Meet the filmmaker: The Beautiful Things
Free screening, director Q&A and light refreshments Come and meet one of the rising stars of Italian cinema, Agostino Ferrente, and see a free screening of his new film, Le cose belle (in Italian with English subtitles).Le cose belle (The Beautiful Things) opens a window on to the reality of how exhausting, yet how beautiful, […]
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Italian Christmas Market
Italian Christmas Market (Mercato di Natale) Saturday November 22nd and Sunday November 23rd , 2014 Hours: 10:30 am- 6 pm Saturday 10:30-4:30 Sunday Museo Italo-Americano, Fort Mason Center BLDG C, San Francisco The second annual Mercato di Natale (Italian Christmas Market) will be held in San Francisco on November 22nd and 23rd, in collaboration with […]
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The Art of the Costume
Drawings of Selected Opera Costumes from Teatro di San Carlo Europe’s oldest functioning opera house, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, donated several of its priceless opera costumes to San Francisco’s Academy of Art University in May 2014 as part of the ongoing project of strengthening the bonds between the two cities, exemplified by […]
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NICE: New Italian Cinema Events
Annual festival of new Italian films This year’s New Italian Cinema Events (NICE) offers several distinct elements in the competition section, including the first-ever animated feature, an Italian production entirely in Arabic and a suspense-oriented film in the giallo tradition, among other extremely impressive first or second features. Opening Night features a very special evening […]
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Bilingualism and Language Development in Children
The Benefits and Challenges Dr. Jim Cummins is a Professor Emeritus in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His research has transformed our understanding of how bilingual education works and has opened up new possibilities for enriching children’s linguistic and academic development through bilingualism. Dr. Cummins will focus not […]
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Cinema Italian Style: Seattle Film Festival
The Seattle International Film Festival’s Cinema Italian Style returns for the sixth annual celebration of the best in current Italian films. The week features more than 20 extraordinary features, documentaries and short films with some of the biggest names in Italian cinema today, with established directors like Bernardo Bertolucci (with a stunning new restoration of […]
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The novel about the novel
Pasternak, Feltrinelli and the publication of Doctor Zhivago Doctor Zhivago, the masterpiece that won Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize in 1958, had its first worldwide edition in 1957 in Italian. In a letter to Kurt Wolff, Pasternak described the events surrounding the publication of Doctor Zhivago as “the novel about the novel”. The main protagonists […]
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Festa del Libro (Italian Children’s Book Fair)
7th annual children’s Italian book fair extravaganza The Festa del Libro (Italian Children’s Book Fair) will be held at Spazio Italiano (note the venue change!) on the second weekend of November (8-9 November). It will showcase more than 500 books for children (0-10 years of age) selected from some of the most distinguished Italian publishers […]
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Green Cities in Europe and the Bay Area
As negotiations on climate change lag behind, cities and regions around the world are demonstrating leadership and collaborating on challenging environmental issues. Sustainable urbanization and green cities is an area where both the Bay Area and Europe have assumed leading roles. Business leaders will come together in conversation with policy makers from the Bay Area […]
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Renato D’Agostin: The Beautiful Cliché
The Leica Gallery San Francisco and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco present a San Francisco premier event: The Beautiful Cliché, an exhibition and book with work by award-winning and internationally exhibited Italian photographer, Renato D’Agostin. Born and raised in Venice, Italy, Renato D’Agostin gained interest in photography when, in his teens, he fell […]
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