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                                                          DECEMBER  2025

Dear SICE Members,

          On behalf of your Executive Board, may I extend our warmest greetings for a happy and healthy holiday season in the company of friends and family.  Many of you were present for our annual Christmas celebration at Café Amici which featured this year a Tour of Italy dinner, highlighting the southern regions of Puglia, Umbria, Lazio, Campania and Sicilia.  Every indication affirmed that the evening was quite a success with attendees clamoring for more!

 

          As we now turn the calendar to 2026, rest assured that we have plenty more to offer our constituents.  Our film program alone will provide classic and contemporary examples of fine Italian cinema, both serious and romantic, comic and melodramatic.  Remember, too, that our April selection, Summertime, is a bonus offering, free of charge to all paid members.  Our annual opera event and an immigration symposium will also precede our end-of-year luncheon, again to be held at Maestrale.  If you haven’t as yet registered for these events, now is the time to do so.

 

        We all look forward to reuniting with you in the coming months for what promises to be a very exciting and intellectually challenging season.  Again, keep in mind our mantra:  Siamo amici per sempre! (We are friends forever.)

                                          Buon’ Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo

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Joe Morra

SICE President

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© 2025 by SICE - Sarasota Italian Cultural Events. 

Sarasota Italian Cultural Events (SICE) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, #CH14564. 

Donations are tax-deductible.

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