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SAA-uk's annual showcase and celebration of classical Indian dance. Includes Bharatanatyam performed by children aged 3 to adult; Kathak by adults and children, and our teacher, Rashmi Sudhir performing Mohiniattam. At the Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds.
This event also showcased an Urban Natyam piece in development by Tonicka Virdee and Gursimran Virdee, mentored by Seetal Kaur Gahir and Seeta Patel. Funded by Leeds Inspired.
Photos by Maria Spadafora for SAA-uk www.flickr.com/photos/bloodynora
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A Bharatanatyam dance performance at Trinity shopping centre in Leeds on 30th March 2014. Presented by SAA-uk and Leeds University International Concert season. The stories presented were written by three children who'd entered a competition - and were interpreted by dancers Dilrani Kaur Lall and Seetal Kaur Gahir, with support from musicians Kaviraj Singh and Upneet Singh.
Photography by Maria Spadafora
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London based Kshetra Dance Company brought this exploration of the deities to Seven Arts in Leeds for the first time. Dancing pure Bharatanatyam, they opened the evening with Pushpanji, a traditional invocation, followed by three pieces about Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva, wowing a full house with a fast pace Thillana to finish.
Photos by Maria Spadafora, May 2014.
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I'm fascinated by people's homes - the personal touches, family photos, and how they can (usually) reflect a particular era or trend in interior design. My Mum's former council house is a chaotic, eclectic time-warp, which makes it harder to pinpoint in time. It's bonkers. I've focussed on details rather than whole rooms with these photos, as there are many!
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
London based Kshetra Dance Company brought this exploration of the deities to Seven Arts in Leeds for the first time. Dancing pure Bharatanatyam, they opened the evening with Pushpanji, a traditional invocation, followed by three pieces about Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva, wowing a full house with a fast pace Thillana to finish.
Photos by Maria Spadafora, May 2014.
@southasianartuk
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
SAA-uk's annual showcase and celebration of classical Indian dance. Includes Bharatanatyam performed by children aged 3 to adult; Kathak by adults and children, and our teacher, Rashmi Sudhir performing Mohiniattam. At the Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds.
This event also showcased an Urban Natyam piece in development by Tonicka Virdee and Gursimran Virdee, mentored by Seetal Kaur Gahir and Seeta Patel. Funded by Leeds Inspired.
Photos by Maria Spadafora for SAA-uk www.flickr.com/photos/bloodynora
Twitter: @southasianartuk
Instagram @southasianartsuk
I'm fascinated by people's homes - the personal touches, family photos, and how they can (usually) reflect a particular era or trend in interior design. My Mum's former council house is a chaotic, eclectic time-warp, which makes it harder to pinpoint in time. It's bonkers. I've focussed on details rather than whole rooms with these photos, as there are many!
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
On June 29, 2018, a funeral was held for FDNY Chief of Fire Prevention Ronald R. Spadafora, a 40-year veteran of the Department who succumbed to World Trade Center-related cancer. Chief Spadafora is the highest ranking active member of the FDNY to die from a World Trade Center illness.
Page played along with the course, penning “Dijon” with the ketchup on his plate – a nod to a line from the popular Barnaked Ladies song that he co-wrote before polishing off the cheesy course.
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn’t have to eat Kraft dinner
But we would eat Kraft dinner
Of course we would, we’d just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That’s right, all the fanciest Dijon ketchups
Kraft Foods – 1937
Pairing: 2010 Spadafora Schietto Chardonnay, Sicliy, Italy
Instead of a riff of cheap dinner classic, chef Blondin revealed that it was Kraft Dinner®, however this version used extra old Beemster cheese and noodles that took the chef two weeks to source (the room burst into applause at this success). The creamy noodles were topped with more cheese powder and served with Heinz ketchup. “No modifications,” chef Blondin assured, “straight out of the bottle.”
Image taken with my iPhone
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
London based Kshetra Dance Company brought this exploration of the deities to Seven Arts in Leeds for the first time. Dancing pure Bharatanatyam, they opened the evening with Pushpanji, a traditional invocation, followed by three pieces about Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva, wowing a full house with a fast pace Thillana to finish.
Photos by Maria Spadafora, May 2014.
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About 90 km. from Messina, on the Eastern Mounts Nebrodi, into luxuriant valley crossed by the torrent Roccella, rises Roccella Valdemone. It is probable that the seat was already populated in Norman period: in 1296 it became feud of the Spataforas. Of the ancient and glorious history of Roccella are proofs some ruins of a Medieval castle which was one of the most important fortress in Sicily and has been considered for a long time to be elusive. Walking along the village it gets to the precious Cathedral Church which among furnishings of best workmanship, precious canvases and elegant sculptures, keeps a marble work of 1540 with a delicate taste made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598). Splendid is also the Church of Santa Maria dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience), with a simple architecture, characterized by a beautiful and decorated portal, by ornaments on the front, by the original insides rich of friezes. The temple also shows a beautiful sculpture made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598) representing an intense, in the outlines, Our Lady with Christ Child.. Inhabitants of Roccella (Roccellesi) find into popular manifestations a moment of cultural identity besides an occasion of joy and making feast: in May the festival of buttermilk curd, is special. It attracts into village visitors of the near villages and they also expet the tasting of good local food along the streets of Roccella; suggestive is also the feast in honour of Madonna dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience) kept on 15 August.Roccella’s territory, full of wheat, vine, legume, and fruit growings, shows insuperable sceneries included in reserves of the Valley of Alcantara and of the Wood of Malabotta. The Church Mother S. Nicolò of Bari constructed around to the 1400, the Church Mother, rises in the public square of the country dominated from the high bell tower. The inside is of Romanesque style, to three navate with transept, three rectangular apses, twelve monolitiche columns in sandstone stone with capital of corinthian style and the ligneo ceiling, rifared in 1935. The church came entire restored in the 1525 as it is deduced from two written in Latin language still today visible on sides of the greater altar. On the left side of the altar can be admired the marmoreo picture representing the Nativity ; of Jesus, commissioned in the 1526 to the Antonello Gagini from the baron Giovanni Michele Spadafora, but nearly totally executed from the son Giacomo.
Roccella Valdemone è un comune italiano di 714 abitanti della provincia di Messina in Sicilia.Anticamente battezzata Auricella e Rocchella (dal latino medievale Roccella, piccola rocca) quindi Roccella-Randazzo e infine Roccella Valdemone.Il nome "Valdemone" ha origine da una delle tre circoscrizioni amministrative in cui gli Arabi suddivisero la Sicilia, ossia il Vallo di Demena, che a sua volta discende dal latino Valium (vallo).Il ritrovamento in territori vicini a Roccella, di monete greco-romane fa supporre la presenza di antichi insediamenti umani.Sorta in età normanna, un castello consolidò nel Medioevo la sua posizione di centro strategico difficilmente espugnabile. Il territorio è suddiviso in quattro contrade risalenti al sistema feudale, offerte ai Baroni come ricompensa. Infatti Roccella fu affidata nel 1296 da Federico II d'Aragona a Damiano Spadafora col titolo di baronia, divenendo in seguito marchesato. Lo stemma Spadafora, composto da un braccio armato che tiene una spada, tutt'oggi è raffigurato nel gonfalone comunale.Le contrade, in cui tutt'oggi è suddiviso il territorio sono: a nord Cassanita, Masinaro, Nocerazzo, Perino, Pillera e Revocato; a sud Bonvassallo (in cui a differenza delle altre esiste ancora la borgata), Germanà, Pecoraro, S. Giovanni; a est Daniele; a ovest Pietrorizzo, Lanzarite.Gli Spadafora (anticamente Spatafora) ne mantennero il possesso (con la denominazione alterna dei Lauria) fino al 1812 quando, mentre il paese era sotto la giurisdizione del marchese Domenico Spadafora Colonna ultimo feudatario della famiglia, il parlamento del Regno delle due Sicile abolì il feudalesimo.
About 90 km. from Messina, on the Eastern Mounts Nebrodi, into luxuriant valley crossed by the torrent Roccella, rises Roccella Valdemone. It is probable that the seat was already populated in Norman period: in 1296 it became feud of the Spataforas. Of the ancient and glorious history of Roccella are proofs some ruins of a Medieval castle which was one of the most important fortress in Sicily and has been considered for a long time to be elusive. Walking along the village it gets to the precious Cathedral Church which among furnishings of best workmanship, precious canvases and elegant sculptures, keeps a marble work of 1540 with a delicate taste made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598). Splendid is also the Church of Santa Maria dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience), with a simple architecture, characterized by a beautiful and decorated portal, by ornaments on the front, by the original insides rich of friezes. The temple also shows a beautiful sculpture made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598) representing an intense, in the outlines, Our Lady with Christ Child.. Inhabitants of Roccella (Roccellesi) find into popular manifestations a moment of cultural identity besides an occasion of joy and making feast: in May the festival of buttermilk curd, is special. It attracts into village visitors of the near villages and they also expet the tasting of good local food along the streets of Roccella; suggestive is also the feast in honour of Madonna dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience) kept on 15 August.Roccella’s territory, full of wheat, vine, legume, and fruit growings, shows insuperable sceneries included in reserves of the Valley of Alcantara and of the Wood of Malabotta. The Church Mother S. Nicolò of Bari constructed around to the 1400, the Church Mother, rises in the public square of the country dominated from the high bell tower. The inside is of Romanesque style, to three navate with transept, three rectangular apses, twelve monolitiche columns in sandstone stone with capital of corinthian style and the ligneo ceiling, rifared in 1935. The church came entire restored in the 1525 as it is deduced from two written in Latin language still today visible on sides of the greater altar. On the left side of the altar can be admired the marmoreo picture representing the Nativity ; of Jesus, commissioned in the 1526 to the Antonello Gagini from the baron Giovanni Michele Spadafora, but nearly totally executed from the son Giacomo.
Roccella Valdemone è un comune italiano di 714 abitanti della provincia di Messina in Sicilia.Anticamente battezzata Auricella e Rocchella (dal latino medievale Roccella, piccola rocca) quindi Roccella-Randazzo e infine Roccella Valdemone.Il nome "Valdemone" ha origine da una delle tre circoscrizioni amministrative in cui gli Arabi suddivisero la Sicilia, ossia il Vallo di Demena, che a sua volta discende dal latino Valium (vallo).Il ritrovamento in territori vicini a Roccella, di monete greco-romane fa supporre la presenza di antichi insediamenti umani.Sorta in età normanna, un castello consolidò nel Medioevo la sua posizione di centro strategico difficilmente espugnabile. Il territorio è suddiviso in quattro contrade risalenti al sistema feudale, offerte ai Baroni come ricompensa. Infatti Roccella fu affidata nel 1296 da Federico II d'Aragona a Damiano Spadafora col titolo di baronia, divenendo in seguito marchesato. Lo stemma Spadafora, composto da un braccio armato che tiene una spada, tutt'oggi è raffigurato nel gonfalone comunale.Le contrade, in cui tutt'oggi è suddiviso il territorio sono: a nord Cassanita, Masinaro, Nocerazzo, Perino, Pillera e Revocato; a sud Bonvassallo (in cui a differenza delle altre esiste ancora la borgata), Germanà, Pecoraro, S. Giovanni; a est Daniele; a ovest Pietrorizzo, Lanzarite.Gli Spadafora (anticamente Spatafora) ne mantennero il possesso (con la denominazione alterna dei Lauria) fino al 1812 quando, mentre il paese era sotto la giurisdizione del marchese Domenico Spadafora Colonna ultimo feudatario della famiglia, il parlamento del Regno delle due Sicile abolì il feudalesimo.
About 90 km. from Messina, on the Eastern Mounts Nebrodi, into luxuriant valley crossed by the torrent Roccella, rises Roccella Valdemone. It is probable that the seat was already populated in Norman period: in 1296 it became feud of the Spataforas. Of the ancient and glorious history of Roccella are proofs some ruins of a Medieval castle which was one of the most important fortress in Sicily and has been considered for a long time to be elusive. Walking along the village it gets to the precious Cathedral Church which among furnishings of best workmanship, precious canvases and elegant sculptures, keeps a marble work of 1540 with a delicate taste made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598). Splendid is also the Church of Santa Maria dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience), with a simple architecture, characterized by a beautiful and decorated portal, by ornaments on the front, by the original insides rich of friezes. The temple also shows a beautiful sculpture made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598) representing an intense, in the outlines, Our Lady with Christ Child.. Inhabitants of Roccella (Roccellesi) find into popular manifestations a moment of cultural identity besides an occasion of joy and making feast: in May the festival of buttermilk curd, is special. It attracts into village visitors of the near villages and they also expet the tasting of good local food along the streets of Roccella; suggestive is also the feast in honour of Madonna dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience) kept on 15 August.Roccella’s territory, full of wheat, vine, legume, and fruit growings, shows insuperable sceneries included in reserves of the Valley of Alcantara and of the Wood of Malabotta. The Church Mother S. Nicolò of Bari constructed around to the 1400, the Church Mother, rises in the public square of the country dominated from the high bell tower. The inside is of Romanesque style, to three navate with transept, three rectangular apses, twelve monolitiche columns in sandstone stone with capital of corinthian style and the ligneo ceiling, rifared in 1935. The church came entire restored in the 1525 as it is deduced from two written in Latin language still today visible on sides of the greater altar. On the left side of the altar can be admired the marmoreo picture representing the Nativity ; of Jesus, commissioned in the 1526 to the Antonello Gagini from the baron Giovanni Michele Spadafora, but nearly totally executed from the son Giacomo.
Roccella Valdemone è un comune italiano di 714 abitanti della provincia di Messina in Sicilia.Anticamente battezzata Auricella e Rocchella (dal latino medievale Roccella, piccola rocca) quindi Roccella-Randazzo e infine Roccella Valdemone.Il nome "Valdemone" ha origine da una delle tre circoscrizioni amministrative in cui gli Arabi suddivisero la Sicilia, ossia il Vallo di Demena, che a sua volta discende dal latino Valium (vallo).Il ritrovamento in territori vicini a Roccella, di monete greco-romane fa supporre la presenza di antichi insediamenti umani.Sorta in età normanna, un castello consolidò nel Medioevo la sua posizione di centro strategico difficilmente espugnabile. Il territorio è suddiviso in quattro contrade risalenti al sistema feudale, offerte ai Baroni come ricompensa. Infatti Roccella fu affidata nel 1296 da Federico II d'Aragona a Damiano Spadafora col titolo di baronia, divenendo in seguito marchesato. Lo stemma Spadafora, composto da un braccio armato che tiene una spada, tutt'oggi è raffigurato nel gonfalone comunale.Le contrade, in cui tutt'oggi è suddiviso il territorio sono: a nord Cassanita, Masinaro, Nocerazzo, Perino, Pillera e Revocato; a sud Bonvassallo (in cui a differenza delle altre esiste ancora la borgata), Germanà, Pecoraro, S. Giovanni; a est Daniele; a ovest Pietrorizzo, Lanzarite.Gli Spadafora (anticamente Spatafora) ne mantennero il possesso (con la denominazione alterna dei Lauria) fino al 1812 quando, mentre il paese era sotto la giurisdizione del marchese Domenico Spadafora Colonna ultimo feudatario della famiglia, il parlamento del Regno delle due Sicile abolì il feudalesimo.
I'm fascinated by people's homes - the personal touches, family photos, and how they can (usually) reflect a particular era or trend in interior design. My Mum's former council house is a chaotic, eclectic time-warp, which makes it harder to pinpoint in time. It's bonkers. I've focussed on details rather than whole rooms with these photos, as there are many!
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
Getting ready for Breeze Live at Carriageworks Leeds 2013. Photo by Maria Spadafora.
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On June 29, 2018, a funeral was held for FDNY Chief of Fire Prevention Ronald R. Spadafora, a 40-year veteran of the Department who succumbed to World Trade Center-related cancer. Chief Spadafora is the highest ranking active member of the FDNY to die from a World Trade Center illness.
About 90 km. from Messina, on the Eastern Mounts Nebrodi, into luxuriant valley crossed by the torrent Roccella, rises Roccella Valdemone. It is probable that the seat was already populated in Norman period: in 1296 it became feud of the Spataforas. Of the ancient and glorious history of Roccella are proofs some ruins of a Medieval castle which was one of the most important fortress in Sicily and has been considered for a long time to be elusive. Walking along the village it gets to the precious Cathedral Church which among furnishings of best workmanship, precious canvases and elegant sculptures, keeps a marble work of 1540 with a delicate taste made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598). Splendid is also the Church of Santa Maria dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience), with a simple architecture, characterized by a beautiful and decorated portal, by ornaments on the front, by the original insides rich of friezes. The temple also shows a beautiful sculpture made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598) representing an intense, in the outlines, Our Lady with Christ Child.. Inhabitants of Roccella (Roccellesi) find into popular manifestations a moment of cultural identity besides an occasion of joy and making feast: in May the festival of buttermilk curd, is special. It attracts into village visitors of the near villages and they also expet the tasting of good local food along the streets of Roccella; suggestive is also the feast in honour of Madonna dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience) kept on 15 August.Roccella’s territory, full of wheat, vine, legume, and fruit growings, shows insuperable sceneries included in reserves of the Valley of Alcantara and of the Wood of Malabotta. The Church Mother S. Nicolò of Bari constructed around to the 1400, the Church Mother, rises in the public square of the country dominated from the high bell tower. The inside is of Romanesque style, to three navate with transept, three rectangular apses, twelve monolitiche columns in sandstone stone with capital of corinthian style and the ligneo ceiling, rifared in 1935. The church came entire restored in the 1525 as it is deduced from two written in Latin language still today visible on sides of the greater altar. On the left side of the altar can be admired the marmoreo picture representing the Nativity ; of Jesus, commissioned in the 1526 to the Antonello Gagini from the baron Giovanni Michele Spadafora, but nearly totally executed from the son Giacomo.
Roccella Valdemone è un comune italiano di 714 abitanti della provincia di Messina in Sicilia.Anticamente battezzata Auricella e Rocchella (dal latino medievale Roccella, piccola rocca) quindi Roccella-Randazzo e infine Roccella Valdemone.Il nome "Valdemone" ha origine da una delle tre circoscrizioni amministrative in cui gli Arabi suddivisero la Sicilia, ossia il Vallo di Demena, che a sua volta discende dal latino Valium (vallo).Il ritrovamento in territori vicini a Roccella, di monete greco-romane fa supporre la presenza di antichi insediamenti umani.Sorta in età normanna, un castello consolidò nel Medioevo la sua posizione di centro strategico difficilmente espugnabile. Il territorio è suddiviso in quattro contrade risalenti al sistema feudale, offerte ai Baroni come ricompensa. Infatti Roccella fu affidata nel 1296 da Federico II d'Aragona a Damiano Spadafora col titolo di baronia, divenendo in seguito marchesato. Lo stemma Spadafora, composto da un braccio armato che tiene una spada, tutt'oggi è raffigurato nel gonfalone comunale.Le contrade, in cui tutt'oggi è suddiviso il territorio sono: a nord Cassanita, Masinaro, Nocerazzo, Perino, Pillera e Revocato; a sud Bonvassallo (in cui a differenza delle altre esiste ancora la borgata), Germanà, Pecoraro, S. Giovanni; a est Daniele; a ovest Pietrorizzo, Lanzarite.Gli Spadafora (anticamente Spatafora) ne mantennero il possesso (con la denominazione alterna dei Lauria) fino al 1812 quando, mentre il paese era sotto la giurisdizione del marchese Domenico Spadafora Colonna ultimo feudatario della famiglia, il parlamento del Regno delle due Sicile abolì il feudalesimo.
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
SAA-uk's annual showcase and celebration of classical Indian dance. Includes Bharatanatyam performed by children aged 3 to adult; Kathak by adults and children, and our teacher, Rashmi Sudhir performing Mohiniattam. At the Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds.
This event also showcased an Urban Natyam piece in development by Tonicka Virdee and Gursimran Virdee, mentored by Seetal Kaur Gahir and Seeta Patel. Funded by Leeds Inspired.
Photos by Maria Spadafora for SAA-uk www.flickr.com/photos/bloodynora
Twitter: @southasianartuk
Instagram @southasianartsuk
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
SAA-uk's annual showcase and celebration of classical Indian dance. Includes Bharatanatyam performed by children aged 3 to adult; Kathak by adults and children, and our teacher, Rashmi Sudhir performing Mohiniattam. At the Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds.
This event also showcased an Urban Natyam piece in development by Tonicka Virdee and Gursimran Virdee, mentored by Seetal Kaur Gahir and Seeta Patel. Funded by Leeds Inspired.
Photos by Maria Spadafora for SAA-uk www.flickr.com/photos/bloodynora
Twitter: @southasianartuk
Instagram @southasianartsuk
SAA-uk's annual showcase and celebration of classical Indian dance. Includes Bharatanatyam performed by children aged 3 to adult; Kathak by adults and children, and our teacher, Rashmi Sudhir performing Mohiniattam. At the Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds.
This event also showcased an Urban Natyam piece in development by Tonicka Virdee and Gursimran Virdee, mentored by Seetal Kaur Gahir and Seeta Patel. Funded by Leeds Inspired.
Photos by Maria Spadafora for SAA-uk www.flickr.com/photos/bloodynora
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About 90 km. from Messina, on the Eastern Mounts Nebrodi, into luxuriant valley crossed by the torrent Roccella, rises Roccella Valdemone. It is probable that the seat was already populated in Norman period: in 1296 it became feud of the Spataforas. Of the ancient and glorious history of Roccella are proofs some ruins of a Medieval castle which was one of the most important fortress in Sicily and has been considered for a long time to be elusive. Walking along the village it gets to the precious Cathedral Church which among furnishings of best workmanship, precious canvases and elegant sculptures, keeps a marble work of 1540 with a delicate taste made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598). Splendid is also the Church of Santa Maria dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience), with a simple architecture, characterized by a beautiful and decorated portal, by ornaments on the front, by the original insides rich of friezes. The temple also shows a beautiful sculpture made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598) representing an intense, in the outlines, Our Lady with Christ Child.. Inhabitants of Roccella (Roccellesi) find into popular manifestations a moment of cultural identity besides an occasion of joy and making feast: in May the festival of buttermilk curd, is special. It attracts into village visitors of the near villages and they also expet the tasting of good local food along the streets of Roccella; suggestive is also the feast in honour of Madonna dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience) kept on 15 August.Roccella’s territory, full of wheat, vine, legume, and fruit growings, shows insuperable sceneries included in reserves of the Valley of Alcantara and of the Wood of Malabotta. The Church Mother S. Nicolò of Bari constructed around to the 1400, the Church Mother, rises in the public square of the country dominated from the high bell tower. The inside is of Romanesque style, to three navate with transept, three rectangular apses, twelve monolitiche columns in sandstone stone with capital of corinthian style and the ligneo ceiling, rifared in 1935. The church came entire restored in the 1525 as it is deduced from two written in Latin language still today visible on sides of the greater altar. On the left side of the altar can be admired the marmoreo picture representing the Nativity ; of Jesus, commissioned in the 1526 to the Antonello Gagini from the baron Giovanni Michele Spadafora, but nearly totally executed from the son Giacomo.
Roccella Valdemone è un comune italiano di 714 abitanti della provincia di Messina in Sicilia.Anticamente battezzata Auricella e Rocchella (dal latino medievale Roccella, piccola rocca) quindi Roccella-Randazzo e infine Roccella Valdemone.Il nome "Valdemone" ha origine da una delle tre circoscrizioni amministrative in cui gli Arabi suddivisero la Sicilia, ossia il Vallo di Demena, che a sua volta discende dal latino Valium (vallo).Il ritrovamento in territori vicini a Roccella, di monete greco-romane fa supporre la presenza di antichi insediamenti umani.Sorta in età normanna, un castello consolidò nel Medioevo la sua posizione di centro strategico difficilmente espugnabile. Il territorio è suddiviso in quattro contrade risalenti al sistema feudale, offerte ai Baroni come ricompensa. Infatti Roccella fu affidata nel 1296 da Federico II d'Aragona a Damiano Spadafora col titolo di baronia, divenendo in seguito marchesato. Lo stemma Spadafora, composto da un braccio armato che tiene una spada, tutt'oggi è raffigurato nel gonfalone comunale.Le contrade, in cui tutt'oggi è suddiviso il territorio sono: a nord Cassanita, Masinaro, Nocerazzo, Perino, Pillera e Revocato; a sud Bonvassallo (in cui a differenza delle altre esiste ancora la borgata), Germanà, Pecoraro, S. Giovanni; a est Daniele; a ovest Pietrorizzo, Lanzarite.Gli Spadafora (anticamente Spatafora) ne mantennero il possesso (con la denominazione alterna dei Lauria) fino al 1812 quando, mentre il paese era sotto la giurisdizione del marchese Domenico Spadafora Colonna ultimo feudatario della famiglia, il parlamento del Regno delle due Sicile abolì il feudalesimo.
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
On June 29, 2018, a funeral was held for FDNY Chief of Fire Prevention Ronald R. Spadafora, a 40-year veteran of the Department who succumbed to World Trade Center-related cancer. Chief Spadafora is the highest ranking active member of the FDNY to die from a World Trade Center illness.
A community member marks a tree as part of the training on direct felling in the Morti community in the Wargandi indigenous reservation in the Darien region in Panama.
Photo credit: Rita Spadafora, USAID/Panama
Page played along with the course, penning “Dijon” with the ketchup on his plate – a nod to a line from the popular Barnaked Ladies song that he co-wrote before polishing off the cheesy course.
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn’t have to eat Kraft dinner
But we would eat Kraft dinner
Of course we would, we’d just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That’s right, all the fanciest Dijon ketchups
Kraft Foods – 1937
Pairing: 2010 Spadafora Schietto Chardonnay, Sicliy, Italy
Instead of a riff of cheap dinner classic, chef Blondin revealed that it was Kraft Dinner®, however this version used extra old Beemster cheese and noodles that took the chef two weeks to source (the room burst into applause at this success). The creamy noodles were topped with more cheese powder and served with Heinz ketchup. “No modifications,” chef Blondin assured, “straight out of the bottle.”
Image taken with my iPhone
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
About 90 km. from Messina, on the Eastern Mounts Nebrodi, into luxuriant valley crossed by the torrent Roccella, rises Roccella Valdemone. It is probable that the seat was already populated in Norman period: in 1296 it became feud of the Spataforas. Of the ancient and glorious history of Roccella are proofs some ruins of a Medieval castle which was one of the most important fortress in Sicily and has been considered for a long time to be elusive. Walking along the village it gets to the precious Cathedral Church which among furnishings of best workmanship, precious canvases and elegant sculptures, keeps a marble work of 1540 with a delicate taste made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598). Splendid is also the Church of Santa Maria dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience), with a simple architecture, characterized by a beautiful and decorated portal, by ornaments on the front, by the original insides rich of friezes. The temple also shows a beautiful sculpture made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598) representing an intense, in the outlines, Our Lady with Christ Child.. Inhabitants of Roccella (Roccellesi) find into popular manifestations a moment of cultural identity besides an occasion of joy and making feast: in May the festival of buttermilk curd, is special. It attracts into village visitors of the near villages and they also expet the tasting of good local food along the streets of Roccella; suggestive is also the feast in honour of Madonna dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience) kept on 15 August.Roccella’s territory, full of wheat, vine, legume, and fruit growings, shows insuperable sceneries included in reserves of the Valley of Alcantara and of the Wood of Malabotta. The Church Mother S. Nicolò of Bari constructed around to the 1400, the Church Mother, rises in the public square of the country dominated from the high bell tower. The inside is of Romanesque style, to three navate with transept, three rectangular apses, twelve monolitiche columns in sandstone stone with capital of corinthian style and the ligneo ceiling, rifared in 1935. The church came entire restored in the 1525 as it is deduced from two written in Latin language still today visible on sides of the greater altar. On the left side of the altar can be admired the marmoreo picture representing the Nativity ; of Jesus, commissioned in the 1526 to the Antonello Gagini from the baron Giovanni Michele Spadafora, but nearly totally executed from the son Giacomo.
Roccella Valdemone è un comune italiano di 714 abitanti della provincia di Messina in Sicilia.Anticamente battezzata Auricella e Rocchella (dal latino medievale Roccella, piccola rocca) quindi Roccella-Randazzo e infine Roccella Valdemone.Il nome "Valdemone" ha origine da una delle tre circoscrizioni amministrative in cui gli Arabi suddivisero la Sicilia, ossia il Vallo di Demena, che a sua volta discende dal latino Valium (vallo).Il ritrovamento in territori vicini a Roccella, di monete greco-romane fa supporre la presenza di antichi insediamenti umani.Sorta in età normanna, un castello consolidò nel Medioevo la sua posizione di centro strategico difficilmente espugnabile. Il territorio è suddiviso in quattro contrade risalenti al sistema feudale, offerte ai Baroni come ricompensa. Infatti Roccella fu affidata nel 1296 da Federico II d'Aragona a Damiano Spadafora col titolo di baronia, divenendo in seguito marchesato. Lo stemma Spadafora, composto da un braccio armato che tiene una spada, tutt'oggi è raffigurato nel gonfalone comunale.Le contrade, in cui tutt'oggi è suddiviso il territorio sono: a nord Cassanita, Masinaro, Nocerazzo, Perino, Pillera e Revocato; a sud Bonvassallo (in cui a differenza delle altre esiste ancora la borgata), Germanà, Pecoraro, S. Giovanni; a est Daniele; a ovest Pietrorizzo, Lanzarite.Gli Spadafora (anticamente Spatafora) ne mantennero il possesso (con la denominazione alterna dei Lauria) fino al 1812 quando, mentre il paese era sotto la giurisdizione del marchese Domenico Spadafora Colonna ultimo feudatario della famiglia, il parlamento del Regno delle due Sicile abolì il feudalesimo.
SAA-uk's annual showcase and celebration of classical Indian dance. Includes Bharatanatyam performed by children aged 3 to adult; Kathak by adults and children, and our teacher, Rashmi Sudhir performing Mohiniattam. At the Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds.
This event also showcased an Urban Natyam piece in development by Tonicka Virdee and Gursimran Virdee, mentored by Seetal Kaur Gahir and Seeta Patel. Funded by Leeds Inspired.
Photos by Maria Spadafora for SAA-uk www.flickr.com/photos/bloodynora
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On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
SAA-uk's annual showcase and celebration of classical Indian dance. Includes Bharatanatyam performed by children aged 3 to adult; Kathak by adults and children, and our teacher, Rashmi Sudhir performing Mohiniattam. At the Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds.
This event also showcased an Urban Natyam piece in development by Tonicka Virdee and Gursimran Virdee, mentored by Seetal Kaur Gahir and Seeta Patel. Funded by Leeds Inspired.
Photos by Maria Spadafora for SAA-uk www.flickr.com/photos/bloodynora
Twitter: @southasianartuk
Instagram @southasianartsuk
SAA-uk's annual showcase and celebration of classical Indian dance. Includes Bharatanatyam performed by children aged 3 to adult; Kathak by adults and children, and our teacher, Rashmi Sudhir performing Mohiniattam. At the Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds.
This event also showcased an Urban Natyam piece in development by Tonicka Virdee and Gursimran Virdee, mentored by Seetal Kaur Gahir and Seeta Patel. Funded by Leeds Inspired.
Photos by Maria Spadafora for SAA-uk www.flickr.com/photos/bloodynora
Twitter: @southasianartuk
Instagram @southasianartsuk
Our Level 1 and 2 Bharatanatyam students performed at the Community Dance Platform 2014, hosted by the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. Very proud of our girls!
Photography by Maria Spadafora.
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro honored 14 FDNY members who have died in the past year at the 111th Annual Memorial Service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive. Those honored were: Lt. Michael Davidson, Lt. Christopher Raguso, Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora, Fire Marshal Christopher Zanetis, EMT Kevin Liang, Firefighter Christopher Muccini, Firefighter Robert Tilearcio, EMT William DiPietra, Marine Pilot Thomas Phelan, Firefighter Daniel Stryker, Firefighter Terence Lorino, Lt. William Moore, Firefighter George Scheer, and EMT Eric Maleh.
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2013 CGI Latin America Meeting
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The Big Boston Gig 2015. Princesses, pirates, face-painting, music - a grand day out for all the family in Boston!
Poses by Emma, Michelle and Laura, who brought sunshine and smiles to this lovely event.
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On June 29, 2018, a funeral was held for FDNY Chief of Fire Prevention Ronald R. Spadafora, a 40-year veteran of the Department who succumbed to World Trade Center-related cancer. Chief Spadafora is the highest ranking active member of the FDNY to die from a World Trade Center illness.
About 90 km. from Messina, on the Eastern Mounts Nebrodi, into luxuriant valley crossed by the torrent Roccella, rises Roccella Valdemone. It is probable that the seat was already populated in Norman period: in 1296 it became feud of the Spataforas. Of the ancient and glorious history of Roccella are proofs some ruins of a Medieval castle which was one of the most important fortress in Sicily and has been considered for a long time to be elusive. Walking along the village it gets to the precious Cathedral Church which among furnishings of best workmanship, precious canvases and elegant sculptures, keeps a marble work of 1540 with a delicate taste made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598). Splendid is also the Church of Santa Maria dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience), with a simple architecture, characterized by a beautiful and decorated portal, by ornaments on the front, by the original insides rich of friezes. The temple also shows a beautiful sculpture made by Giacomo Gagini (1517-1598) representing an intense, in the outlines, Our Lady with Christ Child.. Inhabitants of Roccella (Roccellesi) find into popular manifestations a moment of cultural identity besides an occasion of joy and making feast: in May the festival of buttermilk curd, is special. It attracts into village visitors of the near villages and they also expet the tasting of good local food along the streets of Roccella; suggestive is also the feast in honour of Madonna dell’Udienza (Our Lady of Udience) kept on 15 August.Roccella’s territory, full of wheat, vine, legume, and fruit growings, shows insuperable sceneries included in reserves of the Valley of Alcantara and of the Wood of Malabotta. The Church Mother S. Nicolò of Bari constructed around to the 1400, the Church Mother, rises in the public square of the country dominated from the high bell tower. The inside is of Romanesque style, to three navate with transept, three rectangular apses, twelve monolitiche columns in sandstone stone with capital of corinthian style and the ligneo ceiling, rifared in 1935. The church came entire restored in the 1525 as it is deduced from two written in Latin language still today visible on sides of the greater altar. On the left side of the altar can be admired the marmoreo picture representing the Nativity ; of Jesus, commissioned in the 1526 to the Antonello Gagini from the baron Giovanni Michele Spadafora, but nearly totally executed from the son Giacomo.
Roccella Valdemone è un comune italiano di 714 abitanti della provincia di Messina in Sicilia.Anticamente battezzata Auricella e Rocchella (dal latino medievale Roccella, piccola rocca) quindi Roccella-Randazzo e infine Roccella Valdemone.Il nome "Valdemone" ha origine da una delle tre circoscrizioni amministrative in cui gli Arabi suddivisero la Sicilia, ossia il Vallo di Demena, che a sua volta discende dal latino Valium (vallo).Il ritrovamento in territori vicini a Roccella, di monete greco-romane fa supporre la presenza di antichi insediamenti umani.Sorta in età normanna, un castello consolidò nel Medioevo la sua posizione di centro strategico difficilmente espugnabile. Il territorio è suddiviso in quattro contrade risalenti al sistema feudale, offerte ai Baroni come ricompensa. Infatti Roccella fu affidata nel 1296 da Federico II d'Aragona a Damiano Spadafora col titolo di baronia, divenendo in seguito marchesato. Lo stemma Spadafora, composto da un braccio armato che tiene una spada, tutt'oggi è raffigurato nel gonfalone comunale.Le contrade, in cui tutt'oggi è suddiviso il territorio sono: a nord Cassanita, Masinaro, Nocerazzo, Perino, Pillera e Revocato; a sud Bonvassallo (in cui a differenza delle altre esiste ancora la borgata), Germanà, Pecoraro, S. Giovanni; a est Daniele; a ovest Pietrorizzo, Lanzarite.Gli Spadafora (anticamente Spatafora) ne mantennero il possesso (con la denominazione alterna dei Lauria) fino al 1812 quando, mentre il paese era sotto la giurisdizione del marchese Domenico Spadafora Colonna ultimo feudatario della famiglia, il parlamento del Regno delle due Sicile abolì il feudalesimo.