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About the
Bacio Organization
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This
letter invites you to join a fledgling organization
known as BACIO. Bacio is the Italian word for “kiss” but
its acronym stands for Bridgeport Area Cultural Italian
Organization. It was founded in 2003 with a mission of
preserving, enhancing and fostering our Italian roots,
culture, heritage and traditions. It was conceived as a
significant effort to preserve our heritage by learning
what our heritage is; what was involved in the day to
day living of our parents and grandparents; what were
the customs of their day for celebrating the great feast
days, what were the foods, what was their world like.
BACIO has tried to do its part in carrying on our roots.
We have Italian language classes, a wine making class, a
“Divine Comedy” discussion group, an event a month
involving an Italian movie and a lecture in alternate
months. We put on a spring concert in 2004 and we are
putting on a Christmas concert on December 11, 2005. We
are staging the first CARNEVALE in February 2006. We
just did a Connecticut premiere showing of the Hollywood
movie “Uncle Nino” starring Joe Mantegna, Ann Archer and
Pierrino Mascarino who appeared in the Bridgeport area
promoting the movie and answering questions and signing
photos of himself. We hope to bring this movie back in
the spring of 2006. We also sponsor a truly home-style
dinner in October which we call “Big Night” after the
movie of the same name.
We have plans to bring from Italy cultural events that
portray the kinds of happenings that were part of Italy
since Renaissance days. We plan to get into cooking
classes. We plan to sponsor trips to Italy. We plan to
offer as many things as possible that help fulfill our
mission.
I hope you are inspired to join us. The dues are only
$60.00 a year for a family living under one roof. For
the first year at least you will become a member of NIAF
(National Italian American Foundation) – a benefit of
your BACIO membership.
Every organization has two kinds of members: those who
choose to further the aims of the organization by taking
an active role in its doings, and those who appreciate
and support the organization by being a dues paying
member. We need both kinds. My hope is to have every
Italian, Italian-American, and American-Italian join us
so that we can fulfill the mission above stated.
Very truly yours,
Leonard S. Paoletta
P.S. BACIO invites all people, regardless of their
ethnicity, to join BACIO |
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