Territorial repercussions: Feeding our cities
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2015 Hours: 9 AM - 5:30 PM Venue: A+D Museum Organized by: In collaboration with: A+D Museum, Project Food LA and IIC This multi-city symposium organized in both Milan and Los Angeles in conjunction with EXPO Milan 2015 Feeding the Planet - Energy for Life will explore the local interconnectedness between food and t...
Italian Festival benefits Desert Arc
This year's Italian Festival was the best one yet! The venue at Rancho Mirage community park was the setting for the sixth annual festival. Weather was perfect with more food choices and music that set the mood. The U.S. National Anthem was the first music of the day followed by the Italian National Anthem. As you walked by all the food vendors yo...
Help Us Unite the Two Bays: Naples and SF
Naples, as depicted here in the Vatican Hall of Maps, is a hotbed of world cultural heritage. The city was founded 2800 years ago as a Greek colony, making it one of the oldest cities in the world, and since then it has been the seat of duchies, kingdoms and an empire of diverse cultural groups with diverse languages.
That's Italian-American! History told by people who lived it in Silicon Valley
by Joe Rodriguez Now this is Italian! Ken Borelli walked through an exhibit of his people's history in Silicon Valley with immense pride, but he also paced up and down with the nervous energy of a man trying to record the fascinating story before it's forgotten. "We have scattered all over the place, and it's getting harder to ev...
Prima di Silicon Valley: Frederick Marrazzo racconta gli italiani di ieri
by Roberto Bonzio Quando Palo Alto e dintorni non erano ancora Silicon Valley ma un giardino fertilissimo, che forniva frutta e verdura a mezza America, gli immigrati italiani furono protagonisti del suo straordinario sviluppo agricolo. Interi gruppi di famiglie trapiantati in una zona che ricordava per clima e geografia il loro Belpa...
Festeggiare! 2015 Bay Area Italian Festivals
by Catherine Accardi It's summer in the city and although two of San Francisco's Italian themed festivals have come and gone, there's still more serious festeggiare (celebrations) to come. On June 13th and 14th we enjoyed the 61st annual North Beach Festival in San Francisco's Little Italy. It's the oldest street fair in the nation wi...
Paola Maria Savoia, queen of Italians in L.A., and her Epicureology
Paola Maria Savoia, native of Genoa (capital of Liguria, northwestern region of Italy), directly descends from the illegitimate branch of the aristocratic Savoia lineage, which was Italy's former Royal Family (until the introduction of the republic in 1946). About five years ago, her family and she left Milan, Italy, for a voluntary exile...
Amuri, Sapori sacri della Sicilia - 26 Lug 2016
Data: Mar 26 Lug 2016 - Orario: Dalle 18:30 alle 20:30 Luogo: Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, 601 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102 Organizzato da : Istituto Italiano di Cultura In collaborazione con : Fabrizia Lanza Ingresso: - $10 alla porta (solo contante o assegno) - libero per i soci dell'IIC....
Monteforte's painting studio. The artist brings his painting studio to one of our galleries
Domenico Monteforte, who gave a much appreciated exhibition here at the IIC in summer 2012, is back in San Francisco. This time, the Tuscan painter will turn one of our galleries into a painter's studio, allowing guests to see him at work and then exhibiting his creations on our walls as they are completed. Guests will have the rare chance to meet...
A Loving Community Remembers Dr. Victor Vari
By Mauro Battocchi The Italian community in Santa Clara and around the Bay was saddened to learn of the death of Dr. Victor Vari last week. He was the longest serving professor at Santa Clara University and a safekeeper of Italian language and cultural, which he passed on lovingly through his decades of service in California. A recent mes...
The Secret, A Documentary film - February 22, 2015 at 4:30 pm
Film screening: Il segreto (The Secret) at the Museo Italoamericano. This award-winning documentary by Cyop & Kaf, promoted by Neapolitan music producer and cultural operator Salvatore Visone, is a fascinating look at the streets of Naples and the bands of children that live on them. Once a year on St. Anthony's day, they build a bonfire, ofte...
Giuseppina Torre, an Italian excellence in L.A.
Giuseppina Torre is an example of Italian excellence which is appreciated and admired abroad. Her fairy-tale story began three years ago when the organisers of the Los Angeles Music Awards 'discovered' through one of her songs on iTunes and soon she was celebrated in the U.S. and in the rest of the world. Giuseppina's first album was relea...