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ByMaddison Howell Posted on January 23, 2023 Adelaide’s cultural storyteller, performer and author, Claudia Callisto’s brand-new show takes a comedic spin on growing up in a traditional Italian immigrant family.  Following her sold-out debut show in 2022, Adelaide’s cultural storyteller, performer and Amazon best-selling author, Claudia Callisto, is returning to the Adelaide Fringe in 2023 with, ‘The Good Italian Girl Presents – Italian Love is a Battlefield,’ a brand-new show that takes a comedic spin on the experiences of growing up in a traditional Italian immigrant family.  Based on her best-selling book, The Good Italian Girl, Claudia’s new Adelaide Fringe show is a heart-warming and entertaining stand-up comedy special that follows her journey of being a first-generation daughter of an Italian...

Live and Love the Italian Way - Photography Exhibition by John Callisto  Open Access Event with the Adelaide Italian Festival 2024Live and Love the Italian Way is a Photography exhibition that captures the essence of being Italian and the Italian way of life both in Italy and Adelaide.   This exhibition of 25 photographs is the work of John Callisto, who passed away unexpectedly in 2022 at the age of 53. This exhibition champions John’s passion for photography which commenced at the age of 16 when his parents bought him his first Pentax professional film camera. It also celebrates John’s love of  Italian culture and people and highlights some of his work taken in Puglia during this photography educational trip, as well...

t could be the hills of Tuscany but it's 9,600 kilometres away in Adelaide where Italian culture has been photographed over a lifetime by the late John Callisto. Displayed in a posthumous exhibition on Sunday following Callisto's unexpected death at the age of 53, Live and Love the Italian Way was curated by his wife to finish what he started. John Callisto, a well-known Adelaide car salesman, was also a keen photographer. (Supplied: Claudia Callisto) "I've been with John for 32 years and he always had a camera in his hands," Claudia Callisto said. "He was supposed to do the exhibition himself … he had some images there already, and I just picked up from where he left off. I was...

After years of disappointment, Claudia and her husband had their first child. Then, the questions about another started. Claudia and her husband John with their son Marcus when he was a baby. Source: Supplied 6 min read Published 18 November 2024 5:35am By Claudia Callisto Source: SBS Claudia and her husband John on their wedding day. Source: Supplied But it didn't work out as we had hoped. We struggled to conceive. We experienced disappointment for a long time until I desperately sought fertility assistance at the age of 36. When you have an Italian background, and you fail to achieve a successful pregnancy year after year, you have failed to meet the basic family and community expectations. I feel this is the unspoken truth. From my experience, it...