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Under the auspices of the CONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY IN LOS ANGELES   with the support of REGIONE VENETO   THE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE   in collaboration with THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TOURIST BOARD   is pleased to invite you to   Cortina's Day

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Date: Sunday, September 27, 2015 Hours: www.wattstowers.org Venue: Watts, CA Organized by: Watts Towers Arts Center and IIC   The Jasmine Tommaso Quintet that includes Jasmine's father, Giovanni Tommaso at the contrabass, represents Italy at the prestigious Festival that pays tribute to the American music forms of jazz, gospel and R&B...

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After the presentation to the music professionals in Chicago, the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles hosted today the last meeting with CRF U.S.A. and CremonaFiere S.p.A. team. With guests Antonio Piva (Chairman of CRF U.S.A. and CremonaFiere S.p.A.), Peter Seman (President of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers) and Georg Eitt...

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The Italian city of Cremona, in Lombardy Region, is considered as the violin's birthplace, where between the 17th and 18th century the Amati, Guerneri, and Stradivari families created some of the finest string instruments that the world has ever seen.   Over the last 12 years, each September Cremona has hosted the unique exhibition of handcr...

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An exhibition of over 100 images that explores the experience of photographer Roberto Villa (in attendance at the opening) on the set of The Arabian Nights (1974) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, documenting the director's work in the Middle East (Yemen and Iran,) but also offering one of the last portraits of a land that was about to become a war zone. &n...

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The 2014 edition of Cinema Italian Style, the Los Angeles glamorous showcase for Italian contemporary cinema, will be dedicated to the producer Franco Cristaldi and his masterpiece Cinema Paradiso, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its theatrical release. CIS 2014 will present a film and a documentary selection of Italy's best and most recent prod...

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ARENA 1 GALLERY, in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Los Angeles, presents OVERPAINTING, a selection of works by SONIA COSTANTINI, PAOLA FONTICOLI, PAOLO IACCHETTI, ELENA MODORATI and ALBANO MORANDI.   The show is part of a project that include two exhibitions, one in the United States and one Italy, and creates an oppo...

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by Silvia Simonetti   On Wednesday, September 17, the GRAYE showroom in Beverly Hills hosted an interesting round table on contemporary design and architecture trends, with the participation of a special guest: Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni.   He was invited to share his views and knowledge with other representatives of...

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Date: Monday, May 11, 2015 Hours: 5 PM Venue: UCLA Organized by: UCLA Department of Italian In collaboration with: IIC The UCLA Department of Italian will host poet Mario Moroni for a poetry reading. Mario Moroni was born in Italy in 1955. He moved to the United States in 1989. He has taught at Yale University, the University of Memphis, and C...

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The Palazzo Strozzi High School Renaissance Award winners will be recognized by the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA . The mission of the foundation is to preserve the values of openness and creativity of the Renaissance, one of the foundations of the Enlightenment and of modern Western societies.   The winners of the competition travel to Ita...

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