostro.com
il Fae'
A gourmet vacation while learning Prosecco wine production. It is a B&B and vacation rental in the splendid wine country near Venice Venetian which offers cooking classes, wine tasting, and winnery tours.
Contact: www.ilfae.com
Italian Renaissance Travel
Designs personalized Italian itineraries and activities for the independent traveler, and art historical learning adventures for very small groups in and around Venice, Florence, Tuscany, Umbria, Milan, Rome and Naples.
Contact: www.italyarttrips.com
Italy Loves To Cook
Cooking classes
Take back home with you the secrets of Italian traditional cuisine while having a memorable and fun experience in Umbria!
Italy Loves to Cook provides single day or multiple day hands-on cooking classes in English. Classes are from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and include lunch.
Non-participant travel companions can join the rest of the group for lunch.
We also offer wine tastings with a professional Sommelier AIS (Associazione Italiana Sommelier) to add to the cooking class and/or a guided visit to the pottery factories in Deruta."
Contact: Via Vincara, 6 , Deruta PG 06053, Italy; tel. 348-4790868/348-4790883, info@italylovestocook.com, www.italylovestocook.com.
Koine Center
Italian Language and Culture in Florence, Lucca, Cortona, Elba Island, and Bologna
Koinè is a special kind of school. In fact, it was set up in 1980 as an association of teachers, all with personal and professional experience in the area of teaching Italian. Since these teachers were dissatisfied with their experiences, they decided to create a new type of organization which would differ from other schools in its style of working and teaching methods. At our five centers: Florence, Lucca, Cortona, Elba Island and Bologna, we offer a variety of courses to satisfy all learning
Courses are available in Italian Language and Culture in a Group; Combined Intensive Italian, Tutoring; Bread, Wine, and Language; The Artists' Workshop; Photography Workship; and Italian Language While Sailing. See website for details.
Contact: Director, Via Pandolfini 27, Florence 50122, Italy; tel. +39 055 213881; info@koinecenter.com; www.koinecenter.com
La Bottega del 30, Scuola di Cucina
Hélène and Franco—who have been together for 15 years sharing a love for cooking and for their customers—offer a hands-on course in Chianti cooking!
Contact: via Nuova 6, Localitá Villa a Sesta, Castelnuova Berardenga 53019, Siena, Italy; Tel./fax (011) 39-577-359226; www.labottegadel30.it/eng/home.htm.
Let's Cook in Italy
Full immersion into the italian lifestyle, focusing on wine, olive oil and food tasting in undiscovered and unspoilt Lazio - Monti della Tolfa - Rome. Lodging in a family’s 16th century beautiful restored "Country House". Cooking classes hands-on realization. Painting, biking, visit to archaeological sites, horse riding, trekking, free climbing, hiking, pottery, learn to speak Italian. Local towns & culture. Small groups. Ideal for solo travelers.
Contact: www.cookitaly.it
Let's Cook in Umbria
Cooking vacations, wine tours and other activities such as an olive harvest program, Christmas cooking in Italy, and a free solo travelers program which you can see on our website.
Contact: Agriturismo "La volpe e l'uva" strada comunale ASan Marino 25, 06125 Perugia Italy. Website: www.cookinumbria.it.
Like Heaven Writing Holiday
Writing Workshop in Tuscany, Italy
The first Like Heaven Writing Holiday will be held in an old family villa in Tuscany between June 25- July 1. At least 30 hours of workshop time with a highly-qualified writing coach, authentic Tuscan cuisine, introduction to Tuscany by a local family. A. Special low introductory price.
Contact: sallysont@yahoo.com, www.nialamaharaj.com/Siena
Mami Camilla
We'll take you with us, as part of our family. Our mission is to teach our students the art of traditional southern Italian cooking, specifically those dishes rooted in our culture and way of life. In this way we not only offer cooking classes, but a piece of our historical heritage. Language classes are offered in conjunction with the cooking classes.
Contact: info@mamicamilla.com, www.mamicamilla.com/?hl=en
Medius Terrae: Slow travel and learning vacations in Mediterranean southern Italy
Medius Terrae organizes thematic workshop-tours and study holidays in southern Italy, Apulia region. Our aim is to propose a new concept of travel where the visitor encounters the culture and the social life of the visited place with the mind of an anthropologist. Medius Terrae offers the following tours: Astonishing Stone (program on art history and the Lecce limestone), Cheese (on the history of farming, pastoralism,cheese varieties and cheese recipes), Tour of the Five Senses (real taste of the Mediterranean life style), Parole al Sole (interactive language course of Italian language and culture).
Contact: info@mdius-terrae.com, www.medius-terrae.com
New Itineraries Cultural Association
Activity and Cultural Holidays in Florence
Holiday accommodations in a Tuscan host family. Cultural holiday for individual and small groups. Art history excursions in Florence.
Organic Tuscany
An Italian cooking school that offers week-long "farm to table" organic cooking courses. The program Includes visits to local organic farms, cooking classes using organic ingredients, olive oil and wine tastings and tours of Siena, Florence and San Gimignano.
Contact: info@organictuscany.org, www.organictuscany.org
Painting Tours in Italy
Painting and drawing in the heart of Italy, join Leanne for a unique tour of amazing places. An unforgettable trip of fun, relaxation and learning. Art, culture, excellent food and wines, and beautiful places to enjoy.
Contact: Leanne@portray.it, www.portray.it
Santa Reparata International School of Art
Semester and Summer Art Courses in Florence, Italy
Santa Reparata offers accredited semester and summer courses in studio art and art history. The school is located in the historical center of Florence, and provides housing in nearby apartments. The faculty is made up of Italian and American artists andd scholars and all teaching is in English.
Contact: info@santareparata.org, www.santareparata.org
Slow Food: Master Italian Cooking
An exclusive 10-week program for professional chefs located in Jesi. The courses are designed for chefs working outside Italy who wish to widen and improve their knowledge of Italian cuisine. In particular we are addressing cooks who have completed their training and have worked alongside established chefs for some time. Our aim is to provide a wide-ranging frame of reference with plenty of in-depth detail that will enable cooks to interpret Italian cuisine to the highest standards throughout the world.
Contact: www.italcook.it
Sorrento Cooking School
Italian Cooking Lessons On The Sorrento & Amalfi Coast – Wine Tours
Daily hands-on cooking classes with lunch or dinner Included; 3-night Or 7-night packages; wine tours with wine tasting; culinary excursions.
Contact: info@sorrentocookingschool.com; www.sorrentocookingschool.com
Taste A Place: Unique Culinary Vacations in Tuscany
Website contains information on Italian food, wine, olive oil, festivals plus great Tuscan recipes.
Contact: info@tasteaplace.com, www.tasteaplace.com
Tenuta di Capezzana
Sample Program: A five day program exploring the foods and wines of Tuscany. Faith Heller Willinger, Director of the Capezzana Wine & Culinary Center, has designed a program to meet the needs of the food professional as well as those interested in exploring wines and foods of Tuscany.
Contact: www.capezzana.it
Toscana Mia Cooking Program
Toscana Mia offers a variety of programs about Italian cooking, wine, food and language in Florence and Chianti region, Tuscany's countryside, with an Italian family to experience real Italian life.
Contact: info@welcometuscany.com, www.welcometuscany.com
Tuscan Women Cook
A cooking school run by American expatriates. Learn to cook Tuscan style from the source -- the local women using recipes and techniques passed down over the generations, cooking with what they find fresh each day at the market and in the garden.
Contact: www.tuscanwomencook.com
Tuscany Cooking Class
Gastronomical Adventure in Tuscany, Italy
Tuscany Cooking Class offers beginning and advanced cooking classes in Tuscany and wine tours in Chianti, Tuscany.
Contact: kanna@fusemail.com, www.tuscany-cooking-class.com
The Venice School of Photography: Photography Workshops, Tours & Expeditions
The Venice School of Photography specialises in photographic workshops to some of the world’s most inspiring locations. Under the expert guidance of world-class teachers, you will discover some the most magical destinations whilst pushing your photographic boundaries. Destinations include Venice, Rome, Florence, Tuscany, Andalucia, Prague, Iceland, and Namibia.
Contact: info@learninitaly.com, www.learninitaly.com
Women's Studio Workshop
Printmaking Workshops in Italy
Learn safe, non-toxic printmaking mediums, Carborundum Aquatint or Silk Aquatint, in an inspiring Tuscany location. The workshop package includes tuition, housing and full board (3 meals/day), a day trip to Siena, and ground transportation to and from Grosseto to the workshop site at Castello di Potentino.
Contact: info@wsworkshop.org, www.wsworkshop.org
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