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Speaker 1: Well, a bit of a change of pace. I always

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Speaker 1: like to know what's going on around the community, and

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Speaker 1: we know the Italian Festival is back this year. It's

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Speaker 1: going to take over the Darwin Waterfront's Fort Hill Parkland

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Speaker 1: in May. It's a bi annual levent and it promises

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Speaker 1: to deliver a variety of cultural foods, activities for the kids,

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Speaker 1: live music and performance as well as some fun competitions

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Speaker 1: for locals to get involved in. And joining me now

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Speaker 1: in the studio is the Italian Festival Association Secretary. I

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Speaker 1: believe it is well FORANOCHI are oh good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Are you here really good? Good to have you in

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Speaker 1: the studio now, mate. It's going to be another massive,

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Speaker 1: massive year I think for the Italian Festival. What can

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Speaker 1: we expect this time round?

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Speaker 2: Well, there's plenty on offer. I guess there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of things to touch on the usual food and beverage.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have all the favorites, pizza, pasta, lasagna,

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Speaker 2: Italian sausages, calamari, can holy coffee, lots of coffee and

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Speaker 2: our bar is going to be putting on affordable drinks wine,

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Speaker 2: prosecco and an Italian favorite, the non alcoholic sprits. Cridino

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Speaker 2: sold out last time. It did by three o'clock. I

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Speaker 2: should have ordered more. Yeah, but I love that.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like all my favorite foods basically are going

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Speaker 1: to be there at the Italian Festival.

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Speaker 2: Everyone loves Italian food, they truly do.

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Speaker 1: In terms of like the preparations, I mean, we're still

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Speaker 1: a few months out, but it takes a lord of prep,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, home stretch now, I think we're seven weeks, four

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Speaker 2: days to go. You're counting, I'm my count But yeah,

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Speaker 2: lots of effort goes in where a committee volunteers and yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're all going gun ho now for the last little stretch.

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Speaker 1: Now, I know that you know that last time around,

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Speaker 1: there's so much on offer in terms of food, as

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Speaker 1: you said, some of the you know, some of the

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Speaker 1: drinks obviously selling out. In terms of the catering, it

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Speaker 1: must be quite hard to sort of work out how

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Speaker 1: many people you are expecting and then just how much

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Speaker 1: food needs to be made and just how much you

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Speaker 1: need really.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Well, we put on a bunch of local

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Speaker 2: vendors who effectively service the food contingent of the festival,

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Speaker 2: and they usually do pretty well every festival over the day.

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Speaker 2: Our headcounters usually clock about twenty thousand over the day, wow,

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Speaker 2: you know, and food stores are often selling out before

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Speaker 2: the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean it's a lot of people going

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Speaker 1: through and a lot of people just getting down there

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Speaker 1: to experience Italian culture and everything that makes you know,

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Speaker 1: that makes the Italian culture so sort of fun and vibrant,

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Speaker 1: I guess, and I know that the entertainment's a huge

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Speaker 1: part of that. What can people expect this time around

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the entertainment.

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Speaker 2: So we'll have the Melbourne comedian James Liotta returning as

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Speaker 2: r MC. He always does a great job with the

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Speaker 2: MCing of the festa. Plenty of interstate talent, some returners

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Speaker 2: from last time, the according the accordion man Lisa Dawson,

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Speaker 2: Lorenzo Yanotti and the Siesta Cartel big band that did

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Speaker 2: great last time. And I guess another one that people

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Speaker 2: may have known this song back in the eighties when

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Speaker 2: he came up with it, but Joe Dolcher, who wrote

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Speaker 2: and performs shut Up Your Face. Oh, he's coming back.

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Speaker 2: So he performed at the First Pastor in the Park

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Speaker 2: about thirty years ago and he's going to return this year.

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Speaker 2: So maybe the DJ can slap that on after this

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Speaker 2: interview where people can get it in the spirit.

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Speaker 1: Crystal's giving me the thumbs up like she wants to

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Speaker 1: hear it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, with it. Most importantly, I guess entertainment was so

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Speaker 2: we've got the local Tarantella dance troupe putting on shows

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Speaker 2: throughout the day. They put in a lot of effort

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Speaker 2: leading up to the festival to put that together. So

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Speaker 2: really looking forward to see.

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Speaker 1: I know my little god daughters, well they're not so

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Speaker 1: little anymore, you know, but they are part of that group,

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Speaker 1: and I know they put in a lot of effort.

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Speaker 1: Everybody that's part of that group puts in a lot

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Speaker 1: of effort. And and like you've got little tiny kids

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Speaker 1: all the way up to teenagers, don't you. It'll be

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Speaker 1: wonderful And I think it's again it is a real

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Speaker 1: opportunity for the Italian culture to be highlighted and for

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Speaker 1: people to learn a little bit more about it through entertainment,

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Speaker 1: through food, all that kind of thing. Definitely, Yeah, hey

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Speaker 1: where it's so, it's happening at the Fort Hill Parkland

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Speaker 1: again this time round. It's a good spot there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is always quite a busy, you know, a busy time.

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Speaker 1: Where can people find out a bit more detail if

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Speaker 1: they are sort of planning on heading along and you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe wanting to be part of it all.

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Speaker 2: So we've got Instagram and Facebook. People searched up dah

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Speaker 2: on Italian Festival on either one of those, they should

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Speaker 2: be able to find us. We've also got a website

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Speaker 2: dar on Italian Festival dot com dot you, so anyone

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Speaker 2: looking to volunteer. Obviously, these community events can't be put

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Speaker 2: on without the help of volunteers, so anyone looking to

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Speaker 2: volunteer can go to dar on Italian Festival dot com

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Speaker 2: dot you navigate to the volunteers page. When we're looking

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Speaker 2: for volleys to do anything really far backstage, I mean,

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Speaker 2: if they want to get their soprano one, they can

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Speaker 2: get into the waste management and usually well we'll always

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Speaker 2: provide our volleys a nice shirt, hat, water bottle and

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Speaker 2: meal vouchers for the day so they'll be well fed.

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Speaker 1: Well it, which is a good thing. That's worst volunteering

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Speaker 1: formte How many volunteers do you reckon you needed? Last

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Speaker 1: time round.

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Speaker 2: We had over one hundred and fifty and we probably

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Speaker 2: still need more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right. The more the Merria really look, it does

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Speaker 1: go to show you how much, like how much effort

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Speaker 1: goes into an event like these cities. As you said,

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Speaker 1: you know, it is all community run, like it is

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Speaker 1: literally volunteers running the whole thing, right from the whole

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Speaker 1: organization and logistics down to on the day having people

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Speaker 1: help out with absolutely everything. But it's an important thing

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Speaker 1: to do, isn't it. You know, it's important to have

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Speaker 1: all those volunteers and have everybody part of it so

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Speaker 1: that you're able to put it on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Well, the community efforts what it's all about, really, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Italian community and the greater daring community coming together and

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Speaker 2: putting it on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, spot on. All right, we're so Facebook, Instagram, all

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Speaker 1: the socials. You'll be able to jump on there and

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Speaker 1: get some further detail about the Italian Festival.

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Speaker 2: Definitely wonderful stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, great to speak with you this morning. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for your time. Italian Festival Association Secretary William

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Speaker 1: Finocchi a right lovely to speak to you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, thank you