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Take a moment to sit beside any young-at-heart Italian. Hear their stories and daily rhythms, and you’ll realize: carrying forward their legacy is the only way to bridge generations and keep culture alive, evolving, and deeply felt.
ITALUS exists to honor this legacy and show you the depths of Italy through the people who feel it in their bones.
Here, voice, energy, skills, and commitment matter. We mentor, create, share, and collaborate. Mostly, we influence how Italy’s living heritage is learned, celebrated, and passed forward.
ITALUS is about action, stewardship, and honoring the guardians of culture. It ensures that intangible traditions—rituals, folklore, dialects, dialects, culinary practices—are preserved, celebrated, and recognized globally, fostering both cultural diplomacy and lasting patrimony appreciation.
Through this filosofia, Italy’s culture is not only experienced deeply and genuinely—it is bridged across geographies and generations, kept flourishing by those who choose to care, act, and inspire.
MEET THE CUSTODIANS OF ITALIAN HERITAGE
Michela Di Cesare
Cassandra Marsillo
Cassandra Marsillo
It's easy to learn about our roots. It's just as easy to let them live in an n unread page of our storybook. For author actor and screen write Michela, she created a performance about it.
Cassandra Marsillo
Cassandra Marsillo
Cassandra Marsillo
Cassandra’s reflections on identity carry a wisdom beyond her years. A morcel of that identity can be found in her book honoring Molise in "Dalla Valigia alla Tavola"
Rosa Calabrese
Cassandra Marsillo
Carina Della Valle
Rosa’s gallery shares more than the work of gifted multicultural artists; it's a bridge where her passion for Italian culture and heritage flows into the heart of her home town of Aurora.
Carina Della Valle
Carina Della Valle
Carina Della Valle
She's been enrolled in dance from the time she was eight. Her drive and passion for carrying her hertiage with the next generation, to founding Fonte d'Amore, a tarantella group.
Flavia Iannetta
Carina Della Valle
Flavia Iannetta
Some people attend & participate in Italian festivals, and others lead them. Flavia Iannetta moved to Ottawa and dove right into connecting with her heritage.
Anthony Iocco
Carina Della Valle
Flavia Iannetta
To step into his garden is to understand what it is about Abruzzo that Anthony loves so much. Far beyond sharing diaspora, he lives his ancestral legacies with genuine accuracy and amore.
Cristina Del Castello
Cristina Del Castello
Cristina Del Castello
A cultural inheritance from father to daughter, that ignited Cristina to open the doors of a Centro Giovanile inspiring children to want to know their roots through experiential interactive learning.
Michelangelo Pepe
Cristina Del Castello
Cristina Del Castello
Italian born Michelangelo arrived to Canada when he was just two years. Dedicated to keeping true to his roots, he obtained a Master of Arts in history, and is passionate about teaching Italian