Diego Calaon: Wood, Water, and Slaves. How Venice Came into the World
Thursday, December 8 2016 - 6.30 pm - StartupHouse - 934 Howard St, San Francisco, CA. Venice suffers from its legends. Legends narrate Venice as a symbol of the end of the Roman Age. Venice represents the place where the noble Romans rescued themselves from the barbarian hordes: Venetians would have been forced to move to an unwelcoming islan...
Promozioni con il dettaglio indipendente in USA
Il 15 e 16 novembre 2012 si terranno rispettivamente a San Francisco e a Palo Alto due eventi di promozione della moda Made in Italy, previsti nell'ambito del Programma di Promozione ICE.Location degli eventi saranno i due negozi Wilkes Bashford di proprietà della famiglia di dettaglianti Mitchell.Wilkes Bashford è stato il primo dettagliante ad in...
“Italy is the next Startup Nation”
The SF Gate quoted me saying this yesterday and since then I've been asked if I was kidding. Yet, there is no joke about it. People identify India, Israel and Ireland as the IT countries. But there's a fourth "I" for high-tech: Italy. The Italian Innovation Day and the whole "Italy Tech Week" showcase this reality. Often it's difficult to understa...
Pure and Impure: The films of Pier Paolo Pasolini
In collaboration with Luce Cinecittà, Rome, Centro Studi-Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini/Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to present a retrospective of films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most iconoclastic and influential figures in Italian cinema in the ge...
Incontro con Emanuela Papini: "Generazione Liga" - October 23, 2014 from 7pm to 10pm
Luciano Ligabue has always claimed to have a truly unique audience. Not only "beautiful", nor even just "different" from all the others, but really "particular"; a public whose story deserves to be told. Emanuela Papini rises to the challenge with a book which began as a testimony to the reciprocal love and gratitude between the singer-songwriter...
Berio in New York: "Sarah Cahill and Adam Tendler Play Luciano Berio" - December 03, 2014 at 8:10 pm
Warming Up with Luciano Berio- The brilliant young pianist Adam Tendler, visiting from New York, joins Sarah Cahill in a warm-up concert featuring Luciano Berio's piano compositions before they perform the same program a week later at the Italian Academy in New York. Among the Berio pieces they will play are Touch (1991) for piano four-han...
Italians Welcome Italian Consulate to Orange County in Grand Italian Style
On January 20, 2015, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, over 200 members of the Italian Community, families and organizations joined together to greet the new Italian Consulate General in Los Angeles Antonio Verde, as he begins his four year term of service to the community. This was his first visit to Orange County and to the Bowers Museu...
Here Comes An Evening of Opera at University of Santa Clara
Come to the Vari Symposium 2015 for an enjoyable evening of Italian opera arias, duets and songs performed from notable operas such as La Traviata, La Bohème and Rigoletto. This year's performance is Friday, May 15th at 7:30PM at the Music Recital Hall at Santa Clara University. The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP click here....
VivaBioCell Italian Biotech Company Sold to LA-based Nantcell
VivaBioCell SpA, a spin-off of the University of Udine and leading biotechnology company, has been acquired by LA-based privately-held NantCell, which focuses on discovery and development of innovative cell-based therapies for disease. This deal – an amount unknown although speculated upon by online newspapers – comes on the heels of a $30...
Sbandieratori e musici di Faenza in America - a Newport Beach in California
Dopo i Campionati Italiani Sbandieratori, che si sono svolti ad Ferrara, alcuni rappresentati del Niballo Palio di Faenza andranno in U.S.A. a proporre alcuni spettacoli della nostra antica tradizione storica culturale, cioè "l'Italia dei Comuni". In California a Newport Beach saranno ospiti del Resort "Pellican Hill" (la collina dei Pellicani...
EVOO, a fabulous evening of extra virgin olive oil!
The Italian Cultural Center proudly presents EVOO, a fabulous evening of extra virgin olive oil. During the event you will taste four different extra virgin olive oils from the regions of Trentino Alto Adige, Toscana, Calabria and Sicilia. You will learn how the varieties and different olive processes affect the final flavor and how to di...
Jedi Chef Jonathan Waxman Will Open Brezza Emporio And Pizzeria In Ghirardelli Square Next Year
by Jay Barmann We heard earlier this year about star chef Jonathan Waxman's plans to open his first San Francisco venture, originally slated for the fall, in Ghirardelli Square. As it goes with these things, it's been delayed, and now Hoodline reports that Waxman and his partners are shooting for an early 2016 debut for a second iteration...