Welcome to Charlotte’s FESTA ITALIANA !


 

 Welcome to Festa Italiana Charlotte 2012, where it’s all about charity and the Best Italian Food in Charlotte for the 7th year in a row. You will pay one admission charity donation and then enjoy unlimited complimentary delicious Italian Food, Cavit wines, Lunetta Prosecco, Peroni beer, wonderful live entertainment, and a large first class silent auction, on the beautiful surroundings of Queens University of Charlotte, our gracious and generous Host Sponsor. This all benefits Holy Angels  and Nevins Center…creating opportunity and quality of life for those with special needs and disabilities. Sunday May 2o, 2012.

This year Featuring

 

Celebrity  Festa Chef

Gino Macchiavelli

Demonstrating and Cooking our Famous 4 foot Seafood Risotto for all our Guests

 

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Honored Guest

Honorary Italian Consul for North Carolina

 

Dr.  Claudio Carpano

 

 

 Sunday Afternoon

May 20 2012      1-7  pm

at

QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE

 

Festa Executive Chef

Gino Macchiavelli

and

Many Celebrity chefs from Charlotte’s Best Italian Ristorante

Presenting their Best Appetizers

 

  

 

Live Entertainment

Performing Artists

Soprano Gina Gutierrez

Tenor Charlie Lang

Franco Londono

Carlo Martini

Evelio Mendez

The TBA GIRLS… Tiffany, Brianna, Amanda

Pianists Keiko Aloe and Randy Jones

Anna Belle Lusk and Trenton Durham

Dmitriy Solomakha and Gabriela Sevillano

 

Opera Carolina Chorus

 

and many more Wonderful Performers

plus, this year: Dancing !!

Stage Director and Producer: Agnes Florian

 

 Tickets on Sale now…only at the gate!!!!

 

 

Premier Host Sponsor

 

  

Sponsors Include…

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FESTA ITALIANA CHARLOTTE  2011

A WONDERFUL SUCCESS

We hope you enjoyed this year’s Festa Italiana, May 22, 2011 at Queens. It was a huge success. The Ristoranti and Bakery presentations and appetizers  were over the top with very impressive arancini, crespelle, pasta, pizza, breads, antipasti, caprese salad, and salad demontrations. Of course, our Festa Chef’s, Gino and Isabel Macchiavelli, exceeded our expectaions, as usual, with a spread of entrees, meats, pastas, sides, and desserts that our guests could not believe. Our Famous 4 Foot Seafood Risotto was a huge hit….as it is every year. Reviews have been astounding from the over 400 people attending. It was a gorgeous sunny Charlotte afternoon with endless and absolutely delicious Italian food, desserts, Lunetta prosecco, Cavit wines, Peroni beer, delightful live entertainment, exquisite silent auction, and fun people. And topping off an absolutely marvelous afternoon is the fact that it all resulted in $21,000 going to Nevins Center and Holy Angels, “creating opportuinites, unconditional love, and unlimited possibilites” for people with disabilities and special needs in our generous Charlotte community. Bravi e Baci to everyone attending and contributing !!!!!!!

Grazie mille to all those who contributed: our Host, Our Sponsors, our Chefs, Volunteers, Performers and Talent,  the Ristoranti, and our very hard working Committee, headed up by Marco Lubrano and Sherry Polcyn.

On behalf of the Foundation and myself:    a very heartfelt grazie mille !!  ………….   Vincenzo Voci

 

“HALFWAY TO THE FESTA”  TUSCANY WEEKEND 2011

NOVEMBER 5 and 6  2011 was also a fabulous success featuring Tuscan Chefs Mimma and Franca from the Tutti a Tavola Cooking Experience in Chianti, Tuscany. And also Charlotte’s own Celebrity Chefs Gene Briggs of Blue Restaurant on Sunday at Blue and John Cutitta of Delectables by Holly Caterers on board Luxury Yacht of Lake Norman on Saturday. Absolutely spectacular menus of delicious Tuscan food  along with Soprano Gina Gutierez, Tenor Charlie Lang, and Pianists, Keiko Aloe and Randy Jones. together we riased $16,000 for Holy Angels and Nevins Center. we would like to thank our proud sponsors: Caromont Health, Wells Fargo, Luxury Yachts of Lake Norman, Blue Restaurant, Delectables by Holly Caterers, and the Wine companies for their marvelous support.

  • Unlimited Food Wine and Beer

  • Vsiting Chefs from Lake Como Italy

  • Peroni Beer Garden

 

About Our Foundation…

St Anthony Foundation of Charlotte is proud to present Festa Italiana Charlotte each spring and a “Half -Way to the Festa” event each fall. The Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-religious, non-affiliated organization founded to help people who cannot help themselves: disadvantaged children, poor elderly, and those with special needs/disabilities. The Foundation chose to donate its event proceeds to benefit Nevins Center six years ago and this year also added Holy Angels as a recipient. Together these wonderful non-profit organizations help individuals with all levels of special needs and disabilities live happy and dignified lives.  Read More…

Queens University of Charlotte

Our Sponsoring Host

We’d like to thank our gracious host, Queens University of Charlotte for hosting our event this year. Queens University of Charlotte is a private, co-ed, Presbyterian-affiliated comprehensive university with a commitment to both liberal arts and professional studies. Located in the heart of historic Charlotte, Queens serves approximately 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students through its College of Arts and Sciences, the McColl School of Business, the Wayland H. Cato, Jr. School of Education, the James L. Knight School of Communication, Hayworth College for Adult Studies and the Andrew Blair College of Health which features the Presbyterian School of Nursing.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO THE FESTA   http://www.queens.edu/About-Queens/Visiting-Queens/Driving-Directions.html EASY FREE PARKING WILL BE MARKED OFF SELWYN AVE.


 Sponsors Include…

                                                                     

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