Silicon Valley Italian Festival
A day of Italian Culture and Tradition Experience a trip through Italy during a day centred around the country’s culture and traditions.To start, an exhibition of well-known Sicilian photographer Giuseppe Leone will open the event through the anachronistic images of the island together with internationally renowned Italian pianist, Laura Magnani. To follow, there will be […]
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Bernardo de Albergaria – Creating B2B Unicorns with low/no-touch sales
Bernardo will draw from his experience launching and growing products like GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, Confluence and HipChat to discuss how to generate hundreds of millions of $ in revenue without a traditional sales force. Organised by BAIA (Business Association Italy America). Learn more about them on www.baia-network.org. Please register here for this event.
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Film screening: The Clock of Munich
International Holocaust Remembrance Day On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day we will screen the film L’orologio di Monaco (The Clock of Munich). This is the story of a central European family whose history is intertwined with important figures of European history such as Karl Marx, Heinrich Heine, Mendelssohn, Edmund Husserl, and Emeric Pressburger. […]
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Four events with musicologist and composer Luciano Chessa
Lecture and musical performances Luciano Chessa is among the most interesting and inventive minds currently working in the Bay Area. Active as a composer, performer, conductor and musicologist, Chessa’s work draws heavy influence from experimentation, blending unorthodox ideas with classical form. Imaginative in its embrace of the avant-garde, Chessa’s music quickly reveals the promise of […]
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Meet the author: 492 Great Things about Being Italian
Boze Hadleigh, author of Celebrity Feuds! and Hollywood and Whine, has written more than 15 books and has been a winner on Jeopardy! Boze also writes extensively for magazines, and his work has appeared in more than 100 publications. Join him at the IIC as he presents his book 492 Great Things about Being Italian […]
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Maurizio Biasini International Guitar Competition
A programme of concerts for guitar Every year, the Maurizio Biasini International Guitar Competition brings together talented young guitarists for around the world for a contest which culminates in a series of exciting concerts. This year, 15 promising young musicians have been selected as semi-finalists and will continue the competition at the San Francisco Conservatory […]
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Being Leonardo
A play about Leonardo da Vinci’s life and work Renowned Italian director and actor Massimiliano Finazzer Flory’s latest project brings the immensely multi-talented Leonardo da Vinci to life again on the stage. Being Leonardo da Vinci is a one-act two-scene play which uses theatre to stage the Italian genius’s life, art history, science, and contemporary […]
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Frank Sinatra at 100 Years
Musical tribute to Frank Sinatra preceded by an open house at the IIC The Cole Porter Society celebrates Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday with a concert at the Herbst Theatre at 8pm. 20% discount for the first 200 to RSVP with the code italy20! Prior to the concert, at 6pm, there will be an open-house reception […]
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O Holy Night of Opera
Operatic arias and Christmas favourites Merola 2012 and 2014 alumnus tenor Casey Candebat returns to San Francisco for a special one-night performance. O Holy Night of Opera features selections from Tosca and Carmen along with many holiday delights from Silent Night to O Holy Night. The recital is free and open to the public; donations […]
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A tribute to Primo Levi
Celebrating the publication of his Collected Works Jewish Community Center of San Francisco presentsThe Germanacos Lecture A TRIBUTE TO PRIMO LEVIWith Adam Kirsch, Robert Haas, Anne Germanacos, and others. Moderated by Francesco Spagnolo.Primo Levi (1919–1987), an Auschwitz survivor and the author of such acclaimed works as If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, […]
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