Santa Barbara’s 35th I Madonnari street painting festival to be held online
The Santa Barbara County Education Office has begun planning a virtual version of this year's I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival. The festival is scheduled to take place on May 29, 30, and 31. Normally, the festival is held in front of the Old Mission where artists of all ages from across the country come to draw their chalk masterpieces....
Food and Culture: An Italian Perspective
When: Saturday, May 1, 2021 | 11:00 a.m. PDT - What: Musco Center for the Arts, WIlkinson College, and the Italian Studies Program Present: Food and Culture: An Italian Perspective [Virtual Event] - Reserve now Today, at least in the more prosperous countries where variety is available to the masses, the label ‘Italian food’ is a means of marking o...
Streaming Lecture: Ancient Rome
Tuesday, April 6, Wednesday, April 7; Tuesday, April 13, Wednesday, April 14. 8:30 am PST. Streaming Lectures with Archeology Expert and Tour Guide Simone Lanna. Colosseum & Gladiators; Ostia Antica; Ides of March; Imperial Madness Tickets $ 27-32 for the series. Each live lecture will last about 90 minutes + Q&A. You will receive a link after your...
A Poor Man’s Banker
Sounds like an anomaly, doesn’t it? A “poor man’s banker,” but that’s what thousands of disenfranchised immigrants called the gracious Amadeo Pietro Giannini. His contemporaries referred to him as “America’s Banker.” The son of Italian immigrants, Virginia and Luigi, Amadeo was born on a farm in San Jose, California on May 6, 1870. At 7, he was tra...
Italian-Americans Against Boring Music
The global pandemic hasn’t stunted the creativity and output of indie musicians. In fact, when it comes to DIY-leaning artists who create and record their original music at home instead of in recording studios, this period of confinement has yielded a bumper crop of new material. One such locus of local musical activity is WWNBB (We Were Never Bein...
Botticelli and Dante: The Drawings for The Divine Comedy
When: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 At 11:00 am - Entrance : Free - A Zoom webinar with Dr. Dagmar Korbacher (Director, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin State Museums) and Dr. Furio Rinaldi (Curator, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) To mark the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, in collaboration...
NIAF Mourns the Passing of Former Board Member Jeff Capaccio
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) mourns the passing of Jeffrey M. Capaccio, age 62, a former member of the NIAF Board of Directors. He had been a managing partner of the San Francisco office of Carr & Ferrell LLP, a Silicon Valley based intellectual property firm from 1999 until his death. “Jeff Capaccio’s passion for Italy and Itali...
Scompare Jeff Capaccio, ambasciatore di Genova nel mondo. Il dolore del sindaco: "Era amante delle nostre tradizioni"
Con la scomparsa di Jeff Capaccio all’età di 62 anni, Genova perde uno dei suoi ambasciatori nel mondo. Lo aveva nominato il sindaco Marco Bucci nel giorno di Colombo, il 12 ottobre 2017, individuandolo tra i professionisti e manager che rappresentano l’eccellenza italiana all’estero. Agli Ambasciatori Onorari di Genova nel Mondo (AGW) è affidata l...
DRAWING DANTE. Uno, nessuno e centomila volti. Retrospective group exhibition by Dante Plus
From Thursday, March 25, 2021 to Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Organized by Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles with Bonobolabo/Marco Miccoli, under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Houston and in collaboration with City of Ravenna. Entrance: Free Virtual tour of a collective exhibit organized in Ravenna, where the tomb of Dante...
Legendary Swallows Return To Celebrate Reopening Of Mission San Juan Capistrano
On Friday, March 19, the Mission San Juan Capistrano officially celebrated both its reopening to the public and the annual return of the swallows. After two extended closures during the past year, the Mission is once again open for guests to explore. Considered the Jewel of the Missions, Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded in 1776 by Father Jun...
Councilman Joe Buscaino, a longtime LAPD officer, enters race for L.A. mayor in 2022
Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino is entering the 2022 mayor’s race, saying he will use his background as a police officer to tackle the city’s urgent issues of homelessness and rising crime. Buscaino, a Democrat who represents a district stretching from Watts to San Pedro, plans to launch his campaign Monday. He told The Times in an intervi...
Looking at Italian America from the Pacific
Sunday 03.14.2021 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PT. The Italian community of San Francisco has been one of the most investigated in Italian American history. Rarely, however, has its experience been examined in relation to the distinctively multiethnic context of the West Coast. Italian immigrants, arriving to California between the late nineteenth and early...