Roberto Fabbri, guitar virtuoso
Meet a master of the instrument! Roberto Fabbri has opened for Ennio Morricone (the legend who brought us those wistful spaghetti Western scores), is recognised even in Spain (the land of guitar virtuosi) as a master of the instrument, and has been described as incandescent, exuberant and technically surprising by Soundboard magazine, the premier guitar […]
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Needlework and Italian immigration
Joseph Sciorra presents Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora. Joseph Sciorra, director of academic and cultural programs at Queen College’s John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City, presents Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora (University Press of Mississippi, 2014), an interdisciplinary collection co-edited with […]
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Michelangelo and the Medici
“Michelangelo Buonarroti” and “the Medici” are usually the first two names that come to mind when we recall the heroic figures of the Italian Renaissance—Michelangelo as a supremely gifted sculptor, painter, architect and poet, the Medici as an inspired family of patrons and collectors. They were all Florentines, to be sure. But in real terms, […]
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Opening of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Italy
By invitation only The presentation will announce the opening of the Center for the Study of Ancient Italy at UC Berkeley. The newly formed institution is intended to promote and advance the study of the many cultures of ancient Italy, with special emphasis on the Etruscans and Romans. It will also support teaching and research […]
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Movie ‘n’ Food: Sapore di Cinema
Two events to celebrate the role of food in Italian cinema Dinner on the 29th of April and costume, book and photo show on the 30th. Register separately! ****************Dinner: 29 April, 7 PM, Ristobar, 2300 Chestnut Street, SF. Celebrate the role of food in Italian films with dinner at Ristobar, the destination for artisanal Italian […]
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San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF)
Including two Italian films This year’s San Francisco International Film Festival, the 58th edition, will include two Italian films.Sworn Virgin (Vergine giurata)Countries: Italy/Switzerland/Germany/Albania/Kosovo Languages: Albanian, Italian Year: 2015 Running time: 84 Director: Laura Bispuri Mark is male in name only. Born with the name Hana, but growing up extremely tomboyish in an Albanian mountain village […]
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American Frontier: photographs by Emanuele Piccardo
American Frontier is a journey through the old frontier from Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty to Yellowstone. Architecture historian Luca Guido writes: “When Frederick Jackson Turner published his opus on American history in 1893, he saw in the frontier – a sparsely inhabited area in direct contact with the wilderness – the essence of a new […]
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Five O’Clock Piano Duo: Italian Connection
Piano for four hands The musical evening that the Five O ‘Clock Piano Duo offers the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco reflects the content of their recent album, ITALIAN CONNECTION. It’s a musical journey that unfolds among the various stylistic trends of Italian contemporary piano music. The deep need for immediacy of communication is […]
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Mario Marazziti: 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty
Discussion and book presentation MARIO MARAZZITIfrom Sant’Egidio in Rome 13 Ways of Looking At The Death Penalty 14 and 15 April, San Francisco and Berkeley Nation-states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is […]
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Marco Paoli: Landscape Photography as Spiritual Journey
Marco Paoli will present his exhibition of 16 large black & white photographs from his book Silenzio and from his forthcoming publication Ethiopia. The artist shot these photos during his journeys around the world. For Marco Paoli the journey is a spiritual adventure where we look for something we have inside us, but most of […]
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