Pope Biopic to Open L.A. Italia Film Fest
by Ariston Anderson The 11th edition of the Los Angeles, Italia Film Festival will open with the American premiere of the Pope Francis biopic Call Me Francesco on Sunday, Feb. 21 at the Chinese Six Theaters. The festival is held one week before the Oscars and aims to draw attention to new and established talent from Italy. Directe...
Rediscovering LA's Little Italy thanks to this upcoming museum
Chinatown hasn't always centered around the neon-filled Central Plaza; the enclave was originally settled at what's now Union Station. So what used to occupy current-day Chinatown before the train station was built? LA's mostly forgotten Little Italy. One museum is making sure that Angelenos don't forget about the Downtown neighborhood's I...
The Getty Foundation helped bringing back to life an ancient Italian art masterpiece
Italy is incredibly rich in art treasures, but quite a number of them is regrettably damaged or neglected due to the passing of time or other factors. Among them was also Giorgio Vasari's monumental painting Last Supper, separated into 5 pieces as a result of the flood in Florence in 1966. After almost 50 years, thanks to the collaboration...
Great Online Resource for Italian Publishing, Language and Culture
by Mauro Battocchi BooksinItaly is an important new website for the promotion worldwide of Italian publishing, language and culture. It is available in Italian and English versions, and intended for Italian and foreign publishers, translators, Italianists, Italian Cultural Insitutes and Italians abroad. In order to promote Italian...
Italian Father of Microprocessor Awarded Enrico Fermi Award
By Mauro Battocchi Our beloved Dr. Federico Faggin, inventor of the microprocessor and advanced researcher of human consciousness, has been awarded the Enrico Fermi Award by the Società Italiana di Fisica, for his work in pioneering the technology that has radically and irreversibly changed the face of humanity. Dr. Faggin, I am h...
Circolo's winter events, Don Giovanni and pranzo di Natale
Ciao, Amici! After Cinema Italiano Contemporaneo, our traditional Fall event, Circolo Italiano is now opening our Winter schedule with two delightful events. We start with a combination of a fabulous Matinee at the Opera and a lovely champagne luncheon at La Cumbre Country Club on Sunday, Nov. 8th. For this event Circolo Italiano is j...
Diego Calaon: Wood, Water, and Slaves. How Venice Came into the World
Thursday, December 8 2016 - 6.30 pm - StartupHouse - 934 Howard St, San Francisco, CA. Venice suffers from its legends. Legends narrate Venice as a symbol of the end of the Roman Age. Venice represents the place where the noble Romans rescued themselves from the barbarian hordes: Venetians would have been forced to move to an unwelcoming islan...
Incontro con Emanuela Papini: "Generazione Liga" - October 23, 2014 from 7pm to 10pm
Luciano Ligabue has always claimed to have a truly unique audience. Not only "beautiful", nor even just "different" from all the others, but really "particular"; a public whose story deserves to be told. Emanuela Papini rises to the challenge with a book which began as a testimony to the reciprocal love and gratitude between the singer-songwriter...
Berio in New York: "Sarah Cahill and Adam Tendler Play Luciano Berio" - December 03, 2014 at 8:10 pm
Warming Up with Luciano Berio- The brilliant young pianist Adam Tendler, visiting from New York, joins Sarah Cahill in a warm-up concert featuring Luciano Berio's piano compositions before they perform the same program a week later at the Italian Academy in New York. Among the Berio pieces they will play are Touch (1991) for piano four-han...
Italians Welcome Italian Consulate to Orange County in Grand Italian Style
On January 20, 2015, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, over 200 members of the Italian Community, families and organizations joined together to greet the new Italian Consulate General in Los Angeles Antonio Verde, as he begins his four year term of service to the community. This was his first visit to Orange County and to the Bowers Museu...
Here Comes An Evening of Opera at University of Santa Clara
Come to the Vari Symposium 2015 for an enjoyable evening of Italian opera arias, duets and songs performed from notable operas such as La Traviata, La Bohème and Rigoletto. This year's performance is Friday, May 15th at 7:30PM at the Music Recital Hall at Santa Clara University. The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP click here....
Sbandieratori e musici di Faenza in America - a Newport Beach in California
Dopo i Campionati Italiani Sbandieratori, che si sono svolti ad Ferrara, alcuni rappresentati del Niballo Palio di Faenza andranno in U.S.A. a proporre alcuni spettacoli della nostra antica tradizione storica culturale, cioè "l'Italia dei Comuni". In California a Newport Beach saranno ospiti del Resort "Pellican Hill" (la collina dei Pellicani...