San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF) is an artist-run organization founded in 1999 by a committee of eight Bay Area electro-acoustic music and sound art practitioners. Its mission is to provide a highly visible public forum for the diverse community of composers and sound artists working with electronic-based technologies in the Bay Area. This […]
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Ars Minerva presents “La Circe”
La Circe is an opera composed in 1665 by Pietro-Andrea Ziani with a libretto by Cristoforo Ivanovich, sung in Italian with English supertitles. La Circe‘s plot is based on the adventures of Circe, the goddess and magician of Greek mythology made famous by Homer’s Odyssey and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. After Ulysses escapes Circe’s clutches, the outraged […]
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Paintings by Matthew Giuffrida
Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present ‘Spirits Known and Unknown,’ an exhibition of paintings by artist Matthew Giuffrida. Mr. Giuffrida’s large scale abstract paintings are rooted in the deconstruction of masters from the late Renaissance. The exhibit will be on view from August 3 to September 7, 2017. The Artist Reception and Talk […]
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The 2017 San Francisco Art Book Fair
The 2017 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is free and open to the public and will feature artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts. Over the […]
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“Vivere alla Castiglioni” at San Francisco Design Week 2017
For the first time in the United States the exhibition “Vivere alla Castiglioni” pays tribute to Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, undisputed Italian masters of twentieth-century design. Achille’s daughter and son, Giovanna and Carlo Castiglioni, will visit San Francisco during San Francisco Design Week as representatives of the Fondazione Castiglioni. Within a “familiar” space recreated […]
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The foundation of the Etruscan City, the example of Bologna
Massimo Maracci, Director of Cultura Italiana, Italian Language School of Bologna, Italy, will lead a conversation with Lisa Pieraccini, Professor of Classics at UC Berkeley, and with Mary Tolaro Noyes, author of the book Bologna Reflections: An Uncommon Guide, about the developmental elements of the Etruscan city, later Roman. The Medieval urban reconstruction, with references to […]
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Fellini’s Rome | Literary Locations – 2
After Naples, the second installment of the Literary Locations series is dedicated to a whimsical Rome seen through the eyes of the most iconic Italian filmmaker, Federico Fellini. Authors Mauro Aprile Zanetti and Sara Marinelli will lead the conversation through Fellini’s virtual topography, with a focus on La Dolce Vita. Writer, translator, and educator, Sara […]
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Guglielmo Marconi
The Leonardo da Vinci Society, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, will hold the second of a cycle of conferences celebrating Italian scientists who have made unique and stellar contributions to the world at large and have left their imprint in the San Francisco Bay Area. Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), inventor of […]
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The Children of Rome | Photographs by Jeffrey Blankfort
In January 1966, San Francisco-based photojournalist Jeffrey Blankfort arrived in Rome on the first of his many trips to Italy, where he stayed for six months, learning the language, enjoying the food and the city’s remarkable beauty but most of all its people and, in particular, its children. Blankfort later said, “For the first two […]
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Cleopatra, The Last Pharaoh
More than two millennia after her death, Cleopatra VII remains an enigma and an object of fascination. The last Ptolemaic ruler of Hellenistic Egypt and the most influential woman of her times, Cleopatra lived dangerously and died sensationally. Ever since, she has been an iconic figure, continually re-imagined through the cultural prisms of successive ages. […]
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