Italian Innovation Day, The Future of Information Technology, Clean Tech Italia in San FranciscoOn the occasione of "2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US" the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Institute of Culture of San Francisco have proudly announced the "Italy Tech Week." The groundbreaking week will start next Tuesday, March 12, 20...
READ MOREDate: Thursday, December 10, 2015 Time: 6:30-8:30 PM. Location: IIC (601 Van Ness Ave, Suite F, San Francisco) Organized by: Merola Opera Programme In collaboration with: IIC Merola 2012 and 2014 alumnus tenor Casey Candebat returns to San Francisco for a special one-night performance. O Holy Night of Opera features selections from Tosca and C...
READ MOREWhen: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 From 6:30 pm To 8:30 pm Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite F, San Francisco, CA 94102 Organized by : Istituto Italiano di Cultura In collaboration with : Viola Buitoni - Orietta Gianjorio With all the media attention given to the questionable practices of It...
READ MOREThe 37th Mill Valley Film festival (October 2-12) will feature the Italian films Woman as a Friend and I Can Quit Whenever I Want. Woman as a Friend (2014, 88 min). Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bu59gk1_0Q Francesco and Claudia are two very good friends. He is a goofy, clumsy lawyer and she is a non-conforming...
READ MOREPresentation of ON THE JOURNEY... nel mezzo del cammin, a short film by Maria Luisa Forenza. Followed by a roundtable discussion on the figure of Frank V. de Bellis, his Collection at SFSU and the intellectual legacy of the new Italians in the Bay Area. An Italian woman and an American girl meet by chance at a crossroads in San Francisco....
READ MOREMine Vaganti (Loose cannons) - Ferzan Özpetek. Sunday, here January 29, sildenafil 5pm - Oshman Family JCC / Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, physician 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. The Cantone family owns a pasta factory in Lecce, in the conservative south of Italy. During a family dinner the parents, Vincenzo and Stefania, pl...
READ MOREDomenico Monteforte, who gave a much appreciated exhibition here at the IIC in summer 2012, is back in San Francisco. This time, the Tuscan painter will turn one of our galleries into a painter's studio, allowing guests to see him at work and then exhibiting his creations on our walls as they are completed. Guests will have the rare chance to meet...
READ MOREFilm screening: Il segreto (The Secret) at the Museo Italoamericano. This award-winning documentary by Cyop & Kaf, promoted by Neapolitan music producer and cultural operator Salvatore Visone, is a fascinating look at the streets of Naples and the bands of children that live on them. Once a year on St. Anthony's day, they build a bonfire, ofte...
READ MOREby Serena Perfetto From music to book, from photography to cinema: spring in San Francisco has never been as full of Italian events as this year. Indeed, whoever loves Italy and its history, culture, and art cannot miss the April's journey among a series of events, such as performances, conferences, photo exhibits, and movie screenings, wi...
READ MORERoberto Fedi, Director of the Department of Humanites and Social Sciences and professor of Italian literature at the University for Foreigners Perugia, the oldest and most prestigious Italian institution involved in teaching, research activities and diffusion of the Italian language and culture in all expressions, will present his first novel Manca...
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