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Canadiensis presents:
A Series of Talks with Exhibition
by Arianna Dagnino and Stefano Gulmanelli

Toronto - Saturday, 2 May 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EDT)
Villa Charities, 901 Lawrence Ave W, North York, Toronto ON M6A 1C3
Ottawa - Tuesday, 5 May 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (EDT),
Room TB 360, Tory Building, Carleton University, Ottawa
Montreal - Wednesday, 6 May 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (EDT),
Italian Cultural Institute Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield, Montréal
Canadiensis is a photographic and narrative project born out of a coast-to-coast traversal of Canada, exploring the country through people, places, and lived experience. This talk delves into that journey, unfolding impressions through images, conversations, and the emotional traces they evoke.
Capture Festival 2026
Inner Landscapes: Photography, Perception & Well-Being
Artist Talk and Exhibition by Stefano Gulmanelli
Vancouver - Sunday, 26 April 2026, 5:30 – 7:00 PM (PST),
painPRO Coal Harbour - 535 Thurlow Street Suite 100, Vancouver
Presented within a health clinic setting, Inner Landscapes approaches photography as both perceptual practice and narrative form: a quiet catalyst for cognitive and emotional balance, and a way of tracing experience across a coast-to-coast journey through Canada.

Capture Festival 2026
The Ballad of a Soldier-Bard in Times of Wars
Photography, Live Music and Poetry
Vancouver - Saturday, 11 April 2026, 8:00 – 9:00 PM (PST),
Notional Space, 1523 East Pender, Vancouver
The performance features photography by Stefano Gulmanelli, vocals by singer-songwriter Marenia (Maria Ylenia Trozzolo), live guitar accompaniment by Bruce Davidson and Leonardo Paolella, and readings from Arianna Dagnino’s poetic cycle To Die Like a Poem. The Ballad of a Soldier-Bard in Times of War (Ekstasis Editions, Victoria).

Photographic contest
CARNET DE VOYAGE (November 2023)
Best color photograph
TROMP L'OEIL WITH VARIATION

The Dante Alighieri Society of BC & the Italian Institute of Culture in Toronto:
An Art Forum on the Creative Process
Dialogo Muto:
A photographer, a painter & their mute dialogue
Stefano Gulmanelli & Andrea Padovani
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Thursday, November 25, 2021
Vancouver Maritime Museum (T.K. Gallery)

Dialogo Muto was conceived not as a traditional collaboration, but as a process of creative transmission.
It began with an encounter with the natural world: a photographic work that did not simply document, but transform—isolating and abstracting its subject. From this gesture emerged the series Skins, where surfaces became thresholds between the visible and the imagined.
A second gaze then intervened—not as a response, but as a reactivation. The images became the ground for further elaboration: the painter engaged with them, disassembling and reconfiguring them through a distinct visual language.
What unfolded was not a translation, but a shift—a creative chain in which each step redefined the previous one.
The “dialogue” remained silent because it involved no direct exchange. And yet, a continuity persisted: a thread running through the work, changing form at each passage.