Elisa: People, Places & Stories

16/06/2025

It’s hard to explain what I’ve been feeling these past few days.
People are reading "More Than Spaghetti", and they’re telling me about it. 🤩
They say they read it once and they want to read it again, that they laughed, and got emotional.
They felt the thread from one story to the next.
Some see themselves in it, the majority discovers something new.
I read their words, I listen and I just feel one thing: REAL GRATITUDE.

This book speaks of all of us, pieces of history, of roots, departures, silence, memory.
I truly hope more people get to read it. 🌏 I want these stories to travel, to find a place!

Have you read it? Tell me what you think 👏🏽

12/06/2025

Ok, after a few tech hiccups, Full Moon and cold mornings, here is the recording of the Book Launch and Presentation.
Please hurry and watch it, because Netflix might want to hire me !!!!!

As you will find out the autogenerated captions struggled a bit with my pronunciation. The laptop was sweating its way through.

I think it is an hour well spent.

Thank You again to all presents, you were really a gift!
Gympie Regional Libraries for hosting the event;
To Amy Sheaffe for her support;
To Jess McKenzie for the video set up and Peter Hall for the sound check and set up. You are my legends!

https://youtu.be/Gx_GGHB3OJg?si=R-M2BdlJkn5fiNYo

SBS Italian
Com.It.Es Queensland & Northern Territory
Rainbow Beach Community News
Consolato d'Italia in Brisbane
Sooshi Mango
Dolly Jensen
ABC Sunshine Coast
Società Dante Alighieri
Co.As.It.

Filmed live in Rainbow Beach, QLD, Australia, June 2025, this event was hosted by the Gympie Regional Library as part of their local history series.Introduct...

11/06/2025

This is me in slow motion 🤣
As I am editing the video of the Book Presentation, I can't stop looking at how much I move my hands.
I do speak with my body

06/06/2025

Heading over to Tin Can Bay?

Make sure you check the Cooloola Art Gallery out with so many local Art and Talent on display!

Happy to have our book A Rainbow Story by Elisa illustrated by Lexi illustrator there available for purchase.

Grab a coffee and a piece of cake next door at the the Lighthouse Café for a better enjoyment of the book 😊🤣🇮🇹🇦🇺

Let us know what you think!!!

05/06/2025

05/06/2025

For my friends here who understand Italian 🤌🏼

Una ricerca confluita in un libro, a breve disponibile anche in italiano, che racconta il contributo degli italiani della regione remota di Gympie, nel sud est del Queensland.

04/06/2025

𝚆𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝙸𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚘𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎… 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚍?

What do spaghetti, gold, and war have in common with the Gympie Region?

𝙲𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝙷𝚊𝚕𝚕, 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝟷𝟶 𝚊𝚖 𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝟷𝟷𝚊𝚖

FREE event hosted by the Gympie Regional Libraries

Come along to Rainbow Beach Community Center on Friday 6 June to hear about Italian Australian heritage, cultural contributions, and migration stories in the Gympie Region. For more information visit https://gympie.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=144539

31/05/2025

There's always more.. more work, energy, effort, and commitment than what we can see.

Commitment to learn, improve, perfection, to throw it all away and start again!!!!

I am so lucky to know so many great Creatives, from music, to colour, to words: 365 degrees artists.

But this post is about Lexi illustrator being amazingly good as an Artist Illustrator!
Don't you think?!?!?

This morning at the library I was asked: "Elisa, can you read me your book? I really love it" 🫠
📚 A Rainbow Story by Elisa

That is my most valuable currency. It is not about how many books I sell 🤩🫶🏽

30/05/2025

“She arrived in Australia without her husband, without a word of English, and without the right to choose.”

“They gave him a shovel, a shed, and silence.”

“We brought the tomato seeds, but we had to grow them in foreign soil.”

More than Spaghetti: Italian Migration Stories to the Gympie Region is available on Amazon worldwide!

Friday 6th June I will be presenting the project and the book 🙏🏾 if you're close by, I hope you can come!
10am at the Rainbow Beach Community Hall. Thanks to the for the opportunity and organising this free event !

Photoz by Jess Mckenzie

30/05/2025

What is the best part? 🤣🤩🇮🇹🫶🏽

28/05/2025

Have you seen this logo before?

I just finished a fun and engaging interview with Francesca from Sbs Italian, it will go live next week!