Istituto Di Cultura - San Francisco

The 2019 Italian Film Festival of Marin celebrates its 43rd anniversary with eight top comedies and dramas from Italy! More... The Italian Cultural Institute is a proud sponsor of the Italian Film Festival. September 21-November 2Marin Center, Showcase Theatre, San Rafael

Experience this stunning exhibit of contemporary mosaic artwork from the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli in Italy. In its first US appearance, the collection showcases the work of young mosaic artists who enhance the ancient tradition of mosaic art with innovative methods and materials. Curator Guglielmo Zanette explains:...

The year 2020 marks the centennial of the birth, on October 23, 1920, of Gianni Rodari, one of the most innovative children’s authors and the first Italian to win the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1970. The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco and Bologna Children’s Book Fair will honour the ann...

Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum, opening on October 17th at the Seattle Art Museum, offers a rare opportunity to experience the fierce beauty of art from the 16th and 17th centuries. Renowned Renaissance artists such as Titian and Raphael join Baroque masters including Artemisia Gentileschi,...

Theater, melodrama, song and more: Italian on Stage is the theme chosen this year for the 19th Edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World (October 21-27), in which Embassies, Consulates and Institutes of Culture will organize events to promote Italian throughout the world. The Week of the Italian Language...

On the occasion of Leonardo500 and the XIX Edition of Week of the Italian Language in the World, the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to present the American premiere of Io, Leonardo (I, Leonardo), a cinematographic journey into the life of the great artist, with the participation of Luca Argentero,...

Celebrate the XIX edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World and win lots of Italian books! Subscribing is easy: Choose your partner Bring one Italian book you like--new, or used in good condition (that's your subscription fee!) The title of the book will be your team's name Teams are subject to direct...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of San Francisco and Assisi joining together as Sister Cities, and the 800th anniversary of Saint Francis’s visit to the Holy Land, Maestro Cosimo Prontera will offer two organ concerts, in San Francisco and in San Jose. With the support of the Consulate General of Italy and the Ita...

Renowned Italian journalist Federico Rampini presents his book When Our History Begins. The Great Turning Points of the Past that Shaped the World We Live in Today (Quando inizia la nostra storia. Le grandi svolte del passato che hanno disegnato il mondo in cui viviamo) (Mondadori, 2018). History is the teacher of life:...

Italian writer Alessandro Baricco presents his latest book The Game (Einaudi, 2018), which deconstructs our transition from analogical to digital reality and its repercussions on our society. Baricco will also hold a lecture at Stanford University on November 15. Organized by the IIC San Francisco in collaboration with...

Showcasing Italy and the Italian taste in the world, the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World is a yearly initiative developed to promote Italian culinary traditions and food-and- wine connoisseurship as a distinctive trait of Italian identity and culture. The theme of the fourth edition this year is Food Education: The...

4th Week of Italian Cuisine in the World You are invited to an exclusive reception with director Maurizio Gigola following the screening of Gualtiero Marchesi: The Great Italian, a documentary about the great, revolutionary artist whose cooking has changed the history of Italian regional cuisine: with him, basic components...

Acclaimend Italian singer-songwriter Carmen Consoli will bring her Eco di Sirene World Tour at the Brava Theater in San Francisco! Carmen Consoli was the first Italian woman artist to ever tread the stage of the Olympic Stadium in Rome, and the only Italian artist to take part of the commemoration of Bob Marley's de...

The 1st edition in San Francisco of Cinema Italian Style, a festival co-organized by Luce Cinecittà—Italy’s premier film organization—and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, will be held at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco on November 22-24, 2019. Cinema Italian Style, with suppor...