March 6 - August 31, 2012
In 2012, Il Centro presented A Question of Loyalty: Vancouver’s Italian Canadians in World War II a series of events to mark the experiences of British Columbia’s Italian-Canadian community during WWII. During this time, some Italian-Canadians were interned, while others were branded “Enemy Aliens” by the federal government of the day.
The project, funded by the Government of Canada, included a book by Raymond Culos, “INJUSTICE SERVED, the story of BC’s WWII Italian Enemy Aliens”; a new play, FRESCO by Lucia Frangione and BellaLuna Productions, presented at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and the Cultch Historic Theatre, and the exhibition Beyond The Barbed Wire: Experiences of Italian Canadians in WWII in the museum.