Cristina Barbetta

Experience

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  TravelOnline

  May 1998 - May 2000

  Article writer

  travelonline.it was the first travel agency on the internet launched by a Swiss entrepreneur.I worked as travel writer, mainly dealing with culture, travels and tourism in France and Mediterranean Europe

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  A.M.I.C.I.

  Jan 2001 - Jul 2002

  Organisation and communication of cultural initiatives

  In 2002 I worked on organising, through PR and press office activities, and communicating an international cultural initiative taking place in Amalfi, Italy, to commemorate Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature, on the centenary of his birth.Nobel Prizes Laureates for Literature Toni Morrison and Derek Walcott joined the initiative. I worked on organising their participation at the event, as well as a facilitator and a translator.In Milan, I participated in a creative writing workshop with Derek Walcott at Statale University, the language faculty, where I worked as a simultaneous translator for an interview with Derek Walcott for the Swiss Italian television network RSI Show less

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  Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi

  Jun 2002 - Aug 2003

  Assistant to Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti

  I worked as assistant director to Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti, founder of the Spoleto Festival in 1958, Pulitzer prize-winning composer, librettist and director. In 1977 Maestro Menotti founded the Spoleto Festival Usa in Charleston, one of America's major performing arts festivals, and in 1986 he also founded in Australia the Melbourne International Arts Festival. I was also in charge of relations between Maestro Menotti and the Festival’s guests and artists, coordinating press conferences and interviews for Gian Carlo Menotti, and meetings with international personalities. Show less

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  Vita Magazine - Gruppo Editoriale VITA

  May 2004 - now

  Journalist

  I have been working as a journalist at Vita, Italy’s nonprofit magazine and website, for more than 10 years, writing articles, stories and interviews, in English and Italian. My focus and interest has been on social enterprise and innovation at international level, the role of culture and creativity in social change, human rights and the role of art in their development, and people’s personal involvement in and contribution to promoting positive change both locally and internationally. I have also followed the European political consideration of social issues through the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).Working as a journalist at Vita, I have had the opportunity to meet and interview international personalities and associations in the field of social enterprise, art and culture for social change, human rights and international politics.Over the years in Vita I have also done translations, mainly from English to Italian and vice versa, edited texts and translated Vita publications, such as on social balance sheets and corporate social responsibility. As a translator, I collaborated with Babel, the literature and translation festival based in Switzerland, in 2018, translating the speech of prize winning Turkish writer and human rights activist Asli Erdoğan, which was published on Specimen, a multilingual online magazine dedicated to international literature and translation, launched at Babel Festival in 2016. I have also translated the introductory notes of New York University professor Natasha Dow Schüll’s book “Addiction by Design”, published by Princeton University Press. Show less