When: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 At 6:00 pmWhere: Italian Cultural Institute of LA, 1023 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles,CA 90024 Organized by : IIC & Rossini Opera Festival - Entrance : Free.  RSVP mandatory. RSVP HERE L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers, 2013, 153 min) is the first opera of this special screening series...

US debut of this one-act play by and with Massimiliano Finazzer, introduced by Michela Lucenti's dance choreographies inspired by the famous "Vitruvian Man". The performance will arrive in California in the fall.   Performed in Italian language with English subtitles. Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - Hour...

On the occasion of the Los Angeles, Italia Film Fashion and Art Fest, the IIC presents an exhibition of about 40 black and white and color portraits of Italian actresses on set during the last ten years. This stunning visual documentation by some of the best set photographers of recent Italian cinema offers a glimpse into the backstage of a profess...

September 10, 2014 - October 1, 2014 Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles1023 Hilgard AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90024 Nicola Verlato, Fulvio di Piazza, Marco Mazzoni and Agostino Arrivabene, four painters who interpret and innovate the figurative tradition in Italian art based on drawing, come together to demonstrate a dynamic process which esta...

The inaugural EUphoria Film Festival will close with a screening of Susanna Nicchiarelli's second feature film, the adaptation of a novel by former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni that explores the relationship that a woman - and, a nation - has with a painful and enigmatic past. Followed by a Q&A with the Director.   The film will also be sc...

When: Thursday, March 03, 2016 at 6:30 PM Where: IIC Los Angeles, 1023 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024 On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, the IIC pays tribute to the great novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual, Giorgio Bassani and his book The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini). The no...

One-day conference celebrating Michelangelo Antonioni's 101st anniversary. Renowned scholars Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University), Thomas Harrison (UCLA), Fletcher Beasley (CSULB), Mary Ann Carolan (Fairfield University) and Fulvio Orsitto (Cal State Chico) will explore the work of one of the most important masters of modern cinema. The conference...

Building Bridges Art Foundation (BBAF), Bice Bugatti Club and The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) presentano le opere di Franco Marrocco, attuale direttore dell'Accademia di Brera, al BERGAMOT STATION ART CENTER SMMOA di Santa Monica (fino al 7 aprile).   Marrocco è un figlio del Sud: nasce a Caserta nel 1956 a Rocca d'Evandro e compie i su...

When: Date: Saturday, March 05, 2016 at 3:00 PM Where: Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, 1023 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024 Poetry reading by actor Joe Mantegna in front of The Hope Herakles (Hercules) a Roman, 2nd- or 3rd-century marble sculpture copy after a Greek original of circa 370–350 B.C. by Skopas that is part of the Willia...

The first appointment with Fazioli Piano Series was hosted by the IIC in Los Angeles last March 17. The initiative, launched by the Italian Cultural Institute, gets its name from the Italian company that produces grand and concert-grand pianos, worldly renown for the high quality materials and the finest technology of its products. The series is d...