Filming in Italy
This new film festival organized in collaboration with world-renowned Taormina Film Festival, will feature film and documentary premieres as well as special masterclasses with many Italian and American filmmakers in attendance. For the occasion, a the exhibition Grand Tour in Contemporary Italy, curated by Centro Cinema Citta' di Cesena, will be in...
Venice Between History and Archeology: A Talk with Researcher Diego Calaon
By Serena Perfetto Technology represents today a powerful tool for challenging the political nature of the chronicles of the past, the one we learn as truth at school. The history of "old Europe" is something that it is usually taken for granted. Unless we have the opportunity to explore it from a different perspective. This is what Diego Calaon i...
Mauro Battocchi to start mandate as new Consul General in San Francisco
San Francisco, August 31, 2012 - Italy will have a new Consul General in San Francisco starting on September 4th, when Mauro Battocchi, 45, takes office at 2590 Webster Street. Battocchi is back on the diplomatic track after four years at a multinational power company, Enel, as head of governmental affairs. "Italy is a world leader in renewable ene...
A culinary tour of southern Italy in the spring
Chef Mark McDonald of Old Vine Cafe in Costa Mesa will be leading his third annual culinary tour of southern Italy in March. McDonald will be teaming up with Italian Culinary Institute master chef John Nocita for a 10-day tour of Calabria and Sicily, exploring the southern region's history, culture and cuisine. From March 14 to 23, the "Splendors...
Inside Buffalo | Talk with Film Director Fred Kuwornu
Inside Buffalo (2010), an award-winning documentary, tells the story of the Buffalo Soldiers, the all black 92nd Army Division (whose name goes back to the U.S. Indian Wars) which fought an extraordinarily brave campaign against the Nazis along the supposedly unbreakable Gothic Line in Tuscany. These American soldiers faced not only an extremely to...
Tech and the City, ovvero i segreti di Silicon Alley
Maria Teresa Cometto e Alessandro Piol hanno scritto insieme un bellissimo libro sulle startup a New York, "Tech and the City, un modello per l'Italia", editore Guerini e Associati. Diversamente da altri di questo genere, che pretendono di indicarci l'ubicazione della pietra filosofale, o ci infliggono tediose lezioncine pratiche di management, è u...
Remembering Paolo Soleri 1919-2013
Today the world has lost one of its great minds. Paolo Soleri, architect, builder, artist, writer, theorist, husband, father, born on Summer Solstice, June 21, 1919, has died at age 93. Paolo Soleri spent a lifetime investigating how architecture, specifically the architecture of the city, could support the countless possibilities of human aspirat...
Local spotlight – Convivio Society
Visitors and residents strolling and rolling north along India street in Little Italy may have found a good reason to cross the street at Hawthorne instead of the customary left turn at the corner after Mona Lisa. Continue north and you'll find Little Italy's newest resident on the block - Convivio Society. Located in a beautiful brick building o...
The Frog and her Crocodile
The Global Theatre Project in partnership with the Italian Cultural Instituteand in collaboration with Fondazione Italia present LA RANA E IL SUO COCCODRILLOThe Frog and her Crocodile The sweet story about the impossible love between a frog and a crocodile Performance (in Italian) and workshop on puppetry (both in E...
Corbucci’s ‘The Mercenary’ Screening at Brattle Theatre
When: Saturday, June 8, 2013 — 4:30 and 10 p.m.Double Feature with DJANGO UNCHAINED.Where: Brattle Theatre — 40 Brattle St. (Harvard Square), Cambridge, MA Most people know of the great Sergio Leone, but if there were a runner-up prize for best Spaghetti Western director, it would certainly go to Sergio Corbucci.Several of his films were an influe...
Jim Bregante Presents...
Join us for an evening of local history as Convivio docent and local historian Jim Bregante unveils his newest multimedia presentation on the historical little yellow cottages of Little Italy, followed by his renowned multimedia journey along "San Diego's Waterfront Through the Eyes of a Child." Mr. Bregante will be available to sign copies of his...
Dallara Car Factory Tour
Tour the Dallara Indy Car Factory in SpeedwayIHSI members will get the opportunity to witness IndyCar chassis being made and produced right in front of their eyes! The Dallara factory isn't like the assembly lines and robot-assembled cars that come to mind when you think of car production; every Dallara chassis is handmade by one of the many qualif...