<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right;text-indent:36pt;border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" align="right"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE<i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right;text-indent:36pt;border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" align="right"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">March 30,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Renowned Caetani
Artwork Returned to Vernon</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">North
Okanagan community welcomes the return of Recapitulation series painted by
renowned Vernon artist Sveva Caetani. The artworks have spent the last 35 years
in Edmonton at the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="m_-3403611121151654986_m_7025301177733629541__heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">VERNON—The Caetani Cultural
Centre Society is excited to announce that Sveva Caetani’s iconic life work, <i>Recapitulation</i>, has returned to Vernon
permanently. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The series, which includes more than 50 unique watercolour
paintings documenting Caetani’s life story and outlook on life, has been under
the care of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) in Edmonton for close to 35
years. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The AFA shipped the paintings to the late artist's childhood home
in Vernon, which now serves as the Caetani Cultural Centre, on March 19. The
intention is that they will now be displayed in the community that Caetani
loved.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">This summer, the Caetani Centre is offering tours of Sveva’s artwork
along with Caetani family artifacts and memorabilia for the first time since
the house was donated to the Greater Vernon community in 1994. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">“The Caetani Cultural Centre Society is very excited to have this
iconic work back in Vernon where it belongs,” said society President Sherry
Price. “The timing is perfect as we are finally ready to open the house to the
public.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The past few years have seen a concerted effort by the Caetani society
to bring the house up to code to accommodate public access as well as the
various Caetani collections – artwork and artifacts in the Caetani Society’s
own collection; artifacts which until recently were housed at the Greater
Vernon Museum and Archives; and the return of the <i>Recapitulation </i>series of
artworks from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Both timing and hard work have made these partnerships between the
Caetani Centre, the Vernon Museum and the AFA possible, with the hope to
involve other organizations and individuals to consolidate the significant
Caetani collection further. A significant private donation and years of
concentrated fundraising and support from local businesses, artists and
community supporters have made the return of the works possible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">“We have received many donations from other organizations,
individuals, and people who were friends of Sveva during her lifetime,” said Caetani
Centre Executive Director Susan Brandoli. “The Caetani house was Sveva’s home
for many years, where she created her work, entertained and mentored so many
local artists, writers and creatives of all ages and abilities over the years.
She wanted to leave her house as a legacy to the community, a place for
inspiration and where the work of being an artist is celebrated.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Sveva’s story has already been the inspiration for many books and
films, and the Caetani Centre expects to be busy once its doors officially open
this summer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">COVID-19 guidelines and protocols will be in effect. Tours are
expected to begin by July and will be limited to small groups and/or bubbles
following public health guidelines. To book a tour online, visit </span><a href="http://caetani.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:blue">Caetani.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> or call the Caetani Centre office at
250-275-1525.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;border:none;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">-30-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Media
Contact:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Susan Brandoli, Executive Director, 250-309-6391</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ed@caetani.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">ed@caetani.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">or Gabriel Newman, Communication and Program Coordinator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:programs@caetani.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">programs@caetani.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">250-275-1525</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">IMAGES ATTACHED:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Sveva Caetani and “Workmanship” watercolour painting</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Sveva Caetani, opening of Recapitulation Series</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Sveva Caetani. Working on unfinished piece</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Caetani Centre unloading Recapitulation collection at Caetani
Centre, March 19, left to right: Alan Brandoli, Klaus Jaeger, Board President
Sherry Price, Past-President Angelika Jaeger</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">About Sveva
and the Caetani family: </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">(pronounced Svey-va
Kye-tan-ee)</span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The Caetani story illuminates many issues that still resonate
today: art, history, immigration, colonization, mental health, overcoming
adversity, and celebrating the human creative spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Descending from Italian royalty, Sveva Caetani represented the
last of an ancient line that traces its roots back over 1,000 years and
includes two medieval popes and noted politicians, academics, artists, writers,
and musicians.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">2021 marks the 100th anniversary year since the family immigrated
from Italy to Canada. The patriarch, Leone Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, and his
16 other titles, was a parliamentarian and celebrated scholar of Islam. With
the rise in fascism following WWI, out of all the places in the world he had
travelled, he chose Vernon, having visited the Kootenays once for bear hunting
in the 1880s and writing a published account of his travels in the book, <i>Selkirks</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Leaving Italy abruptly and under somewhat mysterious
circumstances, the small family arrived on the shores of Okanagan Landing by
paddlewheel with 33 trunks. There, they would live a life of wealth, privilege,
travel and luxury throughout the Roaring Twenties until the economic crash of
1929 decimated their fortunes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Following the death of Leone in 1935, the story takes an ominous
and disturbing turn as the young Sveva was kept a prisoner in her own home for
over 25 years by her mother, Ofelia. Both mother and daughter were devastated
by Leone’s death. Ofelia, fragile both mentally and physically, chose to take
her daughter into self-imposed exile, shielding her from her friends and
refusing to let Sveva out of the house for many years. During this time, Ofelia
also denied her daughter the simple joys of painting and creativity that she
had been brought up to enjoy while her father was still alive. Sveva was left
with books sent by an aunt, her father's library, and her own thoughts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">It was not until her mother's death in 1960 that Sveva, now in her
early 40s, began to paint and draw and write once again, culminating in an
explosion of creativity after so many years of suppressing her talents. Her
economic circumstances dictated that she find work for the first time in her
life, and she was hired to teach at St. James Elementary School in Vernon. She
later attended the University of Victoria and obtained her teaching
certificate, and returned to the North Okanagan, where she taught at Charles
Bloom Secondary School in Lumby for several years. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Around this time, Sveva began work on what would become the
penultimate achievement of her creative accomplishments, a significant series
of more than 50 large-scale watercolour paintings, documenting her story and
journey through life, entitled <i>Recapitulation</i>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">In the mid-1980s Sveva approached the Alberta Foundation for
the Arts (AFA) collection with a generous offer to donate the entire <i>Recapitulation</i>
series to the AFA collection in Edmonton with the agreement that the AFA would preserve
the series adhering to archival standards for storage, presentation and
display. The AFA also provided access to the collection through
exhibition loans and an online database. The collection was exhibited
throughout Alberta and select public galleries in BC while in the custodianship
of the AFA. Curators, historians, writers and the general public accessed the
collection for a variety of projects from research to exhibitions to
publishing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The <i>Recapitulation</i> series of artworks were, in effect,
“saved” from being separated and dispersed into obscurity by the Alberta
Foundation for the Arts, which accepted the collection and preserved it in its
entirety, as Sveva intended upon her death in 1994.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Now, after more than 30 years since the first <i>Recapitulation</i> painting travelled to Edmonton, the Caetani Society has
brought Sveva home at last. The works have been returned permanently to the
care and collection of Sveva’s namesake legacy, the Caetani Cultural Centre
Society. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Sveva Caetani has served as a muse, mentor and inspiration for many
different students, artists, and writers. Several books and two films have been
published/released about her work and life story, with more in the works. Her
iconic interviews with CBC Radio greats Vicki Gabereau and Paul Kennedy <i>(Ideas</i>)
will be included as part of the Caetani Centre display, along with her original
artwork, family artifacts and additional audio-visual material. The most recent
spotlight on her work was on CBC’s Sunday Edition with Micheal Enright in
January 2020.</span></p><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Susan Brandoli, <font size="1">BA, BFA, MFA</font><div>Executive Director</div><div>Caetani Cultural Centre</div><div><a href="http://www.caetani.org" target="_blank">www.caetani.org</a></div><div>250-275-1525</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">I respectfully acknowledge that my work place is within the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Syilx Nation.</span></i></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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