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SAN FRANCISCO - Even before the year 2012 had drawn to a close, the Consul General of Italy in San Francisco, the Honorable Mauro Battocchi, teamed up with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, to announce the beginning of "2013 Year of Italian Culture" in the United States, and specifically in the San Francisco Bay Area. The announcement was made in grand...

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Tornano negli Usa i 'Grandi Marchi' del vino italiano che, dopo Miami nel 2008, hanno scelto, a distanza di 5 anni, gli Stati Uniti per il proprio evento istituzionale. Si tratta dell'appuntamento annuale piu' rappresentativo per l'Istituto, che vede la presenza di tutti i titolari delle aziende associate impegnati nella presentazione e degustazion...

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Come marvel at the captivating photographs of Italy's UNESCO World Heritage sites — seen through the lenses of fourteen photographers — this Thursday, December 5, at 5:30-7:30 pm at the Museo Italo Americano located at San Francisco's Fort Mason.   The inauguration of the exhibition, which runs through January 26th, also celebrates the concl...

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October 23, 2015, Friday 7:30 PM - 9:30 PMMarines Memorial Club San Francisco - 609 Sutter Street - San Francisco, California 94102 Humanities West presents Dawn of the Italian Renaissance (1275-1400), a two-day program of lectures, discussions, and musical performances exploring the rich contributions of early Italian Renaissance a...

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From Tuscany to the United States, with some special events in San Francisco: the celebrations for the 950th anniversary since the first stone of the Pisa Cathedral was laid and the 450th anniversary of the birth of Galileo Galilei got just big.   In fact, starting from this occurrence, a cultural exchange is taking place between the town of...

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Dopo il grande successo avuto a Manhattan, nei mesi di giugno e luglio, ora il progetto interattivo di Delverde si sposta dalla East coast alla West coast, nella baia di San Francisco. Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Alessi Showroom e Williams-Sonoma sono alcune delle location scelte per ospitare le lezioni di degustazione.   Delverde, aziend...

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By Mauro Battocchi   We are deeply honored to have His Excellency Claudio Bisogniero visit San Francisco on February 13 and join us for a luncheon organized by the Italian Athletic Club in North Beach (SFIAC) and by the new online channel for the Italians of Northern California, "La Scintilla."   You are cordially invited to be with u...

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A special performance by the Italian Surf Academy, who will present The American Dream: an audio-visual journey into the movie culture of 1960s Italy! Featuring music from Spaghetti western, noir and crime movies originally composed by Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Carlo Rustichelli, Riz Ortolani, Piero Umiliani, Armando Trovajoli, and more. &nbs...

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The upcoming 56th San Francisco International Film Festival will feature a wide selection of diverse and innovative cinema from all over the world to the Bay Area audience. The SFIFF is the longest-running film festival in the Americas. The Festival will run from April 25 to May 9 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre and New People C...

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By Elizabeth Vasile Genius Loci is a Latin term, meaning spirit of place. Geographers, historians, and other scholars use it to refer to that element, or quality, or founding principle, that makes a place uniquely itself, that pervades or gives rise to, as a spirit would, all that takes place in an area. One might think of it as a geographic genom...

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