Reading the Language of Reality: Pier Paolo Pasolini
When: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 At 6:30 pm - Where: Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles - Organized by : IIC - Entrance : Free Authors Gian Maria Annovi (winner of the Ennio Flaiano Internetional Prize for Italian Studies) and Christopher Domingues Micheal will discuss the work of Italian world-renowned writer and filmaker Pier Paolo Paso...
I Only Wanted to Live
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Italian Cultural Institute - 601 Van Ness Ave, Suite F - San Francisco (CA). Free Admission | RSVP. I Only Wanted to Live. In Commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance DayNine Italian citizens survive deportation and internment in the Auschwitz death camps. Nine stories through which we...
Columbus Day Is Out, Indigenous Peoples Day Is In
San Francisco joined a nationwide movement to honor Native Americans in lieu of the explorer whose arrival brought on many of their deaths. The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 on Tuesday afternoon to bump out Columbus Day on the second Monday of October and edge in Indigenous Peoples Day, the San Franciso Examiner reports. It took after the San Fra...
Nick L. Girimonte: 1920 – 2017
As a young boy growing up in Dunsmuir during the Great Depression, Nicola “Nick” Girimonte helped put food on the family table by selling fruit to Southern Pacific railroad passengers. That initiative, work ethic and an early understanding of customer service emerged as hallmarks of Nick’s long and productive life. Nick, who partnered with his brot...
The Extraordinary Renaissance Court of Malatesta
The conference comemorates the six-houndredth anniversary of the birth of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini, who occupied a central position in the history of the Italian Renaissance. Organaized by Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA) and Bryan Keene (The J. Paul Getty Museum), in collaboration with the IIC Los Angeles. Advanced regist...
Jader Bignamini leads San Diego Symphony in sparkling concert of Italian music
The San Diego Symphony sparkled like spumante Saturday at the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall. Italian conducting sensation Jader Bignamini led the orchestra in a scintillating program of music by his countrymen Respighi, Rossini and Martucci, along with some razzle-dazzle from Rimsky-Korsakov. Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Capriccio Espagnol” and...
SF to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
San Francisco may decide Tuesday to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. The proposal comes amid a growing trend nationwide to no longer celebrate the federal holiday honoring Christopher Columbus and his “discovery” of America. The holiday dates back to 1937. Native American activists have waged a campaign since the 1970s to do away w...
Monica Bellucci and Gina Lollobrigida to Be Honored at L.A. Italian Culture Festival by Filming in Italy
Iconic Italian actresses Monica Bellucci and Gina Lollobrigida will be honored at a three-day cultural event by Tiziana Rocca from Filming on Italy and Valeria Rumori from the Italian Institute of Culture Los Angeles. Bellucci has starred in 67 films including “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Passion of the Christ.” She recently appeared alongside Ga...
JUMP in San Francisco
OPENING RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK - Friday, February 9 | 18:30 - Free admission | RSVP. ON VIEW: February 9 - March 9, 2018. 601 Van Ness Ave, Suite F (Opera Plaza) - San Francisco, CA 94102. In an exhibition recently presented in the beautiful Palazzo Ducale in Sabbioneta, artist Silvia Caimi focuses on the theme JUMP, the physical effort to transce...
Candidates Coletta, Cole Stake Out Los Angeles Superior Court Seats
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Alfred Coletta will be running for Los Angeles Superior Court Office No. 4, the seat being vacated by Judge Roy Paul who is retiring Feb. 16, and Deputy Los Angeles City Attorney Onica Cole yesterday picked up a declaration of intent to run for Office No. 67, now held by Judge Donna Goldstein who plans to leave...
Sport, fashion, tech: Italy awards its excellences in the USA
Not only the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce West, but also many members of the Italian and Italian-American community of Los Angeles met on Friday, December 8th in Beverly Hills to attend the usual Gala Dinner. Promoted by the Extraordinary Italian Taste campaign and strongly supported by the Ministry of Economic Development, in collaboration wi...
Condoglianze Migrantes scomparsa Mons. Peschiera: Sacerdote comunità Italo Americana in San Francisco per 50 anni
"E’ morto, all’età di 87 anni, il 29 dicembre 2017, a San Francisco/USA Mons. Bruno Peschiera, sacerdote dell’Arcidiocesi di Lucca dal giugno 1954, che per quasi cinquant’anni si è dedicato alla assistenza degli italo-americani nella immensa metropoli di San Francisco/ California. In diocesi era stato parroco entro le Mura e gestore della Casa del...