{"id":2738,"date":"2026-06-30T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:30:41","slug":"outdoor-cinema-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/news\/outdoor-cinema-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor cinema is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every summer, Little Italy becomes a premier destination for outdoor cinema, with ten free film screenings taking place throughout the season!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featuring a program of Italian films at Dante Park and thought-provoking documentaries at Shamrock Square, these screenings invite audiences to travel, reflect, and connect. In a neighbourhood shaped by the history of Italian immigration, cinema also serves as an important vehicle for cultural transmission, helping preserve the collective memory and roots that have shaped Little Italy&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These events aim to make culture accessible to everyone by offering free screenings where local residents, families, visitors, and film lovers alike can gather to share a love of cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Movie nights are also the perfect opportunity to discover (or rediscover) the diverse flavours of Little Italy&#8217;s local businesses. Stop by <em>Caf\u00e9 Parma<\/em> or <em>Marinelli Brothers<\/em> for a panini, grab a pizza from <em>Pizzeria Napoletana<\/em>, enjoy a poutine from <em>Chez Tousignant,<\/em> a stir-fried beef dish from <em>Tibum<\/em>, fresh spring rolls from <em>Restaurant Ga\u00efa<\/em>, a Vietnamese cr\u00eape from <em>Ch\u00e8 75,<\/em> or a French-style taco from <em>O&#8217;Tacos<\/em>, and then settle into the park for a picnic while enjoying the film under the summer sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer, Little Italy becomes a premier destination for outdoor cinema, with ten free film screenings taking place throughout the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petiteitalie.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}