Order Your Taste of Little Italy Tickets NOW! June 15 / 5pm-9pm
Taste of Little Italy is one of the district's most popular events, and it sells out every year. Don't miss the 2016 edition which includes exciting new restaurants such as Bracero, The Crack Shack, Café Gratitude and Herb & Eatery. Choose from a North Route or South Route passport, and stroll as you taste along an easy walk which includes live...
From Earthly Pleasure to Princely Glories in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds
On the occasion of the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies conference From Earthly Pleasure to Princely Glories in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you to a special evening PROGRAM 6:45 PM Reception 8:00 PM Remarks and Screening of Film Clip...
Ecco la più piccola 'Little Italy' d'America
By Roberto Zanni Di solito quando si parla di 'Little Italy' si guarda alle città più grandi degli Stati Uniti, da New York ovviamente fino a Chicago, ma anche a San Diego. Una 'Little Italy' grande o piccola si può incontrare in quasi tutte le città degli Stati Uniti. Ma per trovare la più piccola delle 'piccole Italia' d'America si deve andare i...
UNESCO Italia: Italy’s 49 World Heritage Sites by 14 Photographers at the Museo Italo Americano
by Mauro Battocchi Did you know that Italy has the highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: 49? The Museo Italo Americano, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco, is proud to show you all of them through the lenses of 14 prominent and contemporary Italian photographers....
Mirella Bentivoglio: selected works 1966-2012
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2015 - Hours: 5 - 7pm Venue: Pomona College Museum of Art Organized by: Pomona College Museum of Art In collaboration with: IIC Mirella Bentivoglio (1922 - ) is an Italian artist, poet, art critic, art historian, and curator. Recognized internationally as one of the key figures in the Concrete and Visual Poetry...
Mario Marazzitti: 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty – April 13
Mario Marazziti, co-founder of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty, will talk about his recent book on the inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in the US with Cesare Romano, Loyola Law School Los Angeles (moderator), Sarah Haley, UCLA Gender Studies, Sean Kennedy, Federal Public Defender, Central District of California, and S...
Italian Feast returns to Hutchinson Square
Grab the green, white and red and head out to Hutchinson Square this Sunday for the fourth Summerville Italian Feast. This year's festival has twice as many booths as last year, said festival organizer Jay Lombardo. About 5,000 people came out last year in the aftermath of the October floods, and organizers are hoping for 7,000 this y...
Bernini’s Rome Comes to San Francisco This Weekend
Remember how Italian biotechnology lent Bernini a helping hand? This weekend, as part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture, Humanities West is helping preserve the legacy of this master by bringing a fascinating lecture and performance series to the Marines' Memorial Theater in San Francisco. Bernini was a master of capturing the narrative moment, e...
Join an Exciting Cross-Cultural Competition for High Schoolers
I'm thrilled to introduce an exciting new competition open to all public and private high school students in San Francisco, California and New York City, New York called "Pisan Romanesque meets Contemporary America". This educational contest will teach American high schoolers about the awe-inspiring Pisan Romanesque period and promote a de...
Criminal Lawyer Practices Gondola Skills
Attorney Alan Macina began his litigation career in a criminal defense firm, but he had already had his eye on becoming a gondolier, and actually began practicing his gondola skills while in law school. Piloting a gondola has been the lawyer's hobby and passion since 2001. "I knew in law school, when I interned, that I wanted to be a crimi...
The Sons Of Italy California in Modesto Showcase the Best of Italian Heritage
Since 1905, the Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA) founded in New York City by Dr. Vincenzo Sellaro has played a key role in preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of American of Italian descent. Among the 55 lodges throughout California, Oregon and Nevada, called the Grand Lodge of California, the chapter for the Modesto Lodge has recen...
Meet the author: Camilla Baresani
Date: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 Time: 6:00 PM. Location: IIC (601 Van Ness Ave, Suite F, San Francisco)In conversation with the journalist Enrico Deaglio, author of Patria 1978-2008 Meet the author: Camilla BaresaniCamilla Baresani is an Italian writer. The author of novels, essays and pieces for the theatre, she lives in Milan where she teache...