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By Mauro Battocchi   This week I had a much-needed transfusion of optimism. News on how Italy's recession still drags on keeps on coming from my country.   Yet Italian F&B exporters at the Winter Fancy Food fair in San Francisco were buoyant - relishing as they were in the figures of their sales to the US. According to the statist...

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Tastes of Italy: A Food Tasting to Benefit San Francisco's Official Italian Language School The Istituto Italiano Scuola is proud to present a fundraising event to promote and increase awareness of its mission of providing excellent quality teaching of the Italian language in the Bay Area. The completely self-financed, non-profit school was found...

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Vincenzo Cerami, who died this July, was a novelist, an associate of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the screenwriter for over 40 Italian films, including several starring Roberto Benigni. Among these are La Vita è Bella, Il Mostro, and La Tigre e la Neve.   This is our tribute to him. Please join us for screenings of these three films, and see for...

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The Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco and the Italian Cultural Institute will present an art competition for high-school pupils.   The Società Storica Pisana (Pisa's History Society, Italy) invites classes in grades 9 to 12 from high schools in San Francisco and New York to submit original artwork inspired (in terms of similitude o...

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Coming to the Museo Italo Americano in San Francisco's Fort Mason this Friday, is an exhibition that will be featuring two artists. Titled Ageless, the exhibition is a showcase of artists Elena Civoli Brittain and Nola Pardi Proll, and the works featured are between contemporary abstraction and sculpture that expresses a love of anything nature. B...

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In the early 19th Century, Italy was essentially a "geographical expression," a patchwork of principalities spread across islands and peninsulas, dominated by foreign powers. By century's end it had united as the independent Kingdom of Italy, its people citizens of a modern nation with an emerging common culture and language. The great Giuseppe Ver...

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Dionisio Cimarelli is considered to be the greatest Italian sculptor to have lived and worked in China, and his long residence there, combined with his blending of Chinese and Italian styles, have led to comparisons with Marco Polo.   The New York Academy has described him as someone who "has the ability to make a difference in the art world...

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November 5, 2015 - Thursday 7:00 PM. Jewish Community Center - 3200 California Street - San Francisco, California 94118. Everything You Need to Know to Be a Great Italian Cook. In conversation with Delfina co-owner Craig Stoll   Teaching has always been a passion for Lidia Bastianich, best-selling cookbook...

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di Roberto Natalini   Da un paio di anni a questa parte, non vi è dubbio che la città della west coast americana nella quale è più facile vedere circolare una nuova Fiat 500 è sicuramente San Francisco, sia per le sue strade strette dove trovare parcheggio è spesso un'impresa, sia per il grande amore diffuso verso il design italiano. Presto...

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By Mauro Battocchi   Have you stopped by the Italian Cultural Institute recently? If not, now is a good time because you'll find some high quality art on display. And not just any art, but art that is directly inspired by the Italian landscape.   Each summer, Academy of Art students and faculty live in Italy for seven weeks and immers...

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