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Parma Mia! introduces ExpatWomen.com

In order to be listed in ExpatWomen.com directory, we have to put their link on our homepage. This is fair enough!

http://www.expatwomen.com/

This gave us the opportunity to discover that Parma Mia! is the only expat blog for expats in Parma!

We are also on Facebook!

Go to our newly created page and click Like!

Let's vote!

Parma will elect a new mayor some time in May.

Few people actually know it but UE citizens living in Italy can vote to elect the mayor of their city of residence as well as European Parliament members. So if you want to feel a real "parmigiano", you need to get a "tessera elettorale" to be able to vote. The request must be done at the DUC at the latest 40 days before the election, i.e. more or less now!

We were told at the DUC that once you've done the "residency", you should receive your "tessera elettorale" at home "automatically". But after due verification, UE citizens DO NOT receive their card automatically (this is true only for Italian citizens), they have to request it with a specific form that can be found here. So we'll go back to the DUC... 

To be continued....  

January in Parma

Kids:
Ice skating every day at Euro Torri.
Teatro delle Briciole, Teatro del Cerchio, EuropaTeatri, Theatro del Vicolo, offer shows for kids.

Activities at Libri e Formiche, RosaLimone (Jan. 14, 21 and 28), Atelier del Borgo.

Music:
Cori in Festa and Cori di Cuore
New Year Concert on Jan. 1st, tickets on sale at Teatro Regio.
Aperitivi alla Casa della Musica until May 2012 and Concerti until April with a season dedicated to Claude Debussy.
Nuove Atmosfere, a series of 13 concerts until May 2012.

Get ready to book your tickets!

Teatro Regio recently announced the 2012 program of the lyric season (Aida and Stiffelio) and of what promises to be a WON-DER-FUL concert season with great composers (Beethoven, Brahms, Bach) and great musicians (Emanuel Ax, Jordi Savall!!).

Estri Armonici 2012 season at Teatro al Parco.
Tutti per uno XL opening on Jan. 30 at Auditorium Paganini.


Art:

Very interesting exhibition: "Parma: immagini della città dal Ducato all’Unità d’Italia" at Fondazione Cariparma until Feb. 19.

Let it snow:

Schia is Parma's nice little ski resort.  Schia ski school can be found on facebook.

Check, or rather, double check weather and road conditions before driving up the mountain!

Out of town:
In Milano, "Brera meets Pushkin" art exhibition. French paintings (Gauguin, Cézanne, Renoir, etc.) in the Russian collections.