Da Lucca alla California: Il territorio si promuove con i toscani nel mondo
"La storia è iniziata un anno fa, quando la Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca sponsorizzò a San Francisco una esposizione di prodotti lucchesi, fra i quali il Vino Greo, un Sangiovese prodotto sulle Colline Lucchesi che vanno verso il mare". A scrivere è Rino Bertini, toscano trapiantato in California, protagonista di una storia di promozione del...
Franco Cassano: "Il mondo visto dal Sud"
Franco Cassano, is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political Sciences in the University of Bari. He is the author of: Esercizi di esperienza dell'altro (2003);La ragionevole follia dei beni comuni (2004) L'alternativa mediterranea (with Danilo Zolo, 2007); Tre modi di vedere il Sud (2009); L'umiltà del male (2011); Partita doppia. Appun...
Morgan Hill’s Fourth Annual Italian Harvest Festa
One of the youngest Italian festivals in Northern California, the Morgan Hill Italian Harvest Festa has once again drawn record crowds to the beautiful Uesugi Farms location in Morgan Hill. According to festa director Jim Di Vittorio, the focus of the festa has always been on the community and family, but there was also plenty of entertain...
Documentary Film: "Men of the Cloth" - Thursday, May 5, 2016 6:30PM
When: Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 6:30PMWhere: Museo Italo-Americano, Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd., Building C, San Francisco, CA 94123 MEN OF THE CLOTH is an inspiring portrait of three humble and accomplished Italian master tailors whose work exudes elegance and style. The film gives us a window into the past, present and future of c...
"Rythm is the cure" - Workshop on ritual dances by Alessandra Belloni
This workshop by composer, singer, musician and dancer Alessandra Belloni focuses on Southern Italian ritual dances used as therapy, together with the music of the tambourine. Special attention will be given to tarantella, a dance born to heal from the bite of the tarantula. More information: l.peretti@divedilosangeles.org SOLD OUT! &nbs...
Columbus Day Celebration at Bowers Museum
by Vicky Carabini October 4, Sunday - Columbus Day Celebration at Bowers Museum- The Italian Cultural Arts Council presents Columbus Day with an Italian Heritage Celebration. The Columbus Day Ceremony starts at 10AM. Featuring a color guard, anthems, Valeria Rumori, director Italian Cultural Institute, the Hon. Consul General of Italy, Ant...
Italian Street Painting Marin issues grants to nonprofits
Italian Street Painting Marin, the group responsible for San Rafael's annual street art festival, announced it will distribute $15,000 in art-based grants to 11 nonprofit organizations in Marin County. Also a nonprofit, ISPM will support a wide range of arts programs for children and adults in Marin through the first-ever Arts Grant Recipients for...
October Is National Italian Heritage Month, Get Ready to Celebrate Italian Style!
The National Italian American Heritage and Culture Month of October was designated by United States Presidential Proclamation. Coinciding with the festivities surrounding Columbus Day, the proclamation is in recognition of the many achievements, contributions, and successes of Americans of Italian descent as well as Italians in America. Ov...
Italian Pianist Alessio Bax Tackles St. Patrick’s Day – Tuesday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m
You’d be hard-pressed to find any blarney when Italian-born pianist Alessio Bax joins the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra (SBCO) this St. Patrick’s Day — unless you count the craft beer tasting event afterward, open to subscribers. The first half of the concert, however, belongs to conductor Heiichiro Ohyama and the orchestra, who will cel...
Philip Cecchettini: Backstage at the Italian Film Festival
by Bianca Friundi Fall is around the corner in the Bay Area, and with it comes Lido Cantarutti's Italian Film Festival of acclaimed comedy and drama directly from Italy. The Festival is an abiding favorite, eagerly awaited by Marin County residents as well as San Francisco natives. Now in its 39th year, the Festival showcases the...
Frank Capra: Conflicted Italian American Patriot – illustrated lecture
Thursday, November 12 at 6:30pm. Museo Italo Americano - Fort Mason Center - 2 Marina Blvd., Building C - San Francisco, CA 94123 The celebrated film director Frank Capra, a native of Sicily, was always insecure about how much he belonged in America. During that less enlightened time of the early 1900s when he grew up in Los An...
Anatomia Italiana: Art and Anatomy in the Italian Renaissance
Where: Hall of Nations, 2191 Pan American Rd W, San Diego, California 92101. When: 5:00pm on Sunday February 21., 2016. Door closes at 5:15pm. Italy's medieval universities established the study of human anatomy for physicians. To heighten their art, Renaissance masters clandestinely examined anatomy through human dissection. The profound conn...