A Week In The Life Of The Italian Club Dallas

A friend of mine emailed me last week asking about the Italian Club and the activities we offer.  “Wow” I thought… how do I answer that one in less than a few thousand words?  Rather than try to answer, I thought instead that I would blog it for all to see so here is what the last week at the Italian Club Dallas looked like.

Thursday

11:30am – We’re open to the public for a good lunch crowd offering a 4-course meal for $14… the best deal in town!

7:00pm – 2 separate weekly language classes are held at the Club – tonight it was Advanced Italian Conversation and Intermediate Italian Language.

Friday

11:30am – We’re again open for lunch

7:00pm – Our Weekly Cena (evening meal) is held and this week, the 4^th Friday of a month is our Entertainment Cena where we have live entertainment during the multi-course meal

Saturday

9:30am – Our weekly children’s language class begins at the Club

10:30am – Some of our members attend a Club organized tour of the Kimbell Art Museum’s Salvatore Rosa Exhibit.  This follows the lecture we recently had at the Club by the Curator of European Art from the Kimbell.

10:30am – Also at 10:30am back at the Club our weekly Children’s Italian Dance Lessons begin

12:00pm – We’re at NorthPark Mall and the “ArtsPark” Arts and Cultural Fair helping to educate visitors about Italy and the Club’s activities

Sunday

5:30pm – at the Club, we host a Book Signing & Wine Tasting with Robert Camuto the Author of "Palmento", a great book about a Sicilian wine odyssey

Monday

7:00pm – Monday is a dark day for lunch but on Monday night we held 3 weekly classes – Adult/Teen Italian Dance Rehearsal, Italian Language for Beginners I and Italian Language for Beginners III

Tuesday

11:30am – A quite day with our lunch being the only calendar event for the day

Wednesday

11:30am – We’re open for lunch

7:00pm – We offer our Weekly Pasta/Pizza Night

7:00pm – During Pasta night we offer a lecture by the Assistant Curator from the Meadows Art Museum titled "The Lost Manuscripts of the Sistine Chapel ~ An Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo"

So to my friend Paul, that’s what a week at the Italian Club Dallas looks like.  In the coming weeks we’ll have more lectures and lessons, cooking classes, our bocce league and club outings such as a RoughRiders game.  Those are all in addition to our daily lunches and our weekly Wednesday and Friday night meals.  On top of those we’ll have our monthly Regional Cena (this month featuring Liguria), an Easter Egg Hunt for the children and our annual Pasqua (Easter) Sunday Brunch.

You can get a weekly look at events here and you can find everything on the calendar on our website and I hope I answered your question!