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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Book Signing Meet-and-Greet: Italian architect Andrea Ponsi
Presenting his book Book San Francisco: A Map of Perceptions In San Francisco – a Map of Perceptions Italian architect Andrea Ponsi reveals a deeply personal look at what it’s like to live and love a city. Having the unique perspective of having been both an insider and an outsider to San Francisco , he […]
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Eternal Traveller: Leonardo’s secret life
Concert and gala dinner A multimedia concert by Andrea Centazzo and dinner party to benefit the Leonardo da Vinci Society presented in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute. After being inspired by contemporary artists and later by Far Eastern culture, composer/percussionist/video artist Andrea Centazzo found in the subject of Leonardo Da Vinci a new lymph […]
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Video Art: Follow Me
Video installation by five young artists The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to present FOLLOW ME, video and light installations featuring new works by Italian artists Meris Angioletti, Alessandro Cardinale, Zoè Gruni, Laura Riboli, and Matteo Vinti. The eclectic line-up curated by Katharina Rosenberger, Anna Dusi and Maria Francesca Palmerio brings to […]
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La Cleopatra: a forgotten Venetian opera
Music by Daniele da Castrovillari – Libretto by Giacomo dall’Angelo1662 – Teatro San Angelo – Venezia Ars Minerva is creating a Carnival Series, and will bring Venice to San Francisco every year by reviving a forgotten Venetian opera originally written for the Carnival. Daniele da Castrovillari’s La Cleopatra – lost in the archives of Venice’s […]
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The Dearest Ring in Venice
The Contarini bequest of music manuscripts to the Marciana Library Ars Minerva’s Carnival Series brings Venice to San Francisco every year by reviving a forgotten Venetian opera originally written for the Carnival. This year’s selection is Daniele da Castrovillari’s La Cleopatra, lost in the archives of Venice’s Biblioteca Marciana since its premiere in 1662: a […]
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Pasquale Esposito: PBS documentary and live concert series
Homage to Caruso For lovers of the Italian opera tradition, there is a special treat coming this Spring as world-renowned Italian tenor Pasquale Esposito takes to PBS for his first special on the network in a series of docuconcerts that celebrate Enrico Caruso, the legendary Italian tenor. The concert portion, conducted by Renato Serio, was […]
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