Building with Air
Dante Bini will present his book Building with Air, chronicling the invention and evolution of the remarkable ‘Binishell’ structural system, the inflated concrete dome Dante invented in 1964. Dante and his son Nic Bini will also talk about subsequent ‘air-powered’ construction methodologies, which are becoming more technically daring and aesthetically complex. The Binishells are circular-based, […]
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Pasquale Esposito
Italian tenor performs in Northern California Pasquale Esposito is an international touring and recording tenor. He was born in Naples, immigrated to the United States in 1988, and studied vocal performance, specialising in opera, at the San José State University School of Music under the direction of Professor Joseph Frank. He has released six full-length […]
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57th SFIFF (San Francisco International Film Festival)
This year’s SFIFF will include a new Italian film: Il sud è niente (South is Nothing) (2013, 90’). Directed by Fabio Mollo. Cast: Miriam Karlkvist, Vinicio Marchioni, Valentina Lodovini. Synopsis: Miriam Karlkvist took a well-deserved Shooting Star award at Berlin for her portrayal of a seemingly androgynous teenage girl negotiating life in a mafia-controlled town […]
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Sweet Thunder Music Festival.
The San Francisco Contemporary Music players present the Sweet Thunder Music Festival: four days of modern and new music, ranging from established masters to up-and-coming composers. The festival will end with a concert at 2:00 PM on the 27th of April, which will include the 1979 piece Con Luigi Dallapiccola by Luigi Nono, an Italian […]
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CICIS Italian Studies Symposium
Precarietà/Precariousness The 2014 California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS) conference presents papers that explore the topic of “precarietà/precariousness,” the feeling of moving towards or away from a sense of greater security as well as the idea of existential fluidity. These notions may include the idea of “passing through” or that of precariousness in society […]
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Guglielmo Achille Cavellini 1914-2014
Centennial Exhibition Born in Brescia, Italy in 1914, Cavellini is a historically important artist who gave context to the Italian Experimentation period and was the first artist to bridge postwar Italian art with American Pop Art. Yet his diverse body of work defies easy classification, as he quite spontaneously, eradicated art/life boundaries, recycled imagery from […]
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1914-2014: À la vie!
War letters and love poems on the centenary of the Great War A concert by the DUO ALTERNO for voice, piano, video projections and photo-sounds.The Duo Alterno is considered one of the most significant reference points in the vocal-piano repertoire ranging from the early 20th century to today. Since its debut in Vancouver in 1997 […]
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Finding the Mother Lode: screening and reception
Documentary about Italian immigrants in California Sunday, 6 April, 4:30-7 PM: Screening of Finding the Mother Lode at Carole Ellis Auditorium on the Santa Rosa JC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Parkway. Prior to the filming at 5:00 PM, there will be a reception with light refreshments. Filmmakers Gianfranco Norelli and Suma Kurien will be […]
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With Malice Aforethought
The execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti On April 15, 1920, five bandits robbed and killed a paymaster and his guard in a Boston suburb. The police charged Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti with the crime. They were local immigrant workers associated with a detested anarchist group. A year later, a jury convicted Sacco […]
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Via Francigena
The ancient road from Canterbury to Rome The historic Via Francigena, far less famous and less travelled than the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, is 1600km long and traverses Italy from north to south on a fascinating route extraordinarily rich in natural beauty, artistic and architectural treasures and cultural and spiritual traces. It is one […]
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