Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945
The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to present Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945, an exhibition of photographs by Alfonso Carrara (1922-2012). Carrara, an Italian-American architect-artist-poet-photographer, documented the exhausted, disoriented populations and war-ravaged arch...
Italian Street Painting Marin, CA
By Alysia Gray Painter The heart of Carnevale in Venice is art, and all of art's attending qualities: mystery, beauty, history, joy, mirth, depth. Revelers don colorful, ribbon-bedecked masks as part of the highly visual scene, and feasts for the eyes reign. It can be difficult to summon the spirit of the canal-beautiful town to o...
A conversation with the L.A.-based artist, Nicola Verlato, on his tribute to Pasolini
by Valerio Viale On November 2, 1975, the Italian intellectual, poet, novelist, filmmaker – in a word: Artist in capital letter – Pier Paolo Pasolini, was brutally murdered in Ostia, coastal area near Rome. Forty years later, the Italian Cultural Institute in L.A., remembered the tragedy, demonstrating how much this iconic personality is s...
Donald Osborne: Transatlantic Style, Una Storia d'amore di Pinne e Cromature
Data: Mer 21 Set 2016 - Orario: Alle 18:30 Luogo: Italian Cultural Institute of LA, 1023 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024 Organizzato da : IIC & Italian American Chamber of Commerce West Los Angeles - Ingresso : Libero In anticipazione della XVI Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo che esplora il tema L'Italiano e creat...
Festa Italia celebrates all things Italian in Monterey
By Tom Leyde Festa Italia is about food. It's about music. It's about commercial fishing. It's about family. It's about life and love. The 83rd version of the annual festa had its finale Sunday in Custom House Plaza. Those who attended did just what the festa program suggested: "eat, drink and be Italian." For Italian/Sicilian famili...
Will An Italian Restaurant End The Class Action As We Know It?
The questioning didn't go well for the plaintiffs in American Express vs. Italian Colors today, and that could mean the U.S. Supreme Court is about to give companies another powerful tool for reducing class-action litigation against them. The justices expressed strong skepticism about the central premise of the case, which is that antitrust lawsui...
Monterey Peninsula Italian Americans to be honored
It'll be about the pasta, the wine, and the friendships Friday night at the Monterey Marriott. But Friday's 10th annual Italian American Cultural Foundation dinner will mostly be about four honorees who have established themselves as an important part of the Italian American fabric of the Peninsula, and have made significant contributions to the lo...
Mayor Ed Lee Voices His Support for the Italian Language
Last month, Mayor Lee honored the Italian community with his presence at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club and publicly stated his commitment to help bolster support for Italian language education in the Bay. In the face of a recent decline in Californian schools offering Italian as a choice in their World Language Curricula, we are...
L'artista Penelope Chiara Cocchi svela il segreto della mostra “We Are All Made of Stardust”
L'arte come rappresentazione del mondo che ci circonda e allo stesso tempo veicolo di promozione culturale. La mostra "We Are All Made of Stardust" organizzata dall'Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaborazione con l'associazione "Bologna Connect", è parte del progetto di promozione della città di Bologna e dell'Emilia-Romagna negli Stati...
Italian mayor visits Paso Robles for Eroica California bike ride
by Tonya Strickland The city of Paso Robles hosted the mayor of a small Italian city last weekend during the region's newest cycling event inspired by a ride first held in 1997 in Italy. L'Eroica, which means "the heroic" in Italian, is a cycling ride featuring vintage bicycles that came to the United States for the first time thi...
Anime Nere (Black Souls) to Screen This Month in the Bay Area
Movie buffs should know about the film Anime Nere (Black Souls) that is coming out in U.S. theaters starting April 2015. In the Bay Area, the film opens on April 17th at the Opera Plaza (SF), Landmark Shattuck (Berkeley), and Smith Rafael cinema (San Rafael) on April 17. The film is based on real events described in Gioacchino Criaco's nov...
Walkman, l'orgoglio italiano sbarca in America
All'angolo destro del ring, 1 metro e 85 cm di altezza, un quintale di peso, mani sensibili e abilità sconosciute, signore e signori, Walkman. Potrebbe sembrarlo ma non si tratta della presentazione pre-combattimento di un pugile americano, né l'elenco delle doti soprannaturali di un wrestler consumato. Walkman è un robot umanoide frutto d...