Crossing the sea of song
Popular Music in the Mediterranean, from Italy to Israel Showing the impact of Italian popular music, and especially the Sanremo Song Festival (Festival della Canzone Italiana), on the development of Israeli popular song from the 1950s to the present, musicologist Francesco Spagnolo explores the politics of culture and national identity across the Mediterranean. The talk, […]
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La Guarimba Film Festival
New Italian short films La Guarimba and the IIC San Francisco present a series of new Italian short films.Wednesday, 19 February, 6:30 PM. Programme: Trailer for About the Resistance, the documentary about the festival which talks about cinema as an act of resistance. Emilio by Angelo Cretella. 2013 | 15′ | HD | Colour | Caserta, […]
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Baci e Cioccolato on Valentine’s Day
Viola Buitoni will teach how to make Baci Perugina! This Valentine’s Day, come to the Istituto Italiano di Cultura to learn how Italians say “I love you”.Join our food specialist, Viola Buitoni, in a workshop to uncover the secrets of Baci Perugina, the iconic Italian confection still deliciously made with the same recipe of gianduja, […]
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Napoli!
A new production of Eduardo De Filippo’s Napoli Milionaria. A.C.T. favourite Marco Barricelli (Vigil at A.C.T.) and Stratford Festival star Seana McKenna (Phèdre at A.C.T.) return to lead the cast in Napoli!, a sparkling new translation of Eduardo De Filippo‘s Italian masterpiece Napoli Milionaria. During the chaotic days of the Second World War, a feisty […]
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An Italian Sojourn 2
Tuscany, Umbria, Rome and Venice A celebration of painting ‘al fresco’ Each summer, Academy of Art University students and faculty live in Italy for 7 weeks to explore the Italian landascape and culture. The Italian Cultural Institute, in partnership with Academy of Art University, cordially invites you to a retrospective of works produced in such […]
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37th PIFF (Portland International Film Festival)
Including two new Italian films! The 37th Portland International Film Festival, which will take place between the 6th and the 22nd of February 2014, will offer two Italian films. Salvo (Italy, 2013; Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza; 104’). 9 Feb. 2:45 PM and 14 Feb. 8:30 PM. A hit man for the Sicilian mafia, Salvo is […]
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French and Italian Film Festival
Film screenings at the IICSF and the Alliance Française The Alliance Française of San Francisco and the IICSF are happy to present a collaborative film festival celebrating both French and Italian cinema! French films will screen at the IIC and Italian films will be shown at the Alliance Française. 4 February, 6:30 PM, Alliance Française: […]
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Memories and Light
Photopaintings and videos commemorating the Holocaust. 15 of Lisa Borgiani’s photopainting works (Memory) and a video (Light) all taken at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, designed by architect Peter Eisenman, is photographed and interpreted through a present-day lens. A Field of Stelae, a labyrinth of stone pillars, exemplifies […]
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La Tregua
Film screening on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day. On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute would like to invite you to a free screening of La Tregua (The Truce; 1997, 118 minutes), a film based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by the Italian author and Holocaust […]
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