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film > Ten Minutes (Dieci minuti)

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY Celebrate with us International Womens’ Day with the exclusive US premier screening of Ten Minutes (Dieci minuti), Maria Sole Tognazzi’s latest film, written with Francesca Archibugi, based on Chiara Gamberale’s novel, Per dieci minuti. Ten minutes a day can change the course of the day. Ten minutes of doing something completely new […]

GEN AI MOVIE NIGHT @INNOVIT

GEN AI MOVIE NIGHT @INNOVIT March 5, 2024 | 6 PM Italian Cultural Institute @INNOVIT 710 Sansome St, San Francisco Join us for a special Generative AI Movie Night at INNOVIT to address how this technology is already changing the art of movie making and the entertainment industry. REGISTER HERE ​As Midjourney and text-to-image AIs […]

Our special guest, Italian writer Valeria Usala, in conversation with author Sara Marinelli, will present the English translation of her book, A Woman in Sardinia (La rinnegata), at the Italian Cultural Institute. The book will be released in April 2024. Penelope Aprile Zanetti will read excerpts from the book’s English translation. Event organized in collaboration with […]

CAFFÈ LETTERARIO > A WOMAN IN SARDINIA (La rinnegata)

The book chosen to inaugurate this year’s series of Caffè Letterario, our book club meetings, is A Woman in Sardinia (La rinnegata). The meeting will be held in hybrid mode, in presence at the Institute’s headquarters and online via Zoom. With the extraordinary participation of the author, the Sardinian writer Valeria Usala. Registration for the […]

art > BOTTICELLI AND THE MAKING OF VENUS

Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus is one of the great masterpieces of the Renaissance, a painting that has become synonymous with it. However, it is far from being the serene picture it is often taken to be. In today’s lecture, Prof. Emanuele Lugli (Stanford University) will go through some of the risks that Botticelli had to […]

film > THE MUTE MAN OF SARDINIA (Il muto di Gallura)

The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to present a new series of films portraying Sardinia, a region known for its crystal-clear waters and its wild land of priceless beauty. The series opens with the film The Mute Man of Sardinia, directed by Matteo Fresi, set in the mid-nineteenth century in Gallura, the north-eastern area of […]

International Holocaust Day | TEREZÍN

To commemorate the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, the Italian Cultural Institute presents Gabriele Guidi’s Terezín, the story of Antonio, an Italian clarinetist, and Martina, a Czechoslovak violinist, as they fall in love during the World War II, in Prague. Shortly afterwards, they will be deported to the Terezín concentration camp where their love story is […]

music > PAOLO ANGELI IN CONCERT in Seattle

JAN 28 | 7:30 PM | Ballard Homestead, Seattle Sardinian guitar innovator Paolo Angeli is a musical conjurer, an artist whose imaginative leaps defy gravity. A composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder who draws on his deep knowledge of traditional Sardinian music, he inhabits a timeless zone as a soil-rooted master and brash experimentalist. While suffused with Mediterranean […]

music > PAOLO ANGELI IN CONCERT in Portland

JAN 27 | 8 PM | Jack London Revue, Portland Sardinian guitar innovator Paolo Angeli is a musical conjurer, an artist whose imaginative leaps defy gravity. A composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder who draws on his deep knowledge of traditional Sardinian music, he inhabits a timeless zone as a soil-rooted master and brash experimentalist. While suffused with […]

music > PAOLO ANGELI IN CONCERT at SFJAZZ

JAN 26 | 7 & 8:30 PM | SFJAZZ Joe Henderson Lab Sardinian guitar innovator Paolo Angeli is a musical conjurer, an artist whose imaginative leaps defy gravity. A composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder who draws on his deep knowledge of traditional Sardinian music, he inhabits a timeless zone as a soil-rooted master and brash experimentalist. While […]