Gianni Trovalusci: Flute & Piano Sunday Matinee
Gianni Trovalusci: flutes; Tania Chen: piano. Join us for a unique matinee of chamber music featuring Gianni Trovalusci on flutes with the partecipation of Tania Chen at the piano. Music by Salvatore Sciarrino, Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, and others. Hailed by the New York Times for his performances at the recent Electroacoustic Music festival in […]
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Fragile: an exhibition by Marta Dell’Angelo and Summer Lee
A collaboration between the IIC and the Chinese Culture Centre (CCC) of San Francisco Italian artist Marta Dell’Angelo and San Francisco artist Summer Mei Ling Lee’s collaborative exhibition entitled “Fragile” opens at the IIC on Thursday February 18 at 6:00pm, followed by the performance “Pietas” at 7pm at the adjacent Opera Plaza Cinema. 18 February […]
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Rethinking the World in the Age of Chaos
A talk with Federico Rampini As geopolitical instability sweeps the Euro-Mediterranean region, old stereotypes are shattered and new paradoxes emerge, argues renowned Italian journalist, writer and theater author Federico Rampini in his recently published L’Età del Caos, Viaggio nel grande disordine mondiale (The Age of Chaos, a Guided Tour Inside the World Disorder). Italy, for […]
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Orogami: An Orvieto evening in San Francisco
Meet the accomplished goldsmiths of Orvieto Through the golden artistry of international award-winning Orogami, you are invited to join us for an evening celebrating the unique culture and creativity of Orvieto. Hosted by Orogami founders Massimo and Tiziana Aloisio and San Francisco’s Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the event will allow you to experience one of […]
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Genoa: Building a New Future from a Grand Historical Heritage
Meet the Mayor of Genoa Marco Doria, professor of economic history, who will illustrate Genoa’s grand past and his plans to promote the city’s future Come and meet the Mayor of Genoa, Marco Doria, who will visit the Bay Area of San Francisco in the week of Feb 8. In particular, in the evening of […]
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Language, Music, & Meaning
Using language to affect meaning in singing San Francisco Opera Centre Director Sheri Greenawald and Director of Musical Studies Mark Morash are joined by Italian Diction Coach for San Francisco Opera Alessandra Cattani and San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows as they delve into the complex and engaging relationship between music and text, showing how singers […]
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Meet the author: Camilla Baresani
In conversation with the journalist Enrico Deaglio, author of Patria 1978-2008 Camilla Baresani is an Italian writer. The author of novels, essays and pieces for the theatre, she lives in Milan where she teaches creative writing at the IULM University. Her two latest novels are Himalayan Pink Salt (the tale of a double attack suffered […]
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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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