{"id":2523,"date":"2021-01-06T10:32:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2021-10-09T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T15:55:31","slug":"breakfast-meeting-october-16-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-october-16-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting October 16, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gianna Patriarca<\/strong> is an award-winning author of eight books of poetry and one children\u2019s book. Her work\u00a0has been adapted for stage at the Berkley Street Theater and for CBC radio drama. Herwriting is widely anthologized and featured in various documentaries including\u00a0Enigmatico, Pier 21, The Italian\/Canadians and Three Women: Adopting Lines,\u00a0Adapting Lives. She has most recently appeared in the OMNI TV documentary series,\u00a0Famiglia.\u00a0Gianna\u2019s books appear on the course list of numerous universities across Canada, the US and\u00a0Italy. Her first book Italian Women and Other Tragedies was runner-up to the Milton\u00a0Acorn People\u2019s Poetry Award. It was translated into Italian in 2009 and presented\u00a0at the University of Bologna and Naples Orientale. In 2010 she was the first\u00a0recipient of the Science and Culture Award from the Italian Chamber of Commerce of\u00a0Ontario.\u00a0She is a regular contributor to many of the literary events held in the city and often\u00a0appears at Word Stage, Art Bar, Italian Cultural Institute, Toronto Poetry Month,\u00a0and countless other events including regular visits to the Caritas organization directed by\u00a0Father John Carparelli, where she has read and prepared creative writing workshops for the\u00a0residents.\u00a0My Etruscan Face was short listed for the Bressani Literary Prize in 20l0. Her latest publication is\u00a0a collection of stories inspired by the lives of Italian\/Canadian women in Toronto. All My Fallen Angelas was launched on May 5th, 2016 and published by Inanna Publications.\u00a0Gianna continues to read and perform her work extensively throughout Canada and the US while\u00a0somehow finding the time to work on her novel, The Sicilian’s Bride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gianna Patriarca is an award-winning author of eight books of poetry and one children\u2019s book. Her work\u00a0has been adapted for stage at the Berkley Street Theater and for CBC radio drama. Herwriting is widely anthologized and featured in various documentaries including\u00a0Enigmatico, Pier 21, The Italian\/Canadians and Three Women: Adopting Lines,\u00a0Adapting Lives. She has most recently … Continue reading Breakfast Meeting October 16, 2021<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2021"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-EH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}