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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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ROBERTO TURRIN: Music & Movies
The Italian Cultural Institute San Francisco, in collaboration with the Da Vinci Society San Francisco and Vi Community, present Maestro Roberto Turrin in a piano recital with music dedicated to the world of cinema. The recital will take place at the University Auditorium of Palo Alto. Free admission | Registration required for the Jan 23rd […]
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art > BOTTICELLI DRAWINGS
The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to host Furio Rinaldi, curator of the exhibition Botticelli Drawings at the Legion of Honor, the first exhibition ever dedicated to the drawings of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445 – 1510). During the event, the exclusive video Botticelli: Rythm of the Line will be screened. Bringing […]
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World Day of Italian Cinema | ROBERTO TURRIN: Music & Movies
Celebrate with us World Day of Italian Cinema! For the occasion, Maestro Roberto Turrin will present a piano recital with music dedicated to the world of cinema. The recital will take place at the Brown Music Center, Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University. Free admission PROGRAM D.Milhaud (1895-1974) L’album de Madame Bovary, op. 128b (1933) M. Castelnuovo Tedesco (1895-1968) Stars – […]
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An Evening of Poetry | MIGRANT WORKER POETS OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Libreria Pino, Telegraph Hill Books e Istituto Italiano di Cultura San Francisco presentano una serata di poesia con David Lei in conversazione con Giusi Tamburello, traduttrice e professore associato di Lingua e Letteratura Cinese presso l’Università di Palermo. Letture di Wenxia Lynn Lewis, Yuqi Xiang e Rebekah Gregory. Questo evento avrà luogo presso la Libreria […]
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poetry > Migrant Worker Poets of Contemporary China
Libreria Pino, Telegraph Hill Books and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco present an evening of poetry with David Lei in conversation with Giusi Tamburello, Translator and Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Palermo. Readings by Wenxia Lynn Lewis, Yuqi Xiang, and Rebekah Gregory This event will take place at Libreria Pino, 1501 Grant […]
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FIVE SHORTS AT THE IIC
Celebrate with us the closing of the year with five shorts selected by the Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio. PROGRAM LA CONFESSIONE (THE CONFESSION) Dir: Giuseppe D’Angella, Simone D’Alessandro Italy, 2022, 14′ 53″ In Italian with English subtitles GRAZIANO E LA GIRAFFA (GRAZIANO AND THE GIRAFFE) Dir: Fabio Orlando, Tommaso Zerbi Italy, 2022, Animation, 6’ 33” […]
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film > DANTE, by Pupi Avati
The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco presents Pupi Avati’s DANTE Monday, December 11, 2023 | 6:30PM The movie tells the story of Dante Alighieri through the words of Giovanni Boccaccio who in 1350 embarks on a journey to find Antonia Alighieri, Dante’s daughter, to offer her a symbolic sum of money in reparation for […]
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