Ep. 7 - Elisabetta Ghisini, Entrepreneur and President of COMITES SF

06/25/21 • 25 min

The seventh episode of "Letters to Italy" by Sara Marinelli features Elisabetta Ghisini, Entrepreneur and President of COMITES SF.
A long time resident of the Bay Area and a very active member in the Italian community, Elisabetta shares how after the first initial moments of crisis due to the shock of the pandemic devastating her native Italian region of Lombardy, she was then able to turn this time of upheaval in opportunities for personal growth, for new professional adventures, and for a re-assessment of COMITES' priorities and projects that would sustain the Italian community during the Covid-19 emergency.
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Episode notes
Producer/Editor: Sara Marinelli
Website for Sara Marinelli: www.saramarinelli.com
IG: @saramarinelli1

Website for COMITES: www.sfcomites.org
Website for Elisabetta Ghisini's company: www.continuumlab.ai
This series was made possible thanks to the support of COMITES of San Francisco and the Italian Consulate of San Francisco, with funding from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

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Ep. 6 - Laura Inserra, Composer and Musician

The sixth episode of "Letters to Italy" by Sara Marinelli features Laura Inserra, world-renown hang musician, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.
Laura tells the story of how from the restrictions of her Sicilian background, she moved to the Bay Area in 2006 to experiment with new professional possibilities in music and technology.
Unable to perform, teach, and produce music events during the pandemic, Laura did live streams of what she describes as sound journeys - called "Shelter in Music.”
Laura conceived the sound journeys as her way to support her family in Sicily by teaching them to use music as a shelter during the strict lockdown in Italy.
She shares the moving story of how from her fear to be judged and misunderstood by her traditional Sicilian family seeing her play many unconventional instruments, she instead discovered and established a deeper connection with her family like she had never done before.

Bonuses of this episode***: Laura Inserra’s music; the sound of her several instruments, and of a lovely and lively Easter dinner in Sicily with her family members.

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Episode notes
Producer/Editor: Sara Marinelli

Sound design: Sara Marinelli

Intro and outro music: “Hopeful Motivation” - James Yan

Tracks by Laura Inserra: "Serendipity", "Dedication," "Eternal Wisdom".
Excerpt from "Shelter in Music."
Website for Laura Inserra: www.laurainserra.com
Website for Sara Marinelli: www.saramarinelli.com
IG: @saramarinelli1

This series was made possible thanks to the support of COMITES of San Francisco and the Italian Consulate of San Francisco, with funding from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

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Ep. 8 - Sara Marinelli - Letter to my future self

In this last episode, writer and producer of "Letters to Italy," Sara Marinelli, concludes the series by reflecting on the conversations with her guests about home, belonging, and Italy during the pandemic; and by sharing a personal letter to her "future self," in which she had imagined the post-quarantine time that has now finally arrived.

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Episode notes
Writer/Producer/Editor: Sara Marinelli

Intro music: “Hopeful Motivation” - James Yan

Music bed: “Passage IV” (remix) - Laura Inserra

Website: https://podcast.saramarinelli.com

Website for Sara Marinelli: www.saramarinelli.com
Social:
IG: @saramarinelli1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sara.marinelli.92/
This series was made possible thanks to the support of COMITES of San Francisco and the Italian Consulate of San Francisco, with funding from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.