Piazza della Famiglia Family Tiles Now Available - Limited Space!
The Piazza della Famiglia was intentionally designed to celebrate the rich history of San Diego's Little Italy and the families that have and still do contribute to its thriving and vibrant ambiance. With several opportunities available to memorialize your family, a loved one or your company, the latest in those opportunities has just been release...
Building a Successful Business In Italy and Europe: a Silicon Valley CEO Perspective
First things first. As a small entrepreneurial Silicon Valley start-up 6+ years ago, why did we even attempt to do business in Italy? Why not focus closer to home? That’s an easy question. Our business then was entirely focused on helping renewable energy-focused utilities grow, scale, and dominate their respective markets. And one of the largest,...
Taste of Wine: Hats off to Gianni Buonomo and its latest wines
In the middle of San Diego’s coolest beach community sits the consummate, perfect-fit for an urban winery and tasting room — Gianni Buonomo. Ocean Beach is a colorful collection of character studies, and it’s home to a star group of high-quality wines, mostly old world and mostly sourced from the great wine country of Washington. First a word about...
A Reading of Leo Politi's A Boat for Peppe!!
A fun afternoon for the entire family! Italian American Museum of Los Angeles - 644 North Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 3:00 pm. Recommended for children ages 4-12. RSVP HERE! rsvp@italianhall.org or (213) 485-8432 About Leo Politi: Italian American artist and award-winning author Leo Politi wrote and illustrated o...
61th Annual Swallow's Day Parade Saturday, March 23
Join us as we march with Italian pride in the largest non-motorized parade in the country. Our Italian entry has won many awards and continues to be an exciting addition to the parade. If you join our parade entry wear Italian colors, dress in traditional clothes or Carnivale costumes. Be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes. We are meeting at...
St. Joseph Table feeds the San Jose community
On Tuesday, March 19, the Italian American Heritage Foundation hosted its annual event in honor of St. Joseph, the city of San Jose’s patron saint. The focus is the St. Joseph Table, a feast for the community, with all attendees welcome. The tradition has its roots in Sicily, where peasants appealed to St. Joseph to ease a famine. Their prayers an...
Eataly L.A. Celebrates Spring With An Italian Food Festival
If you haven't ventured to the Westfield Century City Mall to explore Eataly L.A., now is a great time to give it a go. The marketplace is 67,000 square feet of Italian goodness, featuring multiple restaurants, food counters, and an authentic Italian market. For the next two weeks (March 18 -31) Eataly is hosting their Eataly Restaurant Fest - maki...
Leonardo and Music
When: Monday, May 06, 2019 From 6:30 pm To 8:30 pm - Where: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 601 Van Ness Ave, #F Lecture by Prof. Kate von Orden, Harvard University Organized by the Leonardo da Vinci Society and the Italian Cultural Institute Italian Cultural Institute, 601 Van Ness Ave, Suite F (Opera Plaza) Free Admission | RSVP Required
Free Mock Test On-Line For AP Italian Students By Comites San Francisco
Funded by Commission for Language and Culture of COMITES SF Comites San Francisco invites all students preparing for the AP Italian Exam on May 15th, 2019 to join the free mock test ONLINE. Any student living within the Italian Consular District of San Francisco² can participate. Diana Ferrara, PhD, Italian instructor at De Anza College in Cupertin...
Art of and by Ferlinghetti in 2 shows for his 100th birthday
Two things Lawrence Ferlinghetti has done in abundance — besides writing poetry — is paint and pose for pictures. And there are enough of each to fill a gallery. To that end, in honor of the North Beach bard’s 100th birthday on March 24, Rena Bransten Gallery is showing the paintings of Ferlinghetti, and Canessa Gallery is showing pictures of Ferli...
Fabrizio Capobianco, lo Zuckerberg valtellinese
“Al valtellinese che ha onorato la sua valle con il suo lavoro”: questa la motivazione con cui a Fabrizio Capobianco, 49enne sondriese, creatore di importanti software, è stato conferito il Lavegin D'Or 2019 dall' Associazione Culturale Valtellinese, che giovedì 14 Marzo lo ha invitato nella sua sede milanese di via Palestro per ascoltare la sua es...
Maria Sole Tognazzi: Portrait of my Father
When: Thursday, April 25, 2019 From 6:30 pm To 8:30 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute, SF - Portrait of my Father (2010), directed by his daughter Maria Sole, is an affectionate tribute revealing the complicated brilliance of Ugo Tognazzi, both as a famous actor and as a family man, through rare home movies, film clips and on-set footage, and...