Month of Italian science
A series of meetings with Italian scientists and scholars in the South West of the US and an exhibition on research and technology for the new lifestyles September 4 - October 2, 2013Los Angeles, Italian Cultural InstitutePasadena, Jet Propulsion LaboratoryIrvine, University of California Italians in SpaceConversation with Italian...
Viola Buitoni Resumes Italian Cooking Classes at the Consulate
by Mauro Battocchi We're honored that Viola Buitoni's monthly classes on the traditions and trends of Italian cooking, held in the private kitchen of San Francisco's Italian Consulate, have now resumed. The next class is on the 2nd of October. In these intimate hands-on workshops, students integrate Italian regional cuisine and seasonal i...
Franklin Foreign Language Magnet Open for Applications
Applications for the 2014-2015 school year are being accepted now for the Franklin Elementary Italian Dual Immersion Program! To enter Kindergarten, your child must be five years old by September 1, 2014. Foreign Language Academies of Glendale (FLAG) Italian dual immersion is a 90/10 program that provide students an opportunity to lea...
Italian Street Painting Marin issues grants to nonprofits
Italian Street Painting Marin, the group responsible for San Rafael's annual street art festival, announced it will distribute $15,000 in art-based grants to 11 nonprofit organizations in Marin County. Also a nonprofit, ISPM will support a wide range of arts programs for children and adults in Marin through the first-ever Arts Grant Recipients for...
SFIAC hosts its 94th Annual Statuto Race in North Beach
By: Francesco Romano For the 94th time, the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (SFIAC) hosted the Statuto Race in North Beach. The Statuto Race commemorates the Statuto Albertino, the Italian "constitution" that laid the ground work for the unification of Italy in the nineteenth century. Each year since 1920, the race has been ru...
Cinema Made in Italy porta a Los Angeles “Io e Te”, l’ultima fatica di Bernando Bertolucci
Lo scorso 4 luglio, oltre ai festeggiamenti per il Giorno dell'Indipendenza, gli Stati Uniti hanno anche celebrato il ritorno dietro la cinepresa del maestro del cinema italiano contemporaneo, Bernardo Bertolucci. Dopo quasi dieci anni di assenza dalle scene ed oltre trenta dal suo ultimo film in lingua italiana ("La tragedia di un uomo ri...
October Is National Italian Heritage Month, Get Ready to Celebrate Italian Style!
The National Italian American Heritage and Culture Month of October was designated by United States Presidential Proclamation. Coinciding with the festivities surrounding Columbus Day, the proclamation is in recognition of the many achievements, contributions, and successes of Americans of Italian descent as well as Italians in America. Ov...
Italian Pianist Alessio Bax Tackles St. Patrick’s Day – Tuesday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m
You’d be hard-pressed to find any blarney when Italian-born pianist Alessio Bax joins the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra (SBCO) this St. Patrick’s Day — unless you count the craft beer tasting event afterward, open to subscribers. The first half of the concert, however, belongs to conductor Heiichiro Ohyama and the orchestra, who will cel...
April 30, Save the date: Berkeley chiama Italia, the first symposium of the Italian Society at Berkeley
Since the days of Nobel Laureate Emilio Segrè, Italian researchers have played a prominent role in academic endeavors at UC Berkeley, in California, and in the United States. With this event (planned as the first in a series of discussions), we would like to share successful stories of Berkeley Italian researchers, stories that show how Italian cul...
You're invited to Little Italy winetasting with La Rusticana
Little Italy San Jose FoundationWednesday, May 27, 2015 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (PDT)San Jose, CA Little Italy San Jose is pleased to bring back our popular wine tasting events in our Piazza Piccola Italia. La Rusticana D'Dorsa winery of Los Gatos has been a supporter of Little Italy San Jose for several years and we have had the pleasure of pouri...
Philip Cecchettini: Backstage at the Italian Film Festival
by Bianca Friundi Fall is around the corner in the Bay Area, and with it comes Lido Cantarutti's Italian Film Festival of acclaimed comedy and drama directly from Italy. The Festival is an abiding favorite, eagerly awaited by Marin County residents as well as San Francisco natives. Now in its 39th year, the Festival showcases the...
Frank Capra: Conflicted Italian American Patriot – illustrated lecture
Thursday, November 12 at 6:30pm. Museo Italo Americano - Fort Mason Center - 2 Marina Blvd., Building C - San Francisco, CA 94123 The celebrated film director Frank Capra, a native of Sicily, was always insecure about how much he belonged in America. During that less enlightened time of the early 1900s when he grew up in Los An...