film > Pier Paolo Pasolini BAMPFA | #Pasolini100
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 career as a novelist, poet, playwright, actor, painter, polemicist, and filmmaker. No stranger […]
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opera > ASTIANATTE
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 most brilliant and under-recognized operatic masters. […]
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music > DIODATO at the IIC SF
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 Youth), […]
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22nd Week of Italian Language > A conversation with the author Dacia Maraini
22nd Annual Week of Italian Language in the World DACIA MARAINI in conversation with Sara Marinelli 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 focuses on women’s issues, and she has […]
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film > PERLASCA: THE COURAGE OF A JUST MAN
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 Geiger, director at Mensch International […]
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XXII Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo | L’ITALIANO E I GIOVANI
La Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo, sotto l’Alto Patronato della Presidenza della Repubblica, celebra ogni anno la lingua e la creatività italiane nel mondo. Il tema proposto per la XXII edizione è L’italiano e i giovani. Per l’occasione, il volume L’italiano e i giovani, realizzato dall’Accademia della Crusca, sarà scaricabile gratuitamente per tutta […]
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literary festival > Literature of Ticino | A Prelude to the 22nd Week of Italian Language
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 Francisco, and the Italian Cultural Institute of San […]
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literary festival > Veronica Raimo: The Girl at the Door | A Prelude to the 22nd Week of Italian Language
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 Described as “one of […]
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literary festival > Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms: Ardengo Soffici and Italian Futurism
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 & REGISTER Published this year […]
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humanities > CALCrossroads of Knowledge: Italy and the Republic of Letters
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 UC Berkeley DE in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, […]
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