Istituto Di Cultura - San Francisco

Lido Cantarutti presents the 2022 Italian Film Festival of Marin October 1-November 5 Dominican University of California, San Raphael20 Olive Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901 The 2022 Italian Film Festival of Marin celebrates its 45th anniversary with six top comedies and dramas from Italy. With the support of the Italian...

October is Italian Heritage Month! Check out our extensive list of offerings and special all-Italian events throughout the month.   OCT 5 | 6:30 PMLA ROSADA E L'ARDILUT: Nel Friuli del giovane Pasolini (The Places of Young Pasolini) A documentary exploring the places where Pier Paolo Pasolini lived and worke...

THE PUPILS (LE PUPILLE) Oct 8, 9, 12, 15 Presented by Mill Valley Film FestivalWith the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco Free in person screening | BUY TICKETS   From the very first frames of Alice Rohrwacher’s The Pupils, “a film clumsily and freely based on a letter the...

The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco presents Eugenio Bennato in "Vento popolare" October 11, 2022| 7PM Club Fugazi, 678 Green St, San Francisco Free Admission. Registration required. Masks and current proof of Covid-19 vaccination required. This concert is presented in collaboration with Italian Community...

CALCrossroads of Knowledge: Italy and the Republic of Letters October 14-15, UC Berkeley, 370 Dwinelle Hall   Organized by Vincenza Perdichizzi (Université de Strasbourg) and Diego Pirillo (UC Berkeley) With the support of the of the France-Berkeley Fund, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Rems, the U...

Literature of Ticino: A Prelude to the 22nd Annual Week of Italian Language With Italian-speaking Swiss Authors Fabiano Alborghetti and Fabio Andina Oct 15, 6-8pm Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco @INNOVIT 710 Sansome St, San Francisco   Co-presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Franci...

A Prelude to the 22nd Annual Week of Italian Language VERONICA RAIMO: THE GIRL AT THE DOOR Oct 15, 2022 | 3-4 PM The Drawing Room Gallery Annex780 Valencia St, San Francisco Organized by Litquake, co-presented by Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco  Free Admission - Registration required REGISTER HERE   D...

A Prelude to the 22nd Week of Italian Language Litquake 2022 – Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms: Ardengo Soffici and Italian Futurism October 15, 2022 | 12-1 PM The Drawing Room Annex | 780 Valencia Street | San Francisco, CA   Event admission is free. Registration is strongly recommended. LEARN MORE & REGISTE...

22nd Week of Italian Language in the World The Italian Language and the Youth October 17-23, 2022 The Week of Italian Language in the World is a yearly worldwide celebration of the Italian language and creativity. The theme for the 22nd edition of the Week is The Italian Language and the Youth. The Week of Ita...

Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian businessman and former fascist who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul general of Hungary in the winter of 1944. During his official appointment as consul general, he saved 5,218 Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps in Eastern Europe. Steven...

22nd Annual Week of Italian Language in the World DACIA MARAINI A conversation with the author around the theme Italian Language and the Youth. Italian Cultural Institute @INNOVIT, 710 Sansome St, San Francisco   REGISTER HERE WATCH DACIA MARAINI'S INTRODUCTION TO THE EVENT   ABOUT Dacia Maraini's work...

The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco presents DIODATO in concert with violinist Rodrigo D'Erasmo October 21, 2022 | 7 PM (new time) 710 Sansome St, San Francisco   On the occasion of the 22nd annual Week of Italian Language in the World, with its theme this year, L'Italiano e i giovani (Italian and You...

ASTIANATTE An Opera composed by Leonardo Vinci in 1725. Libretto by Antonio Salvi.October 21, 22 & 23, 2022 at ODC Theater Presented by Ars Minerva   BUY TICKETS   A dark tale of post-Iliad trauma, vengeance, sexual havoc and threatened infanticide, composed by one of the early 18th century’s mo...

October 22–November 27, 2022 “The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.” —Pier Paolo Pasolini A brilliant artist who was at the center of the intellectual life of postwar Europe, the influential Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) enjoyed a multidisciplinary care...