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CO.AS.IT. in Sydney is set to present a photo exhibition of Paolo Totaro\u2019s photographic book, \u2018Visual Legacy: Italian Australian Elders\u2019, which opens on May 8 at Leichhardt Library, with special guest speaker Remo Giuffr\u00e9, Founder and Licensee for TEDxSydney.<\/p>\n

Giuffr\u00e9 is a creative strategist with a long track record as an entrepreneur, retail merchant, community developer and brand builder.<\/p>\n

He founded the REMO General Store in Sydney in 1988; and the General Thinking network in New York in 2001.<\/p>\n

He also enjoys a long association with TED, and, since 2009, he has been Founder & Licensee for TEDxSydney, an annual flagship TEDx event that has become the leading platform for the propagation of Australian ideas, innovation and creativity to the rest of the world, as well as the gold standard for TEDx events globally.<\/p>\n

Giuffr\u00e9 has been described as an \u201cartful connector\u201d, with Course Director of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) Bem Le Hunte saying: \u00a0\u201cThere is no other \u2018connector\u2019 I know who joins dots, people and ideas together quite as artfully as Remo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Giuffr\u00e9 has as significant connection to this exhibition as his father Comm. Gaetano (Tom) Giuffr\u00e9 is part of the exhibition.<\/p>\n

Tom Giuffr\u00e9 was the president of CO.AS.IT. for 15 years.<\/p>\n

The exhibition runs throughout the month of May and forms part of the Heritage Festival 2019, featuring original photographs and stories of 50 Italians who came to Australia in the years following World War II.<\/p>\n

President of CO.AS.IT.,\u00a0Lorenzo Fazzini,\u00a0writes in the preface to the book from which the exhibition is inspired:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Italian-Australian community is generally regarded as affluent, successful and \u2018settled\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, what we often overlook are the people who migrated in the years immediately after World War II.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey took the risk of coming to Australia without knowledge of what this country would really offer or if they could make it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is for this reason that this book,\u00a0Visual Legacy<\/em>, is so important.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me it tells the story of the community through fifty images and fifty testimonials of those who came around that time, how they looked, struggled and made it.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few of the faces in this book are synonymous with the Italian community while many others you may be seeing for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut each is a story that must be told.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe images capture a unique moment in time that we cannot forget.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the images of the people who have \u2018created\u2019 the Italian Australian community.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough some of these people are no longer with us, we continue to learn from them, respect them and thank them for paving the way for the generations that will follow.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollectively these images form a visual legacy of the Italian Australian community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Visual Legacy project was started in 2007 with more than 100 photographs and a few less stories.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Fazzini and CO.AS.IT.\u00a0General Manager, Thomas Camporeale, invited Totaro to use the project as a celebration of CO.AS.IT.\u2019s 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n

As well as publishing the book, CO.AS.IT. gave precious, intelligent support, as Totaro gratefully acknowledges in his introduction.<\/p>\n

Dr Paolo Totaro AM has had a long and illustrious career in Australian public life, and has held senior positions as Foundation Director of the Australia Council\u2019s Community Arts Board, Permanent Head of the Ethnic Affairs Commission, and other senior positions in the Commonwealth, NSW Government and Tertiary Education.<\/p>\n

He has continually published poetry and photographs throughout his career, presented SBS Face the Press, written articles for leading Australian publications\u00a0and played chamber music.<\/p>\n

For his work for the arts and the community, Totaro was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Commendatore).<\/p>\n

CO.AS.IT. looks forward to welcoming you to the opening of Totaro\u2019s exhibition on May 8 at 6:30 pm, Leichhardt Library, 23 Norton Street Leichhardt.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can register on the Inner West Council\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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